Girls Varsity Get First Ever Win Against Nordhoff

Thu, Mar 29th - The girls beat Nordhoff for the first time in five tries, but the boys loose for the first time against the Rangers...worse, the first ever lost in OC's history for the BV.

Performer of the meet is going to be redunant this season as Chris Owusu wins four events again and posted what can easily be called the best dual meet production in school history. Chris cruised a 53.53 400 then turned in a 10.91w 100 in the very next event then covered 200 faster than he has ever before with a 22.11w and then closed the day with a 49.1 (fastest in Oc history) relay split. Roseanne Fleming led the girls with three victories in three events including the 400, 800 and 4x400.

Tri-Valley League Compeition Begins

Fri, Mar 23rd - After a number of changes including location and day the Lions opened league competition against La Reina and Fillmore at OC. This was also the inaugural Tri-Valley League (TVL) meet for OC.

The boys varsity handled the short-handed Fillmore flashes without much difficulty. Chris Owusu continued to lead the way with four victories in the 4x100, 100, 200, 400.

The girls varsity lost to La Reina, but defeated Fillmore led by two event winners Kelsea Smith (100 & Long Jump) and Rachel Nosco (100IH & 4x100).

Scott Arellano led the BFS with wins at 100, 200 and 4x100. GJV were led by Natalia Dabdoub (Long Jump) and Noelle Abott (High Jump) who were victorious over all the La Reina and Fillmore athletes.

Six OC Records Broken, Numerous PR's at Triton

Sat, Mar 24th - A select group of Lions traveled to San Clemente HS for the Triton Invitational and six OC relay records were broken as a result.

Boys varsity was highlighted by the 1600 Sprint Medley Relay (400-200-200-800) which set the OC record finishing second overall against mostly division 1 & 2 schools. They broke the record set by Chris Thompson's team, completing the elimination of CT from the record book. Chris Owusu led off with a 50.2 400 followed by Spencer Daly (200), Zach Davis (200) and Ethan Long closing in 2:04.0 for the 800 for a total time of 3:42.83. Other races included 100 Chris O 11.04 (15 minutes after the SMR); 200 Chris O 22.14w; 4x400 3:36.06 - Justin Sullivan 55.5, Chris O 49.7, Zach 56.1 and Spencer 55.2; 110HH Malcolm Jones 16.04w; Distance Medley Relay 12:04.78 - Rafael Garcia, Chase Fiedler, Tyler Temanson, Ethan Long; 4x800 9:00.19 - Justin, Tyer, Chase and Rafael. Jeremy Reed represented the Lions on the field in the Triple Jump and High Jump.

The girls set two OC records in the DMR 13:30.64 and 1600m SMR 4:46.44. The SMR was led off by Catherine Price who ran her first ever 400 in 1:06.8 followed by Genesis Goma and Christian Escoto running 200's and then closed with a 3:36.3 800 PR by Samantha Roesler.
Samy led off the DMR with a 4:10 in the 1200 leg, Christine ran her first ever 400 in a 1:06.0, Morgan Temansin produced PR 2:43 800 and Rosie closed in the 1600. Other events included Keiosha Hunt Shot Put, Shannon Armstrong High Jump, Stephanie Armstrong and Danielle Ernest Discus, Lauren Radke with a season best 10-0 in the Pole Vault and Roseanne Fleming ran the open 800 and 400.

The BFS set the pace for the day with three OC BFS records in the DMR, 800m SMR and the 4x200. Charlie Petrie (1200), Nick Matra (400), Nick Colarossi (800)and Hunter Hays (1600) set the DMR record in the first event of the day. Malcom Jones (200) Ryan Landseadel (200), Brian Owusu (200) and Scott Arellano (400) tallied the meet victory with the OC record. Silas Goma, Ryan, Brian and Mark Borowski improved the 4x200 OC record. Other events were the Shot Put - Malcolm Jones (1st) and Weston Denham; 4x100 - Silas, Ryan, Brian, Scott.

