{"id":330183,"date":"2026-05-24T05:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330183\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:41:18","slug":"clara-adams-breaks-records-at-busy-southern-section-masters-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330183\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Adams breaks records at busy Southern Section Masters Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clara Adams expected to win the 400-meter dash Saturday in the Southern Section Masters Meet at Moorpark High. The Long Beach Wilson junior not only won, she broke the section record, circling the track in 51.98 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I did not expect a 51 today … that was my end goal and I got it before state,\u201d said Adams, who topped the previous mark [set by Norco\u2019s Shae Anderson in 2017] by one hundredth of a second. \u201cIt says a lot about my training and teammates who push me in practice every day. I\u2019m ecstatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even better than breaking a section record is breaking a state record and Adams was smiling wider several hours later after she and teammates Brooke Blue, Brooklyn Fowler and Saniah Varnado did just that by clocking 3:33.83 in the 4×400 relay to obliterate the time of 3:35.49 set by Moore League rival Long Beach Poly in 2004. Rosary Academy was a distant second in 3:41.33.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 400 was our first race of the day, all of us ran it and we all qualified for state and that carries over to the rest of the day,\u201d said Adams, who ran the third leg and widened the Bruins\u2019 lead before handing the baton to Varnado for the anchor leg. \u201cThe state record is a bonus. We handled our business and now we have a week to prepare to go for the national record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Florida Montverde Academy owns the national record of 3:31.68, achieved at the 2024 New Balance Nationals Outdoor in Philadelphia, but Wilson\u2019s foursome was content with the state record, at least for now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already had a good lead when I got it but everyone was getting loud and I was pushing,\u201d Varnado said. \u201cI was thinking we could run in the high 3:30s. I\u2019m proud of how well we did and hopefully we can do even bigger things at state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CIF state track and field championships are next weekend (prelims Friday and finals Saturday) at Buchanan High in Clovis and as usual the Southern Section will be well-represented as numerous athletes met the qualifying standards.<\/p>\n

After three-peating in the 1,600 and 800 one week before at the Southern Section finals, Corona Santiago senior Braelyn Combe won both events again Saturday, winning the 1,600 in 4:43.03, well off her 4:41.36 effort at the section finals but still more than two seconds faster than runner-up Reese Holley of JSerra. She won the 800 Saturday by about the same margin in 2:06.04.<\/p>\n

Calabasas dominated at the section finals with four runners breaking the Division 3 record in the 100. They were back at it Saturday as last week\u2019s champion Malia Rainey ran 11.33 to win the first heat. Devyn Sproles equaled Rainey\u2019s 11.41 one week before to win the second heat and take second overall. Marley Scoggins (11.46) was third and Coyotes teammate Olivia Kirk (11.62) was fifth.<\/p>\n

\"Tra\u2019via <\/p>\n

Tra\u2019via Flournoy led off Rosary\u2019s 4×100 relay, which won in 44.79 at the Masters Meet on Saturday in Moorpark.<\/p>\n

(Steve Galluzzo \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

Rosary\u2019s 4×100 relay established itself as the favorite at state finals with a 44.79, more than a second faster than runner-up Canyon Country Canyon. The Royals\u2019 foursome of Tra\u2019via Flournoy, Justine Wilson, Pfeiffer Lee and Maliyah Collins is hoping to top the state-record (44.23) it set at Arcadia in April when it heads north for the state meet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a [personal record] but it was faster than last week,\u201d said sophomore Collins, who ran the anchor leg. \u201cThis was a tuneup. Our handoffs were clean and we got the baton around the track. That was our main focus.\u201d<\/p>\n

West Ranch junior Tamea Crear (23.50), Kirk (23.54) and Rosary\u2019s Wilson (23.61) and Collins (23.69) took the top four spots in the 200 meters.<\/p>\n

San Jacinto Valley Academy sophomore Kaaliyah Lacy clocked 13.44 to win the 100 hurdles, one hundredth off her state-leading time that earned her the Division 4 section title one week ago. Varnado won the 300 hurdles in 41.53.<\/p>\n

Irvine senior and Duke commit Summer Wilson, a three-time Southern Section champion in the 3,200, ran a new-season best (10:14.45) and shaved nearly 10 seconds off her time in the Division 2 sectional race.<\/p>\n

