On Friday, we wrote about Eastern freshman Jewel Ash, who won the South Jersey Group 4 400-meter dash in 56.23.

What we didn’t have a chance to mention was the rest of the race, which was ridiculously fast in every spot.

Ash didn’t break the meet record — that belongs to Oakcrest’s Nijgia Snapp, who ran 54.9 hand-timed in 2009.

But the next nine runners across the line ran the fastest time for place in the history of the South Jersey Group 4 girls 400-meter dash!

So this race had the fastest second-place time ever, the fastest third-place time ever … all the way down to 10th place!

Let’s take a look at Friday’s race and the previous fastest times by place (keep in mind that Nance, Hickson and Allen all ran their times out of an “unseeded” heat, the sixth of seven 400 sections):

2017 Race                                                               Fastest Ever By Place

1) Jewel Ash [Eastern], 56.23                             Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 54.9, 2009

2) Nylah Perry [Cherry Hill East], 56.48          Chelsea Cox [Southern], 56.59, 2010

3) Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], 56.62              Carrie Vuong [C.H. East], 57.70, 2010

4) Shannon Lambert [Lenape] 56.87               Thalia Cooper [Kingsway], 57.98, 2014

5) Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley] 57.14        Latasha Taylor [Willingboro], 57.8, 1997

6) Sydney Nance [Rancocas Valley] 57.99       Saudia Saleem [Edgewood], 58.3, 1999

7) Ajax Alvarez, Ajae [Egg Harbor] 58.11        Melanie Edwards [Eastern], 58.80, 2014

8) Brianna King [Cherokee] 58.33                     Michelle Simmons [Southern], 59.20, 2012

9) Kami Joi Hickson [Wash. Twp.] 58.63          Mikaela Hammel [Southern], 59.25, 2012

10) Danielle Allen [Cherry Hill East] 59.24     Carly Pettipaw [Lenape], 59.46, 2012

There was a ridiculous bunch of super-fast 100-meter dash times in the various South Jersey girls meets Friday, and the activity left South Jersey sprinters ranked in the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 spots on the 2017 New Jersey list going into states.

It starts with Williamstown senior Bria Mack, who ran a New Jersey #1 11.65 in the trials of the South Jersey Group 4 meet at Egg Harbor. Mack’s previous PR was 11.68 from the finals of sectionals last year, which she won on the way to winning the Meet of Champions.

Mack went on to win the final with a slower time, but the 11.65 stands as the No. 11 time in state history and No. 5 in South Jersey history. It’s fastest by any New Jersey sprinter since Olivia Baker ran 11.64 in 2014 and fastest by a South Jersey girl since Olympic gold medalist English Gardner of Eastern ran 11.56 to place second behind Myasia Jacobs in the 2010 Meet of Champions.

In the South Jersey Group 3 meet at Delsea, Winslow junior Shakira Dancy also PR’d in the trials with an 11.71. That broke her previous PR of 11.89 from the finals of the Olympic Conference meet earlier this month at Washington Township. Dancy then won the final in 11.75.

Dancy’s time is No. 16 in state history and No. 6 in South Jersey history. It also breaks the school record of 11.73 set in 2014 by Torie Robinson, who now runs for Clemson.

Delsea senior Cecelia Gerstenbacher, the state Group 3 champ at 55 meters indoors, chased Dancy to the finish line in the Group 3 race and crossed the line in 11.89. Her PR coming into the meet was 12.05 from the Gloucester County meet at Delsea, but she PR’d twice Friday, first with an 11.90 in the trials.

The fourth South Jersey girl under 12 seconds Friday was junior Aliya Harrison of Sterling, who won the Group 2 100 at Delsea in 11.91. Harrison’s previous PR was a 12.22 from winning Group 2 states last year at Northern Burlington, so she lowered her time by a whopping 31-100ths of a second.

Gerstenbacher and Harrison now rank No. 17 and No. 18 on the all-time South Jersey list.

Four girls, four sub-12’s, four PRs!

Mack, Dancy and Gerstenbacher were the three-fastest girls from all the various sectionals Friday, according to NJ.milesplit’s merge, and Harrison was fifth.

