Hurdlers highlight Pirate women at Coast Classic
COSTA MESA -- The Orange Coast College women's track and field team finished second overall behind powerhouse Cerritos at Friday's Coast Classic Invitational.
Led by a pair of wins in the hurdle events, the Pirates finished with 78 points and trailed only the Falcons (316.5) in the six-team invitational. Cuyamaca (67.5) finished third overall, while Moorpark (38), Santa Monica (34) and Antelope Valley (9) round out the team scoring.
In the 100-meter hurdles, OCC's Taylor Sims took on a small army of Cerritos runners and beat them all to the finish line with a winning time of 15.35 seconds, just ahead of Falcon runner-up Jenai Vickers (15.41) and Emma Kratsberg (15.41).
OCC teammate Hannah Heising outlasted Kratsberg and company, winning the 400 hurdles with a time of 1:05.34. Kratsberg finished second with a 1:05.66, while Vickers took third at 1:08.11.
Heising and Sims teamed up with Mycol Smith-Ray and Fatemeh Javdi Tabarroki to win the 4x100 relay with a time of 49.88.
Other top-five performances for the Pirates came from Jenessa Reyes in the 1,500 (3rd, 5:03.57), Heising in the 100 (3rd, 13.08), Smith-Ray in the 400 (4th, 1:01.41) and Jessica Cardenas in the high jump (5th, 4-feet, 7-inches) and triple jump (5th, 29-9 1/4).
Coast will take part in the Southern California Multi-Event Championships at San Diego Mesa College on Tuesday and Wednesday before heading to the Mt. SAC Invitational on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Mt. San Antonio College.
