Eagle goes double gold at CCS track championships

Pretre and Tomkinson each won titles, with Pretre taking the girls’ 1,600 in a time of 5:01.58, with Half Moon Bay’s Claire Yerby finishing third with a time of 5:05.02. Tomkinson took first ahead of Pretre in the 800 with a time of 2:13.69, compared to Pretre’s second-place time of 2:15.16. Tomkinson also added a third-place finish in the 400, finishing with a 57.35.

Pretre and Tomkinson were not the only Knights to perform well. Alexandra Chan took third in the girls’ 100 hurdles with a 14.71 and was eighth in the 300 hurdles. The Menlo girls’ 4x400 team of Michelle Louie, Lauren Hamilton, Pretre and Tomkinson finished seccond with a time of 3:56.74, about a second off of winner San Lorenzo Valley’s time of 3:55.75.

Carlmont’s Kaimei Gesuk took home the championship in the girls’ 3,200 in a time of 10:42.15.

In the field events, the Peninsula dominated the shot put. Terra Nova’s Carly Watts repeated as CCS champ, finishing with a toss of 46 feet, 2 inches to easily outdistance Notre Dame Belmont’s Krissy Smoot, who finished second with put of 45-7, and Mills’ Nane Ikahihifo, who was third with a mark of 40-1.

Smoot, however, prevented a Watts double for the second year in a row when she finally got past her nemesis in the discus, taking the CCS title with a throw of 142-4, two feet further than Watts’ best effort of 140-4. Ikahihifo was 11th with a throw of 94-1.

County boys were not nearly as prolific as their female counterparts, but there were a couple of good showings. M-A’s Francisco Sanchez was third in the 100 with a time of 10.93 in a race won by Azjani McGill of Monterey, who ran a 10.82. In the 3,200, Carlmont’s Justin Hsu finished fifth in a time of 9:29.18. Bellarmine’s Chris Peattie won the title with a 9:27.42.