Because of the forecast for terrible weather Saturday, meet officials have cancelled the Burlington County Scholastic League meet and postponed the Camden County meet a week.

It will be the first time in at least half a century there is no BCSL meet.

The BCSL meet has been held every year – either as a stand-alone meet or scored out of the County Open – since at least the mid-1960s. After 10 years running concurrently with the Burlington County Open, it returned to a stand-along meet in 2002.

The Camden County meet was postponed a week, from 9 a.m. Saturday at Haddon Township to 9 a.m. next Saturday, May 20. That will be just three days after the Olympic Conference meet at Washington Township, which a lot of the same teams contest.

 

Kelly Yanucil is making the most of her senior year at Mount St. Mary’s in Emmittsburg, Md.

Yanucil, a Bordentown High School graduate, followed her second consecutive javelin win at the Penn Relays — she’s only the sixth woman in history to do that — with her third straight win at the Northeastern Conference Championships. She’s only the third to do that.

Yanucil threw 164-10 at the conference meet this past weekend at her home track in Emmittsburg, just shy of her PR and school-record 169-9 that she threw at the Penn Relays one weekend earlier on the fields between the Schuylkill Expressway and the Northeast Corridor Amtrak lines.

She’s only the third woman in NEC history to win three straight javelin titles, following Kelly Rahfon of St. Francis from 1998 through 2000 and another South Jersey product, Helen Wilks of Bridgeton and Monmouth, from 2009 through 2011.

She fell just short of her own meet record of 165-9 that she set as a sophomore at the 2015 NEC meet.

Yanucil, an All-America last year, is ranked 18th in NCAA Division 1 but is only two feet out of the top-10 in a very crowded group.

Yanucil is also ranked No. 20 among U.S. women and No. 13 among American collegiates.

Where did this come from???

Pennsville senior Robert Saulin is known mainly for his football prowess. He was an all-South Jersey pick and as a junior helped Pennsville win the South Jersey Group 2 title as a two-way defensive end/tight end and this past year reach the Group 2 finals again. He recently committed to Temple after originally committing to U. Conn.

But in track?

Saulin won the Salem County title as a sophomore, but according to the New Jersey Milesplit database had competed in just two meets over the last two year and had thrown the discus in only one of them — last year’s Bridgeton Relays.

So what did Saulin do on Tuesday? He threw the discus 159 feet, three inches to win the Salem County title by 20 feet at Schalick.

Would you believe it was a 23-foot PR?

Saulin’s previous PR was 136-7 from the Bridgeton Relays last year, the only meet he is listed as competing in the discus since the end of the 2015 season.

The 159-3 is the best throw by a Salem County discus thrower since Anthony Robertson of Penns Grove hit 170 feet at the 2014 Tri-County Conference meet. Before that you have to go back to 2007, when Pennsville’s John Clark threw 170-3.

That 159-3 throw is No. 3 in South Jersey this year, behind only Collingswood’s Adam Hunt (175-5 at the South Jersey Invitational) and Holy Spirit’s versatile Cade Antonucci (169-1 at Woodbury) and No. 9 on the 2017 New Jersey performance list.

This from a guy who had thrown the discus once in a major meet in the last two years! He’s obviously a tremendous athlete, but this was quite a performance.

If the Milesplit database is accurate, Saulin’s 2014 season ended after the South Jersey Relays, his 2015 season after the Tri-County meet and his 2016 season ended after the Salem County meet.

Safe to say his 2017 season is just getting started!

 

Salem senior Jonathan Taylor ran the fastest 100 meters in New Jersey this year Tuesday afternoon at the Salem County meet on Schalick’s track in Pittsgrove Township.

Taylor came within 9-100ths of his PR and Salem County record of 10.55, which he set at sectionals last year. He went on to win the Meet of Champions last spring with a 10.61.

On Tuesday, Taylor ran 10.64 to win his second straight Salem County title. He hasn’t lost a 100-meter dash since states his sophomore year, when he was DQ’d for a false start after placing fifth at sectionals.

The 100 was the only race Taylor entered. It was his first open 100 in anything other than a dual meet since last year’s Meet of Champs.