The only other girl in New Jersey under 12 seconds was Amaya Chadwick of Union Catholic, who ran 11.90 to win the Parochial A race at Egg Harbor. Chadwick, the high hurdles runner-up at last year’s M-of-C, has a PR of 11.83 from the Union County meet earlier this month at Governor Livingston in Berkeley Heights.

Let’s take a look at the up-dated all-time state list! We put together a list of every girl in state history that’s broken 12 seconds fully automatic! Please list any corrections, additions and omissions in the comments section!

ALL-TIME NEW JERSEY 100-METER DASH LIST
11.42 Michele Glover (Willingboro), 1981
11.44 Myasia Jacobs (Paramus Catholic), 2010
11.49 English Gardner (Eastern), 2008
11.50 Wendy Vereen (Trenton), 1984
11.57 Patti Dunlap (Camden), 1979
11.57 M’elisa Barber (Montclair), 1998
11.61 Shavon Greaves (Lakewood), 2007
11.61 Amandi Rhett (Moorestown), 2000
11.62 Cathy (Cranford (Perth Amboy), 1977
11.64 Olivia Baker (Columbia), 2013
11.65 Aleah Williams (Montclair), 1999
11.65 Bria Mack (Williamstown), 2017
11.65 Ogechi Nwaneri (Columbia), 2005
11.68 Regina Trotter (Weequahic), 1991
11.70 Lori Dowers (Lawrenceville), 1979
11.71 Georgina Nembhard (Ocean Twp.), 2007
11.71 Shakira Dancy (Winslow Twp.), 2017
11.73 Torie Robinson (Winslow Twp.), 2014
11.74 Jenna Harris (Franklin Twp.), 2003
11.75 Bria Saunders (Parsippany), 2014
11.77 Aisha Morgan (Schalick), 1998
11.78 Shameka Speed (Bridgeton), 2003
11.80 Nicole Carmichael (Patterson Kennedy), 1995
11.80 Dominique Booker (Immaculate Conception), 2010
11.81 Denise Liles (Kingsway), 1984
11.81 Audrey (Wilson (Deptford), 2008
11.81 Haisha Bisiolu (Union), 2013
11.82 Amandi Rhett (Moorestown), 1999
11.82 Annie Johnson (Shawnee), 2012
11.83 Kaitlin Salisbury (Hawthorne), 2016
11.83 Amaya Chadwick (Union Catholic), 2017
11.84 Robin Taylor (Deptford), 1980
11.85 Dana Burnett Willamstown), 1996
11.86 Tylia Gillon (Jackson Memorial), 2008
11.87 Inshallah Saunders (Plainfield), 1993
11.87 Porshe Giddings (East (Orange), 2007
11.87 Jordan Simmons (Bishop Ahr), 2010
11.88 Denise Mitchell (Edgewood), 1983
11.89 Jasmine Carter (Columbia), 2010
11.89 Madeline Soto (University), 2014
11.89 Cecelia Gerstenbacher (Delsea), 2017
11.91 Darriea Pigott (West Orange), 1995
11.91 Kaitlyn Davis (North Brunswick), 2012
11.91 Chanel Smith (Piscataway), 2014
11.91 Aliya Harrison (Sterling), 2017
11.92 Gloria Jackson (Montclair), 1979
11.94 Tiffany Weatherford (Newark Science), 2000
11.94 Emily Carson (Haddonfield), 2013
11.94 Kimberly Lyles (Franklin Twp.), 2001
11.94 Sydney Hawkins (Phillipsburg), 2017
11.94 Katie DiFrancesco (St. John Vianney), 2017
11.95 Aliyah Taylor (Rancocas Valley), 2017
11.95 Danielle Beniulis (Jefferson Twp.), 2014
11.95 Melissa Harris (Neptune), 1998
11.96 Jamillah Nock (Wilson), 2004
11.96 Julia Rizio (Montville), 2011
11.96 Camille Campbell (Carteret), 2000
11.97 Carlene Cummings Engelwood), 1996
11.97 Iana Amsterdam (Newark Tech), 2013
11.97 Carlene Cummings (Dwight Morros), 1996
11.98 Staci Jordan (Orange), 1992
11.98 Symone O’Connor (Franklin Twp.), 2007
11.98 Kiara Lester (Deptford), 2014
11.98 Ciera Ismail (Schalick), 2013
11.99 La’Shonda Carter (Rahway), 2005
11.99 Ada Unachukwu (Marlboro), 2008

