Live coverage of the women's 3000m at the 2018 TF Winter Championships. Fatima Cortes surges in the final 300 meters to take the lead, while Stephanie Yin wins the pentathlon with 2,930 points.
And moving on here, this is the women's 3,000 meters, 7.5 laps. Some of these girls already competed in the 1500 meters this morning, and some great talent out there as we're going to see a lot of these girls. Several already made CIF finals last year. 4x200 relay. The girls team doesn't match exactly on the uniforms. Oh, I see. Yeah, they chose to be my— So I've gone through our first 4 runners, about 76, 77 seconds. Pretty aggressive first lap there. As you can see, the field already starting to stream out. Victoria Gaetan of Great Oak Track Club, huge part of them going to the NXN meet once again this year, along with another state championship this past cross-country season. Diane Molina, a fine sophomore from Costa Mesa Track Club, vet there as well. She is in the red top, the black shorts right now. Gaitán Gracía Cortés, Molina, Fatima Cortes coming off that great 1500 meters earlier this morning. And our final results for the women's pitathlon are in. In 5th, Kimberly James of Monroe Track Club, 2,610 points. Moving up from 6th to 4th in that last event, All being the same, Stephanie Yin is going to win the championship here. Fatima Cortes, 2,915 points. Yin, 2,930 points. So here's your 5 points. So good to talk to you. Great effort. And we hope to see you again. And we hope that we can have Fatima on a little later on in the season. So trading partners, Japan and the Philippines, South Korea and China. They will be back next year, relatively speaking. Korea had a young team this year. Much of the decision make sure they know their legs. Hopefully they all have. Are they all getting hip numbers for the 4x2? Are they all getting hip numbers? Our young lady from Covina now backing down from the challenge. Meanwhile, Melina of Costa Mesa Track Club in the all red and black, she is there in 4th place. Siramora of Claremont, only a tenth greater in 5th. New record set last year, 10 minutes even, by Claire Graves. Fatima Cortes now moving into the lead. She sat very patiently this morning at 1500 meters before unleashing over the last 300, and she'll come in with one lap to go. 8:53, Graciela Pavlina, no back down whatsoever. And now Tori Gailan realizing that she did most of the pacing chores this entire race. No point in settling for third. And now the two teammates going after it here with 200 meters to go. Gaidon and Cortes, just like they did cross-country season, right up there towards the front in almost every single race. Graciela of Covinas still coming home with a great time here, she'll be in third. Meanwhile, Connecticut track girls, great out.
