Mark Parlin

School: Esperanza High

Sport: Track and field

Event: Shotput and discus

Class: Senior

At only 6-feet-1 and 212 pounds, Parlin isn’t one of the more imposing looking field athletes. The only way he measures up to the many behemoths he competes against is in the final results. “He’s got good strength,” Esperanza assistant coach Bill Pendleton said. “But the others that are on the level he’s on are almost always bigger and stronger than he is.” No matter. At the Pasadena Invitational on Saturday, Parlin threw a personal-best 182 feet 11 1/2 inches in the discus and defeated the event’s state prep leader, 6-6, 270-pound Jeff Buckey of Bakersfield. The throw broke the meet record by nearly four feet. Parlin, who was an outside linebacker on Esperanza’s Southern Section championship football team last fall, also won the shotput with a throw of 61-3. Thursday, he recorded a personal-best 64-5 1/2 in the shot, the second best mark in the nation this year, in a dual meet victory over Los Alamitos.

Other top performers:

Beau Sheward, who had 17 kills in Newport Harbor’s four-game volleyball victory over then-No. 1 Marina.

Mike Terry, an El Modena runner who won the 800-meters race at the Pasadena Invitational in 1 minute 55.21 seconds and finished second in the 400 in 49.98.

Kyle Wilson, who faced the minimum 21 batters for Estancia in pitching a no-hit victory over Century.