PREP TRACK AND FIELD ROUNDUP : Woodbridge Girls, El Toro Boys Win Titles

There weren’t a lot of surprises Thursday at the Sea View League track and field championships as the Woodbridge girls and El Toro boys won team titles at Irvine High.

Woodbridge easily won the girls’ title, led by Erin Stovall, who won three events and was second in one, to earn her team 38 points.

Stovall began the day posting a county- and personal-best leap in the long jump at 18 feet 10 inches, easily beating Mandy Clayton of Newport Harbor, who finished second (17-1 3/4). Stovall then ran the 100-meter low hurdles, in which she holds the fourth best time in the county (14.9). She won in 15.33. Next in the 100, in which she has another county-best 12.37, Stovall won in 12.63.

Perhaps her most impressive performance of the day though, came in the 200, a distance Stovall ran for the first time since junior high in the preliminaries Monday. Stovall took second place Thursday in 25.92, the fifth-best time in the county this season. Teammate Meisha Wilson-Duval, the county leader, won in 25.47. Wilson-Duval also won the 400 in 58.59 and anchored the winning 400 and 1,600 relays.

“The coaches wanted me to pick up as many individual points as I could,” Stovall said, after her coaches removed her from the 400 relay and put her in the 200. “I thought I was going to do good today. I just had that feeling.”

Woodbridge had 146 points; Newport Harbor was second with 118.

On the boys’ side, El Toro outscored Woodbridge, 152-112, with only three first-place finishes.

Matt Pennell won the 3,200 meters in 9:31.19, beating Woodbridge sophomore Ross Venook by 10 seconds at 9:41.75.

In the shotput, El Toro’s Matt Mason and Dan Noll finished first and third. Mason won the event at 52-2 1/2; Noll took third at 50-4 1/2. The Chargers’ only other first-place finish came in the triple jump, as sophomore Elliott Parks leaped 43-0 1/2, beating Woodbridge’s Mickis Brown (42-10 1/2).