Track and Field: More troubles for Inland Empire athletes

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More bad news for the Inland Empire at the CIF state track preliminaries Friday at Cerritos College. We’ve already well-documented the troubles of the Rancho Verde girls’ team, now it’s the school’s boys who are having difficulty finding their groove.

The Rancho Verde boys’ 400-meter relay team came into the event ranked eighth in state, but finished 10th -- one spot out of qualifying for Saturday’s finals. Corona Santiago performed even more poorly in the one-lap relay. The Sharks came into the race with the fourth-fastest time in the state (41.57), which they accomplished on the same track last week at the Masters meet, but they were 11th in 41.93.

You can’t blame it on air quality.

-- Dan Arritt

Note: For up-to-the-minute results of the state meet, check here.