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY 100-METER DASH LIST
11.42 Michele Glover (Willingboro), 1981
11.49 English Gardner (Eastern), 2008
11.57 Patti Dunlap (Camden), 1979
11.61 Amandi Rhett (Moorestown), 2000
11.65 Bria Mack (Williamstown), 2017
11.71 Shakira Dancy (Winslow Twp.), 2017
11.73 Torie Robinson (Winslow Twp.), 2014
11.77 Aisha Morgan (Schalick), 1998
11.78 Shameka Speed (Bridgeton), 2003
11.81 Denise Liles (Kingsway), 1984
11.81 Audrey (Wilson (Deptford), 2008
11.82 Amandi Rhett (Moorestown), 1999
11.82 Annie Johnson (Shawnee), 2012
11.84 Robin Taylor (Deptford), 1980
11.85 Dana Burnett (Willamstown), 1996
11.88 Denis Mitchell (Edgewood), 1983
11.89 Cecelia Gerstenbacher (Delsea), 2017
11.91 Aliya Harrison (Sterling), 2017
11.94 Emily Carson (Haddonfield), 2013
11.95 Aliyah Taylor (Rancocas Valley), 2017
11.96 Jamillah Nock (Woodrow Wilson), 2004
11.98 Kiara Lester (Deptford), 2014
11.98 Ciera Ismail (Schalick), 2013

Including Rancocas Valley’s Aliyah Taylor, who ran 11.95 earlier this year but has been hurt since Penn Relays, that’s a ridiculous FIVE South Jersey girls who’ve broken 12 seconds this year.

The most in any previous year was three in 2013, when Robinson (11.91), Haddonfield’s Emily Carson (11.94) and Ciera Ismail of Schalick (11.98) all went under.

But for example, from 1985 through 1994, NO South Jersey girls ran faster than 12 seconds. From 1985 through 2006, a span of 22 years, only six did. On Friday, four did.

Also, from 1982 through 2016 — a span of 35 years — only Gardner and Amandi Rhett ran 11.72 or faster. On Friday, Mack and Dancy both did it.

 

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Kingsway senior Rachel Vick ran away with the South Jersey Group 4 1,600 Friday afternoon, lowering her PR a whopping seven seconds in the process.

Vick, who entered the race at Egg Harbor with a PR of 4:59.78 from this year’s Gloucester County meet at Delsea. She ran 4:52.88, so that’s a 6.9-second improvement in one race!

Vick led four runners under 5:05 and ran away from Niamh Hayes of Howell, who also went sub-5, finishing second in 4:59.69, some 35 meters back. Hayes was the indoor Meter of Champions 3,200 champ with a sensational 10:31.98.

But on Friday, Vick got the better of Hayes, recording the fastest time by a Gloucester County runner since legendary Michelle Rowen of Washington Township ran 4:43.16 for a full mile indoors at Easterns in Boston in 1983 (she ran 4:41.5 hand-timed in 1982 outdoors).

Vick’s time is No. 6 in South Jersey history and third-fastest ever by a girl from a school other than Haddonfield.

Vick broke Rowen’s meet record of 4:53.4, set in 1983.

All-Time South Jersey 1,600 Performance List
4:41.16 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2000
4:41.52i,y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1982
4:45.97 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2014
4:48.73 … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2010
4:49.11 … Renee Tomlin [Ocean City], 2005
4:52.88 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
4:52.95 … Caitlin Orr [Lenape], 2009
4:54.71 … Megan Hartman [Ocean City], 194
4:54.88 … Bridget Flynn [Holy Spirit], 2012
4:55.41 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2004
4:55.45 … Julianna Catania [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2016
4:55.66 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012
4:55.70 … Dina Iacone [Washington Twp.], 2012
4:55.83 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2016
4:55.95 … Keely Maguire [Triton], 2007
4:55.9h … Dawn Cody [Paul VI], 1982

Where does Vick rank in state history? This is an incredible list!

Let’s take a look!

