DAVIS — On the one-year anniversary of her knee surgery, Galadriel Mellion made history for Weston Ranch High on Friday.

She became its first Sac-Joaquin Section Masters champion as well as the first female from her school to qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation State Championships. The junior won the shot put with a throw of 40 feet, 4 inches, which she tossed on her final attempt in the preliminaries at Davis Senior High’s Dewey Halden Field.

A year ago, Mellion underwent knock knee correction surgery. Now, she is following in the footsteps of hurdler Angell Mayfield (2009) and sprinter John McDonald (2013, sprints), former Cougars standouts who reached the state meet and went on to earn medals.

She is the first female from a Manteca Unified school to win an event at the SJS Masters since Manteca alumna Amanda Dias did it in the 300 hurdles in 1988.

“Very proud of myself,” she said. “Didn’t throw what I wanted to throw, but I still made it to state.”

Mellion’s season best of 42-8 ½ is ranked fourth in the state. Last year, in a pandemic-shortened campaign, she popped a personal record 44-2 ½ at the West Coast Relays.

“It was very fun,” Mellion said. “This is my first time getting to Masters and I’m looking forward to it next year.”

Mellion has an opportunity to double her medal count today, as she is the favorite in the discus throw, as well. The top three placers in each event along with at-large qualifiers move on to the state meet on May 27-28 at Buchanan High of Clovis.

Ripon’s Gabby Delgado joined Mellion in the shot put final, placing eighth with a 35-10. Alaba Olaleye made it to the triple jump finale, also taking eighth with her best mark at 35-10 ¼.

Several Manteca-area athletes made some noise on the track Friday.

Manteca’s Zion Allen clocked the fastest time in the 100-meter dash, finishing in a wind-aided 10.65 seconds. He’s also No. 2 going into today’s 200 final with a time of 21.82.

Anthony Sausedo of Ripon is the top seed for the 110 hurdles with a time of 39.55 and fourth for the 110 hurdles (15.24). Lathrop sophomore Adonis Siga turned in the sixth best overall time of 40.86 to qualify for the 300 hurdles finale.

East Union’s Taylor Snaer easily won her heat in the 400, finishing with the third best time of 58.46. She’s also in the 200 final as the No. 5 seed at 25.01.

Ripon’s Annie Wild qualified for the 800 final with the 10th best time of 2 minutes, 19.85 seconds, which is less than 2 seconds off the top mark of the day.

East Union’s boys 4x400 relay — Gerardo Cleto Herrera, Kainoa Ontai, Cesar Salinas, Evan Cooper — advanced to Day 2 with the sixth best time of 3:28.05.On the one-year anniversary of her knee surgery, Galadriel Mellion made history for Weston Ranch High on Friday.

She became its first Sac-Joaquin Section Masters champion as well as the first female from her school to qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation State Championships. The junior won the shot put with a throw of 40 feet, 4 inches, which she tossed on her final attempt in the preliminaries at Davis Senior High’s Dewey Halden Field.

A year ago, Mellion underwent knock knee correction surgery. Now, she is following in the footsteps of hurdler Angell Mayfield (2009) and sprinter John McDonald (2013, sprints), former Cougars standouts who reached the state meet and went on to earn medals.

She is the first female from a Manteca Unified school to win an event at the SJS Masters since Manteca alumna Amanda Dias did it in the 300 hurdles in 1988.

“Very proud of myself,” she said. “Didn’t throw what I wanted to throw, but I still made it to state.”

Mellion’s season best of 42-8 ½ is ranked fourth in the state. Last year, in a pandemic-shortened campaign, she popped a personal record 44-2 ½ at the West Coast Relays.

“It was very fun,” Mellion said. “This is my first time getting to Masters and I’m looking forward to it next year.”

Mellion has an opportunity to double her medal count today, as she is the favorite in the discus throw, as well. The top three placers in each event along with at-large qualifiers move on to the state meet on May 27-28 at Buchanan High of Clovis.

Ripon’s Gabby Delgado joined Mellion in the shot put final, placing eighth with a 35-10. Alaba Olaleye made it to the triple jump finale, also taking eighth with her best mark at 35-10 ¼.

Several Manteca-area athletes made some noise on the track Friday.

Manteca’s Zion Allen clocked the fastest time in the 100-meter dash, finishing in a wind-aided 10.65 seconds. He’s also No. 2 going into today’s 200 final with a time of 21.82.

Anthony Sausedo of Ripon is the top seed for the 110 hurdles with a time of 39.55 and fourth for the 110 hurdles (15.24). Lathrop sophomore Adonis Siga turned in the sixth best overall time of 40.86 to qualify for the 300 hurdles finale.

East Union’s Taylor Snaer easily won her heat in the 400, finishing with the third best time of 58.46. She’s also in the 200 final as the No. 5 seed at 25.01.

Ripon’s Annie Wild qualified for the 800 final with the 10th best time of 2 minutes, 19.85 seconds, which is less than 2 seconds off the top mark of the day.

East Union’s boys 4x400 relay — Gerardo Cleto Herrera, Kainoa Ontai, Cesar Salinas, Evan Cooper — advanced to Day 2 with the sixth best time of 3:28.05.