Taylor replaces Paul VI’s Antonio Tarantino atop the 2017 New Jersey 100-meter dash list. Tarantino ran 10.68 in a meet in Bucks County back in early April and has not participated in an open race in a major meet since. He did split 50.5 on Paul VI’s 1,600-meter relay team at Penn.

Taylor, a running back on Salem’s football team, plans to follow two other South Jersey running backs — Ron Dayne and current Eagle Corey Clement — to Madison, Wisc., to play football for the Wisconsin Badgers.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey 100-meter dash list

100-METER DASH
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
10.53 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2001
10.54 … Fabian Santiago [Oakrest], 2010
10.55 … Jonathan Taylor [Salem], 2017
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

Pennsville sophomore Arianna Smith lowered her 400 PR to 57.39 Tuesday as part of a triple win at the Salem County meet at Schalick High in Pittsgrove Township.

Smith set PRs in all three events she competed in.

Smith, who never broke 62 for 400 meters as a freshman, lowered her PR from 57.77 just three days ago at the Rowan Open to 57.39, fastest this year by a South Jersey girl and No. 4 in the state. It’s also fastest in the state by a Group 1 runner.

Smith also won the 200-meter dash in a personal-best 25.82 and the 100-meter hurdles in a PR 15.18 after running 18.30 in the trials.

Her previous hurdles in both were also set at Rowan the Rowan Invite — 15.33 in the prelims of the highs this past weekend and 27.11 in the 200 at Rowan last year,.

Pennsville placed second in team scoring to Schalick, which finished with a 134 1/2-77 margin of victory.

Full results from Schalick are here.

Chase Tolliver chased teammate David Benjamin to the finish line in the 110-meter hurdles final at the New Jersey Athletic Conference meet Sunday, and although he didn’t quite catch him, he ran a PR and teamed up with Benjamin on a 1-2 finish.

Benjamin, a graduate of Freehold Township, won the race in 14.40, but Tolliver was right there, running a personal-best 14.54 with a legal wind of 1.9 meters per second. Rowan freshman Jason Stefanski, the state Group 1 400 intermediates champ last year at Penns Grove, was fourth, giving Rowan 23 points in the one event on their way to their third straight title and 26th overall.

Tolliver, who ran high school track at Oakcrest, broke his PR of 14.65 set in the trials on Saturday. Before this weekend, his PR over the 42-inch barriers was 14.69 in the prelims of last years ECAC Division 3 championships in Westfield, Mass.

Benjamin is ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division 3 at 14.22 from a meet in March. Tolliver’s race earned him a No. 11 national ranking. Stefanski’s 14.88 made him the No. 4 freshman in Division 3.

Tolliver was second in the 55-meter highs at the 2013 indoor Meet of Champions and third in the 110 highs at the outdoor Meet of Champs for Oakcrest.

Shawnee graduate Connor Herr placed 29th overall Sunday in the Broad Street Run in 53:53, an average of 5:21 per mile for the 10-mile race down Broad Street in Philadelphia.

Herr, who ran collegiately at Cornell before a post-grad cross country season at Michigan, finished 16th among Americans and seventh in the 21-24 age group, where he was fourth among Americans.

Herr, an 8:53 steeplechaser in college, came through three miles in 14:43, five miles in 25:30 and seven miles in 36:43.

Another runner with Shawnee connections, former Shawnee runner and Shawnee coach Dana Palumbo, ran 1:05.02, placing 16th in the women’s 30-34 age division. That’s her fastest time ever in three tries at Broad Street.

One-time Lenape runner Brad Bisinger, who ran on Lenape’s Millrose-champion 4-by-4 team and was also a two-time Burlington County XC champ and a Northeast Conference XC champ at Monmouth, placed sixth in the men’s 35-39 age group in 57:20.

Bisinger, who had not run a race of any distance in seven years, placed 101st overall.

Former West Deptford High star Meghan McGlinchey was sixth in the 25-29 group in 59:39 and was the top overall South Jersey woman, placing 13th overall among all women.

Washington Township High School junior Sean Smithson placed fourth in the 16-and-under division in 1:02.29. One-time Woodbury High standout Geoffrey Shute ran 56:15 for fourth in the 40-44 age group. Joe Hegge of Delanco took seventh in the 45-49 division in 59:08.