All-Time New Jersey 1,600 Performance List
4:37.45 … Danielle Tauro [Southern Reg.], 2006
4:41.16 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2000
4:41.61 … Josette Norris [Tenafly], 2013
4:41.52i,y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1982
4:42.1h,y … Doreen Ennis [Nutley], 1973
4:43.92 … Ajee’ Wilson [Neptune], 2010
4:44.90 … Molly McNamara [Red Bank Catholic], 2011
4:45.36 … Liz Lansing [Randolph], 2013
4:45.57 … Claudia DiSomma [Sparta], 2010
4:45.97 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2014
4:46.28 … Melanie Thompson [Voorhees], 2009
4:46.32 … Sarah Disanza [High Point Reg.], 2013
4:46.4h … Margaret Scutro [Ridgewood], 1985
4:46.87 … Jill Smith [Southern Reg.], 2007
4:46.95 … Ariann Neutts [Roxbury], 2009
4:47.71 … Ashley Higginson [Colts Neck], 2007
4:47.7h,y … Jodi Bilotta [North Hunterdon], 1987
4:47.90 … Ciara Roche [Freehold Twp.], 2016
4:48.23 … Christina Cancan [West Windsor-Plainsboro South], 2016
4:48.48 … Kylene Cochrane [West Morris Central], 2014
4:48.62 … Katy Trotter [Red Bank], 2003
4:48.73 … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2010
4:48.82 … Catherine Pagano [Northern Highlands], 2014
4:49.11 … Renee Tomlin [Ocean City], 2005
4:49.7h … Karen Ahern [Bernards], 1985
4:49.88 … Marin Warner [Holmdel], 2014
4:50.0h,y … Christine Engel [Mount Olive], 1992
4:51.38 … Grace Dwyer [Nottingham], 2014
4:51.54 … Joelle Amaral [Randolph], 2011
4:51.56 … Julia Guerra [Indian Hills], 2015
4:51.5h,y … Joetta Clark [Columbia], 1978
4:51.63 … Stephanie Snyder [Randolph], 1992
4:51.86 … Amanda Trotter [Red Bank], 2003
4:51.89 … Laura Quintana [Bernards], 2013
4:51.7h,y … Meg Waldron [Bernards], 1983
4:51.99 … Dana Giordano [Bernards], 2012
4:52.1h,y … Janet Smith [North Edison], 1984
4:52.41 … Kaitlyn Mooney [Southern Reg.], 2016
4:52.44 … Emily Bushey [Vernon Twp.], 2013
4:52.46 … Jenn Ennis [Roxbury], 2006
4:52.65 … Lindsay Gallo [Howell], 2000
4:52.74 … Eve Glasergreen [North Hunterdon], 2015
4:52.7h … Stacy Bilotta [North Hunterdon], 1984
4:52.88 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
4:52.95 … Caitlin Orr [Lenape], 2009

Trivia question: Which runner on the above all-time New Jersey state list introduced me to legendary drummer Freddy Berman, who plays in Amos Lee’s band, earlier this month?

Salem’s Jonathan Taylor, the defending Meet of Champions winner, lowered his 100 PR from 10.55 to 10.49 Friday at the South Jersey Group 1 meet at Egg Harbor Township and moved into the No. 7 spot on the all-time South Jersey list.

Taylor ran his previous PR of 10.55 at last year’s South Jersey Group 1 meet. He missed the meet record of 10.47, set in 2009 by James Brown of Glassboro, by just 2-100ths of a second.

His time is fastest by any South Jersey sprinter in seven years, since Damiere Byrd of Timber Creek ran 10.36 in 2010.

