Sports
Beaumont Dominates At 3-Team Track Meet
Cougars win 16 events against Shadow Hills and Twentynine Palms.
It wasn’t a meeting of the track and field super powers but Beaumont’s non-league tri-meet on Thursday with Indio Shadow Hills and Twentynine Palms was still good for the Cougars.
Beaumont won eight events in the girls meet, sweeping the top three spots in two events and placing at least one athlete in the top three spots in each event.
The Cougars finished with 93 points to win the girls meet. Twentynine Palms (36) and Shadow Hills (29) took second and third, respectively.
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Beaumont won eight events in the boys meet and finished with 83 team points. Twentynine Palms (41) finished second and Shadow Hills was third with 36.
“I think we are at the point where we need to be right now in the season,” said Beaumont track coach Jessica Cadman, whose boy’s team finished second in the Mountain Pass League last year. The girl’s team was third. “We’re looking good. We did well today.”
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Missing from Beaumont’s lineup was De Anza League defending shot put champion Lindsey Ritchie. But the Cougars were anchored by other stellar performances.
Jazmin Romero and Trisha Cervantes both won two events. Romero took the 1600 (5:29.38) and the 800 (2:29.60). Cervantes won the long jump (15’4) and the 300 hurdles (50.24).
Tara Trevino won the 400 (1:04.38) and placed second in the 800 (2:39.06).
Romero and Trevino completed the sweep of the 800 with a third place finish by Christina Sanchez (2:47.28).
Beaumont’s sweep of the long jump included Cervantes, Zuriah Smith (14’2) and Joye Depalatis (14’2).
For Shadow Hills, Breanna Harrison won the high jump (4’2) and Victoria Hamilton took second in the 200 and third in the 100.
Andrew Walker led Beaumont with two wins in the boys meet. Walker won the long jump (19’9) and the high jump (5’4) and placed second in the 110 hurdles (16.30).
Other individual winners for Beaumont included Ryan Angel in the 400 (58.82) and Caleb Nood in the discus (140’10).
‘If things fall together, we can possibly win our league,” Cadman said. “The tough teams are San Jacinto and Citrus Hill.”
