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Fischer, Tuimoloau Keep Winning at Golden West Meet : Track: Pair post victories against national competition; Medearis third in high hurdles.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Jeremy Fischer of Camarillo High and Dolores Tuimoloau of Channel Islands continued their postseason victory tour in the Golden West Invitational track and field meet at American River College Saturday in Sacramento.

Competing in 95 degree temperatures, Fischer won the boys’ high jump with a leap of 7 feet 2 inches and Tuimoloau placed first in the girls’ shotput at 47-1 1/4.

Fischer, who jumped 7 feet to win the state championships on June 4, cleared 6-4, 6-8 and 7 feet on his first attempts before making 7-2 on his third.

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He missed three times at 7-4 1/2, which would have established a meet record and equaled the state record set by Maurice Crumby of San Francisco Balboa High in 1983.

Sophomore Kevin Dotson of Los Alamos, N.M., finished second at 7 feet, with junior Bobby Williams of Great Bend, Kan., third at 6-10.

“I’m real excited because this is probably the best competition I’ve faced all year,” Fischer said. “I really wasn’t hyped up today. I was just really relaxed, so I’ll take 7-2.”

Fischer, the yearly national outdoor leader at 7-4, has cleared 7-2 or higher in six meets this season and 7 feet or higher nine times.

Tuimoloau, the state leader in the shotput at 49-2, has gone 47 feet or further in five meets this year. Her top mark Saturday was 3 1/4 inches better than her winning put in the state championships.

In other events, Jason Medearis of Hart finished third in the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.30 seconds and sixth in the 300 intermediates in 38.0.

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Terry Blackshire of Norman, Okla., won the highs in 14.05 and Aaron Haynes of Wilbur Gross, Ct., ran a national-leading time of 36.48 in the intermediates.

Antonio Arce of Palmdale and Cathy Prater of Agoura had disappointing performances.

Arce finished seventh in the boys’ 3,200 in 9 minutes 27.57 seconds and Prater placed eighth in the girls’ 300 low hurdles in 46.1.

Jamaal Chase of Quartz Hill did not compete in the long jump or triple jump because he stayed home to study for final exams.

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