MISSION VIEJO – JSerra’s girls track and field team won the team title Saturday at the Orange County Championships for the second year in a row in a dominating way.
The Lions scored points in 11 of the 16 events that were calculated into the team scores at Mission Viejo High School and finished with 113.66 points, more than 42 points over second-place Mission Viejo’s 71.
JSerra’s deep corps of distance runners led the way.
JSerra’s Brynn Garcia won the 3,200 meters in 10 minutes and 32.2 seconds. In the seeded 1,600 Georgia Jeanneret finished third, Kaylah Tasser was fourth and Brooke O’Brien was sixth.
This depth is unlikely to be a one-year event. Jeanneret and O’Brien are juniors, Garcia is a sophomore and Tasser is a freshman. And the winner of the frosh-soph 1,600 and 3,200 on Saturday was JSerra freshman Summer Wilson.
In the 800, JSerra senior Anastasia Snodgrass was third and O’Brien was fourth.
JSerra senior Siena Lambert was named the girls field events athlete of the meet. She won the discus with a toss of 145 feet, 6 inches and was third in the shot put with a mark of 37-7.
More JSerra points came from freshman Maya Woolforde, who won the 400 in 57.27 seconds; from junior Charley Giacobetti, who tied with Laguna Hills junior Karen Maceranka for first in the pole vault at 11 feet, 1 inch; and in the 4×400 relay that the Lions won in 3:57.98.
Corona del Mar junior Ava Simos was the sprints athlete of the meet. She won the 100 in a personal-record of 12.34 and won the 200 in a wind-aided 24.88. Simos was second in the 100 hurdles, at 15.41, behind Pacifica Christian junior Charis Wondercheck, who won in 15.22.
Simos said a simple shift in where she placed her attention made Saturday a good one for her.
“This season in all of my races I kind of focus on other people,” she said. “If another person gets close to me it messes me up and messes up my stride. So I wanted to come here today and fully focus on myself, knowing the…
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