Vincent Rinaldi of Carpinteria edges St. Joseph’s Darien Langley in the 100 meters at the Santa Barbara County Championships. Sheldon Canley and Deville Dickerson (far left) were third and fourth. 
Reann Booker of Righetti takes the baton from Riley Allen for the anchor leg in the 4×100 relay. Righetti won in 51.37. 
Cabrillo’s Josiah Myers reacts after winning the county title in the varsity boys 110-meter hurdles. 
Carpinteria’s Mateo Handall made his move on the backstretch and won the county 400 meters title. 
Lompoc’s Sheldon Canley takes the baton from Cailin Daniels for the anchor leg on the Braves’ winning 4×100 relay. 
Jacob Snodgrass of San Marcos pulls away down the stretch to win the county title in the boys 1600 meters. 
Dos Pueblos runners hold the top three positions early in the girls 1600. Samsara Chahine of the Chargers won the race. 
Carpinteria’s Esai Vega captured the discus title at the county championships. 
Bishop Diego sophomore Clara McDonald won the girls shot put title with a throw of 35-07.50.
What a comeback by Vincent Rinaldi of Carpinteria to win the 100 meters at the Santa Barbara County Championships. pic.twitter.com/mWklD2YZbn — NoozhawkSports (@NoozhawkSports) May 16, 2021
Vincent Rinaldi shifted into another gear with about 20 yards to go and overtook St. Joseph's Darian Langley to win the 100 meters at the Santa Barbara County Track & Field Championships at Santa Ynez High on Saturday and remain undefeated on the season.
Rinaldi got off to a slow start and was in fifth place at 25 yards into the race. He moved up to second and trailed Langley with about 15 yards to go. The Carpinteria senior punched the accelerator and surged past Langley to win in 10.92 seconds. Langley finished in 10.94, and Lompoc's Sheldon Canley came in third in 11.2.
Rinaldi completed the sprint double, edging Lompoc's Deville Dickerson in the 200. The senior's winning time was 22.47, with Dickerson finishing in 22.83 and Cate's Gabriel Madan in 24.01 for third.
Senior Reann Booker of Righetti claimed the 400-200 double. She took the 400 in 1:03.55, beating Bernice Chavez Gomez of Dos Pueblos (1:04.24), and won the 200 in 26.92, edging her sister, Rayann (27.06). The sisters helped Righetti sweep the 4×100 and 4×400 relays.
It was a good day for a pair of Bishop Diego sophomore shot putters as Su'e Luaumanu won the boys title with a toss of 41-09.50, and Clara Mcdonald captured first place for the girls at 35-07.50. Mcdonald was over 32 feet on all four throws. Luamanu popped his winning throw on his second attempt and beat Carpinteria's Esai Vega (41-03.50).
Mcdonald completed the throws double by taking the discus with a mark of 106-07.
Vega dominated in the boys discus. His winning throw of 135-04 was nearly 16 feet farther than second place.
Back on the track, senior Mateo Handall of Carpinteria quickly made up the staggered start in the 400 and won the county title in 51.78. Bihop Diego's Luke Williams, who earlier in the week won a league singles tennis title, finished second in 53.32 and Justin Vincent of Dos Pueblos was third (53.69).
The Dos Pueblos girls swept the 800 with sophomores Samsara Chahine (2:32.76), Elliot Gleason (2:35.82) and Reese Wahlberg (2:38.99) taking the top three spots. Chaline (5:37.75) and Gleason (5:40.23) also went 1-2 in the 1600.
In the boys 800, junior Jacob Snodgrass pulled away from teammate Ethan Dwelley to capture the county title in 2:02.56. Dylan Richardson of Dos Pueblos was third. It was the same order in the 1600, with Snodgrass running 4:29.97 for the win.
Carpinteria's Alexandra Zapata took first in the girls 300 hurdles in 50.61, while Righetti's Marcus Gough outsprinted Josiah Myers of Cabrillo at the finish to win the boys 300 hurdles in 44.00.
Dos Pueblos showed its strength in the distance races as the Chargers won the girls and boys 3200. On the girls side, sophomore Phoebe Wolfe-Lyons took first in 12:00.93 and Gabriela Kenly was second. Sophomore Luciani Koroshec led a 1-2 Charger finish in the boys race with a time of 10:17.09 and Logan Beckstrand came in second.
In field events, Bernice Chavez Gomez of Dos Pueblos won the girls long jump at 15-10.50. Cailin Daniels of Lompoc went 21-11 to take the boys long jump title and lead a Braves' sweep of the top three spots. Daniels also won the triple jump (42-08.75).
The girls triple jump was won by Neta Ofiaeli of Santa Ynez at 34-09.25, and Emma Johnson of the Pirates took the pole vault. Ian Dziobaka won the boys pole vault.
Annika Orwig (4-10) and Jackson Murillo (5-6) of San Marcos were the county champions in the high jump.
In the team scoring, Lompoc and San Marcos shared the boys title with 95 points and Carpinteria took third with 77 points.
Dos Pueblos captured the varsity girls team championship with 140.50 points, edging Righetti with 138.50. San Marcos was third with 90 points.
San Marcos won the grand sweepstakes (combined varsity and frosh-soph team scores) with 325.50 points. The Royals won the boys varsity, girls frosh-soph and boys frosh-soph team titles.