Spring Sports : TRACK AND FIELD

With the state meet a month away, the contenders are emerging. In the girls’ team title race, Long Beach Wilson and Union City James Logan are favorites to unseat defending champion Long Beach Poly. Poly has won three team titles in the last four years, but the Jackrabbits are no longer the top team in their own city. Wilson, which finished fourth at the state meet last year, has been dominating its meet schedule this season with a young team. Freshmen Latrice Borders, Joni Smith and Veronica Calloway, along with junior Kinchasa Davis, are talented sprinters who have helped the Bruins record impressive times in the 400- and 1,600-meter relays. “We’re young, but very fast,” Coach Terry Kennedy said. . . . All-state basketball forward Marie Philman of Huntington Beach Edison won three field events in a dual-meet victory over Huntington Beach Marina last Thursday. Philman, a senior, won the high jump at 5 feet 2, the triple jump at 39-3 1/2 and the shotput at 38-9 1/2. She has already accepted a basketball scholarship to UCLA. . . . Loyola’s 70-57 victory over Sherman Oaks Notre Dame last Thursday extended the Cubs’ unbeaten streak in dual meets to 72, dating back to 1988. Coach Greg Wells is 54-0 since taking over six years ago. The boys’ state record for consecutive dual-meet victories is 83, established by Coachella Valley from 1947 through ’57. . . . As a final tuneup for all of next week’s league finals, the Ventura County championships will be held Friday at Camarillo High beginning at 3 p.m.