Pole Vault

CRESCENTA VALLEY COACH: Mark Evans, 13th year. LEAGUE: Pacific. ATHLETES TO WATCH: Jessica Beerman, junior, sprints; Eliza Collison, senior, distance; Hannah Gerald, senior, hurdles; Kristina Gustovich, senior, high jump; Tiernan Hebron, junior, sprints; Laura Hovsepian, junior, hurdles; Carli Opland, senior, sprints/jumps; Melanie Samvalian, senior, shot put; Claudia Sepulveda, sophomore, hurdles/sprints. EVANS’ QUOTE: “Everyone is a little older and more experienced.

GLENDALE — Experience and depth might be the best things to have in hand for the Crescenta Valley High girls’ track and field program. The Falcons have fielded an excellent cast of distance runners in recent seasons, some of whom have advanced either to the CIF Southern Section finals or the CIF State Track and Field Championships. Crescenta Valley has also strengthened itself in other capacities in its quest to wrest the Pacific League title away from arch-rival Arcadia after placing second last season.

Volleyball Camile Coffey, first team, sophomore Jenna Orlandini, first team, senior Connor McCracken, second team, senior Mary Schroeder, second team, junior   Cross-country Andrea Kropp, first team, junior   Golf Angie So, first team, senior   Soccer Sinead Fleming, first team, senior Pip Harragin, first team, senior KatieJohnson, first...

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — Competing against juniors and seniors can sometimes bring out the best in a freshman. Drew Washington, a first-year athlete on the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy track and field squad, couldn’t have picked a better time to realize that than while competing against one of the top teams in the Mission League. Washington picked up a personal-best time in a running event, helped her team win a relay and took second in a field event in Flintridge Sacred Heart’s 81-46 loss to powerful Harvard-Westlake on Thursday afternoon at St. Francis High’s Friedman Field.

LA CRESCENTA — Those who left Thursday afternoon’s Pacific League track and field dual meet between Crescenta Valley High and Hoover early missed quite an ending. Crescenta Valley picked up a 72 1/2 -54 1/2 victory against Hoover in the boys’ portion of the meet, but the final event proved to have all of the late-ending dramatics needed to have both squads talking about it more than 15 minutes later. Hoover remained undefeated in the 4x400-meter relay this season, albeit barely.

A great meet for Crescenta Valley last Thursday as the Falcons beat Muir in a rout on both the boys’ and girls’ sides. The boys’ team won, 69-58, on the strength of Zack Torres’ runs in the 1,600 meters (4 minutes, 30.4 seconds) and 800 meters (1:58.2). Torres also ran in the Meet of Champions in Walnut on Saturday, placing second (9:05.1) in the boys’ 3,200 meters behind El Toro’s Villalva, who broke the nine-minute barrier (8:59.5). Torres also helped fellow distance runner freshman Mike Duncan in the 1,600, helping Duncan pace for a 4:30.

SOFTBALL Crescenta Valley 16, Pasadena 0: Pitcher Heather Bacon tossed her third perfect game of the season Friday in a Pacific League contest called after five innings because of the 10-run mercy rule. The right-hander struck out 13 to pace the Falcons (12-1, 3-0 in league). ? MEN?S TENNIS Fresno City College 8, Glendale Community College 1: Singles player Paul Nagapetyan picked up the only win for the host Vaqueros (14-5) on Friday in a nonconference match.

LA CRESCENTA — For years, the Crescenta Valley High and Muir track and field teams have dominated the Pacific League by winning league championships and sending athletes to the state meet on a consistent basis. That might be the case again in May and into early June, but the Falcons have the upper hand at the moment when it comes to competing in league dual meets against the Mustangs. Crescenta Valley’s boys’ team got nine event victories to pick up a 69-58 win, while the Falcons girls’ squad got 10 wins to record a 78-48 win Thursday afternoon at Crescenta Valley.

CRESCENTA VALLEY COACH: Mark Evans, 12th year. LEAGUE: Pacific. ATHLETES TO WATCH: Zach Balonick, junior, pole vault; Jimmy Jones, senior, 400/hurdles; Neil Jones, senior, 400; James Maturan, freshman, 400; Andrew Roide, soph., jumps; Zack Torres, senior, distance. EVANS’ QUOTE: “We should do well in league because we have a pretty good group of guys in the 400 and we should do well in the sprints.”   FLINTRIDGE PREP COACH: Kenny Fisher, 17th year.

? 100 METERS ?Charles Barrett, Burroughs ? 10.7 seconds 200 METERS ?Danny Cruz, Burroughs ? 22.4 seconds 400 METERS ?Chris Morris, Burroughs ? 48.84 seconds 800 METERS ?Mike Sheridan, Crescenta Valley ? 1:55.20 1,600 METERS ?Zack Torres, Crescenta Valley ? 4:21.37 3,200 METERS ?Zack Torres, Crescenta Valley ? 9:17.77 110 HIGH HURDLES ?Richard Folk, Burroughs ? 15.5 ? ? ? ?