Over 600 athletes from 14 different schools competed in the 76th Annual Ted James Douglas Invitational Friday at Douglas High School.
 Bulldog hurdler Jesus Garcia placed second in both the 110-meter high hurdles and the 300-intermediate hurdles at the Ted James Douglas Invitational Friday. Fourteen boys teams and 14 girls teams competed and the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs each finished eighth. |
Sabino ended up winning the boys meet finishing with 84 points Nogales was second with 77, Buena third with 75, Rincon fourth with 71 and Flowing Wells fifth with 56. The Bulldogs wound up in eighth place for the second straight year finishing with 34 points.
In the girls meet which saw six new meet records set, Rincon was the overall winner finishing with 111 points, Sabino was second with 66, Buena third with 64, Marana Mountain View fourth with 60 and Benson fifth with 53. The Lady Bulldogs finished eighth with 24 points.
In the boys meet Douglas High School hurdler Jesus Garcia placed second in both the 110-meter high hurdles and the 300-intermediates posting times of 15.98 seconds and 43.43 seconds.
Anthony Varela was sixth in the 110-high hurdles finishing with a time of 17.44; Robert Coronado was sixth in the 300 intermediates posting a 45.62.
Jorge Deanda was seventh in the 200-meters turning in a time of 24.94.
Johnny Alvarado was fifth in the 400-meters recording a time of 52.76 and third in the long jump with a jump of 20-feet.
Alex Ames was seventh in the high jump with a personal best of 5'8".
Marco Swanson was seventh in the pole vault with a 10'6" and Joel Bello and Ali Andrade tied for ninth at 10-feet.
Adrian Leon came in fourth in the triple jump with a personal best mark of 40'8".
The Bulldogs 4x400 relay team of Trevor Arvayo, Coronado, Alvarado and Garcia came in fourth with a time of 3:39.50.
In the girls meet Douglas' Nancy Linares, a senior competing in her last invitational, had a good day finishing third in the long jump with a personal best mark of 15' and second in the triple jump with another personal best mark of 32'3". Linares was also sixth in the 400-meters turning in a time of 1:04.7.
Evelyn Tanabe was second in the 300 low hurdles with a time of 50.97 and sixth in the 100-meter hurdles with an 18.46.
Priscilla Enriquez was fifth in the pole vault at 7".
Freshman Kim Fragoso, whose previous best in the shot put had been 22-feet, shocked her coaches when she recorded a throw of 29'10 Friday only to finish ninth.
Douglas' 4x800 relay team of Maria Campoy, Kristi Cormier, Melia Skinner and Johanna Urquijo came in sixth with a time of 11:28.
After the meet Douglas' track coaches Ron Ellsworth and Donna Savill admitted this year's meet was huge success but a lot of it had to do with everything coming together at the right time.
Savill was quick to thank all the volunteers who really stepped up Friday and helped with their designated assignments.
"They've done this for several years so they know how the meet should work," she said. "They really pulled it off Friday."
Savill also wanted to acknowledge Douglas' trainer Mitch Nelson who was busy Friday. In the girls 300 hurdles Friday he had three injuries in two separate heats.
"He's so prompt, so professional," Savill said. "He did a great job of taking care of these athletes."
Ellsworth acknowledged Javier Baca and his crew for the electronic timing system that worked to perfection Friday.
The electronic timing system was set up to also photograph the finish line so if there was a photo finish the proper winner would be credited.
"He and his staff did a great job," Ellsworth said. "Things ran very smoothly all day long."
Both coaches agree when there are over 900 entries and they are running around trying to help keep things going it's hard to focus on the athletes who are competing and the assistant coaches stepped up there.
Ellsworth said from what he saw he was pleased with how his team competed Friday.
"I thought our times and distances were very good," he said. Douglas was the only 4A Division II School there and schools from the 1A, 2A, 4A Division I and 5A were down competing making for better competition.
Savill said she had athletes on her team that recorded personal bests and that's all she wanted was for them to improve.
"When you compete with high caliber competition you perform at a high level and we did that today," she said. "I think some of our athletes surprised themselves."
"This was one of our better meets," Coach Ellsworth said. "I am very happy."
"It was a good meet," Savill added.
Due to spring break this next week the DHS track teams will be off and won't compete again until March 21 when they head to Tucson for a tri-meet with Catalina and Cholla.
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