STATE TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS : Dana Hills’ Harrison Wins in 200 Meters : State track: He is first county sprinter since 1973 to win championship. Dolphins are second in team standings.

Dana Hills’ Bryan Harrison became the first Orange County sprinter since 1973 to win a State title Saturday at the State-CIF Track and Field Championships at Cerritos College.

Harrison’s time in the 200 meters is the fastest in county history, under any conditions, with a wind-aided mark of 20.82 seconds. The last county sprinter to win a State title in the 200 was Santa Ana’s Clancy Edwards in 1973, with a time of 21.32 (converted from yards).

Harrison also finished third in the 100 in 10.51.

“I’m ecstatically happy,” Dana Hills Coach Corey Hubert said. “We have the fastest athlete in California. Before they used to tell us we had the fastest sophomore. Now we just have the fastest athlete.”

The best national mark in the event for a sophomore was by Jamil Cherry of Johnson (Austin, Tex.) High in 1993 with a time of 20.88.

“My mom told me to visualize winning before the race,” Harrison said. “That is what I came to do. I put together my best race. I knew this race had to be won in the turn and I think I had an advantage in Lane 7, because I didn’t have as sharp a curve as everyone else.”

Harrison came out of the blocks a little behind the rest of the pack, but by the time he headed down the last 100 meters he was neck and neck with Pasadena Muir’s Obea Moore, the Southern Section champion, and West Bakersfield’s Marques Holiwell. Harrison narrowly edged sophomore Moore, who finished in 20.95. Holiwell, a senior, took third in 21.30.

Dana Hills, which entered only two athletes (Harrison and discus thrower Randy Hein), finished second in the team standings with 24 points. Muir won with 38.

Hein recorded his best throw this season, taking second in 176 feet 3 inches. Chad Jones of Arroyo Grande won with 183-9. Jason Bader of Edison finished fourth (171-8) and county leader Sepehr Sharifi finished out of the medals in seventh (166-6).

Brandon Pacheco of Brethren Christian helped his team to a sixth-place finish (14 points), by taking second in the 1,600 and third in the 800.

Michael Stember blew away the field in the 1,600, setting a meet record in 4:04. The record was held by Mark Schilling of Garden Grove in 4:05.4 set in 1972. Pacheco a senior, finished in a personal-best 4:08.59, placing him 13th in county history. In the 800, Pacheco came from sixth place in the last 100 meters to finish third in 1:52.02.

In the 110 hurdles, sophomore Dominique DeGrammont of Tustin came out of the blocks slowly before taking the lead, but he hit the seventh hurdle and stumbled, finishing fourth in 14.42. DeGrammont, who finished second in the Southern Section finals, holds the county-best mark this season (14.34).

Adalberto Sanchez of Capistrano Valley rounded out the medalists with a fourth-place finish in the 3,200 (9:11.90).