Track and field: Fontana’s Ephrium is top qualifier in long jump

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Damien Ephrium, a senior from Fontana, qualified No. 1 at the Southern Section-Toyota Division I preliminaries at Trabuco Hills with a long jump of 22 feet 10 3/4 inches. There was no wind indicated to verify the effort as not wind-aided, otherwise Ephrium would have moved into the state’s top 10.

He beat second qualifier Nick Ross, the talented junior from Vista Murrieta who jumped 22-3 1/2. Ross came into the day with the state’s fifth-best non-wind aided leap at 23-2.

-- Martin Henderson