Keeping up with the Nitros

Freshman Kenya Gaskin wins the 100- and 200-meter races with personal-best marks and helps win two relay events to propel the Nitros. Gaskin wins the 100 in 13 seconds and takes the 200 in 27.6 seconds. Gaskin begins the meet by working with Shannon Cruz, Phien Le and Sophia Amodia to take the 4x100 relay in 52.1 seconds. She also groups with Amodia, Lauren Hansen and Le to capture the 4x400 relay in 4 minutes 17.7 seconds.

The Nitros (3-7, 3-4 in league) receive first-place efforts from Amodia in the long jump with a mark of 16 feet 8 inches and the 300 hurdles (46.5), Linda Perez in the discus (71-4), Jessica Kim in the pole vault (6-6) and Le in the triple jump (34-3).

In the boys' portion of the meet, Glendale (3-7, 3-4) has its share of first-place finishes. Tristan Pacba wins the 110 hurdles (16.5) and the 300 hurdles (44.5) for the Nitros, who get a pair of victories from Mike Davis in the 100 (10.7) and the 200 (22.0).

Also earning first-place marks for the Nitros are Chris Canlas in the 800 (2:02.6), Marco Mendoza in the shot put (36-9), Alex Sanchez in the discus (103-7), Mike Williams in the pole vault (8-6), Dillon Fuller in the long jump (20-11) and Hrair Oganesyan in the triple jump (40-2).

Jeff Massin works with Fuller, Paul Archer and Davis to take the 4x100 relay (43.2). The quartet also finishes first in the 4x400 relay (3:29).

•April 27 — The boys' and girls' swimming team complete the regular season portion of season with lopsided Pacific League road victories against rival Hoover. The girls' team sweeps all 11 events to post a 111-38 victory and the boys' squad captures 10 races to earn a 114-45 win.

"You always are trying to peak toward the end of the season," Glendale Coach Forest Holbrook said. "You want to have good results going into prelims and finals because it's a super-competitive league.

"Hopefully, their times will continue to drop."

In the girls' competition, Glendale (1-5 overall and in league) turns to Maddie Corpuz, who wins two individual races and helps win a pair of relays.

Corpuz captures the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes 39.63 seconds and then wins the 100 backstroke (1:10.41). She opens the meet by teaming with Melissa Gonzalez, Biyouregh Boghozian and Jacqueline Jones to win the 200 medley relay (2:11.06). Corpuz finishes the meet by working with Gonzalez, Jones and Alique Berberian to take the 400 freestyle relay (4:33.94).