All-Time South Jersey 100-Meter Dash List
10.35 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2000
10.36 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2010
10.44h .. Bill Gaines [Clearview], 1966
10.44h .. Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
10.45 … James Townsend [Holy Cross], 2003
10.47 … James Brown [Glassboro], 2009
10.49 … Jonathan Taylor [Salem], 2017
10.53 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2001
10.54 … Fabian Santiago [Oakrest], 2010
10.55 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2002
10.57 … Jamil Benjamin [Cumberland Regional], 2006
10.57 … Geoff Navaro [Absegami], 2008
10.58 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003
10.60 … Robert Page [Kingsway], 2008
10.60 … Marquis Bonds [Millville], 2007
10.60 … Shawney Kersey [Woodbury], 2009
10.62 … Kashif Moore [Burlington Twp.], 2007
10.63 … John Stone [Mainland Reg.], 1997
10.63 … Sabli Gonnet [Eastern], 2007
10.64 … Jeremy Cooper [Mainland Reg.], 1997
10.64h … Israel Cook [Cumberland Reg.], 1981
10.64h … Mike Parker [Salem], 1981
10.64h … Flipper Anderson [Paulsboro], 1983
10.64h … Chuck Carter [Eastern], 1985
10.65 … Dominique Irons [Haddon Heights], 2013
10.65 … Rocco Orville [St. Joe’s-Hammonton], 2015
10.65 … Dorian Bryant [Kingsway], 2003
10.66 … Bobby Orro [Pemberton], 1993
10.66 … Bruce Owens [Deptford], 2004
10.67 … Antraye Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003
10.67 … T.J. Johnson [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2009
10.67 … Kashif Miller [Haddon Heights], 2014
10.68 … Marquis Bonds [Bridgeton], 2007
10.69 … Robert Darby [Pennsauken], 2006
10.69 … Darnell Charles [Oakcrest], 2012
10.71 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 1997
10.72 … Reggie Morton [Oakcrest], 2012
10.72 … Sterling Pierce [Rancocas Valley], 2015
10.73 … Franklin Dallas [Woodrow Wilson], 1986
10.73 … Sean McPherson [Delsea}, 2010
10.74 … Adonis Jennings [Timber Creek], 2014
10.74 … Brian Reagan [Cherry Hill East], 2012
10.74h … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979
10.74h … Clem Leslie [Vineland], 1981
10.74h … Kevin Jones [Pleasantville], 1982
10.74h … Tony Jones [Edgewood], 1982
10.74h … Carl Brown [Eastern], 1983
10.74h … Kenny Reynolds [Willingboro], 1986
10.74h … Don Brooks [Pleasantville], 1988

Taylor is the first Salem boy to repeat a sectional win since high jumper Dwayne Robinson won the Group 2 high jump in 1989 and 1990.

Eastern freshman Jewel Ash, competing in her first sectional meet, won the 400 in 56.23 and the 400 intermediates in 1:02.30 on Day 1 of the South Jersey Group 4 meet at Egg Harbor Friday.

Ash’s 1:02.30 is fastest by a South Jersey freshman since Krystal Cantey of Winslow ran 1:00.74 as a freshman in 2006 when she won the Meet of Champions. The 56.23 is fastest by a South Jersey freshman since Ste’yce McNeil of Winslow ran 56.06 in 2012.

In the intermediates, only two New Jersey freshmen have run faster than Ash since Cantey, both in 2014 — Jenna Reid of Middletown North ran 1:02.29 and future Olympian Sydney McLaughlin ran a national freshman record 55.63.

Ash is the first freshman girl to even place in the top six in the South Jersey Group 4 intermediates since Carly Pettipaw of Lenape was fourth back in 2012.

Her time is 13th-fastest in South Jersey Group 4 sectional history and she becomes the No. 10 performer:

1:00.12 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow], 2005 [1st]
1:00.6h … Mandie Dulin [Shawnee], 1998 [1st]
1:01.23 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow], 2006 [1st]
1:01.49 … Carly Pettipaw [Lenape], 2015 [1st]
1:01.58 … Thaila Cooper [Kingsway], 2014 [1st]
1:01.8h … Tynisha Revels [Camden], 1996 [1st]
1:01.9h … Krystal Cantey [Winslow], 2003 [1st]
1:01.9h … Medea Ashton [Wash. Twp], 1999 [1st]
1:02.0h … Kemelia Campbell [Jackson], 1998 [2nd]
1:02.03 … Jackie Dim [Wash. Twp.], 2008 [1st]
1:02.1h … Mandie Dulin [Shawnee], 1997 [1st]
1:02.29 … Halima Diawara [Toms River North], 2014 [2nd]
1:02.30 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], 2017 [1st]
1:02.45 … Thaila Cooper [Kingsway], 2015 [2nd]
1:02.49 … Krystal Cantey [Wislow], 2004 [1st]
1:02.6h … Amanda Radminski [Wash. Twp.], 2003

Ash’s 56.23 in the 400 is fastest in the South Jersey Group 4 meet since Olympic gold medalist English Gardner, also from Eastern High, ran 55.29 in 2010.

