Mamola, Rogers star at Top 8
By Dick Sparrer
The best track and field athletes in the Central Coast Section (CCS) were there, and Ashley Mamola of Westmont and Trevor Rogers managed to finish among the best of the best at the CCS Top 8 meet held Friday night at Los Gatos High School.
"This is really a CCS preview meet," said meet director Willie Harmatz of the Top 8 event. "It was a great meet, and we had a big crowd."
Mamola had a big night in the girls division, placing in a pair of events for the Warriors.
Mamola raced to a fourth-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles in 48.14, and she added a fifth in the 100 hurdles in 16.01.
Del Mar's Heather Gornitzka placed in a couple of events at the Top 8. She was ninth in the long jump at 15-3, with teammate Nadia Walton 11th at 14-8, and 10th in the 400 in 1:03.19.
Jenny Caryford of Prospect ended up 12th in the 400 in 1:04.30.
Rogers starred for Prospect in the boys division at the Top 8 meet. The senior sprinted to a fourth-place finish in 11.22 in the 100-meter dash.
Teammate Ferman Smith also placed in the meet. Smith was sixth in the high jump with a 6-0 effort. Austin Day ran seventh in the 400 in 50.91 for the Panthers.
Allan Potter and Nick Clinton were Del Mar standouts in the meet at Los Gatos on Friday. Potter soared to a fifth in the pole vault at 12-6, and Clinton raced to a seventh in the 800 meters in 2:00.16.
The Westmont boys were well-represented in the weight events at the Top 8. Aremon Habibi was seventh in the shot put at 48-3.5, with Chris Aimonetti 12th at 45-0, and Robert Jennings was eighth in the discus at 147-10, with Gareth Gorman 11th at 140-0 and Aimonetti 12th at 129-8.
Burt Codera placed in a pair of events to lead the Westmont boys to a tie for 12th in the team standings in the boys frosh-soph division at the Top 8.
Codera was second in the long jump at 20-4.5, and he ran to a sixth in the 100 in 11.99 to lead the Westmont effort. Codera also helped the Warriors to a sixth in the 4x100 relay in 46.71, and Westmont was sixth in the 4x400 relay in 3:39.6.
Westmont's Andy Sharp supported with an eighth in the shot put at 41-11.
Frosh-Soph Top 8
Two weeks earlier, on the same track, Codera and Amanda Horowitz each won events to spark Westmont to a solid showing at the CCS Frosh-Soph Top 8 meet at Los Gatos.
Codera took the long jump at 19-7, and Horowitz won the girls shot put with a 34-7 heave.
Sharp was fifth in the boys shot at 45-7.5. The Warriors were also fourth in the 4x400 relay in 3:42.7, and they tied for seventh in the 4x100 relay in 46.2.
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