CIF-SS Track and Field Masters Meet moves
One new thing deserves another.
Just as the postseason saw a change when the CIF Southern Section moved the cross-country championships to the Riverside City Cross-Country Course this past season, another move will take place in track and field.
The CIF Southern Section office announced on Tuesday that the CIF-SS Track and Field Masters Meet will be relocated to Arcadia High School for this season.
“We are excited to announce that Arcadia High School will be the host of the CIF-SS Masters Meet in 2017,” CIF Assistant Commissioner Rainer Wulf said in a press release.
“Arcadia High School has a long history of running first class track and field events over the years and we feel that this will be an excellent venue for our CIF-SS schools and athletes as they run to qualify for the CIF State meet.”
Cerritos College has hosted the meet on and off since 1963. The turf is being redone, and the date of construction will force the Masters Meet to be moved. It will not affect the CIF-SS Preliminaries and Finals.
Arcadia High hosts the Arcadia Invitational, a national-level competition. While some feel that the area’s best athletes are coming home, CIF-SS Director of Communications Thom Simmons says that wasn’t a consideration in the decision.
“We were looking for the next best available facility that could host that event and checked off all the boxes that we need for hosting an event,” Simmons said. “With the available spaces around Southern California, we felt that Arcadia was the best with those issues and concerns.”
Among the concerns that needed to be addressed were ample parking, sufficient seating, an athlete warmup area, and proper concessions to feed a capacity crowd.
The CIF-SS Masters Meet will be held on Friday, May 26.
CIF-SS Dual-Meet Wrestling Championship Pairings Released
The first-round matchups for the one-day, dual-meet divisional championships were released on Thursday.
No coastal teams drew a seeding within the six divisional tournaments, although Marina High will host the Coastal Division championship.
The Vikings, who went 4-1 in the Sunset League, will draw Godinez in their opening match. The first round begins at 11 a.m. at Marina, with the winner set to face second-seeded Servite.
Alta Loma (Central), Corona Santiago (Eastern), Dos Pueblos (Northern), Redondo Union (Southern), and Lakewood (Western) are the home sites of the other championship meets.
When you’re hot, you’re hot
Huntington Beach’s ice hockey team continued to roll with its sixth win in its past eight games.
The Oilers defeated Santa Margarita, 8-4, on Saturday to close to within two points of the Eagles in the Division 3 standings of the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League.
Miles Knight and Evan Stapleton each had two goals, and Tommy Lang had three assists in the win for the Oilers (5-7-1-0, 17 points).
Huntington Beach has two games remaining. The Oilers get Woodbridge (1-8-0-2, five points) on Saturday before taking on Edison (9-2-0-1, 28 points) in the Surf City Face-off on Feb. 11.
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