 | | | From left: Jamie Fehrnstrom and Ashraf Mathkour Photo A. Zamanian
| | | | | | It was a great day for the Miramonte Matador Track team on Friday, May 27th and again on Saturday, May 28th at the NCS Meet of Champions at UC Berkeley as the Mats qualified for the State meet on June 3-4 in two events and broke a school record.
Junior Jamie Fehrnstrom competed in the 1600m with a preliminary time of 4:19.55 on Friday, a personal best, which qualified him to compete in Saturday's finals. In the finals, Fehrnstrom smashed his personal best by almost four seconds, with an amazing 4:15.79. The time earned him a third place finish and a trip to State.
At State, Fehrnstrom finished 25th with a time of 4:20.01.
Senior Ashraf Mathkour also qualified for State in the 800m, coming in third in the preliminaries at 1:55.30 and then second in the finals with a 1:54.19.
Mathkour came in 15th at State with a personal best time of 1:53.06.
In the final race of the day on the 27th, the Mats boys 4 x 400 broke a 46 year-old school record of 3:22.60 with a new record of 3:22.57. Nich Bhachu, Kevin Booze, Marshall Duetz and Ashraf Mathkour were happy to finally beat the record after working toward that goal all season.
Just the week before, another Miramonte record was broken at the NCS Tri-Valley meet at Granada High School on May 22nd. The girls 4 x 100 broke the school record in 49.39. The record was 49.50 set in 2005. The relay members for this record-breaking relay were freshman Megan Reid, senior Kirby Schulz, junior Devon McDonald, and sophomore Kera Deakins.
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA