A Bakersfield mother of two who took up competitive cycling nine months ago after an injury ended her marathoning career died Sunday while competing in a bicycle race outside Yosemite National Park.

Authorities reported that Suzanne J. Rivera, 47, was part of a group of riders racing down a winding road in the Mariposa County Women's Stage Race when she slammed into a support vehicle parked on the shoulder.

EUGENE, Ore. -- Shafter High graduate Anna Jelmini earned her second title of the weekend at the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships on Sunday, earning a win in the women's discus a day after winning the shot put.

Jelmini, a sophomore at Arizona State who also won the Pac-12 (then Pac-10) discus title as a freshman, had a top mark of 193 feet, 4 inches, on her second of six throws. She fouled once, and the shortest of her five legal throws was 186-4. The next farthest throw was 180-9 (Alyssa Hasslen, Arizona).

In just a week's time Justin Schweitzer went from being an unhappy race car driver to one on the complete opposite end of the spectrum.

A trip to Victory Lane was all it took.

As a runner, Chris Schwartz seemed to have everything going his way his final two years at Foothill High.

He won the state CIF Division I cross country championship as a junior and was the boys 1,600-meter state champion as a senior. Schwartz accepted a partial scholarship offer to Cal Poly, a solid track and cross country program.

Bakersfield Speedway's slick racing surface was difficult for some drivers to maneuver around Saturday night.

Lee Jensen wasn't one of them.

Three local softball teams won't have to leave home for the Central Section playoffs.

The section commissioners announced Saturday in Porterville that Garces (Division II), defending champion Ridgeview (D-III) and Taft (D-IV) earned top seeds in their playoff divisions. All three have byes through Wednesday's first round and won't play until Friday's quarterfinals.

Currently we are on a four-day (five games) road trip in Augusta, Ga. I have really enjoyed exploring Greenville, S.C., the past week, but I also really looked forward to getting back on the road and seeing what this area of the United States has to offer.

Exploring cities, especially in the East, that have so much history is a lot of fun. The East Coast is filled with years and years of history. The French-Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, The American Civil War and many battles against Native American tribes have all been fought on the land that we are driving across each day.

EUGENE, Ore. -- Shafter High graduate Ana Jelmini won the women's shot put Saturday at the Pac-12 Track Championships.

Jelmini, a sophomore at Arizona State, had a mark of 56 feet, 43⁄4 inches, which came on her fifth of six throws.

For some, such as defending champion Chris Horner, winning the Amgen Tour of California is the main objective.

For others, the focus in on a stage win, helping a teammate garner a stage win or maybe coming away with the King of the Mountain (best climber) jersey.

It competes for attention with the world's second most prestigious bicycle race, but sporting news media around the world wouldn't dare miss the Amgen Tour of California.

And they definitely won't want to skip Stage Five, coming to Bakersfield Thursday.

Maybe it's a good thing so many of Bakersfield's most influential people take cycling seriously. Why else would they spend so much time and energy (and money) helping organize a bike race for the greater good?

From the fundraising end to race logistics to negotiating with various government officials, well-known locals have contributed greatly to making sure that Stage Five of the Amgen Tour of California goes off without a hitch Thursday in Bakersfield.

Three-time Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer will compete in the 2012 edition of the race when it kicks off today in his adopted hometown of Santa Rosa, but the cyclist said he will not be battling for another win.

Leipheimer suffered a broken fibula when he was hit by a car during a training ride in Northern Spain on April 1.

HUMBLE, Texas -- David Charleston and Brandon Washington each had fourth-place finishes Friday for Cal State Bakersfield's men at the Great West Conference Track and Field Championships at Houston Baptist University.

Charleston was fourth in the high jump with a mark of 6 feet, 23⁄4 inches. Washington was fourth in the long jump at 21-91⁄2. Charleston was ninth in the long jump (20-31⁄2).

Baseball

Mira Monte 12, Golden Valley 2

The Southeast Yosemite League Swimming Championships were supposed to be a tuneup of sorts for Laura Meert.

The Garces senior was just hoping to post times consistent with her best ones of the year and planned to wait until next week's Central Section Division I finals to let loose.

The Ridgeview High boys swim team won all but one event and the Ridgeview girls won three events Friday as the Wolf Pack swept the South Yosemite League championships at McMurtrey Aquatic Center.

The victories wrapped up overall league titles for Ridgeview as well, which combines dual meet records with the league meet results.

CYPRESS -- Mt. San Antonio College scored six runs in a wild fourth inning to come from behind and beat Bakersfield College 10-5 in a first-round game of a four-team Super Regional softball playoff at Cypress College.

BC coach Sandi Taylor and All-State catcher Kara Frankhouser were ejected from the game and will not be allowed to participate in today's noon game when BC faces Glendale.

DALLAS -- Carroll Shelby, the legendary car designer and champion auto racer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died. He was 89.

Shelby's company, Carroll Shelby International, said Friday that Shelby died a day earlier at a Dallas hospital.

Kern County, southern San Joaquin Valley

LAKE ISABELLA: Crappie have been fair with some decent catches of fish to 2 pounds, but the action is all in 10 to 25 feet of water as the lake level comes up. The shore bite is tougher than the boat action. Most of the cats are 2-4 pounds, and Kissick Cove has been particularly good. The trout remain pretty fair off the points and at the auxiliary dam. Also quite a few bass being caught and the bluegill bite is also just starting.

Stockdale has had its fair share of baseball and softball success over the years, but for surprise factor alone, it'll be hard to top this spring.

The Mustangs clinched outright Southwest Yosemite League title in both baseball and softball Thursday with victories over Independence.