Revere Track Teams Shine at League Finals

The Paul Revere Middle School boys and girls track and field squads placed third and fourth, respectively, in the Delphic League finals last week at Oaks Christian in Westlake Village.

Coached by Paul Foxson, Revere qualified 32 athletes for the meet – an impressive total for the only public school in a league with perennial powers Oaks Christian, Campbell Hall, Chaminade, Harvard-Westlake and Sierra Canyon.

Highlighting the boys team, which finished behind only Laurel Hall and Harvard-Westlake, were eighth-graders Dylan Lambert, Dante Baldecchi, Mark Barbosa and Tomas Espana.

Lambert, who holds the school record in the 800 meters, won that event in 2:18.64,  Baldecchi won the 400 in 55.96, Barbosa was second in the 1,600 in 5:17.31 and and Espana was 10th in the 400 in 1:02.87.

Lambert, Baldecchi, Barbosa and Espana clocked 4:02.54 for first place in the 4×400 relay with a time of 4:02.54.

Fellow eighth-grader Eli Safai was fourth in the 100 in 12.71, fourth in the high jump with a height of 5-06 and anchored the runner-up 4×100 team (49:46) that included Baldecchi, Lambert and Joey Seidman.

Siedman took sixth in the 200 meters (27:61) and long jump (14-11), Lucas Shriver (5:28.95) was sixth and Joey Pollack (5:42.74) was 10th in the 1,600 and Mason Cadden placed ninth in the long jump with a leap of 14-02.5.

Standouts for the Revere girls team included eighth-graders Lila Copeland (second in the 1,600 in 5:25.84), Sarah Bentley (third in the 800 in 2:36.06 and fifth in the 1,600 in 5:42.21) and Elisa Kim  (fourth in the 200 in 29.01).

The 4×100 relay consisting of  Kim, Lara Doran, Kiara Bremner and Alondra Magana took third place.

Magana, a seventh-grader, was sixth in the 100  in 14.17, Noe Winter was seventh in the 400 (1:05.26), Elizabeth Scott was ninth in the 800 (2:45.66), Miranda Schriver was eighth in the 1,600 in 5:48.51 and the 4×400 relay of Winter, Bentley, Alicia Sigworth and Stella Collin finished fourth in 4:36.09.

— Steve Galluzzo