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PCC picks Olympians’ Gonia, Coyotes’ Dion

Gonia, a sophomore from West Hills High School, won the 5,000-meter run in 15:21.06 and the 10,000 meters in 33:13.37 in the Foothill Conference finals at Cuyamaca.

Dion, a sophomore from Steele Canyon High School, led a first- through fifth-place Cuyamaca sweep in the hammer throw at the Foothill meet with a winning 136-foot, 0-inch performance. The sweep enabled the Coyotes to win the conference team championship.

Dion also won the discus at 143-5, placed third in the javelin and finished fifth in the shot put.

Honorable mention went to Southwestern baseball player Jorge Dryjanski, Palomar baseball player Sam Jew and Mesa baseball player Allan Boyer.

Dryjanksi, a sophomore right-handed pitcher from Eastlake High School who is 7-1 on the season for the PCC champion Jaguars, beat second-place Palomar for the third time this season, scattering six hits over six innings in Southwestern’s 9-5 victory over the Comets.

Jew, a freshman right-handed pitcher from Lesmurdie Senior High School in Perth, Australia, pitched the Comets to a 3-1 win over the Jaguars by throwing eight innings of one-run ball.

Boyer, a freshman outfielder from Mt. Carmel High School, went 2-for-5, scored two runs, drove in a run and stole a base to help the Olympians down Grossmont 5-4.

PCC 2007-2008 MEN'S ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Jaguars’ Silvera, Comets’ Kennedy honored

Silvera, a sophomore from Monte Vista High School, won three events and placed second in another as she led the Jaguars to the team championship at the nine-school Foothill Conference finals.

Silvera won the 1,500 meters in 5:25.41, the 10,000 meters in 43:10.56 and the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 12:49.4. She also finished second in the 800 meters.

Kennedy, a freshman from Vista High School and a transfer from San Diego State University, won the 100-yard individual medley in 1:06.01, the 200 IM in 2:24.46 and the 100 backstroke in 1:05.64 in the PCC Championships at Palomar’s Wallace Memorial Pool. Kennedy also swam on four winning relay teams.

Honorable mention went to Grossmont softball players Ashley Mottola and Stephanie Byrne.

Mottola, a sophomore from Santana High School and the conference’s Pitcher of the Year, ran her record to 19-6 on the season as she helped lift the PCC champion Griffins to a 3-2 victory over Southwestern to end the regular season. She threw a four-hit complete game and didn’t allow an earned run.

Byrne, a freshman infielder-outfielder from Adolfo Camarillo High School in Camarillo and Grossmont’s leading hitter with a .427 average, went 2-for-4, stole a base and had the game-winning RBI against the Jaguars.

PCC 2007-2008 WOMEN'S ATHLETES OF THE WEEK