The Sea Kings senior did not run, but he did fulfill the remainder of his prophecy, eclipsing his Battle of the Bay performance last season where he won three events.

Aguilar took the 110-meter hurdles (15.4 seconds), the 300 intermediate hurdles (42.6), the high jump (5 feet, 10 inches) and the triple jump (36-4 1/2 ).

Five other athletes were double winners on the day. Newport Harbor junior Nate Talbott took the shot put and discus with throws of 36-4 1/2 and 130 respectively. Talbott said it will be difficult to follow Bo Taylor, now at UCLA, who won a national championship in the discus and set a state-meet record in the event, as well, last year.

For the girls, the Sea Kings' Tiffany Liu won two events, the long jump (17-3) and triple jump (35- 1/2 ) and finished second in two others, following up her performance a week earlier, where she won four events against Fountain Valley.

Corona del Mar's Claire Schmidt won the 200 (26.9) and 400 (1:00.3) and junior Shelby Buckley won the 800 (2:15.9) and the 1,600 (5:08.8). Sea Kings Coach Bill Sumner said he lightened the load on his runners with the Irvine Invitational on Saturday. In the future Buckley might run the 3,200 as well.

"For some reason it wasn't like I wished I was out there," said Buckley who was cheering teammates throughout the race. "It might be like that later this season."

In the boys 3,200, Sea Kings junior Thomas Dialynas and Sailors sophomore Jake Dawson were tied with a lap remaining. Dialynas pulled away down the stretch for the victory by slightly over a second.

Both Newport Harbor Coach Eric Tweit and Sumner said the Battle of the Bay is a good way to get the competitive juices flowing at the start of the season.

"I was really happy, a lot of people did well," Tweit said. "Jessica Robson had a solid day and scored some points for us. I was really pleased with our short relay. We've got some really good freshmen. We're notorious for our slow starts, but we started fast this year which is nice to see. We are a head of what I expected."

"It's nice to win Battle of the Bay; track athletes look at it like just like every other team, like football and volleyball," Sumner said. "We're going to do well this year."

Nonleague100 -- 1. Townsend (CdM), 11.6; Walker (NH), 11.7; 3. Leyton (CdM), 11.8. 200 -- 1. Walker (NH), 23.9; 2. Leyton (CdM), 24.5; 3. Peterson (NH), 24.7.

Reader comments must be free of obscenity, profanity or content of a questionable nature. The Daily Pilot reserves the right to edit or delete reader comments that do not meet its publishing standards. .

This is cache, read story here