LONG BEACH, Calif.– Long Beach State closed out the Beach Opener on Saturday with a full day of track and field competition at Jack Rose Track, wrapping up the opening meet of the 2026 outdoor season. The Beach produced several top finishes throughout the day, highlighted by strong performances in the distance races, sprints and field events as the program hosted teams from across the region to begin the outdoor campaign.<\/p>\n
Women Darcy Ray<\/a>\u00a0added a podium finish in the women’s 3000-meter run, taking third with a time of 10:34.09.<\/p>\n In the sprints,\u00a0Jaliyah Davis<\/a>\u00a0led the Beach in the 100 meters with a fifth-place finish in 12.06 seconds.\u00a0Daryana Hall<\/a>\u00a0placed ninth in 12.20 seconds, while\u00a0Jonelle Scott<\/a>\u00a0finished 10th with the same time. Davis also recorded a ninth-place finish in the 200 meters with a time of 24.93 seconds. In the field events,\u00a0Kendra Daniels<\/a>\u00a0tied for second in the high jump after clearing 1.66 meters.\u00a0Grace Stoddart<\/a>\u00a0placed eighth with a mark of 1.46 meters.<\/p>\n The Beach also saw multiple scorers in the long jump as\u00a0Jenna Morales<\/a>\u00a0finished seventh with a jump of 5.26 meters.\u00a0Daneira Pellum<\/a>\u00a0placed eighth at 5.21 meters, while freshman\u00a0Amelia Gray<\/a>\u00a0finished 11th with a mark of 5.07 meters and\u00a0Jonelle Scott<\/a>\u00a0placed 12th at 5.06 meters.<\/p>\n In the triple jump,\u00a0Madeline Scovil<\/a>\u00a0finished eighth with a mark of 11.34 meters.<\/p>\n Long Beach State also recorded strong performances in the pole vault as\u00a0Jonelle Scott<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sophie Garrou<\/a>\u00a0each cleared 3.50 meters (11 feet, 5 \u00be inches).<\/p>\n Men In the men’s 200 meters, Dre Johnson led Long Beach State with a fourth-place finish in 21.17 seconds.\u00a0Sebastian Lopez<\/a>\u00a0followed in seventh at 21.32 seconds, while\u00a0Vincent Jones<\/a>\u00a0placed 10th with a time of 21.38.\u00a0Jaden Dasher<\/a>\u00a0finished 14th in 21.76 seconds.<\/p>\n In the field events,\u00a0Cyprus Rice<\/a>\u00a0cleared 4.88 meters (16 feet) in the pole vault, while\u00a0VJ Vanderlipe<\/a>\u00a0placed second with a clearance of 4.73 meters (15 feet, 6 \u00bc inches).<\/p>\n Cytres Vives<\/a>\u00a0added a fourth-place finish in the high jump with a mark of 1.91 meters.<\/p>\n The Beach capped the meet with a strong showing in the men’s 4×400-meter relay as the team of\u00a0Jaden Dasher<\/a>,\u00a0Adren Parker<\/a>,\u00a0Tristyn Flores<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Vincent Jones<\/a>\u00a0finished third with a time of 3:11.67.<\/p>\n Long Beach State will now head on the road for the Beach Brown Invitational hosted by Cal State Fullerton on March 12\u201313.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.– Long Beach State closed out the Beach Opener on Saturday with a full day of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-210471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Long Beach State opened the final day with a strong showing in the distance events as junior\u00a0Brooke Willoughby<\/a>\u00a0finished second in the women’s 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:45.05. In the women’s 1500 meters,\u00a0Sharice Laygo<\/a>\u00a0placed 11th in 5:03.32 before later returning to place ninth in the 3000 meters with a time of 11:03.33.<\/p>\n
Freshman\u00a0Elisa Rodriguez<\/a>\u00a0placed ninth in the women’s 800 meters with a time of 2:20.98.<\/p>\n
The Beach distance group was led by\u00a0Lance Denhalter<\/a>, who finished sixth in the 1500 meters with a time of 3:53.90 and later placed fourth in the 800 meters in 1:57.18.<\/p>\n