Calabasas girls get the 4×100 relay win at Mt. SAC Relays

Humble but hungry.

It was with this mindset that the Calabasas foursome took to the track at Hilmer Lodge Stadium for the girls’ 4×100-meter invitational race Saturday at the 66th annual Mt. SAC Relay in Walnut.

In one of the showpiece matchups of the competition, the Coyotes ran their fastest time yet — 44.48 seconds — to set a meet record and avenge their loss to Fullerton Rosary a week earlier at the Arcadia Invitational.

“Taking that ‘L’ last week gave us some motivation,” senior captain Marley Scoggins said after getting her team off to a strong start with a blazing first leg. “We didn’t like that feeling.”

Speed ​​ultimately wins races, but Coyotes coach Jeff Clanagan helped the cause by changing the order of his runners in hopes of gaining an early lead. He toppled Scoggins and Olivia Kirk (who had led seven days earlier) while Malia Rainey and Devyn Sproles ran the second leg and third. Adding an element of surprise has proven to be an effective strategy.

“You always watch matchups and in a relay you want to go out first and force another team to make a mistake,” Clanagan said. “Marley is our best starter and I thought that might give us a mental advantage. We kept it a secret until race time. I told my girls not to show our new order until we were on the track so Rosary wouldn’t have time to talk to their coach.”

Rosary’s Justine Wilson (left) wins the invitational 100-meter dash by three-hundredths of a second.

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Scoggins, a Tennessee commit, was edged out at the finish by Rosary’s Maliyah Collins in Arcadia, where Calabasas settled for second with a 44.54 effort while the Royals rounded the oval in 44.23, shattering the state record of 44.50 set by Long Beach Poly in 2004.

“I’ve raced every stage at one point or another, but I liked starting today – it was more powerful to put us in front,” Scoggins said. “We’re trying to go 43 [seconds]. We can definitely save time. For the first time this week we tried different transfers.

Her teammates did the rest. Rosary was second in 44.94 and Steele Canyon took third in 46.62.

“It’s the first time I’ve anchored in a long time and the girls gave me a lead like they always do,” said Kirk, a senior headed to Oklahoma. “I think the key was our determination. We knew we didn’t do our best last week and we wanted to come here and get our win.”

Calabasas won two of three head-to-head relays with Rosary this spring, after clocking 44.95 to win the teams’ first meeting at the Mt. Carmel Invitational on March 28 in San Diego.

Next up for the Coyotes is a cross-country trip to the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, an international competition where they will compete in the preliminaries on Thursday for a chance to advance to the finals Friday on the world stage.

Torrance senior Nicolas Obimgba (left) wins the invitational 100-meter dash in 10.24 seconds at Mt. BAG.

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“No American team has beaten a Jamaican team in 20 years,” Clanagan said. “We hope to change that.”

Two hours later, Rainey and Sproles were among nine sprinters in the Invitational 100, which also featured two 4×100 runners from Rosary, Justine Wilson and Tra’via Flournoy. Wilson won by three hundredths of a second over Rainey in 11.65.

Collins demonstrated why she is one of the best sprinters in the Southland, taking first place in the 200m in 23.25, 30 hundredths of a second off the meet record set in 2002 by LA Baptist’s Allyson Felix.

After clocking 39.70 to improve his own state record at Arcadia seven days earlier, Servite beat the men’s 4×100 relay at Mt. SAC record for a second straight year Saturday as Jace Wells, Benjamin Harris, Jorden Wells and Kamil Pelovello ran the one-lap sprint in 39.98 after Jorden Wells, Harris, Jaelen Hunter and Robert Gardner took over in 40.15 last year. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame came in second for the second year in a row in 41 dishes.

Torrance senior Nicolas Obimgba won the Invitational 100 in 10.24, three hundredths of a second off the meet record set last year by Mount Miguel’s Brandon Arrington. Newbury Park senior Jaden Griffin (10.30) was second, Jorden Wells (10.44) third and Pelovello (10.64) seventh.

Loyola senior Ejam Yohannes won the Invitational 400 in 46.29 after placing third in the event while battling illness at Arcadia. His personal best (46.11) was reached three weeks ago at the Chandler Rotary in Arizona.

Loyola senior Ejam Yohannes (second from right) wins the invitational 400-meter dash in 46.29 seconds.

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“I’ve raced and beaten a lot of these guys before,” Yohannes said. “At first I was feeling the effects of last week. Usually I finish stronger but I’m still not 100%. I’m already ready to win the CIF. I’m confident in my ability to run 45 [seconds] or even a little lower.

San Jacinto Valley Academy tenth grader Kaahliyah Lacy, who won the girls 300 hurdles in 40.81 at Arcadia, clocked 39.93 to break the Mt. SAC Saturday and doubled up for first place in the 100 hurdles in 13.65. JSerra junior Reese Holley won the 800 in 2:08.10 and Long Beach Wilson’s Clara Adams was first in the 400 in 53.13. Teammates Brooklyn Fowler (54.33) and Brooke Blue (54.47) finished third and fourth.

Adams did not compete in the invitational 4×400 relay, but the Bruins still won in 3:49.55. JSerra finished second in 3:52.77. In the men’s 4×400, Yohannes ran the first leg as the Cubs finished second in 3:14.70 behind Fresno Central East (3:13.96).

Defending high jump champion JJ Harel, who cleared 6 feet, 9 inches to win at Arcadia, finished second with a height of 6-10 on Saturday. Dean Guzman of Moorpark won at seven feet.

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame junior Lillian Wilson won the women’s shot put with a throw of 43-3.75 and took second in the discus (147-3) behind Lancaster Desert Christian’s Corynn Smith (152-8).

After winning the women’s long jump and triple jump at Arcadia, Jurupa Valley senior AB Hernandez tripled on Saturday, jumping 19-4 to win the long jump, going 41-7.5 for the triple jump title, then scoring 5-10 to win the high jump.

Los Alamitos’ Cassidy Nguyễn won the girls’ pole vault at 13 feet and Aliso Niguel’s Dane Malloy won the boys’ triple jump at 48-5.