VC track & field teams solid against Escondido and at Sundevil Invite

Kaylee Hudson set a new school record in the 3,200 at the Sundevil Invite.

Valley Center’s varsity track and field teams put together another group of outstanding individual performances this week in a dual meet against Escondido on Thursday, followed by the Sundevil Invite at Mt. Carmel on Saturday.
The Jaguars hosted Escondido on Thursday, and after winning a total of 15 events in both the boys and girls events, ended up splitting the meet with the Cougars.
Valley Center won the girls meet 71–64 behind phenomenal performances from triple-winner Sidney Reilly and four more first-place finishes for the team.
Reilly won the 100 hurdles (16.39), the 300 hurdles (47.92) and the long jump (16-feet-3) to lead the Lady Jags, while also taking second in the triple jump after tying the top mark but coming up just short on her second-best attempt.
Sidney Reilly was a triple-winner for the Lady Jags against Escondido.

Meanwhile, Leina Villemez was the winner in the 100 (13.29), Caty Alvarez won the 200 (28.03), Kaylee Hudson won the 400 (1:02.77) and Lauren Gilster took first in the discus (106-0 3/4). The Lady Jaguars also won both the 400 relay (52.62) and the 1,600 relay (4:24.57) in the meet.
Gilster also took second in the shot put, while Vinessa Perryman took second in both the 100 and 300 hurdles. In the sprints, Alvarez and Villemez finished one-two in both the 100 and 200, while Hudson ran strong in the distance events to also take second in the 800.
The boys team, however, lost their meet 75–51 despite wins in six of the 15 events.
Jean-Marc Brierre dominated the throwing events, winning both the shot put (42-6) and the discus (133-6), while Ronnie Bourguignon won the 200 (23.07) and took second in the 400, Logan Fiddler won the 3,200 (10:13.65), Armando Diaz won the triple jump (39-0) and Nick Villemez won the pole vault (10-0).
The Jaguars also posted five top-ten individual finishes in the Sundevil Invite on Saturday, including two top-five overall finshes.
Reilly won her heat in the 300 hurdles (46.37), which gave her fourth place overall in Division II, while Hudson finished third in her heat in the 3,200 (11:20.49), good for third place overall in the division and a new school record.
Also for the Lady Jaguars, Gilster took second place in the discus (100-6) and eighth place in the shot put (32-1), while for the Jaguars, Nicasio Westlund took fourth in his heat in the 800 (2:01.69).
Both Jaguars teams will be back in action on Thursday at 3:15 p.m. at Del Norte to open league competition.

Jags sweep top five to down Canyon Crest in cross-country

The Valley Center varsity boys cross-country team ran to another win this week against Canyon Crest Academy to remain undefeated in league so far this season, while the varsity girls team posted some strong individual performances but couldn’t get its first win of the year.
The Jaguars captured the top five spots in the race in taking a 15–44 win on the 3.1-mile course at Kit Carson Park on Friday.
Nicasio Westlund won the race for the Jaguars with a time of 16:45, followed by Stephen Lopez in second (17:09), Daniel Henderson in third (17:19), Nick Vanderpoel in fourth (17:33) and Travis Robey in fifth (17:37). Also placing in the top ten for the Jags was Genaro Rodriguez in eighth place (18:24).
For the Lady Jaguars, top finisher Kaylee Hudson took second place with a time of 16:03 on the 2.6-mile course, just one second behind the race winner. Meanwhile, Dani Lettice took sixth (17:53) and Bama Velasquez finished seventh (18:05).
The boys JV team also ran well to take a win, as Jon Larson, Logan Fiddler and Daniel Caballero took the top three spots in the race.
The boys varsity team is now 2–0, while the girls varsity team is 0–2 and the boys JV team is 1–1. The next meet is the Kit Carson Invite on Oct. 22.