Preps: See West Coast Relays highlights; athlete of week winners; Selma stars win titles
The two-day West Coast Relays wrapped up at Buchanan High’s Veterans Memorial Stadium this past weekend.
The West Coast Relays, once an Olympic-class event that has morphed into a top in-season high school meet, boasts past competitors including Dutch Warmerdam, Bob Mathias, Tommie Smith, Rafer Johnson and Henry Ellard.
The West Coast Relays didn’t take place in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the event made its return for the 93rd time.
Here are the winners from Saturday:
Boys
400 relay Seeded: Redwood 43.92. Invitational: Central (Imari Conley, Cameron Tarver, Jeremiah Walker, Terrell Johnson), 42.22.
1600 Open: Domingo Martinez, Watsonville, 4:39.36. Seeded: Garrett Beutel, San Luis Obispo, 4:27.59. Invitational: Christopher Caudillo, Clovis, 4:14.52.
110 High Hurdles Seeded: Han Yotoun, Sanger, 16.91. Invitational: Jaydn Marshall, St. Mary’s-Stockton, 14.13.
400 Open: Spencer Champlin, Centennial, 53.12. Seeded: Ethan Mahanke, Liberty-Bakersfield, 51.86. Invitational: Austin Gillen, Buchanan, 48.69.
100 Dash Open 1: Jaden Collins, Sanger, 11.62. Open 2: Austin Pratt, Liberty-Bakersfield, 11.35. Seeded 1: Harrison Kalpakoff, Buchanan, 11.31. Seeded 2: Maurice McGauley, El Capitan, 11.00. Invitational: Nathan Johnson, Clovis, 10.49.
3200 Seeded: Sam Dresick. Clovis West, 9:56.11.
800 Seeded: Jayden Olea, Sanger, 1:59.49. Invitational: John Lester, Amador Valley, 1:51.62.
300 low hurdles Open: Cody Allen, Frontier, 43.52. Seeded: Ryan Alali, Clovis North, 43.75. Invitational: Jady Marshall, St. Mary’s-Stockton, 37.74.
200 Open: Chiemeka Ejikeme, Clovis North, 22.96. Seeded: Nathan Johnson, Clovis, 21.78. Invitational: Jeremiah Walker, Central, 21.56.
3200 Invitational: Sebastian McGehee-Adams, Buchanan, 9:32.94.
1600 relay Seeded: Sanger (Luis Lopez, Edward Castillo, Jose Porras, Emanuel Salas), 3:32.85. Invitational: Buchanan (Austin Gillen, Jace Shilow, Jaden Shilow, Bo Olsen), 3:25.47.
Pole Vault Seeded: Cody Lango, Clovis East, 13-00.00. Invitational: Garrett Brown, La Costa Canyon, 16-02.00.
High Jump Seeded: Lawson McAlister, Central, 5-09.00. Invitational: Miles Bennett, Castro Valley, 6-05.00.
Shot Put Invitational: Nick Godbehere, Shafter, 61-00.00. Seeded: Abram Alcantar, 42-08.75.
Long Jump Seeded: Garrett Fox, Buchanan, 19-08.75.
Discus Throw Invitational: Andrew Trottier, Liberty-Bakersfield, 162-09. Seeded: Andres Padilla, El Diamante, 137-07.
Long Jump Invitational: Calvin Black, Clovis North, 21-04.50.
Triple Jump Invitational: Devin Kelly, Central, 44-08.50. Seeded: Amandeep Momi, Frontier, 39-05.50.
Girls
400 relay Seeded: Bakersfield 51.60. Invitational: Clovis North 47.85.
1600 Open: Rylee McDaniels, El Diamante, 5:39.85. Seeded: Rebeca Coronado, Sanger, 5:14.54. Invitational: Sydney Sundgren, Buchanan, 4:53.46.
100 high hurdles open: Bella Turner, Liberty-Bakersfield, 16.67. Seeded: Kyle Nunes, Oakdale, 16.15. Invitational: Alexa Dandridge, Buchanan, 15.27.
400 Open: Jessica Agundis, Atwater, 62.47. Seeded: Raelyn Dewitt, Exeter, 61.04. Invitational: Takiya Cenci, Clovis North, 54.75.
100 Open: Ryen Scott, St. Mary’s-Stockton, 12.89. Open: Kira Oliver, Clovis North, 13.08. Seeded 1: Tionna Clements, Central, 12.93. Seeded 2: Keytonna Ross, Central, 12.74. Invitational: Lauren Fowler, Buchanan, 11.70.
3200 Seeded: Julia Bizik, Clovis West, 12.08.60.
800 Seeded: Kenahdi Haslip, Frontier, 2:26.78. Invitational: Tatum Zinkin, Clovis North, 2:15.23.
300 low hurdles Open: Emily Noble, Maranatha, 50.31. Seeded: Bella Turner, Liberty-Bakersfield, 47.36. Invitational: Alexa Dandridge, Buchanan, 44.41.
