Masters News and Muse

Here's the latest entrant list. Question marks next to name mean the athlete isn't certain to race.

100M Masters Invitational
Aaron Thigpen 44 (10.60)
?(Willie Gault 47 (10.88))
Val Barnwell 50 (11.14)
Don Fields 43 (11.30)
Rod Jett 42 (11.31)
Jeff Williams 42 (11.40)
David Ashford 45 (11.40)
Marty Krulee 50 (11.47)
Steve Neubauer 47 (11.60)

Anthony Beasley 45 (11.61)
Tommy Baker 47 (11.68)
Peter Grimes 49 (11.70)
Ray Yeck 59 (12.74)

110M "Tom Moore" Legends Hurdle Race
Rod Jett 42 (14.10)
Karl Smith 48 (14.40)
David Ashford 45 (14.43)
Richard Holmes 41 (14.45)
Henry Andrade 42 (14.61)
Peter Grimes 49 (14.65)
Brian Conley 48 (15.5)
Michael Burke 45 (15.3)
?(Willie Gault 47)
David Bradley 44

Willie Gault's presence would really be cool, since he's on a hot streak.

At Sunday's Steve Scott Invitational at UC Irvine, Wille ran a legal 10.88 and 22.02 (out of lane1).

Kettrell Berry and Jai Black also were impressive:

Section 8 Wind: 1.9
1 Chanel Parker Hawaii 25.71
2 Jai Black San Diego Ma 26.42

Section 4
1 Ashley Manso Unattached 58.25
2 Stephanie Awanyai UC Irvine 58.78
3 Amber Waddell San Diego St 58.94
4 Jai Black San Diego Ma 59.14

Section 2 Wind: 0.5
1 Phillip Francis VS Athletics 10.67
2 Bradley Ike CSU Northrid 10.75
3 Willie Gault Unattached 10.88
4 Billy Walker CS San Marco 10.95
5 Brant Gilbert Double Pilla 10.96
6 Yik Chun Tang Hong Kong 11.06
-- Dominiqe Girdiler Great Britai FS

Section 2 Wind: 0.2
1 Dayne Comrie UC Irvine 21.36
2 Kelsey Caesar Long Beach S 21.59
3 Kenjamine Jackson CSU Northrid 21.61
4 Andrew Jacobson UC Riverside 21.67
5 Alex Goldberg Long Beach S 21.80
6 Everett Savoy Unattached 21.88
7 Willie Gault West Coast A 22.02
8 Nathan Winkler Concordia 22.12

Section 5 Wind: 1.0
1 Storm Huie Unattached 22.31
2 Hermes Ognsansoy UC Irvine 22.56
3 Mark Ilarnia UC Irvine 22.76
4 Terry Smoot Jr. UC Riverside 22.89
5 Justin Abercrombia Unattached 22.93
6 Cameron Jost CSU Bakersfi 22.94
7 Kettrell Berry Nike West Ma 23.82
8 Chris Wells-Anders Unattached 24.39

Section 6
1 A J Carillo U San Diego 53.36
2 Kettrell Berry Nike West Ma 53.94
3 Kyle Quintero La Verne 54.11
4 Jerry Davis Track West 59.36
5 Rudy Llavanes Track West 60.50

Section 2
1 Concordia 42.79
2 Cal Lutheran 42.83
3 Unattached 43.78
4 West Coast All-Stars 43.97

The 43.97 by West Coast All-Stars has an amazing story behind it. For starters, all four members are M45. And the time would have been much faster had one of its legs not been hobbled.

My masters moles report:

The (relay) team consisted of (1) Chris Faulknor (2) Cornell Stephenson (3) Kettrell Berry (4) Willie Gault. We had the lead until Cornell pulled 40m into his run. He hobbled in the last 60m. Kettrell and Willie made a valiant effort but . . . fell short. Willie ran a great 100m. Bad start but great pickup.

I wrote to Cornell, who recently brought out his book "That Masterful Season," and he described his injury (apparently a hamstring pull):

I'm not sure how serious it is at this point, but it is still very painful. I'm in prayer about it and if it is answered in the affirmative, I will be back out there in a month. My main goal after pulling was to at least make the handoff and so there was a silver lining. The team was very supportive immediately after and then again that night by checking up on my welfare. I felt that I let them down, but they had no such feeling. In fact, they wanted me to stop to avoid making it worse, but in my mind I just had to finish. If my season was going to be over, then at least I/we finished the race. Keep me in your prayers.

Certainly will, Cornell. You belong in the game with all the rest of our Modesto friends.