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The celebration was on.
Just moments after Lynbrook quarter-miler Taimur Khan rushed across the finish line, completing the final leg of his final race as a Viking, a crush of Lynbrook athletes, coaches and other well-wishers surrounded Khan and relay mates Durrell Roberts, Chris Deal and Justin Teng.
Among the smiling mob was Lynbrook coach Darrin Garcia. "I'm just ecstatic," he glowed. "This is the best single day for me in 13 years of coaching."
The Vikings' time of 3:19.62, good enough for second place, cemented a second-place team finish for the boys and was their third school record of the meet.
Teng, Roberts, Khan and Garrick Wong picked up the first one, winning the 400-meter relay in 41.79 seconds, the 10th best boys effort in Central Coast Section history.
Khan, who will miss the state meet because of an SAT-II biology test, scored the other record with his section-winning 400 time of 48.38.
The boys 1,600 relay was the final event of the night on San Jose City College's speedy track surface, bringing to a close the CCS track and field championships that featured many outstanding performances.
The Vikings, with substitutes for Khan, will have both boys relay teams and senior hurdler Julie Chen running at the state meet June 45 at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento. After top qualifier Galina Becker of Mt. Pleasant false-started and was disqualified, Chen ran 15.58 for third in the 100 hurdles.
Saratoga junior Alicia Follmar, who owns the state's best time in the girls 1,600, earned two berths in the state meet. She won her specialty in 4:53.88, holding off Ciara Viehwig of St. Ignatius down the stretch. Later she claimed second in the fastest girls 800 race in California this year.
Fremont junior Kelly Bushnell is on her way to Sacramento after winning the girls discus. So is Cupertino resident Melissa Grelli of Presentation, who took third in the 3,200 run.
Monta Vista senior Bobby Kritzer, fourth in the boys long jump (22-9) with a personal best and fifth in the triple jump (45-10), was more disappointed that he landed inches short of his school's long jump record than in missing the state meet.
Cupertino coach Paul Armstrong was "happy about the medal and (fifth) place" earned by freshman Julianne Hansen in the 3,200 and junior Stacie Boyle in the 300 hurdles, but disappointed that they finished two places out of bids to the state meet.
Hansen ran 11:07.15, more than 12 seconds faster than her previous personal best set at the trials. Boyle ran 46.90 in the hurdles, close behind third-place Danielle Robinson of Mitty (46.11).
Santa Clara won the boys crown with 40 points, eight ahead of Lynbrook. Archbishop Mitty ran away with the girls title.
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