Short Sprint Gets Searcy to Long Beach

Troy Searcy of Quartz Hill High finished second in a runoff in the boys’ 100-meters dash at Gahr High on Thursday and advanced to Saturday’s Southern Section Division I track and field championships at Long Beach Veterans Stadium.

Searcy ran a wind-aided 10.7 seconds to finish behind Jamal Carr (10.3) of Muir, but ahead of Anthony Rudolph of West Covina and Tyson Murphy of Santa Monica.

The top two finishers advanced to the Division I final as the eighth and ninth qualifiers.

The runoffs became necessary when section officials discovered Monday that the Accutrack timing device malfunctioned early in last Saturday’s Division I preliminaries, resulting in incorrect times and erroneous seedings for the championships.