Only two athletes from the girls’ track team will race at the Central Coast Section semifinals this Saturday after qualifying in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League meet last Friday at Los Gatos High School.

Senior Elizabeth Scott and junior Emily Yeates will advance to CCS trials. Scott qualified after bypassing the automatic qualification time of 11 minutes, 43 seconds, when she ran a time of 11:38 to take seventh place in the 3200-meter event. Yeates qualified by placing fourth out of the top six finishers in the 100-meter event when she ran a time of 12.83 seconds.

“We had expected more, as far as some of the girls to qualify for CCS,” head coach Jason Fung said. “I had expected a couple more to qualify. There was a strong contingent of distance runners this year, so it also made qualifying harder.”

Fung had expected junior Erika Hoglund in the jumping events and senior Sylvia Price in the 300-meter hurdle event to qualify for CCS.

“I think everyone did their potential to what they could have done,” Fung said. “Sometimes certain events are stronger in certain years, so that’s what happened this year.”

At CCS trials, Fung hopes that the athletes will continue to try their best.

“You only can expect for the girls to run their best times,” Fung said. “It does get harder, definitely with the girls taking it to the next step to CCS…everyone wants to win and move on to finals.”

CCS trials will be 2 p.m. Saturday, May 23, at Gilroy High School.