TCSSM @ Morrpark HS

Sat, Mar 10th - The Tri-County Small Schools Meet hosted by La Reina and Oak Park. This was the first meet of the season with full entries by OC. A program in the rebuilding phase showed some promise for a late season run again this year. The distance athletes are closing the gap on the sprints that carried us to a CIF SS Title last saeson. Distance should pick up some valuable points this time around.

Male Athlete of the Meet for OC was Chris Owusu with a fantastic triple. Chris ran a PR and OC #2 mark in the 100m with a 11.87. Then won the 400m easily running a relaxed 52.38. Then posted his second fastest ever 200m with a 22.17 (+0.03 from his PR). This was the fastest 100-200 day ever by an OC athlete in March; and he added a 400m to the mix.

Female Athlete of the Meet for OC was Roaseanne Fleming with a brilliant distance double in the 1600m and 800m. The meet followed a modified schedule which resulted in a short recovery between events, Rosie demonstrated her fitness with two solid races. She ran negative splits anda 1:12 close to post a 5:14.26 in the1600m and a 2:19.73 in the 800m.

Malcom Jones improves his OC frosh record with a 15.92 in the 110HH and wins the Invitational heat of the meet.

1600m
Hunter 4:46.3 PR, Charlie 4:56.1 PR, Nick C 5:08.37, Mark 5:24.05
Rafael 5:03.12 PR, Tyler 5:20.48 #2PR
Roseanne 5:14.26 #2PR, Samantha 5:56.48 #3PR

800m
Roseanne 2:19.73, Samantha 2:39.02 PR, Morgan 2:46.92 PR
Hunter 2:12.41, Charlie 2:13.70, Nick C 2:21.17 PR, Nick M 2:30.44 #2PR, Mark 2:32.04 PR

400m
Justn 54.54, Ethan 57.21
Nick M nt

Annual Harvard Westlake Dual

Wed, Mar 7th - PR's are the theme of the day despite the hard workout the previous day.
400m
Shaleene 1:17
Justin 55.08

800m
Nick C 2:21.28 PR
Rafael 2:16.26 PR
Tyler 2:33.6o

1600m
Rafael 5:13.82 PR
Tyler 5:19.59 PR
Nick C 5:09.24 PR
Mark 5:38.49 PR
Brian 5:40.98 PR

OC/VC Invitational

Sat, Mar 3rd - The distance got to stretch their legs finally after all the winter running and time off. Mostly a practice day, the results were promising...

1500m
Roseanne Fleming set the OC/VC meet Record, Thorson Stadium/Ashton Family Track Record and OC school record with a 5:01.09.
Samantha
Emily

Hunter Hays remindedeveryone that he is at home on the track with a BFS OC/VC Meet record the fastest time ofthe day for OC with a 4:38
Charlie
Ethan
Rafael
Tyler
Nick C

4x800m
The GV and BFS were victoriuos, the BV placed second. The BFS took comand early and never looked back, the GV had to wrk the magiccoming from last to first...just keep RJ close. The BV fell well behind , came storming back, but not quite enough...settle of runner ups.
BFS - Charlie, Hunter, Nick C, Nick M
GV - Shaleene, Samantha, Morgan, Rosie
BV - Justin, Nolan, Chase, Ethan

400m
Mark and Brian (sounds like a talk show) debuted in the OC black with training runs at 400m.
Mark
Brian

Big Bear II

Feb 16th - 19th - The Boys Distance athletes made a mini-camp retreat to Big Bear to kick off the 2007 track & field season. Saturday morning the guy bounced up Cougar Crest Trip in the cool winter air. There was little snow on the ground , but the climb was abbreviated by some fantastic scenery. That evening the guys revisited the silver mine where they found a number of bats. Sunday the guys chose to hit the slopes during the evening shift. Coach Smith ran from Bear Mountain to the top of SnowSummit to visit with the guys as they got off the chair lifts. Monday morning theguys woke to several inches of fresh powder and enjoyed a morning run on the partically cleared roads and the over ankle deep Towne Trail loop back to the slopes. Man, it doesn't get any better than that!