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Jones Plans to Make Run for It : High school track: Thousand Oaks sprinter says she’ll be going “all out” today in Sacramento.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Spectators at today’s Golden West Invitational at American River College in Sacramento might be in for a treat as Marion Jones of Thousand Oaks High is expected to put the pedal to the metal for the first time this season in the 100 and 200 meters.

Jones, the three-time defending state champion in the girls’ 100 and 200, has national season-leading marks of 11.28 seconds and 23.00 in those events as well as in the long jump (21 feet 7 inches), but Thousand Oaks Coach Art Green says she has yet to go all out in the sprints.

All season long, Jones had been getting ready to “cut loose” in the finals of the state championships, but when that meet was initially canceled Saturday because of rain--and then rescheduled for next Saturday--Golden West became the first meet where the North Carolina-bound senior would lay it all on the line.

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“I’m ready to go,” Jones said of Golden West. “I’m excited about it.”

Jones, who ranks first in the 200 (22.58), second in the 100 (11.14) and third in the long jump (21-7) on the all-time national high school list, heads a list of seven athletes from the region who have entered the seniors-only meet.

Margarito Casillas of Hoover (3,200), Jeff Nadeau of Monroe (high jump) and Ty Gaines of Palmdale (triple jump) will compete in the boys’ meet.

Cheaza Figueroa of Quartz Hill (100 high hurdles, triple jump), Karen Bockel of Nordhoff (3,200) and Crystal Brownlee of Westlake (shotput) will take part in the girls’ competition.

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Casillas, who has a personal best of 9 minutes 4.14 seconds in the 3,200 meters, will face a top-notch field that includes Webb Shelley of Westwood (Ariz.) High, the national leader at 9:00.65.

Nadeau leads state athletes and is ranked third in the nation with his City Section record of 7-2 1/4 in the high jump, and Gaines is the state leader in the triple jump with a best of 50-1 3/4.

Figueroa is aiming to become the first girl from the region to bound more than 40 feet in the triple jump without the aid of an illegal wind.

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Bockel, an exchange student from Germany, has a personal best of 10:48.0 in the 3,200.

Brownlee will try to rebound from last week’s disappointment in the state preliminaries, when she put the shot only 38-9 3/4--and failed to qualify for the finals--after entering the meet as the No. 2 performer with a best of 45-11 1/2.

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