For the second year in a row, and fourth time in the last six years, the Cerritos College women's track and field team won the Southern California championship. The Falcons finished with 116 team points and held off second place Riverside City College (90 team points) for the title. They will look to improve on last year's second place finish at the CCCAA State Championships, which will take place next weekend at the College of San Mateo.

Of the team's 116 points, 93 of them came in field events, which would have been enough for the Falcons to win the championship. Freshman Alexus Dalton (Long Beach Poly HS) earned 35 points by winning the SoCal championship in three events: heptathlon, high jump and long jump and taking fourth in the 100-meter HH. Her height of 1.66 meters earned her the title, while she tied her school record of 6.04 meters in the long jump. Shanice Stewart of San Bernardino Valley College also matched that distance, but Dalton earned the 10 team points by posting her distance before Stewart. Sophomore Erin Reid (Long Beach Poly HS) finished in fourth place at 5.58 meters, while in the high jump, sophomore Nkechi Odili-Obi (Crenshaw HS/Cal State Dominguez Hills HS) failed to clear a height after sharing the best finish in the prelims.

Freshman Kierra Miller (Carson HS) posted a second place distance of 11.39 meters in the triple jump, with sophomore Justina Cummings (Westchester HS) a close third place at 11.27 meters. In the javelin, sophomore Tuki Sauvao (Artesia HS) moved into second place on the school's record list with a throw of 42.44 meters, which earned her a second place. Freshman Kelly Magana (Cantwell HS) took fourth place at 37.92, while defending state champion Angel Sifuentes (Central Union HS) came in fifth place at 37.19 meters.

In other throws, sophomore Tiffany Gray (El Dorado HS) took second place in the discus at 38.92 meters, with Sauvao in eighth place at 36.16 meters. As for freshman Dorienne Ordaz (Bravo HS), her hammer throw of 47.07 meters earned her a third place, while that distance put her fifth on the school's top five list. Joining Ordaz was sophomore Carissa English (Marina HS), who came in sixth place at 4.60 meters, with sophomores Larrisha Fields (Lakewood HS) and Aisha Daikite (El Rancho HS) finishing in eighth and ninth places, respectively. Fields also earned a seventh place in the shot put at 12.20 meters.

In running events, freshman Karina Sanchez (Warren HS) took fifth place in the 10,000 meters with a time of 40:20.59 and added a sixth place finish in the 5000 meters at 18:43.10. Dalton also earned a fourth place in the 100-meter HH with a time of 14.38, with sophomore Amber Greer (Gardena HS/ECC Compton Center) turning in a time of 1:04.38 to come in sixth place in the 400-meter IH. In the 400-meter relay, the quartet of Reid, Miller, Cummings and sophomore Khadijah Hall (Gahr HS) posted a fourth place time of 47.80.

Full results - http://www.directathletics.com/results/track/29729.html