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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Pintos Bring Heat

By By Harold Smith /
Mountain View Telegraph
      It was colder than a …
       Well, let’s just say it was downright frigid at the Moriarty High School Track and Field Invitational on Friday.
       “It’s the coldest track meet I’ve ever been to,” said Roswell Goddard coach Jacob Caldwell. “But Moriarty still put on a great meet.”
       The thinly clad athletes bore the brunt of a cutting wind.
       “It’s freezing,” said Lady Pinto Courtney Sullivan after she and her teammates won the 1,600-meter relay under the lights in the meet finale.
       But Moriarty coach Joe Bailey didn’t concur with the contention that it was exceptionally icy.
       “They must not have been to too many track meets,” he said.
       Maybe it was the Pintos’ hot performances that kept Bailey warm and toasty.
       Moriarty junior Taylor Allcorn broke his own school record in the triple jump with a leap of 45 feet 6 inches.
       “He’s doing pretty good, considering he’s coming off an injury,” said Taylor’s jump coach and father, Bob Allcorn. “He’s training as hard as anybody.”
       Pinto Jason Tidwell earned the gold medal in the boys 300 hurdles with a time of 43.13 seconds.
       Class 4A Moriarty, overall, was third in the seven-team boys competition with 55 points. Class 5A Rio Rancho was the team victor with 148½, and 5A Clovis was second with 143.
       The Pintos girls were also third. They scored 77 points.
       The winning RRHS Lady Rams had 139. Runner-up Clovis accumulated 120.
       Moriarty’s 1,600 relay quartet — Sullivan, Angel Laue, Aileen Nimick and Jayci Manning — beat second-place Rio Rancho by 6.83 seconds with a clocking of 4 minutes, 19.15 seconds.
       “We’re trying the best we can,” said Sullivan, a 5-foot 4-inch junior.
       Nimick, who underwent knee surgery after playing soccer this past fall, took second in the 300 hurdles (53.04). Sullivan was the runner-up in the 100 dash (12.78).
       “My knee’s great,” said Nimick, a senior who competed on her 18th birthday. “I haven’t had any problems. I think track has strengthened it.”
       Laue placed second in the long jump (32-6¾), Kendra Nixon was the runner-up in the 100 hurdles (17.29), and Madeline McKenzie was second in the shot put (34-½).
       The Pintos were second in the other three relays as well.
      
       Estancia
       The EHS boys took fifth place with 27 points at the Moriarty meet.
       Estancia senior David Ortiz led the Bears with silver-medal efforts in the triple (41-1½) and high jump (5-9).
       “It was two cold, hard days,” said EHS boys coach Troy Coburn, whose team also placed third with 82 points at the Husky/Panther Invitational at Menaul on April 10. “I pulled them out of the 4-by-(400) relay at Moriarty. It got too cold. I didn’t want to hurt anybody. Plus, we were tired (after back-to-back meets).”
       Estancia’s Robert Chavez was the gold medalist in the javelin at the April 10 meet. He threw the spear 128-10, and Derek Straubing was first in the triple at 37-11½.
       The Lady Bears finished in seventh place at the Pintos’ competition with 15 points. Estancia’s Brittany Falconer was second in the pole vault with a clearance of 8-6.
       “It felt pretty good (the previous week when she vaulted 9-6),” said Falconer, a 5-foot 7-inch junior. “I even went upside down.”
       Bear Sabrina Lee, finally in varsity action after transferring back to Estancia from Jemez Valley, placed first in the 1,600 run at Menaul with a time of 6:00.45. Estancia’s Shawna Blaisure was the gold medalist in the triple (30-3½).
       “It feels awesome,” said Lee, a sophomore. “I feel like I have a lot of power this season.”
       The EHS girls took second at Menaul with 75 points.
      
       East Mountain
       Lady Timberwolf Sarah Wright was the victor in the 300 hurdles (53.7) at the Panther Invitational in Pecos on Saturday.
       Wright’s teammate, Elora Overbey, was second in the open 800 (2:47.95). For the EMHS boys, Alec Vall was second in the discus (108-6).
       The T’Wolves girls placed seventh among 13 scoring teams with 27 points in Pecos. The host Panthers won with 82.
       The East Mountain boys finished in 10th place with 14 points. Santa Rosa was the team winner with 118.
       “Matt Broomfield got some personal records (in distance events),” EMHS coach Therese Dorwart said. “So did Mario Martinez, our freshman. He got a PR in the 200. … When we got to Pecos there was snow on the ground, but it ended up being not too bad.”
       At Menaul, the Timberwolves girls were fifth with 20 points, and the East Mountain boys were sixth with 16½ points. EMHS also competed at Sandia Prep late Wednesday.
       Mountainair
       The Mustangs boys took third place with 60 points in the 12-team Grizzly Relays at Carrizozo on Friday. The hosts were first with 100.
       “But I think (the ’Stangs) might win District (7-1A),” Grizzlies coach Brad Holland said. “They have a lot of boys on their team.”
       The Mountainair girls took eighth place with 20 points. Cloudcroft earned the team title with 89.
       Manzano
       The Monarchs boys placed eighth with 16 points in the Wilson Relays at Wilson Stadium on Saturday.
       The Manzano girls were 11th with six points in the Albuquerque Relays at Milne Stadium on Saturday.
   

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