\"Irvine\u2019s <\/p>\n

Irvine\u2019s Summer Wilson wins the 3200 meters in 10:14.45 at the Masters Meet after placing third last year. <\/p>\n

(Steve Galluzzo \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

After sweeping the all three jumps events at the Division 3 section finals, Jurupa Valley senior AB Hernandez<\/a> did the same Saturday, winning the long jump in 20 feet, 0.75 inches, the triple jump in 40-7 and the high jump in 5-8.<\/p>\n

Los Alamitos senior Cassidy Nguyen cleared 13-2 to win the pole vault while Aliso Niguel was first in the discus (165-10) and shot put (49-0) after winning the Division I section crown in both last week.<\/p>\n

Woodbridge junior Aidan Antonio won the 3,200 boys race in 8:55.30 while Sterling White of Oaks Christian became the first freshman in state history to break nine minutes, finishing seventh in 8:59.26 to break the ninth-grade record of 9:01.1 set by Eric Hulst of Laguna Beach in 1973.<\/p>\n

Riverside King\u2019s Maximo Zavaleta (4:06.30) and Antonio (4:06.54) battled all the way to the finish line to claim the top two spots in the 1,600.<\/p>\n

Having won the Division 3 boys title in 38.39 one week earlier, Servite\u2019s 4×100 relay won Saturday\u2019s race in 40.17, followed by Moorpark (40.60) and Loyola (40.83).<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the first leg and coming out of the blocks because I get to see my teammates win,\u201d said Jace Wells, whose exchange to Jorden Wells was smooth. Kamil Pelovello and Benjamin Harris ran the last two legs. The foursome set the state record (39.70) at Arcadia.<\/p>\n

Harris won the 100 in a wind-aided 10.17 (one hundredth faster than his time in the Division 3 section finals last week), then won the 200 in 20.80 (31 hundredths slower than his winning time a week ago).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s what I expected \u2014 I\u2019m proud of it,\u201d Harris said of his 100 time. \u201cI just wanted to execute, win my race and move on. There\u2019s more work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Loyola\u2019s <\/p>\n

Loyola\u2019s Ejam Yohannes beats Servite\u2019s Jaelen Hunter by 11 hundredths of a second in the 400-meter dash.<\/p>\n

(Steve Galluzzo \/ For the Times)<\/p>\n

In the most exciting finish of the day, Loyola senior Ejam Yohannes edged Servite sophomore Jaelen Hunter by 11 hundredths of a second in 46.40 in the 400 meters, one week after Hunter ran 46.36 to set a section Division 3 record. Johannes cut three tenths off his Division I winning time last week.<\/p>\n

Upland (3:18.54) won the boys 4×400 and Gardena Serra (3:18.88) was second. Crean Lutheran\u2019s Noah Richardson cleared 15-6 to win the pole vault while Redondo Union\u2019s Bo Ausmus won the discus with a throw of 185-7 and the shot put with a mark of 61-9.<\/p>\n

Having won the Southern Section Division 3 high jump crown in a lifetime best and state-leading 7-01 seven days earlier, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame senior JJ Harel still had the best height Saturday at 6-10, tied with Nathaniel Baca but winning on fewer misses. Harel aims to repeat as state champion.<\/p>\n

Moorpark\u2019s Davis Benson was first in the long jump Saturday at 22-11.75 (he won the Division 3 section crown with a leap of 23-5 last week), followed by Dane Malloy (22-10.5) and Harel (22-9.25). Paloma Valley senior Arthur Stringer won the triple jump in 47-4.5.<\/p>\n

Long Beach Poly\u2019s Lynnox Newton won the 110 high hurdles in 13.69, Etiwanda\u2019s Brandon Andrade (13.85) was second and Benson (13.94) third. Andrade (37.01) was second behind Palm Desert\u2019s Kingston Penny (36.86) in the 300 hurdles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Adams expected to win the 400-meter dash Saturday in the Southern Section Masters Meet at Moorpark High.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[137029,217,21172,137040,137042,48,52,51,5562,47,50,49,5681,9745,137041,9018,9443,49417,315,430,39017],"class_list":["post-330183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-clara-adams","tag-day","tag-division","tag-final-saturday","tag-foursome","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-week","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-record","tag-rosary-academy","tag-saniah-varnado","tag-second","tag-southern-section","tag-state-record","tag-time","tag-week","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330183","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=330183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}