Pearl City’s Diamond Briscoe went into this season determined to narrow her focus to three events, but Saturday night’s OIA track and field championships at Mililani were just too big not to leave everything on the track.

Briscoe ran in five events, winning gold in the three individual races she entered to push her career haul to nine public school titles, including a team championship last year.

"The training has been different, more difficult than the other years," Briscoe said. "My coach wanted us to focus on our main events, so he adjusted our training differently."

Kaiser’s girls and Campbell’s boys took the team titles, but no star shone brighter than Briscoe.

Briscoe won the 400 meters for the fourth straight year on Saturday, won the 200 for the third year in a row and repeated in the 100. She also ran in two relays for the Chargers.

"It was difficult, but I just trust God to get me through," Briscoe said. "The team and I helped each other out. They are the ones, definitely."

Briscoe plans on only running the 200, 400 and a relay at states next week at Kamehameha.

Briscoe passed three girls in the second leg of the 4×400 and passed two girls in the anchor leg of the 4×100. The way Campbell ran those two events, there was probably nothing Briscoe could have done to stop them.

Campbell’s team of Kameron Smith, Shatres Ah Nee, Jade Savaiigaea and Tristen Dulay combined to go around the track in 48.38 seconds in the 4×100, breaking its own record of 48.69 in Thursday’s trials. Before this group, which won the event last year, came along, Radford held the record of 48.94 set in 2010. The Sabers wrapped up the event with a record in the 4×400.

Senior Ah Nee, who ran on both relays, said, "We have been talking about the state records since last year. Not just win, but break the record as well."

Briscoe’s running mate, fellow senior Maile Shigemasa, won two events on Saturday, the fifth and sixth gold medals of her career. Shigemasa won her third straight OIA gold in the 1,500 and took her first in the 800, but faltered in the 3,000 meters after the heavy workload to finish way back in 10th. She was top six in the event at states the past two years, but was injured at the beginning of the season and decided to narrow her focus to the two events she won on Saturday. She will not run the 3,000 at states.

"There was just not enough time for me to recover," Shigemasa said. "It’s disappointing, definitely, but I’d rather come in 10th than not finish a race."

There was no way she was going to keep up with Leilehua’s Mary Eccles anyway. Eccles broke Sophie Curatilo of Moanalua’s record of 10:52.08 by just a second. She had no idea what the record was until they announced it when she was lined up for her race.

"I was just nervous about my race, I guess," Eccles said. "When they announced it, all I thought was ‘Wow, that’s really fast.’ But when I was running, I felt really fast."

Kalani’s Raymond Alves swept the hurdles events, defending his OIA championship in the 300 after taking the 110. He finished fifth in the 300 in states last year, something that drove him to his performance Saturday.

"I felt a lot more confident after running it last year," Alves said. "I learned to control myself more. (States) disappointed me a lot. I thought I would do better, but at least I have this year."

Thomas Buntenbah-Leong of Kaiser doubled up with a win in the 100 and helped the Cougars take the 4×100. John-Paul Putegnat was the only winner for the Campbell boys, taking the 400 meters, helping Campbell to its first OIA boys championship. Kaiser had not won a girls crown since 1990.

Kaiser’s only win on the girls side was by Celine Lum in the pole vault early in the day, but the Cougars got a balanced enough effort to take the team title.

"These girls have been working hard since states last year," Kaiser coach Kevin Kruszona said. "They did the work, we just pointed them in the right direction and they were eager to work."