Persistent storms led to the postponement of the 2010 Santa Clarita Valley Track and Field Invitational on Saturday at Canyon High School.

The event has been rescheduled for 10 a.m. next Saturday at the same location.

Canyon head coach Paul Broneer said that the only events that were completed were the varsity boys and girls 4x1600-meter relays, the frosh/soph distance medley, the varsity pole vault and the boys frosh/soph high jump.

The Canyon boys won the 4x1600 relay and the West Ranch girls won the same race. Broneer said both times were meet records, but the official times were not available at press time due to an issue with the scorers.

Canyon’s Gillian Lopez won the pole vault at 10 feet, and teammate Stevie Kennedy-Gold finished second at 9-6.

Golden Valley also attended the event, and the girls varsity 4x1600 relay team finished second.

“That’s a team with three freshmen and one junior,” said Grizzlies co-head coach Chris Evans. “For girls that young to get out there and compete, we were really impressed by that.”

Golden Valley’s boys 4x1600 relay team finished third, although Evans said the team was holding out some of its top runners at the early meet.

It rained steadily for the first hour of the meet, and the precipitation really began to pick up around 11 a.m.

Broneer and the other Canyon coaches decided to postpone the remaining field events but take a break from the track events in hopes the rain would slow down.

Once they saw a weather radar that showed another storm cell was on its way, they elected to postpone the meet around 11:30 a.m.

Broneer knew rain would be a possibility but decided to try to get the meet in anyway.

“There was a 60-percent chance of rain,” he said. “I look at that as a 40-percent chance of no rain. I like those odds, but it didn’t happen that way.”

The remaining events will take place next week, although several of the teams that attended Saturday, including West Ranch, won’t be returning because they already have meets scheduled for next weekend. Golden Valley and Canyon will both take part again.

Broneer said the meet is open to any teams that wish to participate, even if they weren’t originally planning on it.

“Teams are invited to join even if they didn’t come this week,” he said.