National title won by Day

Costa Mesa High product Sharon Day, a sophomore at Cal Poly San Luis

Obispo, won the Division I women’s high jump title Saturday at the

NCAA outdoor track and field championships in Sacramento.

Day’s winning clearance of 6 feet, 4 inches was a personal and

school record. Her previous best was 6-3 1/2 .

Day defeated longtime rival Chaunte Howard from Georgia Tech who

was second at 6-1 1/4 .

In other track and field action over the weekend: Several

Newport-Mesa high school standouts produced good results at the 46th

annual Golden West invitational at Folsom High.

Corona del Mar High junior Annie St. Geme, who captured the CIF

State title in the 1,600 meters June 4, was third in the girls mile

in 4 minutes, 51 seconds.

Also in the featured evening session, Newport Harbor junior

Whitney Blue finished seventh in the girls 3,200 meters (10:36.03)

and Newport Harbor junior Bo Taylor was eighth in the discus throw

(164-10).

In the afternoon, for competitors with lesser qualifying marks,

Taylor won the shot put (56-5), while CdM senior Melissa Swigert was

second in the girls 100 in 12.10 and fourth in the 200 in 24.67.