200 Open: Shelby Folmer, Clovis East, 26.27. Seeded: Keytonna Ross, 25.99. Invitational: Takiya Cenci, Clovis North, 24.32.
3200 Invitational: Sydney Sundgren, Buchanan, 10:49.76.
1600 relay Seeded: Arroyo Grande 4:12.84. Invitational: Clovis North (Tiara Adeniji, Takiya Cenci, Tatum Holloway, Tatum Zinkin), 3:52.05.
Pole Vault Seeded: Aile Banuelos, Edison, 9-04.00. Invitational: Sarah Graessley, Carmel, 12-04.00.
Discus Throw Invitational: Bella Rigby, Liberty-Bakersfield, 159-10. Seeded: Briana Brugetti, Clovis North, 130-09.
High Jump Invitational: Lauren Pritchard. Carmel, 5-06.00.
Triple Jump Seeded: Claire Predmore, Bullard, 33-09.75.
Shot Put Invitational: Galadriel Mellion, Weston Ranch, 44-02.50. Seeded: Pilar Morales, Clovis West, 34-08.75.
Triple Jump Invitational: Maddie Passmore, Buchanan, 37-01.75.
High Jump Seeded: Autumn Jensen, Clovis West, 4-07.00.
Long Jump Invitational: Lauren Fowler, Buchanan, 18-06.25. Seeded: Briana Brugetti, Clovis North, 130-09.
Athlete of the Week voting results
Will Gagnon of Reedley baseball and Noemi Uribe of Washington Union softball were the top vote-getters in last week’s Boys and Girls Athlete of the Week polls.
Gagnon had 49.3% of the votes, ahead of AJ George of Hoover basketball (28.8%) and Eddie Saldivar of San Joaquin Memorial baseball (19.5%).
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Uribe totaled 40.1% of the votes. followed by Gizelle Aguirre of Caruthers soccer (26.7%) and Nseije Ortiz of Porterville basketball (24.4%).
Baseball rankings
Records through Saturday
1. Buchanan (14-1)
2. San Joaquin Memorial (11-2)
3. Bullard (10-2-1)
4. Clovis North (11-4)
5. Clovis West (10-3-1)
6. Clovis (9-5)
7. Arroyo Grande (15-0)
8. Liberty-Bakersfield (6-1)
9. Centennial (7-1)
10. Madera South (11-1)
Softball rankings
Records through Saturday
1. Buchanan (12-2)
2. Clovis (13-1)
3. Clovis North (9-0)
4. Clovis East (7-4)
5. Arroyo Grande (8-2)
6. Liberty-Bakersfield (7-0)
7. Clovis West (9-7)
8. Stockdale (4-0)
9. Central (10-7)
10. Paso Robles (11-2)
TRAC soccer
Andrew Huerta scored the go-ahead goal to give Clovis East a 1-0 victory over Buchanan in Tri-River Athletic Conference boys soccer.
The TRAC standings: Clovis 4-1-1, Clovis North 4-1-1, Clovis East 3-3, Clovis West 3-3, Central 3-3 and Buchanan 0-6.
Basketball: Buchanan rallies
In a matchup of unbeatens, Buchanan rallied from a nine-point deficit in the third quarter for a 56-52 victory over Clovis. in TRAC girls basketball.
The Cougars led by as many as 10 points before the Bears rallied.
Ashtyn Arnold led the charge with 23 points and 14 rebounds as Buchanan improved to 2-0 in the TRAC and 9-0 overall.
Milestone win for volleyball coach
Madera South boys volleyball coach Steve Guglielmana picked up his 300th career win when the Stallions defeated Madera.
Former Selma wrestling stars nab titles
Former Selma High wrestling star Richard Figueroa is headed to Russia for the World Championship.
Figueroa took first in the U.S. Junior men’s freestyle 57-kilogram class.
In the best-of-three championship round he defeated Ryan Miller (Penn RTC) in back-to-back bouts via technical fall.
The two-time Cadet World Team Member will represent Team USA on Aug. 16-22.
His sister, Gracie, was also crowned a champion.
She is the Senior Women’s national champion after an 11-1 technical fall over Alexandria Liles in the 62-kilogram class.
Former SJM star Pondexter now a college coach
Quincy Pondexter was named a University of Washington men’s basketball assistant coach, the school announced Monday.
Pondexter was a star at San Joaquin Memorial with the Lopez brothers, Brook and Robin.
“I always knew that at some point, I would come back to Seattle because my heart has always been at UW,” Pondexter said in a news release. He joins the staff of Washington coach Mike Hopkins.
Pondexter played for the Huskies from 2006-10 and finished his Washington career with 1,786 points, which ranks fifth all-time. He recorded 83 career double-digit scoring games in a Washington-record 136 games played while his 30 career 20-point nights rank fifth.
Pondexter was selected as the No. 26 pick in the 2010 NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder and was traded to the New Orleans Hornets.
He spent eight seasons in the NBA.
This story was originally published May 3, 2021 at 12:30 PM.
