Williams is double winner

Shelise Williams was expected to be a co-star this spring on the Long Beach Wilson girls’ track and field team. Certainly not the main attraction.

Those credits changed in the off-season when two-time individual state champion Ebony Collins transferred to Los Angeles Locke, where she has yet to gain her eligibility.

Collins repeated her state title in the 300-meter hurdles last June and contributed 36 of the 37 points the Bruins earned en route to tying Union City Logan for the team championship.

Her departure created a massive hole in Wilson’s decorated program, but Williams showed Saturday afternoon at the Mt. San Antonio College Relays that she’s closing the gap.

Williams overcame blustery winds and tightness in her legs to win the 200 in 23.75 seconds, the fastest time in the nation this year. Earlier in the day, she won the 100 in a personal-best 11.66, the eighth-fastest time in the U.S. this year. Both marks were wind-legal. “There’s a lot riding on me,” she said after her victory in the 200. “I’m going to do what I have to do to win.”

Williams, a senior who has committed to Arkansas, also ran the third leg on the 400 relay team that finished second to rival Long Beach Poly in 46.76. The Jackrabbits won in 46.53.

Jeshua Anderson of Woodland Hills Taft was a double winner in the boys’ competition.

Anderson broke the 11-year-old meet record in the 300 hurdles with a time of 36.03. His time was also the second-fastest in the nation this season, behind the 35.75 he ran last weekend at the Arcadia Invitational.

His result was especially noteworthy because he’d won the 400 about 45 minutes earlier in 47.26. He decided to enter the 300 hurdles at the last moment and was placed in Lane 8.

Anderson said the only reason he entered the 400 was to race against Bryshon Nellum of Long Beach Poly, who set a nation-leading time in the event at the Arcadia Invitational. Nellum, however, scratched from all of his events so he could take the SAT, his teammates said.

“It wasn’t like I eased it up,” said Anderson, who signed to play football at Washington State. “But I think I could have run a lot faster with him out there.”

Anderson, who is also one of the state’s top competitors in the 110 hurdles, said he probably won’t be running too many more one-lap races this season.

Anderson still has a local rival in the 110 hurdles in defending state champion Terry Prentice of Pomona Diamond Ranch, who showed he’s in top form by tying the meet record of 13.77, though his time was wind-aided. Anderson finished his night by running a 46.7 anchor to lead Taft to victory in the 1,600 relay in 3:17.75.

Cory Primm of Westlake Village Westlake, the defending state champion in the 800, opted out of the event in favor of the 1,600. He led the entire race until Brad Surh of Belmont Carlmont caught him just before the finish line and won in a meet-record 4:11.84. The top mark of the meet belonged to Tori Anthony of Palo Alto Castilleja, who set a state outdoor record in the girls’ pole vault, clearing 13-10.

dan.arritt@latimes.com