STOCKTON – With 42 teams in the field Saturday the Manteca frosh/soph girls competed with just seven athletes and finished first in the Delta Mustang High School Invitational at Stagg High School. In varsity action the Lathrop girls were seventh and the Weston Ranch boys finished ninth.

The marks all represented personal bests for the Buffaloes. Julia Moreno won the 400-meter dash (1 minute, 4.06 seconds) and was on the winning 4x100 relay with Olga Perez, Abigail Arias and Kaley Miller (52.08). Ana Maria Medina (shot put, 29 feet, 11 ½ inches) and Miller (100, 13.25) finished second and Jayda Jackson (high jump, 5-0), Heather Pang (pole vault, 7-6) and Perez (1:06.43, 400) were third.

The Spartans girls were paced by Virly Santos with a second-place finish in the 300 hurdles (51.05), a third-place finish in the 4x400 relay with Erielle De La Cruz, Delaina Robinson and Ashley Gaspar (4:37.36) and she finished fourth in the 100 hurdles (17.46).

Gaspar, Jasmine Harrison, Zakiyaa Nelson, Myani Thornton were third in the 4x100 relay (51.23). Erielle De La Cruz was fifth in the long jump (14-10 ¾) and triple jump (31-5 ¾) as was Maria Soto in the 3200 (12:39.55).   

For the Cougars boys, Robert Battle was second in the 100 (11.15), fourth in the 200 (23.22) and was on the fifth-place 4x100 relay with Fletcher Pitts, Andrew Williams and Jeremiah Richardson (45.15). Richardson was third in the 200 (23.04) and Dario Hunter was fifth in the triple jump (39-5 ½).

Joey Sanchis was third for the Lathrop frosh/soph boys in the 400 (54.01), was on the third-place 4x400 relay with Obaid Masroor, Mark Ramones and Isaac Ramos (3:56.06) and the fifth-place 4x100 relay with Joshua Jackson, Ramos and Ramones (47.43). Ibukunoluwa Ladunni was fifth in the high jump (4-8).