Spring Valley

The driver sped away when officers tried to pull him over, starting a car chase that began and ended in El Cajon after making a circle through Spring Valley.

Or a sushi roll called the “Japanese Lasagna,” Korean corn dogs and affordable izakayas in the city’s more suburban Chinatown area in Spring Valley.

The newer Asian community, in the Spring Valley neighborhood, looks more like the San Gabriel Valley: Dense developments with vast parking lots cluster on a few main boulevards just off the 215 Freeway in the southwestern part of town.

“It was a hard decision for sure, a lot of confusion at first,” Valdez, a soft-spoken Spring Valley, Calif., native, said.

Saturday in the 200, Dezeurn ran against another freshman speedster, Cathedral’s Roosevelt Reuben, but Brandon Arrington of Spring Valley Mount Miguel took first in a blazing 20.76.