HEALDSBURG — Two high school track records — one at Clear Lake and the other at Middletown — fell Saturday afternoon during the Redwood Empire Area Track & Field Showcase for boys and girls at Healdsburg High School.
With track postseason events canceled this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Redwood Empire Showcase served as a stopgap of sorts as some of the area’s top small-school and large-school athletes took part, many competing for a final time at the high school level.
Girls
Clear Lake High freshman Hannah Garrity broke the school record in the 3,200 meters with a personal-best time of 12 minutes, .74 seconds, which earned her a seventh-place finish overall, but the best by a freshman.
Audrey Maclean of Redwood High School won the 3,200 in 11:34.43. Lucy Gott of Sonoma Academy had the best small-school time at 11:46.28, which placed the junior fourth overall.
Garrity also set a personal-best time of 5:31.94 while finishing eighth overall in the 1,600, again the fastest time by a freshman in the field and also the fastest time by a small-school runner. Race winner Hailey Connery of Redwood High School clocked in at 5:04.44.
Boys
Middletown senior Isaac Rascon set his second school record of the 2021 track season, this time in the 1,600 where he placed eighth overall in 4:41.37. Earlier this season Rascon set the Mustangs’ 3,200 record with a time of 10:03 at the Granada Distance and Sprint Festival in Livermore.
Rascon had the top small-school time in the star-studded field. Owen Hit of Casa Grande High School (Petaluma) won the race in 4:23.08.
In the 3,200, Rascon finished ninth overall in 10:12.06. Nolan Hosbein of Casa Grande won the race in 9:25.76.
Also for Middletown, senior Forrest Devine placed sixth overall in the 400 in 53.28 seconds. Valentino Bugica of Windsor (51.67) edged out El Molino’s Soul Berna (51.92) for the win.
Middletown’s 4×100 relay team of Devine, Nadav Dicovski, Caleb Sternberg and Dallas McComas placed eighth in 47.71 while the 4×400 relay team of McComas, Shane Guill, Isaiah Diaz and Xander Romero was ninth in 3:47.08.
Lower Lake’s 4×400 relay team of John Fabela, leo Brown, Angelo Dwight and Anthony Hills was 11th overall in 3:49.22.
In field events, Middletown’s Greyson Rockwell placed fourth in the discus with a toss of 127 feet, 9 inches. Winner Benjamin Feldstein of Vintage won with a throw of 140-9, three inches farther than American Canyon’s Harold Malone Jr. (140-6).
Rockwell also finished eighth in the shotput at 38 feet, 8 inches. Winner Kai Davidson of Marin Catholic topped the field at 51-2 ¾.
