Several Santa Cruz County track and field athletes went faster and further than their respective schools had ever seen before at the Pacific Coast Athletic League Masters Meet at King City High on Friday.

The top six boys and top seven girls in each event qualified for the Central Coast Section Semifinals at Gilroy High on May 17.

Several athletes carry a ton of momentum into that meet, including Pajaro Valley senior Izaak Ocampo and Watsonville senior Nathaniel Aceves-Aguilar.

Ocampo took first place in the long jump with a school-record distance of 22 feet, 9.5 inches, and Aceves-Aguilar took first in the triple jump with a school-record distance of 45-8.75 and third in the long jump (20-11.5).

Watsonville junior Lisandro Pantoja took first in the discus (155-9.50) and fourth in the shot put (45-2.50).

Monte Vista Christian’s Boston Ashe, Gavin Beckmen, Conor Gilliam, and Joshua Tepoorten teamed up second in the 4×400-meter relay in 3:30.10, the second-best time in school history.

Gilliam, a junior, also took third in the 800 (1:58.54). Tepoorten, a senior, also took fourth in the 400 (51.04) and fifth in the 200 (23.09).

Pacific Collegiate School freshman Alexander Profumo took fifth in the 3,200 in 9:56.51, the third-best time in school history.

PCS sophomore Jude Holmlund took fifth in the pole vault (11-6), the second highest mark in school history.

Watsonville senior Gerardo Acosta-Perez took fifth in the 100 hurdles (17.12) and sixth in the pole vault (11-6).

Watsonville (Desi Salinas-Holz, Nain Garcia-Ferria, Jared Sunga, and Rodrigo Barranco) took sixth in the 4×800 relay in 8:35.11, the third-best time in school history.

Other locals who made the cut as sixth-place finishers included St. Francis junior Jacob Jimenez in the triple jump (40-0.5), Watsonville freshman Noel Navarro in the 300 hurdles (44.08), and Wildcatz junior Luis Marquez in the discus (127-6.5).

Girls

PCAL Masters Meet >> The future looks bright for MVC’s Anna Conca. The freshman took first in the 1,600 (5:18.81) and fifth in the 800 (2:27.59) at the PCAL Masters Meet at King City High on Friday.

Conca also teamed with sophomore Finley Castro, Chloe Shaw, and Kylie Fitzpatrick for fourth place in the 4×400 relay (4:17.57), the second-best time in school history.

Conca was pursued by several CCS qualifiers in the 1,600. PCS freshman Iris Paten took second (5:19.42), MVC senior Kylie Brunelli took fourth (5:21.48), Castro took sixth (5:26.34), and Watsonville senior Katelynn Ruiz was seventh (5:29.98).

Brunelli took first in the 3,200 in 11:36.94, and Ruiz was second in 11:39.84. Wildcatz junior Azucena Sandoval took fourth (11:54.79), the fifth-best mark in school history.

St. Francis junior Peyton Orradre took third in the 100 hurdles in a school-record 16.67 seconds, and fifth in both the 300 hurdles (50.32), also a school record, and triple jump (33-8).

Watsonville senior Jocelyn Guzman took fourth in the 300 hurdles (49.74). Guzman also teamed with Aileen Reyes, Julieta Garcia, and Lizbeth Gomez Abrica for fifth place in the 4×400 relay (4:20.75).

St. Francis (Ginger Gottlieb-Maier, Elin Cardenas, Kai Ortiz, and Carley Anderson) took seventh in the 4×800 relay (12:51.04).

Freshman Eleanor Crane (sixth), senior Nyree Delfin (seventh), and junior Nylie Joneson (eighth), all from MVC, each cleared 8-6 in the pole vault.

WCAL Championships >> Archbishop Mitty’s Evie Marheineke, a Santa Cruz resident, made the podium in two events at the West Catholic Athletic League Championships at Saint Francis High in Mountain View on Friday. The UCLA-bound senior, who has battled low iron issues over the past year, took third in both the 1,600 and 3,200.