Here’s the all-time SJ-4 performance list in the 400, with Ash trailing only four runners:

54.90 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2009 [1st]
55.15 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2008 [1st]
55.29 … English Gardner [Eastern], 2010 [1st]
55.5h … Mandie Dulin [Shawnee], 1996 [1st]
55.79 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow], 2006 [1st]
55.73 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow], 2005 [1st]
56.16 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow], 2004 [1st]
56.23 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], 2017 [1st]
56.3h … Beth Kalwinsky [Toms River North], 1997 [1st]
56.59 … Chelsea Cox [Southern], 2010 [2nd]
56.70 … Marlene Jack [Mainland Reg.], 2004 [2nd]
56.80 … Brittany Kott [Millville], 2008 [2nd]
56.85 … Olivia Jamison [Pennsauken], 2014 [1st]
56.88 … Shaquando Meylor [Pennsauken], 2005 [2nd]
56.8h … Krystal Cantey [Winslow], 2003 [1st]

Moorestown senior Brandon Outlaw dipped under the 47-second barrier Friday for the first time, moving into the No. 5 spot in South Jersey history with a 46.82 at the Central Jersey Group 3 meet at Bernards High School.

Outlaw, who hadn’t run a serious 400 yet this spring, broke his PR of 47.60 set at last year’s BCSL meet at Northern Burlington.

Outlaw’s time is only 20-100ths of a second off the Burlington County record of 46.62 set 26 years ago by Olympic gold medalist Lamont Smith. It’s just 80-100ths off the South Jersey mark of 46.02 set in 1984 by another Olympic gold medalist, Edgewood’s Dennis Mitchell.

Here’s the updated all-time South Jersey list:

• 46.02 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
• 46.62 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
• 46.67 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], 2014
• 46.77 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 2004
• 46.82 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], 2017
• 46.90 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], 2007
• 46.95 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012
• 47.03 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 1994
• 47.1h … Darron Outler [Lenape], 1984
• 47.2h … Levin Handy [Vineland], 1969
• 47.2h … Brian Bennett [Edgewood], 1985
• 47.48 … Ron Hillian [Eastern], 2002
• 47.3h … Curtis Mcintyre [Bridgeton], 1992
• 47.59 … Jade Smith [Camden], 2002
• 47.4h … Ken Moore [Overbrook], 1984
• 47.4h … Chuck Carter [Eastern], 1985
• 47.4h … Barry Douglas [Willingboro], 1993
• 47.64 … Keith Griffith [Florence], 2010
• 47.30 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 1998
• 47.76 … Carl Smith [Camden], 2005
• 47.88 … Shawney Kersey [Woodbury], 2009
• 47.88 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2011

Outlaw moved into the No. 14 spot on then all-time New Jersey list, just 14-100ths of a second out of the top 10. Here is the full sub-47-second list!

• 45.71 … Clayton Parros [Seton Hall Prep], 2009
• 46.02 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
• 46.28 … Zyaire Clemes [Trenton], 2013
• 46.34 … Ray Williams [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 2002
• 46.3h … Ron Freeman [Jefferson], 1965
• 46.43 … Najee Glass [St. Peter’s], 2011
• 46.62 … Gary Satterwhite [Rahway], 1985
• 46.62 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
• 46.67 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], 2014
• 46.68 … Lance Wigfall [East Orange], 2003
• 46.77 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 2004
• 46.81 … Andrew Valmon [Manchester Twp.], 1983
• 46.81 … Taylor McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2014
• 46.82 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], 2017
• 46.84 … Kevin Lyles [Franklin], 1991
• 46.87 … Ty Adams [Monmouth Reg.], 1993
• 46.88 … Shaquan Brown [JFK Paterson], 2005
• 46.90 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], 2007
• 46.94 … Bryant McCombs [Old Bridge], 2005
• 46.95 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012
• 46.95 … Adian Sanderson [Ewing], 2003
• 46.95 … Charles Cox [Monmouth Reg.], 2007
• 46.8h … Darrell Jeffress [Trenton], 1978

His time is No. 17 in the U.S. this year, with eight of the 16 faster times coming out of either Florida or Texas.

