TRACK AND FIELD / JUNIOR COLLEGE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS : Moorpark’s Teasley Sets Javelin Record

A year ago, Ken Teasley was a third baseman on the Moorpark College baseball team.

Now, the sophomore is the state junior college men’s javelin record-holder.

Teasley had a throw of 221 feet 11 inches at the California Community College track and field championships Saturday at Shasta College, breaking Rick Doering’s 1989 new-javelin meet record by five inches.

International officials changed the javelin’s aerodynamics in 1985, making previous records invalid.

Teasley set the mark on his sixth and final throw.

Teasley, an administration of justice major, began javelin throwing for the discipline.

“Basically, I got my head back on to do what’s right for me to stay in school,” said Teasley, an Agoura High graduate.

The only other area winner was Donnie Johnson of Ventura with a 25-7 long jump. Johnson, a sophomore, improved on last year’s fourth-place finish.

Glendale’s Robert Nelson finished second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9 minutes 3.8 seconds, but wanted better.

“I wanted a personal best,” said Nelson, who was third a year ago. “I missed it by 10 seconds.”

Isaiah Mustafa of Moorpark, who led the decathlon after Friday’s first five events, took second with 6,329 points. Dustin Abel of College of Siskiyous won with 6,505.

Mustafa, a former Santa Clara High basketball standout, took the second-place finish in stride. “No doubt, I’ll win next year,” he said. “I’m new at this. I’ve only run track for two years.”

Steve Aucutt of Ventura finished third with 6,278. Aucutt was second in the decathlon’s 110-meter hurdles at 15.21 seconds, missing first by 1/100th of a second.

Long Beach City claimed the men’s title with 142 points. Riverside was second with 97 and Taft was third with 53.

Moorpark finished eighth with 25 and Ventura was in a four-way tie for 13th with 16.

Riverside took the women’s title with 107 points, Mt. San Antonio College was second with 73, and San Diego Mesa was third with 63 1/2.

Heather Hudson of Moorpark scratched during the second day of the heptathlon because of an unspecified injury.

Misty Goodnight of Moorpark was third in the heptathlon javelin at 95-2 and finished 11th in the heptathlon at 3,526.