High School Review / Scott Miller : Flu Bug the First Thing to Slow Fallbrook’s Noon; He May Forgo Arcadia

Fallbrook High School’s Brent Noon, the nation’s shotput leader, may miss the prestigious Arcadia Invitational track meet this weekend.

Noon, whose best outdoor effort this season is 65-feet-9--2-feet-7 better than any other high school competitor in the country--has been laid up with the flu. He missed school all last week, along with a dual meet against Vista and the Titan Relays Saturday. He has lost 15 pounds, and although he has been practicing this week, he still feels weak.

Senior Terry Shephard, who ranks fifth in the state with a best of 56-2, may be the lone Fallbrook shotput representative at Arcadia.

“I’d like both of them to go, to face that good competition,” Fallbrook Coach Tim Oder said. “But Brent’s been there before.”

In February, Noon threw 66-2 1/2 indoors, which is also the nation’s best.

Poway Coach Dan Schaitel was set to use electronic timing in Poway’s Titan Relays last weekend, but a malfunction forced the use of hand-held stop watches. Unfortunately, hand timing, which is common at county meets, causes some problems.

“Hand timing is always very confusing,” said Jack Shephard, who compiles the boys’ high school track leaders list for Track and Field News. “If it’s a hand-held time listed in hundredths (from a digital stopwatch), it should be rounded up (to the next 10th). A 10.75 for 100 meters should be a 10.8, for example. Or even a 10.71 should be a 10.8. Anything over 10.70.”

In the Titan Relays invitational boys’ 100, Castle Park’s Kiyoshi Moody was credited with a winning time of 10.95, with Mira Mesa’s Bobby Nelson second in 10.99. But since both were hand-timed, each should have been credited with an 11.0.

Shephard said the magazine will consider a hand time for national record consideration but that the difference between hand and electronic timing would be factored in. For example, he said, a hand-timed 9.9 in the 100 meters would only equal the national record of 10.13.

“A guy would have to run a 9.8 hand-timed to break the record,” he said. “Hand times are kind of phony. Cheerleaders, teachers, or whoever a coach can get are timers, and there aren’t a lot of good ones.

“At the start of a race, (the timer’s) reaction time is about .24 or .25 seconds, and most timers anticipate the finish and stop the clock when the runner crosses the line.”

There is a split-second delay in timing at the start of a hand-timed race, and there usually is no delay to compensate at the end. So the times are faster.

The annual San Diego County 3-A and 2-A all-star basketball game is Saturday at Serra High School. Game time is 7:30 p.m. Torrey Pines’ Courtie Miller and Kevin Flanagan are scheduled to lead the 3-A team, and Lincoln’s Joe Temple heads 2-A.

The girls’ all-star game, which matches City all-stars against the County, tips off at 5:30.

Mira Mesa’s Carrie Carambus and Tweet Castillo are among those scheduled to play.

Two San Diego boys and three girls have made the Cal-Hi Sports all-state high school basketball team.

Courtie Miller (forward) and Kevin Flanagan (center), both of Torrey Pines, were named to the boys’ team, and Point Loma’s Monica Filer (guard) and Tyeast Brown (forward) and Vista’s Chris Enger (center) were named to the girls’ team.

Tracy Murray of Glendora High School, who led the nation in scoring at 44.3 points a game, was chosen as the boys’ player of the year. The only player of the year from San Diego County since 1960 was Bill Walton of Helix.

The girls’ player of the year is Morningside’s Lisa Leslie. Previously, Point Loma’s Terri Mann (1986 and 1987) and El Camino’s Sharon Turner (1985) won the award.

A format change for the state wrestling tournament, which guarantees all wrestlers at least two matches in the tournament, has been approved and will be implemented beginning in 1989-90.

The change adds a consolation round to the existing 32-person championship bracket. Once a wrestler enters the consolation round, he can finish as high as third.

University of San Diego High School baseball Coach Dick Serrano won his 300th game earlier this season. His career record is 304-161.