SVHS sending 21 to NCS track meet

Qualifiers will move on to the MOC in Berkeley, May 28|

Twenty-one members of the Sonoma Valley High track team will be competing in the North Coast Section Meet on Saturday at Piner High School in Santa Rosa.

The 21 earned their way to the meet with their finishes in the Sonoma County League Meet last Saturday, also at Piner.

The girls won their meet beating second- place Petaluma by 18-1/2 points. It was the first SCL championship for the girls since 2007.

The boys didn’t fare quite as well, finishing fourth, tied with Analy with 52 points.

Both Kiara Miles and Amy Stanfield won two individual events – Miles winning the 100-meter hurdles and the 100-meter dash, and was on the second-place 4x100 relay team. Stanfield won the 400 and the 800, was second in the 1,600 and was a part of the winning 4x400 relay team with Grace Cutting, Trinity McGuinness and Hannah Ford-Monroe.

Isabel Garon won the pole vault while Emma Maggioncalda won the high jump.

Noah Bartolome had a pair of seconds in the 400 and the 110-meter hurdles.

The girls who are moving on to the NCS meet include Stanfield in the 400, 800 and 1,600; Miles in the 100, 200 and 110-hurdles; Maggioncalda in the 100, 200 and high jump; Ford-Monroe in the 110-hurdles and 300-hurdles; Cutting in the 400 and 300-hurdles; Tessa Baxter in the high jump and long jump; Maddie Libby in the 1,600; McGuinness in the 400; Eliza Neeley in the 800; Maddie Cashel in the 3,200; Garon in the pole vault and Julia Hart in the discus; the 4x100 relay team of Miles, Annika Ginter, Ford-Monroe and Maggioncalda; and the 4x400 relay team of McGuinness, Cutting, Ford-Monroe and Stanfield.

The boys who qualified include Bartolome in the 400, the 100-hurdles and the 300-hurdles; James Reed in the 100 and 200; Justin Cox in the 1,600; Travis Claeys in the 3,200; and the 4x100 relay team of Andrew Powers, Alonzo Heredia, Jesus Lopez and Reed; and the 4x400 relay team of Bartolome, Reed, Cox and Alex Epstein.

The top seven in each event will advance to the Meet of Champions in Berkeley on Saturday, May 28.

Field events are set to start at 9 a.m. Saturday while the track events start at 10.

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