MISSION VIEJO — JSerra is officially a track and field powerhouse in Orange County.

The JSerra boys won the Orange County Track and Field Championships on Saturday at Mission Viejo High School for the first time in the 60-year history of the meet.

The Lions girls team won the meet for the second year in a row, marking the first time a boys and girls team from the same school won the event since 2016.

JSerra’s boys team won with 77 points. Mater Dei, which won the meet the past two years, finished second with 69 points and Beckman was third with 46.

The Lions scored 49 points in field events, including victories in the shot put and discus from Brendon See, who came in as the state leader in both events.

See earned field event athlete of the meet honors,

He threw the discus 197 feet, 8 inches, besting his previous personal record by more than five feet.

He threw the shot 61-1, 10 inches short of his state-leading mark.

Mater Dei’s Nate Frazier received the award for best sprinter in the meet for winning the 100- and 200-meter races, and running the anchor leg on Mater Dei’s 4×100 relay that finished first.

“We’ve had a really good kind of build to our season,” JSerra coach Chase Frazier said of the boys teams. “We’re pulling it all together. I think we can even be better. Last year we weren’t even on the map.”

Nate Frazier won the 100 in 10.83 seconds, edging Servite’s Alex Skalmowski, who took second and Devin Bragg of Los Alamitos, the county leader in the event, who finished third.

The Monarchs were in third place in the 4×100 when Frazier took the baton from Chuck McDonald and sprinted past runners from Servite and Beckman to win the race.

Mater Dei’s 4×100 relay team won in 42.38, ahead of Trinity League rival Servite, which took second.

“My mindset is do what you do best,” Nate Frazier said. “We won this event last year and I wanted to do my best to help us win it again. I wanted to get the fastest time in each event that I ran to get 30 points, the maximum points I could get. I came here and executed the game plan.”

Portola’s Rider Cooper of Portola surprised the competition by winning the 400 in a county-leading time of 48.21.

Cooper, a junior, had never run the 400 in a meet before Saturday and has been participating in track for about a month.

Cooper, who also plays baseball for Portola, said he usually chooses baseball if there is a schedule conflict between the two sports.

He had run a 49-second split in a 4×400 relay earlier in the season.

“I’m super competitive,” Cooper said. “If I knew that I could run a 49, I was going to push myself today and beat that and I’m very happy that I did.”

Although he was competing with an injured ankle, Mater Dei’s Brandon Gorski was a two-event winner, finishing first in the high jump and long jump.

Gorski matched his personal best in the long jump with a mark of 22-10.25 and cleared 6 feet, 4 inches in the high jump, coming up short of his county-leading mark of 6-7.

“I feel like the next two weeks, I’ll have time to rest and I think I should expect above 23’s (in the long jump) on a healthy ankle,” Gorski said.

Santa Margarita’s Roman Mendoza won the 300 hurdles in 38.41. He was coming off winning the Invitational Division 300 hurdles last week at the Arcadia Invitational with a state-leading time of 37.39.

Considering the drop-off in competition from Arcadia, Mendoza was pleased with his performance Saturday but said he wants to work on improving his finishing speed before the CIF-SS postseason meets.

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“I’m feeling pretty confident about all that,” Mendoza said.

Dana Hills sophomore Evan Noonan was named distance runner of the meet. He jumped out in front at the 200-meter mark and never looked back to win the 1,600 in a personal-best time of 4:10.22, the best in the county and five seconds better than his previous PR.

“Definitely happy,” Noonan said. “I Didn’t warm up well (in my last race). I fixed that today. Much better race today than it was three weeks ago. I just had to hit paces. That was the goal.”