The men’s 55-59 age group was loaded with South Jersey runners, with Jim Sery of Clarksboro, K.J, Laidig of Haddonfield and Mickey Rosati of Haddon Heights placing third through fifth in 1:03.15, 1:03.42 and 1:04.15.

Tom Fisher of Pennsauken ran 1:06.47 at 64 years old, second to Robert Reynolds of Flourtown in the 60-64 division. Seth Bergman of Glassboro placed fifth in the 65-69 division in 1:16.04.

Lou Dwyer of Cape May ran 1:25.57 at 73 years old, good for sixth in the 70-74 age group. Mike Salay of Mansfield Township won the 75-79 age group with a remarkable time of 1:31.03, more than two minutes ahead of second-place Jerry Gornish of Bala Cynwyd.

Other women’s results: Christina Fath of Sewell and Washington Township ran 1:11.53 for seventh in the 17-20 age group. Emelia Perry of Cherry Hill was ninth in the 21-24 division in 1:06.17. In 35-39 women, Rosemary Selby of Haddon Township and Shannon Oberg of Woodlynne placed seventh and eighth in 1:07.03 and 1:07.04, both in the top 100 women overall.

Sylvia Smith of Haddon Township took seventh in the 50-54 women’s age division in 1:15.21. Patricia Jordan of Longport was fifth in 55-59 in 1:13.03. In the 60-64 age group, Linda Lehn of Ocean City ran fifth in 1:20.13. Jean Smith of Vineland and Nancy Horrigan of Ocean City both placed in the 65-69 division, Smith fifth in 1:32.55 and Horrigan 10th in 1:39.40. Joy Hampton of Clarksburg placed second in 70-74 in 1:31.29, and Lorraine Cephus of Cherry Hill — 87 years old — finished third in the 80-and-over group in 3:27.15.

Other South Jersey men in the overall top 100: David Armento (Medford, 56:46, 86th), Adin Mickle (Somerdale, 56:48, 88th) and Miles Devine (Haddonfield, 56:50, 90th).

Other South Jersey women in the women’s top 100: Meghan Coyle (Bellmawr, 1:05.49, 59th), Noelle Bisinger (Audubon, 1:06.50, 82nd), Jill Pomykacz (Laurel Springs, 1:06.59, 89th)

Shai Mumford won a conference title in the 200-meter dash Sunday and destroyed his PR along the way.

Mumford, a Rowan University junior, won his second consecutive NJAC 200 title Sunday, and he did it in style, running 21.42 – a half-second PR!

Mumford, a graduate of West Deptford, had run 21.92 twice twice, both times last month — at a meet in Glassboro and a meet in Baltimore.

Mumford also anchored Rowan’s winning 400-meter relay team, which ran 41.68, and placed third in the 100 in 10.97 as part of a 1-2-3 Rowan sweep with Dior Hightower (10.82) and Julian Pratt (10.91).

In the 200, Mumford and Steven Jones went 1-2, with Jones also PRing with a 21.65. His previous PR was 22.18.

School record of 21.18 was set in the prelims of the 2012 NCAA Division 3 meet by Ali Ejaz, a Glassboro High graduate.

The times were aided by a 2.5-meters-per-second wind.

Mumford, a multiple sectional winner and Meet of Champions runner-up at 55 meters at West Deptford High (and also a 46-foot shot putter!!!), earned All-America status last year as part of Rowan’s fourth-place 400-meter relay team,

Rowan nearly tripled second-place Ramapo, finishing with a 332-118 edge in team scoring on its home track in Glassboro.

 

Oakcrest sophomore Brielle Smith bombed her way into the all-time South Jersey top 10 in the javelin Saturday night with a 145-foot heave at the Rowan Invitational.

Smith’s previous PR was a 135-1 when she won the state Group 2 meet last year. Her best throw this year had been a 134-6 at the Woodbury Relays.

Her throw is best by a New Jersey sophomore since Haddonfield’s Katherine Johnston threw 152-2 at the Haddonfield Invitational in 2010.

It’s the No. 2 mark in Atlantic County history behind only a 152-4 by Egg Harbor’s Jill Shanner for third place at the 2009 Nike Outdoor Nationals.

