
The Calabasas girls' 4x100 relay team won at the Mt. SAC Relays with a record time of 44.48 seconds, setting a new meet record. This victory came after they previously lost to Fullerton Rosary at the Arcadia Invitational.
The Calabasas 4x100 relay team (from left) of Olivia Kirk, Devyn Sproles, Malia Rainey and Marley Scoggins won at the Mt. SAC Relays on Saturday. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
Humble but hungry.
That was the mindset Calabasasâ foursome that took to the track at Hilmer Lodge Stadium for the Invitational girls' 4x100 race Saturday at the 66th annual Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut.
In one of the meetâs marquee matchups, the Coyotes ran their fastest time yet â 44.48 seconds â to set a new meet record and avenge their loss to Fullerton Rosary one week earlier at the Arcadia Invitational.
âTaking that âLâ last week gave us motivation,â senior captain Marley Scoggins said after getting her team off to a good start with a blazing first leg. âWe didnât like that feeling.â
Speed ultimately wins races, but Coyotes coach Jeff Clanagan helped the cause by changing the order of his runners in hopes of building an early lead. He flipped Scoggins and Olivia Kirk (who led off seven days earlier) while Malia Rainey and Devyn Sproles ran the second and third legs. Adding an element of surprise proved to be an effective strategy.
âYou always look at matchups and in a relay you want to get out first and force a mistake by another team,â Clanagan said. âMarley is our best starter off the blocks and I felt doing that might give us a mental edge. We kept it a secret right up until race time. I told my girls not to show our new order until you get on the track so Rosary wonât have time to talk to their coach.â
Rosary's Justine Wilson (left) wins the Invitational 100-meter dash by three hundredths of a second. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
The Calabasas girls' 4x100 relay team won with a time of 44.48 seconds.
The members of the Calabasas 4x100 relay team are Olivia Kirk, Devyn Sproles, Malia Rainey, and Marley Scoggins.
They set a new meet record for the 4x100 relay at the Mt. SAC Relays.
They avenged their loss against Fullerton Rosary from the previous week at the Arcadia Invitational.


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Scoggins, a Tennessee commit, was edged at the finish by Rosaryâs Maliyah Collins at Arcadia, where Calabasas settled for second at 44.54 effort while the Royals circled the oval in 44.23, shattering the state record of 44.50 set by Long Beach Poly in 2004.
âIâve run every leg at one time or another but I liked starting today â it felt more powerful putting us in front,â Scoggins said. âWeâre trying to go 43 [seconds]. We can definitely drop time. For the first time this week we tried different hand-offs.â
Her teammates did the rest. Rosary was second in 44.94 and Steele Canyon took third place in 46.62.
âThis is the first time Iâve anchored in a while and the girls gave me a lead like they always do,â said Kirk, a senior headed to Oklahoma. âI think the key was our determination. We knew we didnât run our best last week and we wanted to come here and take our win.â
Calabasas has won two of three head-to-head relays with Rosary this spring, having clocked 44.95 to take the teamsâ first encounter at the Mt. Carmel Invitational on March 28 in San Diego.
Next up for the Coyotes is a trip across country for the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, an international meet where they will compete in prelims Thursday for a chance to make the finals Friday on the world stage.
Torrance senior Nicolas Obimgba (left) wins the Invitational 100-meter dash in 10.24 seconds at Mt. SAC. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
âNo U.S. team has beaten a Jamaican team in 20 years,â Clanagan said. âWeâre hoping to change that.â
Two hours later, Rainey and Sproles were among the nine sprinters in the Invitational 100-meter dash, which also featured a pair of Rosaryâs 4x100 runners, Justine Wilson and Traâvia Flournoy. Wilson prevailed by three hundredths of a second over Rainey in 11.65.
Collins demonstrated why she is one of the Southlandâs top sprinters, taking first in the 200 meters in 23.25 â 30 hundredths of a second off the meet record set in 2002 by L.A. Baptistâs Allyson Felix.
Having clocked 39.70 to better its own state record at Arcadia seven days earlier, Servite broke the boys' 4x100 relay Mt. SAC record for a second straight year Saturday as Jace Wells, Benjamin Harris, Jorden Wells and Kamil Pelovello ran the one-lap sprint in 39.98 after Jorden Wells, Harris, Jaelen Hunter and Robert Gardner got the baton around in 40.15 last year. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame came in second for the second straight year in 41 flat.
Torrance senior Nicolas Obimgba won the Invitational 100 meters in 10.24, three hundredths of a second off the meet record set last year by Mt. Miguelâs Brandon Arrington. Newbury Park senior Jaden Griffin (10.30) finished second, Jorden Wells (10.44) was third and Pelovello (10.64) was seventh.
Loyola senior Ejam Yohannes won the Invitational 400 meters in 46.29 after placing third in the event while battling sickness at Arcadia. His personal best (46.11) came three weeks ago at the Chandler Rotary in Arizona.
Loyola senior Ejam Yohannes (second from right) wins the Invitational 400 meters in 46.29 seconds. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)
âA lot of these guys Iâve raced and beat before,â Yohannes said. âEarly on I was feeling the effects from last week. I usually finish stronger but Iâm still not 100 percent. Iâm already primed to win CIF. Iâm confident I can run 45 [seconds] or even a little lower.â
Tenth-grader Kaahliyah Lacy of San Jacinto Valley Academy, who won the girls' 300 hurdles in 40.81 at Arcadia, clocked 39.93 to break the Mt. SAC record Saturday and doubled for first in the 100 hurdles in 13.65. JSerra junior Reese Holley was the 800-meter winner in 2:08.10 and Long Beach Wilsonâs Clara Adams was first in the 400 meters in 53.13. Her teammates Brooklyn Fowler (54.33) and Brooke Blue (54.47) were third and fourth.
Adams did not race in the Invitational 4x400 relay but the Bruins won anyway in 3:49.55. JSerra was second in 3:52.77. In the boysâ 4x400, Yohannes ran the anchor leg as the Cubs finished second in 3:14.70 behind Fresno Central East (3:13.96).
Defending state high jump champion JJ Harel, who cleared 6-9 to win at Arcadia, was second with a height of 6-10 Saturday. Dean Guzman of Moorpark won at seven feet.
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame junior Lillian Wilson won the girls' shot put with a throw of 43-3.75 and took second in the discus (147-3) behind Lancaster Desert Christianâs Corynn Smith (152-8).
Having won the girls' long jump and triple jump at Arcadia, senior AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley tripled Saturday, leaping 19-4 to win the long jump, spanning a distance of 41-7.5 for the the triple jump title then clearing 5-10 to win the high jump.
Cassidy Nguyá» n from Los Alamitos won the girls' pole vault at 13 feet and Aliso Niguelâs Dane Malloy won the boys triple jump at 48-5.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.