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Fremont High’s Scott Is Spending His Summer Running Around Country : Track: He’s competed in meets from Oakland to Tennessee, and is heading to Florida for the Junior Olympics championships.

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Clarence Scott will have his share of summer travel tales--and some medals--to share with his classmates at Fremont High this fall.

The junior has been to Tennessee and spent last week in Oakland. This week, he’s off to Gainesville to compete in the Junior Olympics national track and field championships Thursday through Saturday.

Competing for the L.A. Jets, Scott, 16, won the intermediate division (ages 15-16) in the long jump with a personal-best 23 feet, 8 inches in the Region 15 championships last month at Cal State Long Beach.

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He also teamed with Muir’s Obea Moore, Kenyon Rambo of Long Beach Poly and Lonnie Cruel of Carson on the Jets’ victorious 400- and 1,600-meter relay teams. The top three finishers in each event advanced to the national meet.

Scott also has qualified for next month’s Amateur Athletic Union junior national championships in Cocoa Beach, Fla., by capturing the long jump and finishing second in the 100 meters in 10.83 seconds in the Region 13 meet at Contra Costa College last weekend. In June, Scott, who has run 21.64 in the 200 this summer, won the long jump in the Youth Athletics national meet in Knoxville, Tenn.

“A lot of people have asked me if I’m burned out competing in so many meets, but I haven’t really thought about it,” Scott said. “I feel I’ve gotten faster and learned a lot of things this summer.”

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L.A. Promotions has been ousted from East Los Angeles College for breach of its $1-million, five-year stadium renovation agreement, college officials said.

The contract was declared “null and void for noncompliance” after L.A. Promotions failed to pay $150,000 in annual rent for use of Weingart Stadium, according to Nicholas Tan, East L.A. College vice president of administrative services. Tan said it was uncertain whether the school would take any further action against L.A. Promotions.

L.A. Promotions replaced the artificial turf installed for the 1984 Olympic field hockey competition with grass and added gates to the tunnels of the 44-year-old facility as part of the 1993 agreement. But other improvements to the 22,000-seat stadium, including refurbishing the locker rooms, press box and bleachers, and resurfacing the parking lot, were not completed. In return for the renovations, the stadium was leased to L.A. Promotions for international soccer tournaments and other events.

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A representative for L.A. Promotions said the company had no comment.

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Jordan High graduate Gene Gaines has been inducted in the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame. A UCLA defensive back, Gaines played for the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1962-69 and the Montreal Alouettes in 1961 and 1970-76.

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Four East L.A. College pitchers will attend four-year universities. Chris Romero and Aaron Magdaleno are headed for Cal State Northridge and USC, while Sammy Loza and Javier Macias have signed with the University of Wyoming. Infielders Leonard Rodriguez and Ted Persell will attend San Francisco State and Cal Poly Pomona. . . . Sprinter Leo Settle, who helped Dorsey High to its second consecutive City Section track title in May, has signed a letter of intent to attend Purdue University. Settle finished second in the 100 and 200 meters and also ran on the Dons’ City champion 400- and 1,600-meter relay teams.

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