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Published May 31st, 2017

CYO Track Championships

Submitted by John Murphy

The CYO Track and Field teams from St Perpetua, Santa Maria and St Monica competed in the Oakland Diocese Championship on May 12 and 13. This year, the teams sent an impressive 27 athletes to the championship meet.

On the first night of the meet, qualifiers from each of the three Sections competed for medals in the 800m and 1600m. In the 1600m events, Beck Murphy won gold and Sophie Westen won bronze. In the 800m, Madeline Jerge took home the bronze and 2nd grader Reese Tierney narrowly missed placing 4th with an impressive time of 3:02. Tyler Bergen won gold in the 800m while setting a new meet record of 2:22 for 5th grade boys. This is the 3rd straight year that Tyler has broken the Diocesan record in the 800m.

Day 2 of the event saw even more medals presented to Lamorinda athletes. In the 50m sprint, James Drummond III won bronze and Natalie Aiken took silver. Charlotta Bell of Santa Maria won gold in the High Jump while also taking home silver medals in the 200m and the 400m. Neve Murphy won gold medals in the in Long Jump and in the 400m and took silver in the 200m. Tyler Bergren added to his gold medal collection with wins in the 400m and the Long Jump. 3rd grader Ilias Kaplanes-Jones won silver in the Long Jump. In the shot put, Gabe Goeller won silver and Vivian Carter took home the bronze.

In the relays, St Perpetua's 5th grade girls took the silver medal in both the 4x100 relay and in the Sprint Medley relay while the 3rd grade girls 4x100 relay team took home the bronze.



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