Mortensen Ends Season With Victory

Kim Mortensen of Thousand Oaks High capped a superb senior track season with a runaway victory Saturday in the girls’ mile in the International Prep Invitational in Elmhurst, Ill.

The UCLA-bound Mortensen clocked 4 minutes 47.73 seconds in the meet at York High to defeat runner-up Nell Shields of Glen Ellyn, Ill., who ran 4:57.75.

Courtney Adams of Brebeuf Prep in Indianapolis, who defeated Mortensen in the mile in the National Scholastic Indoor Championships in March, did not run.

According to reports circulating at the meet, Adams was either injured or running in a concurrent invitational that featured performers from Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan.

Mortensen’s victory concluded an undefeated outdoor season that was topped by a national high school record of 9:48.59 in the 3,200 meters. She also won the State title in the 3,200 and ran yearly nation-leading marks of 4:44.9 in the 1,600 and 9:14.5 in the 3,000.

In another meet Saturday, Alemany sophomore Miguel Fletcher finished third in the 100, and Nordhoff senior Will Bernaldo was seventh in the 3,200 in the Golden West Invitational at American River College in Sacramento.

Fletcher clocked 10.65 in the 100 but did not finish the 200 after feeling a cramp in his left hamstring 70 meters into the race.

Bernaldo timed 9:40.84 in the 3,200, well off his second-place effort of 9:04.18 in the State championships on June 1.