PREP TRACK : Locke High Girls Win Seventh Title in Row

Behind the double winning efforts of Jackie Foreman and Rosetta Hunter, the Locke High School girls’ track and field team won its seventh consecutive City team title Thursday night at Birmingham High School.

With Foreman winning the 100- and 300-meter low hurdles and Hunter winning the 1,600 and 3,200 meters for the second consecutive year, the Saints outscored Dorsey, 104-70, for the team championship.

“There was no way we were going to lose the title this year,” Foreman said, who was aided in the 300-meter low hurdles when the leader, Dorsey’s Cristal Lewis, fell over the last hurdle.

In the boys’ competition, Washington ran away with its second championship in the last three years by outscoring Woodland Hills Taft, 80-41. Defending sprint champion Donovan Burks led the Generals by winning the 100 and 200 meters and anchoring the winning 400-meter relay team.

Behind its outstanding trio of Burks, Jason Goss and Sylvester Green, Washington received 58 points from its individual and sprint relay efforts.

Dorsey’s Lamont Warren won the boys’ 400 meters in 47.72 seconds, defeating fellow juniors Ruben Benitez of Woodland Hills Taft and John Floyd of Locke. Warren also anchored Dorsey’s victorious 1,600-meter relay team.

Joining Warren as individual champions for Dorsey were Dee Dee Small, who won the girls’ 100 and 200 meters in 12.27 and 25.00 respectively, and Montoya Johnson, who won the triple jump with a leap of 34-5 1/4.

The top four finishers in each event advanced to the State meet June 1-2 at Cerritos College.

The Masters meet will be held today at Cerritos College, with field events beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the running events at 7 p.m.

Athletes from all four Southern Section divisions will compete, with the top five finishers in each boys’ and girls’ event qualifying for the State meet.