FOLSOM — Manteca’s William Brown picked up a pair of silver medals Saturday in the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Track and Field Championships at Folsom High, and as a result of various top-three finishes will lead a large contingency of local athletes to the two-day state championships beginning Friday at Buchanan High School in Clovis.

Brown shot out of the blocks in the 110-meter hurdles to finish second (14.35 seconds) and chewed up the field down the stretch in the 300 hurdles to finish second with a new school record at 38.24 seconds.

“I just missed the school record in the 110s by two-tenths of a second,” Brown said. “I reflected on how I did last week, I listened to my coach and I wanted to do better.”

Manteca’s Raniya Nelson threw the discus 146 feet, 3 inches on her first throw, beating her own school record and eclipsing the at-large qualifying mark for an automatic pass to the state meet. That first throw was good enough for second place overall.

The junior also competed in the shot put, placing 11th with a mark of 31-05 ¾.

“I’m excited to be moving on to the next level,” Nelson said. “I could have done better, but this is as good as I have ever done.”

Sierra picked up two second-place finishes with Blama Kamara in the 400 with a school record of 47.40, and Tyleah Badea in the 800 in a school-record time of 2 minutes, 12.62 seconds.

“It feels good to be going to state,” Kamara said. “Last year was not great, as I didn’t get past the first round.”

Kamara also ran the 4x400 relay final with Christian Gonzalez, Anthony Glover and Kenneth Roach. They finished ninth in 3:26.62. Gonzalez ran the 1,600, taking 15th in 4:24.62.

Badea was in fifth place at the end of the first lap, but she was running the race she had planned.

“At the end of the first lap I knew,” Badea said. “I just wanted to be smart and just hang in there for the first lap.

“I wanted to move up and kick at the 200 like I did, and I know I can run faster next week.

East Union’s Jackson Fay makes a return trip to the state championships with a third-place finish (10.79 seconds) in the 100. Teammates Gunnar Fay were fifth (10.91) and J.P. Abrew sixth (10.92).

“This feels great,” Jackson Fay said. “All my hard work led up to now.

“It wasn’t a very good time. We had a lot of wind in our face, but I moved on and that’s all that matters.”

Lathrop’s Riley Gier finished third in a scorching 800 (1:52.02) race, setting a school record. The top five finishers advanced to the state meet as a result of eclipsing the at-large qualifying marks.

“I came into this season feeling kind of low, because the whole season I couldn’t PR (personal record),” Gier said. “I got some confidence from divisionals, and it is the best feeling in the world to be able to run with Lucas Albert (first place, 1:50.10, Jesuit) and Hugh Heyer (second, 1:50.24, McClatchy). Those guys are amazing, and I am just happy to be able to run with them.

Ripon’s Clara Schoolland will be returning to the state meet as a senior, having qualified as a sophomore in the high jump and again on Saturday, finishing third and matching her personal best at 5-5.

“I feel happy,” Schoolland said. “I am so glad that I get to go back to state and try again.”

Sierra’s Mya Everett also jumped 5-5 and set a school record but finished fourth due to one more miss at a lower height than Schoolland.

“I feel good,” Everett said. “I am proud that I PR’d, and this is my first year ever high jumping, so I am just happy to be here.

“I was concentrating on basketball all four years, and they kept trying to get me out here and I didn’t listen, but I decided to do it this year.”

Ripon senior Kaiya Kroutil is another late bloomer in the sport. A lifelong soccer player, she’s heading to Fresno State for track. At Masters, she broke her own school record in the 400, finishing seventh in 56.94 seconds.

Other athletes from the area competing at Masters: East Union’s Sean Rutter (pole vault, no height), Sierra’s Teagan Nazzisi (shot put, 12th, 43-01 ¾), Ripon’s Liam Wohle (400, ninth, 50.09), and Lathrop’s Alyvia Galano (pole vault, 11th, 10-02) and Morgan Emery (1,600, 18th, 5:38.84).

The 106th California Interscholastic Federation State Championships is this Friday and Saturday.