Second Place Good Enough for Camarillo : Track and field: Runner-up finish in Marmonte finals gives Scorpions overall title.

CAMARILLO — Thousand Oaks High won the boys’ team title in the Marmonte League track and field finals at Camarillo High on Friday night, but the overall league title went to Camarillo by virtue of the Scorpions’ second-place finish.

Camarillo and Royal tied for first in the boys’ dual-meet standings with 5-0 records--the regular-season finale among the Scorpions, Highlanders and Simi Valley was rained out--and Thousand Oaks finished third with a 5-2 mark, so Camarillo won its first league title since 1982 by finishing behind Thousand Oaks but ahead of Royal.

Thousand Oaks, led by distance runners Jeff Fischer and Kevin Marsden, and sprinter Rob Scherrei, totaled 148 1/2 points on Friday, followed by Camarillo (108 1/2) and Royal (79).

The Scorpions trailed Royal, 71-55, after 11 events, but outscored the Highlanders, 53 1/2-8, over the final five events to wrap up their first league title since 1982.

Allan Sadowsky started the Scorpions’ late run with a fourth-place finish of 23.19 seconds in the 200--an event won by Scherrei in 22.45--and Matt Alecock led a 1-4-5 finish for Camarillo in the pole vault by clearing a personal best of 13 feet.

Jeremy Fischer--who won the long jump (23-2) and high jump (6-8) earlier in the meet--and Mike Wygant placed first (44-8 3/4) and second (44-1 1/2) in the triple jump for the Scorpions and Eleazar Hernandez followed that with a second-place finish behind Jeff Fischer, 9 minutes 18.77 seconds to 9:18.79, in the 3,200.

Hernandez finished third behind Fischer and Marsden in a superb 1,600 earlier in the meet.

Hernandez led the field through the first two laps in 61 seconds and 2:06, but Fischer moved into the lead with 500 meters left and held off the fast-closing Marsden to win in a personal best of 4 minutes 16.94 seconds.

Marsden placed second in a personal best of 4:18.09 with Hernandez third in 4:22.21.

“Eleazar did a great job of setting up that race,” Thousand Oaks distance coach Jack Farrell said. “We didn’t come in here looking to run great times, we were just looking for place. But when Eleazar took it out, the times were there.”

Scherrei and Marsden added victories in the 400 (49.99) and 800 (personal best of 1:57.15) for Thousand Oaks, which finished second behind Camarillo in the overall standings.

In the girls’ competition, Channel Islands, led by double winners Dolores Tuimoloau and Shawanda Hotchkiss, and Thousand Oaks, led by distance runner Kim Mortensen, tied for first place with 105 points, followed by two-time defending league champion Agoura with 88.

Thousand Oaks, the league dual-meet champion with a 7-0 record, won its 11th overall league title in the last 14 years for Coach Art Green.

Sophomore Kim Mortensen led the Lancers with victories in the 1,600 (5:05.72) and 3,200 (11:11.05) and ran 2:20.47 to finish second in the 800 behind Westlake sophomore Patricia Gibby, who timed a personal best of 2:17.27.

Cathy Prater accounted for 38 of Agoura’s points as the UC Davis-bound senior won the 100 high hurdles in 15.32, the 300 lows in 47.15 and the 200 in 26.00, and finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 35-11.

Prater’s marks in the 100 highs, 200 and triple jump were all school records. Tuimoloau was victorious in the shotput (46-1 1/2) and discus (125-7), and Hotchkiss placed first in the long jump (17-5 3/4) and triple jump (personal best of 37-2) for Channel Islands.