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TeWinkle takes title once again

Trojans’ boys capture Coastal Athletic League championship for the 24th time in 25 years.

June 02, 2009

CORONA DEL MAR — The TeWinkle Intermediate School boys’ track and field team continued its remarkable dominance of the Coastal Athletic League finals, winning its 24th overall title in 25 years Thursday at Corona del Mar High.

With victories from eighth graders Ben Beck (800 meters), Robert Murtha (200 meters) and Brad Wilson (400 meters), seventh-graders Carlos Herrera (100, 200) and Christian Chapin (long jump) and Simon Tran, who won the 100 meters in the C Division (5-feet-4 and under), the Trojans finished with 227 points.

TeWinkle, which won 21 consecutive overall titles before losing in 2006, also won both the seventh and eighth grade 4x100 relays.

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Beck, who also finished second in the 1600 and the high jump, and Murtha, who finished second in the 100 and fourth in the long jump, contributed 26 and 22 points, respectively, of the Trojans’ winning total.

In the 4x100 relay, Beck ran second and Murtha ran the anchor as TeWinkle won in 50.1, edging Corona del Mar by two-tenths of a second.

Second place Harbor Day, paced by Dylan Thies who won the C Division 1600 and 800 in meet-best times of 5:01.9 and 2:19.0, had 192 points, Dwyer of Huntington Beach had 132, Huntington Beach Sowers had 99 and Corona del Mar had 91.

Dwyer won the girls’ overall title with 209 points. Ensign and Harbor Day tied for second with 156 and Corona del Mar was fourth with 103.

Ensign’s Kelsey Long won the 100 meters and long jump and finished second in the high jump to lead her team to the eighth-grade title.

Jenna Shapiro of Harbor Day won the C Division 100 and 200 meters, helping her team to the 5-4 title.

Coastal Athletic League Track and Field Finals

At Corona del Mar High School

May 28, 2009

Team standings

Overall boys

1. TeWinkle 227, 2. Harbor Day 192, Dwyer 132, 4. Sowers 99, 5. Corona del Mar 91, 6. Ensign 65, 7. Costa Mesa 30.

8th grade boys

1. TeWinkle 81, 2. Sowers 51, 3. Corona del Mar 43, 4. Dwyer 32, 5. Ensign 28, 6. Harbor Day 26, 7. Costa Mesa 18.

C boys (5 feet 4 and under)

1. Harbor Day 111, 2. TeWinkle 82, 3. Dwyer 40, 4 (tie) Sowers, Corona del Mar 17, 6. Ensign 12.

7th grade boys

1. TeWinkle 64, 2. Dwyer 60, 3. Harbor Day 55, 4 (tie). Corona del Mar, Sowers 31, 6. Ensign 25, 7. Costa Mesa 12.

Overall girls

1. Dwyer 209, 2 (tie). Ensign, Harbor Day 156, 4. Corona del Mar 103, 5. TeWinkle 85, 6. Sowers 69, 7. Costa Mesa 45.

8th grade girls

1. Ensign 76, 2. Dwyer 72, 3. Costa

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