By Dick Sparrer
It was extremely windy in King City for the annual track and field invitational hosted by the city in the southern tip of the Central Coast Section.
But it wasn't too windy to keep Chad Allen, Taylor Teerlink and Laura Prolo of Saratoga from breezing to rather impressive performances in the hurdles events in the rugged meet.
Allen was first in his heat, then third in the finals in the boys' 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 41.9. Allen added a sixth in the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.8 after finishing second in his heat.
Teerlink backed up a win in her heat with a second in the finals in the girls' 100-meter hurdles in 16.0.
Prolo and Teerlink each finished first in their heats in the 300-meter low hurdles, then each came back to place in the finals with Prolo third in 50.9 and Teerlink sixth in 52.2.
Mark Marshall supported Allen's effort in the boys' division with a fourth in the varsity discus with a heave of 128-8, and Alex Daniels was fifth in the frosh-soph mile in 4:53.1.
Allen and Teerlink were coming off of solid efforts at the St. Francis Invitational.
Allen was fourth in the 300 intermediates in 40.74, and Teerlink was fourth in the 100 hurdles in 15.97.
Saratoga's frosh-soph 3200-meter relay placed second at St. Francis, with Luke Anderson, Jeff Verson, Eric Shan and Daniels teamingn to run a 9:12.3.
In dual meet competition last week, Saratoga's boys lost 7512-4912 to Cupertino, and the girls split against Cupertino and St. Francis, beating the Pioneers 104-17 but losing to the Lancers 73-54.
Saratoga won three events in the meet with Cupertino and St. Francis.
Teerlink was first in the 110 meter hurdles in 15.4, with Prolo second in 17.6 and Jill Moon fourth in 18.4, and Prolo took the 300 hurdles in 50.1, with Devin Joplin second in 50.3. Joplin was third in the 100 in 13.2, with Camille Behnke fourth in 13.6
Jennifer Chan was a winner in the long jump at 15-134,with Moon second at 15-112 and Andrea Lo third in 15-12, and Moon was second in the tripled jump at 33-1, with Chan third at 30-312. Prolo added a second in the high jump at 4-8, and Chan cruised to a fourth in the 200 in 28.3.
Janny Huang was second in the shot put at 27-3 and fourth in the discus at 72-9 to lead the Falcons in the weight events.
Leah Blackwell was second in the 400 in 68.7, with Stephanie Szeto third in 69.4, and Jenny Yoo was second in the 3200 in 13:26.2, with Jody Kellogg third in 13.32.6. Kellogg was also third in the 1600 meters in 6:05.7, and Angie Ferreira was third in the 800 in 2:36.5.
Marshall, Alex Lux, Brian Carroll and Drew Copeland each won events for the Saratoga boys against Cupertino.
Marshall was a winner in the discus with a toss of 120-10. Daryl DeKeczer was third at 105-0, and he was also second in the shot put at 38-4, with Alex Fields third at 38-0.
Carroll was a double winner for the Falcons. He was first in the 110 high hurdles in 15.8 and first in the 300 intermediates in 40.5, with Allen second in 41.8.
Lux took the 400 meters in 50.6, with Alex Ling third in 53.9, and Lux came back with a second in the long jump at 20-3/4.
Copeland breezed to a win in the 3200 meters in 10:43.3, with Ori-Michael Benhamou second in 11:33.2.
Brent Colman came through with thirds in the 100 in 10.9 and the 200 in 22.9, and Daniels chipped in with a third in the 1600 in 4:48.7.
Westmont girls win
In other local action, Serena Delaplace and Phung Hinh each recorded three individual victories to lead Westmont to a 78-49 win over Presentation in the Santa Teresa Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League.
Delaplace took the 880 in 2:36.4, the mile in 5:36.7 and the two-mile in 13:09.9, and Hing was a winner in the 100 low hurdles in 18.5, the long jump at 14-1 and the triple jump at 31-4.
Stephanie Herrera took both the sprints, winning the 100 in 13.7 and the 220 in 28.5, to help the Warriors improve their league record to 4-0.
Krista Johnson won the high jump at 4-4, Melisa Taylor won the shot put at 33-312 and Stacey Navarro took the discus at 89-112.
The Warriors stuck the Panthers with their first loss of the year in the meet, but Westmont was stuck with its first loss a few days later, falling 73-54 to Leigh.
Delaplace was a winner in the 880 in 2:36.2 and the mile in 5:43.0, but the Warriors could win just three other events against the Longhorns.
Hinh flew to a first in the triple jump at 31-0 and Taylor won the shot put at 33-9. Clair Doyle added a win in the two-mile in 13:44.
The Westmont boys, like the girls, also slipped to 4-1 in the division after losing a 78-49 decision to Leigh.
Greg Johnson was a double winner for the Warriors, taking the mile in 4:52.5 and the two-mile in 11:17, and Trevor Guina raced to a win in the 880 in 2:14.3. Kaveh Mansoor heaved the shot put 40-0 for Westmont's only other first of the day.
Panthers top Saints
Matt Heling won the 100 in 11.4 and the 200 in 23.9 and helped Prospect to a win in the 400 relay to lead the Panthers to a 77-38 win over Santa Teresa in the Santa Teresa Division.
The Prospect girls, meanwhile, beat Santa Teresa 73-54 and handled Oak Grove 8612-4012.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, April 23, 1997.
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