Fischer Takes On a Nemesis : Track and field: To win the high jump, Camarillo senior must improve on his previous showings at Arcadia.

No incantations are expected, but Jeremy Fischer of Camarillo High will attempt to exorcise some ghosts tonight at the Arcadia Invitational track and field meet at Arcadia High.

Fischer, bound for Wisconsin, cleared a region record of 7 feet 4 inches in the high jump in the Santa Barbara Easter Relays two weeks ago, but has not performed well at Arcadia. He cleared 6-8 in 1992 and ’93.

Last year’s performance was particularly frustrating because Fischer had cleared a then-personal best 7-1 to open the outdoor season and improved to 7-2 a week after Arcadia in the Mt. San Antonio College Relays.

“He just doesn’t like jumping at Arcadia,” Camarillo Coach Dennis Riedmiller had said.

Fischer is not enamored of Arcadia’s facility. Jumpers must begin their approaches on a relatively slow and sometimes-moist grass surface before making the transition to a tartan apron on their last two or three steps.

Still, Fischer is determined to jump well.

“I should be able to clear 7-2 consistently in the big meets this season,” he said at Santa Barbara. “Arcadia is definitely a meet I want to jump high at.”

A 7-2 clearance might be required to win. Arthur Lloyd of Rialto Eisenhower jumped 7-2 in a dual meet last month and Rodney White of Indianapolis Pike has a personal best of 7-0.

Most of the area’s top performers, including Jamaal Chase of Quartz Hill, Jason Medearis and Brett Strahan of Hart, Andre DeSaussure of Taft, Delores Tuimoloau of Channel Islands, Cathy Prater of Agoura and Kim Mortensen of Thousand Oaks, are expected to take part in the meet, which is regarded as the nation’s top regular-season competition.

Chase, who has bests of 23-11 in the long jump and 49-3 in the triple jump, is undefeated this season. A 25-7 foul leap in a meet Thursday against Ridgecrest Burroughs could indicate he’s ready to smash his long jump best.

Medearis has personal bests of 14.30 seconds in the 110-meter high hurdles and 38.02 in the 300 intermediates, but he will be a decided underdog to Muir’s Kenny Haslip, who has timed 13.94 in the former and 37.09 in the latter.

A bronchial infection plagued Strahan at the end of the fall cross-country season, but he appears capable of improving his personal best of 4:13.90 in the 1,600.

DeSaussure, runner-up in the 400 in last year’s state championships, has come back slowly from a hamstring injury suffered in February, but says he’s ready to roll in both the 200 and 400.

Tuimoloau holds the region record in the girls’ shotput at 46-11 1/2 and has also thrown the discus 145-0, a Ventura County record.

Prater, third in the 300 low hurdles in last year’s state championships, is looking to crack the 44-second barrier for the first time, and sophomore Mortensen will attempt to become the third runner from Thousand Oaks to dip under 11 minutes in the 3,200.