The San Benito track teams handily defeated the visiting Gilroy
Mustangs Thursday at Hardin field.
The San Benito track teams handily defeated the visiting Gilroy Mustangs on Thursday at Hardin Field.
The Hollister varsity boys ran past Gilroy 110-26, while the varsity girls won 99-35. The frosh-soph girls won 111-3, and the boys won 87-48.
The varsity teams won both the 4 by 110-yard relay and the 4 by 440-yard relay. And both varsity teams swept first, second and third places in about a third of the events.
The best times of the day were in the 330-yard hurdles. John DiSalvo ran 42.44, one of the faster times run on Hollister’s track.
Jaime O’Brian clocked under 50 seconds for the girls in the 330 hurdles.
The boy’s mile was very competitive, as Hollister’s Josh Vasquez nosed out his teammate Albert Sandoval.
Jessie Grace threw the shot put 46′ 2″ in a very competitive dual, besting Gilroy’s Robert Best.
San Benito’s Chris Stephens threw 137′ 6″ in the discus. Four Hollister boys had jumped better than 20 feet in the long jump.
In an event finished in the dark, the Hollister boys swept the pole vault as Chris Uribe went 11′ 6″.
The girls 4 by 440 yard relay put on a show with a good time as the sun was almost set to finish the normal meet.
The boys won almost every event except the 100 meters. In spite of being beaten solidly, the Mustangs Stephanie Radtke doubled in the 880 and the mile, and Raquel Butler won the 100 meters and 220-yard dashes.
At the request of both teams, the two teams ran a weightman’s 4 by 110 yard relay challenge after the normal meet. The Haybaler’s won that one also, accompanied with great cheers from a boisterous Baler and Mustang crowd.
