LAKE COUNTY — Updating the boys and girls shotput and discus records at Middletown High School is a full-time job these days because they change almost as fast as you can write in a new distance.
In the case of senior standouts Bryson Trask and Taelor Roderick, they keep breaking their own records over and over again. Four school records fell in all – three throwing, one running – on Saturday as the Mustangs took part in the Eddie Hart Invitational at Pittsburg.
Trask, the former Lower Lake High standout who transferred to Middletown, won the shotput with a throw of 57 feet, 8 inches, beating his old school record of 54-7 ¼. He also won the discus with a toss of 175-5, which was one inch farther than the second-place throw of Pittsburg’s John Maka (personal-best 175-4).
Roderick shattered her old school record of 108-3 in the discus with a winning throw of 119-6. Right behind her in second place was teammate Hanna Morris at 105-9, which was a personal record for the senior. Roderick’s big day also included a fourth-place finish in the shotput with a school-record throw of 32-9 ¾. Morris was ninth in 29-7 ½.
Melvin, a junior, knocked six seconds off his previous best in the 1,600. When informed by Nanik that he had run a personal-best time, Melvin said, “It’s only 5:16, we need to train more!”
Alex Castillo was ninth overall in the shotput (36-8) and Aries Brooke placed 14th in the long jump (16-5 ½).
Varsity girls
Crystal Lua ran 11th in the 100 hurdles at 23.07 and was 18th in the long jump (10-8). Faye Rippe set personal-best times in the 100 (16.29), 200 (35.19) and 1,600 (7:49.15).
Frosh-soph boys
Sophomore Jose Garcia won the shotput (36-7) and discus 89-7 with personal-best throws. Larry Russell placed third in the 300 hurdles (46.87) and fourth in the 200 (25.26) with personal-best times.
Frosh-soph girls
Lower Lake’s 4×100 relay team of Zoe Brown, Molly Collins, Loriana Russell and Lyzet Montanez placed seventh in 1:03.45. Brown added a sixth-place finish in the long jump with a personal-best leap of 11-11 while Montanez was 10th in 11-1, also a personal best.
Schedule
Middletown and Lower Lake return to action Wednesday during the annual Lake County Meet at Clear Lake High School in Lakeport. Both schools are also competing in the Twilight Invitational on Friday at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa.
