Track & Field: LB Poly’s Hicks blazes in 100 hurdles

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The night session is underway at the Arcadia Invitational and Traci Hicks of Long Beach Poly liked her result in the Invitational Division 100 hurdles. Well, most of it anyway.

‘I was slowing at the end and my get-out could have been a bit better, but other than that it was great,’ the Jackrabbits’ senior said after topping the field in a personal-best 13.63 seconds--one of the five fastest times in the nation this year.

Asked if she was disappointed that she couldn’t race against last year’s World Youth Champion Trinity Wilson of Albany St. Mary’s, who has clocked a legal wind time of 13.15 but didn’t run Saturday, Hicks replied: ‘No, I didn’t miss her at all.’ Vista Murrieta ninth-grader Jasmyne Graham took second place in 13.89.

Juniors Elijah Mitchell of Corona Roosevelt (10.58) and Khalfani Muhammad of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame (10.60) finished third and fourth, respectively, in the boys Invitational 100-meter dash. Vinnie Saucer of Westlake Village Oaks Christian won the 100-meter seeded race in 10.60 and Oak Park’s Sydney Ashley Lewis won the girls seeded 100 meters in 11.90.

Devon Allen, a junior from Phoenix (Ariz.) Brophy Prep, was first in the boys Invitational 110-meter hurdles in a blistering 13.52--the second fastest wind legal time in the country this year. Cale Strong of Heber (Utah) Wasatch won the seeded division in 14.24.

Rancho Cucamonga Los Osos won the girls 4x100 seeded relay in 47.28 seconds and Long Beach Poly won the girls Invitational 4x100 in 46.13.

-- Steve Galluzzo