Outlaw won the CJ-3 race last year in 48.07. He was third as a sophomore with a 50.27 in the South Jersey Group 3 meet. As a freshman at St. Augustine, he placed eighth in the non-Public A sectional at Monsignor Donovan in 51.25.

Outlaw broke the Central Jersey Group 3 and overall Central Jersey sectional meet record of 46.95 set by Charles Cox of Monmouth in 2007.

The only faster 400 ever run in any sectional race was Mitchell’s hand-timed 46.4 at the 1984 South Jersey Group meet.

 

Cinnaminson recorded a rare 1-2-3 sweep  Friday, taking the top three spots in the South Jersey Group shot put at Delsea, with all three throwers surpassing 50 feet.

Junior Kamron Kobolak won the event, extending his PR from 54-3 to 55-6. Senior Mateus Medeiros was second at 50-9, improving on his PR of 48-7 by more than two feet. And senior Frank Stepnowski, who has already thrown as far as 53 feet, placed third at 50-2.

That’s 24 points in one event for the Pirates!

This is the seventh straight year Cinnaminson has had at least one medalist in the sectional shot put competition. Here are their medalists the last six years.

2016: Kamron Kobolak, 2nd [50-5]
2015: Ryan Addlesberger, 1st [55-11 3/4]
2014: Ryan Addlesberger, 3rd [50-11]
2013: Ryan Addlesberger, 4th [49-5 1/2]
2012: Sam Ekwonike, 5th [49-10 3/4]
2011: Ryan DiPascale, 6th [48-1 1/2]

And here’s a list of all the sectional shot put champions Cinnaminson has produced:

2017: Kamron Kabolak [55-6]
2015: Ryan Addlesberger [55-11 3/4]
2003: Duane Sanders [50-8]
1992: Craig Turner [51-1 1/2]

Oklahoma junior Jessica Woodard bombed a personal-best 185-10 on her third and final attempt in the discus at the NCAA West Regional preliminaries in Austin on Friday.

She is now the ONLY U.S. woman to throw 60-plus feet in the shot put and 185-plus feet in the discus this year!

WOW!!!!!

Woodard, a 2013 Cherokee High School graduate, was already sitting in ninth place and appeared to be heading to Eugene in the disc after two throws, but she made sure of it on her final attempt, adding nearly six feet to her previous PR of 179-11, set earlier this month at the Big 12 championships.

Woodard, the No. 15 seed, finished sixth. The top 12 qualify for nationals next month at Hayward Field. Woodard will compete in the shot put on Saturday.

Woodard just missed the school record of 186-1, set in 2010 by Brittany Borman at a meet in Denton, Texas.

Her mark is No. 17 among all U.S. women this year. Since nobody in the East Regional threw 170 feet, she’ll go into NCAAs as the No. 6 seed in the discus.

Woodard was sitting in sixth place after opening with a 176-2 throw, not far off her PR, and dropped to ninth place after fouling on her second throw. As it turned out, the 176-2 would have advanced her as the 11th-place finisher.

Woodard is ranked seventh among U.S. women in the shot with her PR of 60-3 at Big 12s.

Rowan junior David Benjamin from Freehold Township and senior Chase Tolliver from Oakcrest lead all qualifiers into the finals of the 110-meter high hurdles at the NCAA Division 3 track championships.

Benjamin ran 14.23 and Toliver 14.27 during Friday’s semifinals. No other hurdlers ran under 12.40. Benjamin ran within 1-100th of a second of his PR of 14.22, and Toliver lowered his PR from 14.34. The wind was a legal 2.0 meters per second – the limit for a race to be considered wind-legal.

This is the first time two hurdlers from the same school have gone under 14.30 at Division 3 nationals since 1997, when Tyrone Watkins and Alonzo Wiggins of Lincoln University in Oxford Township, Chester County, ran 13.95 and 14.16 for a 1-2 finish in the finals in LaCrosse, Wisc.

The nine-man final is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

In addition to the top two seeds in the 110 highs final, Rowan has the No. 1 seed in the intermediate hurdles finals in Anthony Salemo, the No. 3 seed in the 4-by-4, the No. 6 seed in the 4-by-1 final and the No. 6 seed in the 3,000 steeplechase in Kevin Veltre.