HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS : Washington Runs to a Record in 100 : San Diego athletes: Southwest sprinter wins in 10.30. Helix’s Das Neves repeats in the 1,600.

Southwest senior Riley Washington and Helix junior Daniel Das Neves ran into history at Saturday’s finals of the CIF State Track and Field Championships. Meanwhile, history haunted Mt. Carmel senior Allison Dring and played a cruel twist of fate on San Pasqual hurdler Erin Blunt.

Washington put his name in two record books by blazing to victory in the 100 meters with a time of 10.30. That’s a state-meet record, eclipsing the 10.42 run by Curtis Conway of Hawthorne in 1989.

“I didn’t think I could get the state (meet) record,” Washington said. “It was too far away for me to reach.”

Washington’s performance represents a drastic reduction from his previous season best of 10.55. It also stands as a section record, shattering the mark of 10.45 established in 1984 by El Camino’s Darron Norris.

Das Neves became the first San Diego Section athlete to win the boys’ 1,600 meters two years in a row since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson did so in 1965 and 1966. Das Neves completed the 1,600 in 4:09.54, slower than his season best of 4:08.63, but much quicker than his winning time in the event a year ago, 4:12.22.

There was one other gold-medal winner from the San Diego Section, Fallbrook junior Milena Glusac, who won the 3,200 in 10:28.62. Glusac had qualified for the 1,600 and 3,200, but decided to drop the former and concentrate on the longer race.

Last year Glusac did both and placed third in the 1,600 and second in the 3,200. Having fought through several illnesses this year, Glusac believed she didn’t have the strength to run effectively in both.

It proved a good decision.

“This is my first (state championship) in track,” Glusac said. “Definitely I’d trade a second and a third for a first.”

As for Dring, she placed eighth in the 400 meters at 56.88, more than two seconds behind winner Janice Nicholls of Bakersfield (54.46). This after taking second in 54.39 in the same event a year ago.

“I try not to think of it that way,” Dring said. “It makes it hard when you try to hold onto the past. . . . I am a little bit upset . . . You think of all the dreams you had . . . But then you have to sit down and realize it’s only a race.”

Blunt finished second in both the 100 low hurdles and 300 lows. In the short race, she accomplished a secondary goal by breaking the 14-second barrier for the first time. She finished at 13.94, but lost to Twila Sims of Bakersfield, who clocked a 13.83.

In the 300 lows, Blunt bettered her time from last year, when she won the event. This time, she ran a 42.96, compared to last year’s first-place time of 43.02.

“This year I run faster than that,” Blunt said, recognizing the irony. “And I get second.”

But the day belonged to Washington, who was making his third appearance at the state meet. As a sophomore, he entered the 100 meters with the fastest time in the state (10.53). Last year he was among the favorites. Each time he set the pace over the first 50 meters, only to burn out and finish as an also-ran.

“In previous years I took the meet lightly,” Washington said. “I felt winning was out of my reach. This was my last year here, so I took my chances.”

Washington, who has a scholarship to play football at Nebraska, exploded out of the blocks, then accelerated from the field over the second 10 meters. The race was over at that point. Not even Gentry Bradley of Pius X, who had the fastest qualifying time on Friday, could catch him.

“It’s all the weights I’ve been lifting this year,” Washington said. “They’ve given me the power I need down the stretch.”

In the boys’ 1,600, Das Neves seemed to have cloned his performance from last year’s state meet. As he did in 1991 when he upset heavily favored Louis Quintana of Arroyo Grande, Das Neves tucked in behind the early leaders and let them establish a slow pace.

Das Neves covered the first 800 meters in two minutes nine seconds. Over the final two laps, Das Neves picked up the pace and came by with negative splits, finishing the third lap in 62 seconds, and the bell lap in 58 seconds.

“The thing is, last year I didn’t plan to do that,” Das Neves said. “But this year I decided to right before the race.”

Das Neves later came back to finish fourth in the 3,200 at 9:05.42. Angel Martinez of San Gabriel Valley won at 8:56.34.

Track and Field Notes

Marion Jones, a junior at Thousand Oaks, broke her own national federation record in the 100 meters with a time of 11.14. Last year, she ran an 11.17. . . . Other San Diego Section top-six finishers: Kristina Mataafa of Orange Glen placed second in the discus (150-feet-6), and Mt. Carmel’s Scia Maumausolo was third (140-2). University City junior Paul Turner was fifth in the 100 meters (10.60). Melanie Hand of Fallbrook came in fifth in the 800 (2:13.75). Melissa Keim of San Pasqual finished fifth in the 3,200 (10:54.89), and Nazario Romero of San Pasqual was sixth in the boys’ 3,200 (9:08.14). Serra’s Angela Sullivan came in sixth in the 200 (24.52). Chris Buddin of San Pasqual was sixth in the pole vault at 15-2. The Morse girls’ 400-meter relay team placed fifth (48.09), and the San Pasqual girls’ 1,600 relay team was sixth (3:54.31).