Guam High senior Aaron Johnson, shown competing in the Far East championships in April, broke the island record in the long jump, leaping 6.83 meters during Thursday’s championship meet. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

UPPER TUMON, Guam – Led by hurdler Cameron Brantley and record-breaking long-jumper Aaron Johnson, Guam High’s boys track and field team captured its seventh straight island championship Thursday at John F. Kennedy High School.

But the Panthers’ girls saw their three-year title streak ended at the hands of George Washington. Paced by sprinter-hurdler Aleah Castro, the Geckos outpointed Guam High 141-108 in the girls standings.

Johnson and Brantley, both seniors, helped the Panthers boys outpoint JFK 158-114. And this may have been the top boys team in program history, according to longtime Panthers coach Joe Taitano.

“This is (my) best (boys) team by far,” said Taitano, 72, a 1970 JFK graduate who has taught and coached track and cross country at JFK and then Guam High since the late 1970s. “It was a much more balanced team and they were able to score in every event.”

In Thursday’s meet Johnson leaped 6.83 meters in the long jump, breaking the school and island high school records. The previous island record was 6.73. The region record is 7.05, set in 1997 by Mike Dixon of International School Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

During the Far East meet earlier this month at Yokota, Johnson won the long jump in a meet-record 6.75, breaking the 13-year-old record of 6.58 by Chaun Lynn of Nile C. Kinnick.

Johnson on Thursday also won the 100, 200 and 400 in 11.47, 23.27 and 50.59 seconds. Brantley swept the 110 and 300 hurdles in 15.51 and 40.18 seconds and helped the Panthers to the 1,600 relay title. Guam High’s boys also won the 400 relay.

On the girls side, it was just too much Castro. The George Washington senior captured the 100 in 13.06, the 200 in 26.72, the 100 hurdles in 17.14 and the 300 hurdles in 46.76.

The brightest light for Guam High’s girls was junior Brianni Soto, who won the 400 and helped the Panthers to a sweep of the 400 and 1,600 relays.