Here’s the all-time South Jersey list, with the new implement (which went into use in 2002):

• 160-  8 … Maria Jimenez (Vineland), 2012
• 152-  9 … Katherine Johnston (Haddonfield), 2012
• 152-  4 … Jill Shaner (Egg Harbor Twp.), 2009
• 148-  8 … Caitlin Cielo (Eastern), 2002
• 146-  7 … Victoria Imbesi (Our Lady of Mercy), 2008
• 145-  0 … Brielle Smith (Oakcrest), 2017
• 141-  6 … Lindsay Minch (Pennsville), 2010
• 141-  5 … Kelly Yanucil (Bordentown), 2013
• 141-  1 … Tumelo Nwanma (Vineland), 2016
• 141-  0 … Jocelyn McRae (Millville), 2006
• 140-  1 … Caitlin Ciello (Eastern), 2002
• 140-  0 … Melissa Lake (Cherokee), 2011
• 139-  9 … Heather Juhring (Kingsway), 2011
• 138-  8 … Kaela Schrier (Cherokee), 2016
• 138-  4 … Megan Saxvanderweyden (Pennsville), 2015
• 137-  6 … Mercedes Glover (Burlington Twp.), 2010
• 137-  6 … Alyssa Whipkey (Pennsville), 2015
• 137-  4 … Danielle Steff (Rancocas Valley), 2016
• 137-  1 … Ayana Culhane (Absegami), 2016
• 136-  9 … Julianna Foering (Rancocas Valley), 2016
• 136-  0 … Shamire Rothmiller (Glassboro), 2008
• 135-10 … Mary Wilks (Bridgeton), 2007
• 135-  6 … Danielle Still (Bishop Eustace), 2002
• 135-  2 … Nicolette Burns (Kingsway), 2013
• 134-  3 … Alexa Gardner (Hammonton), 2016
• 134-  0 … Niyah Cosme (Vineland), 2016
• 133-  4 … Leah Braidi (Sacred Heart), 2010
• 133-  3 … Javona Ford (Millville), 2010
• 132-10 … Nicole Bayer (Delran), 2014
• 132-  4 … Kelse Reese (Paul VI), 2011
• 131-  9 … Jeanne Berry (Delsea), 2012
• 131-  7 … Emily HIgbee (Holy Spirit), 2013
• 130-  9 … Lynn Brown (Buena), 2015
• 130-  0 … Angela Garofalo (Mainland Reg.), 2006

On the all-time state list, Smith is now sitting at No. 22. According to the MileSplit database, she’s the No. 4 sophomore nationally.

 

Her name is Jewel Ash, and her profile on New Jersey Milesplit is empty.

Not anymore.

Ash, a freshman at Eastern, stunned a loaded field Saturday night by winning the 100-meter dash at the Rowan Invitational in 12.07.

It was the first invitational race of her high school career.

Ash has been running well in dual meets and ran as fast as 12.1 in a dual meet against Cherokee, 24.6 in the 200 against Washington Township and 56.4 in the 400 against Lenape. Impressive times. She’s also has had some very nice results in both hurdles races.

But we all know to take dual meet times with a grain of salt.

This was 12.07. Fully automatic. With legit timing. In a race with some very fast girls.

In the prelims, Ash ran 12.44, which made her fourth-fastest behind Iyanla Kollock of Our Lady of Mercy (12.19), Maya Drayton of Cherry Hill East (12.32) and Shakira Dancy of Winslow (12.39).

Pretty good field. Kollock ran 7.00 indoors when she placed second in the Meet of Champions 55. Dancy ran 11.94 last year and won the state Group 4 meet.

But in the final, Ash outraced everybody.

In the final of her first major meet, Ash ran 12.07 to edge Pollock (12.10), Dancy (12.13) and Cherry Hill East sophomore Maya Drayton (12.20). The times were all PRs except for Dancy’s.

The times rank No. 3, 4, 5 and 7 in the state this year.

Ash’s 12.07 made her New Jersey’s fastest freshman since Williamstown’s Bria Mack ran 12.00 at states in 2014. Before that you have to go back to Audrey Wilson of Deptford, who ran 12.00 in 2009 and Olympic gold medalist English Gardner, also of Eastern, who ran 11.62 in 2007.