Track and field: Jones adds hurdles win

SACRAMENTO -- Newport Harbor High’s Trevor Jones continued his

monumental senior track and field season Saturday by winning the

300-meter intermediate hurdles at the prestigious Golden West

Invitational at American River Community College.

Jones, the reigning state champion in the 300 hurdles, clocked a

personal-record 36.45 to top the national field, coming from behind down

the stretch.

He was also sixth in the 110 high hurdles with a time of 14.24, just off

his PR of 13.99, which he ran last week to finish second at the state

finals.

“He beat the guy who beat him at Arcadia and he also beat the guy who had

the second-fastest time in the nation,” Newport Harbor Coach Bim Barry

said of Jones’ 300 race.

Corona del Mar High senior Liz Morse, who ran a national-best 2:08.16 to

win the state title last week, was second in the 800 Saturday in 2:09.92.

Newport Harbor junior Amber Steen was fifth in the mile (5:01.2), beating

the current state 1,600 champion Jenny Aldridge from Santa Rosa.

Jones will compete in the National Scholastic Outdoor Championships

Saturday in Raleigh, N.C., and is also scheduled to run at the junior

nationals the following weekend in Denton, Texas.