Monache puts stamp on City Championships

The second annual track and field City Championships provided little suspense at Granite Hills, Tuesday night.

It was all Monache, all day.

The Marauders’ girls team took first overall with a score of 116 points — a full 66 points better than No. 2 Porterville. The other two schools participating — Strathmore and Granite Hills — finished in third and fourth, respectively.

Monache boys also nearly doubled No. 2 Porterville by a score of 89 to 46. Granite Hills (41 points) and Strathmore (31 points) rounded out the scores.

The Marauders girls dominated nearly every category, including long distance runs, short runs, relays, and the field events of the long jump, shot put and discus throw.

Though Porterville’s Ashlei Esparza won the final 3200-meter event in 13 minutes, 20 seconds, Monache’s girls took the next five spots, starting with Alysa Alvarez’s second-place finish just five seconds behind Esparza.

Monache’s Jorge Ceballos took first in the boys’ 3200-meter run with a time of 11:16.1.

The Marauder girls claimed first in each of the following: 4x100-meter relay, 800-meter run (Darlin Hornsby), the 1600-meter sprint medley, distance medley relay and the 200-meter dash (Danica Taylor).

Lorenzo Avila edged Strathmore’s Jaime Magallon in the boys 200-meter dash by .06 seconds to give Monache yet another first-place finish while Andres Rubalcava cleared the 110-meter hurdles with the fastest time of 19.19 seconds.

Madison Lawley picked up two individual wins for Monache, including the shot put with a distance of 29 feet, 7.5 inches. Her distance of 95 feet, 6.5 inches in the discus throw was easily good enough for first as well. The Marauders dominated the top three and top five spots of those two events.

Monache’s Analysa Asuncion was the only female to record a score in the pole vault at an even height of 7-feet.

Monache’s Brittany Cabeje, Jenae Alcantar, Miranda Peterson and Shannon Cruess took the top four spots in the girls long jump and Grayson Henderson’s jump of 19 feet, 5.5 inches clinched first among the boys.

Porterville’s Diego Paniagua won both the shot put (41 feet, 4 inches) and the discus throw (124 feet, 9 inches) for the boys as the only other multiple winner.

The Panthers’ Heidi Adams and Robert Herrera swept the girls and boys triple jump events while Alexandria Henry and Zac Wilkins were tops for the high jump.

Strathmore picked up three first-place finishes in the girls 4x400-meter relay, girls 100-meter hurdles and 4x100-meter relay and Granite placed first in two events — the boys 4x400-meter relay and 1600-meter sprint medley.