GARDEN GROVE LEAGUE MEET : Rancho Alamitos’ Bolton Receives a Winning Send-Off

The Rancho Alamitos High School boys’ track team gave Coach Steve Bolton the Garden Grove League track and field meet championship as a going-away present Thursday night at Bolsa Grande High School.

Displaying depth in the sprints and relay events, the Vaqueros had 53 points to second-place Garden Grove’s 42 to give Bolton, who moves to district rival Los Amigos as interim football coach next season, a memorable send-off.

Freshman Elinor Tolson won three events, including meet records in the 330 and 110 low hurdles, to lead La Quinta to the girls’ championship with 64 points; Kennedy finished with 48.

Tolson nipped Pacifica’s Karrita Willis in the 100-yard dash in 11.54 seconds to Willis’ 11.69 and ran a record-setting performance in the 110 hurdles (14.78) to take almost a full second off the mark of 15.7 by La Quinta’s Lori Zeno in 1981. She also set a record in the 330 hurdles (46.08) to better Los Amigos’ Kelly Grand’s 1986 mark of 46.41.

Kennedy’s Rosemary Chavez also came up with a pair of record-setting performances, in the long jump (17 feet 6 inches) and triple jump (35-9). Los Amigos’ Shannon Cook (16-6 1/2 in 1989) and Bolsa Grande’s Tara Cross (33-6 1/4 in 1984) had held the marks.

Kennedy’s James Chun broke the oldest record of the evening with a 22-11 1/2 leap in the long jump, breaking Garden Grove’s Tony Krzyzosiak’s 20-year-old mark of 22-9 3/4. Teammate Vince Church established a new triple jump standard of 46-3 1/4 to eclipse the record of former teammate Charlie Cummings (46-0 1/2) set last year.

Los Amigos’ Sal Zavala had victories in the mile (4:28.7) and two mile (9:49.2). Pacifica’s Mark Alliman won both hurdles events with a 42.63 in the 330 lows and a 15.88 in the 120 highs.