The Rowan men doubled up second-place Stockton in winning their fourth straight New Jersey Athletic Conference indoor championship on Monday afternoon.

The Profs outscored Stockton 252-118. There are 18 events, so Rowan averaged 14 points per event.

What’s remarkable about all this is that Rowan didn’t use a single athlete in more than one individual track event!

Rowan scored at least eight points in 17 of 18 events – the Profs failed to score only in the pole vault — and they scored the most points in the high jump (25 points) and 400 (22).

Let’s take a look at how 252 points is possible! Remember, the NJAC uses a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 scoring system!

60-METER DASH [15 points]

Julian Pratt (sophomore, Camden) placed second in 7.05, and Steven Jones (senior, Kingsway), Jonathan Ramirez (senior, Memorial West New York) and Shai Mumford (junior, West Deptford) ran fifth, seventh and eighth with times of 7.19, 7.25 and 7.31.

200-METER DASH [17 points]

Mumford placed second in 22.12, with Anthony Salemo (junior, Ramsey) fifth in 22.66, Jonathan Ramirez sixth in 22.73 and Jones seventh in 22.76

400-METER DASH [22 points]

Francis Terry (freshman, Sterling) won in 47.99, a huge PR (read about his race here), with Chris Mesiano (junior, Schalick) [49.61], Justin Bishop (freshman, Mainland Regional) [50.28] and Jamil Jackson (senior, Highland) [50.38] placing fourth through sixth.

800-METER DASH [12 points]

Nick Neville (sophomore, South Brunswick) destroyed the school record (read about his race here) with a PR 1:52.63 for second place and Martin Maldonado (sophomore, Egg Harbor Township) finished fifth in 1:55.56.

MILE [9 points]

Kevin Veltre (senior, Brick Memorial) ran a big PR of 4:12.30 for second place (read about his race here) and Nick Nocco (senior, Southern Regional) broke 4:20 for eighth place in 4:19.83

3,000-METER RUN [16 points]

Dan “Fitch” Henry (junior, Clearview) won in 8:48.27 and Dylan Tyrrell (sophomore, St. Joe-Metuchen) placed third in 9:01.25.

5,000-METER RUN [14 points]

Matt Russo (sophomore, Westfield) and Jason Muermann (freshman, Pitman) placed second and third in 15:29.63 and 15:36.65.

60-METER HURDLES [16 points]

Bobby Cooks (senior, McArthur), the No. 2-ranked hurdler in Division 3, won in 8.04 after an 8.11 in the trials. Tyler Garland (freshman, Deptford) ran 8.28 in the trials and 8.58 in the finals but still placed third.

800-METER RELAY [10 points]

Garland, Ramirez, Jones and Mumford broke the school record and the meet record, winning in 1:28.27.

1,600-METER RELAY [10 points]

Mesiano, Bishop, Jackson and Terry ran 3:17.04 for the win.

3,200-METER RELAY [10 points]

Veltre, Maldonado, Nocco and Neville clocked 7:55.97 to beat the field.

DISTANCE MEDLEY [10 points]

Michael Onu (freshman, Cherry Hill East) led off, followed by Hunter Barbieri (freshman, Egg Harbor), Mitchell Baron (freshman, Hillsborough) and Jacob Francobandiero (freshman, Metuchen), and the Profs won the DMR with an all-freshman lineup in 10:39.96.

HIGH JUMP [25 points]

Harrison Escoffery (senior, Hackensack) won with a 6-8 1/4 clearance, with Jason Thobourne (freshman, Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology) [6-6], Earnest Daniel (freshman, Kingsway) [6-6] and Jeffrey Jon Tucker (senior, Eastern) [6-3 1/4] sweeping third through fifth.

LONG JUMP [17 points]

Tucker soared 23-1 1/2 for second, with Frankie Richard (freshman, Northern Highlands) [22-3] and Thobourne [21-5 1/2] fourth and fifth.

TRIPLE JUMP [17 points]

Escoffery jumped 48-2 for second, with Daniel taking fourth with a 45-6 3/4 leap and Richard fifth at 43-6.

SHOT PUT [17 points]

Senior Jacory Williams (senior, Highland) threw 45-11 for second, Dijon Goodall (junior, Sterling) was fourth at 45-6 1/4, Tariq Hills (freshman, Rancocas Valley) placed sixth with a 43-11 throw and William Cardona (senior, Livingston) added a point with an eight-place finish at 43-8 1/4.

WEIGHT THROW [15 points]

Cardona threw 50-7 3/4 to place second, and Williams and Goodall placed fifth and sixth with throws of 44-2 1/2 and 42-6 1/4.

The 84th annual Eastern States Scholastic Championships gets underway this afternoon at the 168th Street Armory in New York.

The first Easterns I attended was in 1986 at Jadwin Gym, and the official meet program that year had an all-time meet performance list that I kept and have been updating ever since.

So here’s the top 10 boys performances in Easterns history, including events that are no longer contested. If you find any errors or omissions, please supply all details of the performance in the comments section, and I will correct it immediately. I’ll post the girls list later today!

55-METER DASH (hand time)
Mike Kee (Camb. Ridge and Latin, Mass.), 1975, 6.0+
John Chambers (Neptune), 1974, 6.1+
Frank Kelly (Westfield), 1977, 6.1+
Steve Strother (New Rochelle), 1976, 6.2+
Jason Grimes (Overbrook, Pa.), 1977, 6.2+
Carlos Roberts (Franklin Twp.), 1978, 6.2q+
Adley Raboy (Maine-Endwell, N.Y.), 1976, 6.3+
Waiters (JFK, N.Y.), 1976, 6.3+
Ray Allen (Long Beach, N.Y.), 1977, 6.3+
Steve Curry (Franklin Twp.), 1977, 6.3+
Ken Diggs (Bayside, Va.), 1978, 6.3+
Jerry Blow (Nyack, N.Y.), 1978, 6.3+
Ron Singletary (Trenton), 1978, 6.3q+

55-METER DASH (FAT time)
Terrell Wilks (Hames Hillhouse, N.Y.0, 2007, 6.29
Luis Morales (Oxon Hill, Md.), 1982, 6.31+
Dennis Mitchell (Edgewood), 1983, 6.31+
Reginald Dixon (Plainfield), 2007, 6.31
Jermaine Brown (Medger Evers, N.Y.), 2009, 6.31
Maxwell Booker (Essex Catholic), 2001, 6.32
Darren Walker (Meade, Md.), 1980, 6.34+
Mitchell, 1984, 6.34+
Barney Borromeo (Nashua, Md.), 1986, 6.34+
Jamar Ervin (Camden), 2001, 6.34
Miles Shuler Foster (Long Branch), 2011, 6.34

200-METER DASH (run since 1994,)
Michael Blake (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.), 2011, 21.31
Adian Sanderson (Ewing), 2004, 21.34
Rai Benjamin (Mount Vernon, N.Y.), 2015, 21.37
Taylor McLaughlin (Union Catholic), 2015, 21.37s
Benjamin, 2015, 21.42s
Mike Abelard (Ramapo, N.Y.), 2008, 21.50
Darrell Bush (Woodbury), 2012, 21.53
Terrell Wilks (Hillhouse, N.Y.), 2007, 21.61
Todd Dutch (Washington Twp.), 2002, 21.62
Brian Bucknor (St. Benedict’s), 2008, 21.63
Tristan Walker (South Shore, N.Y.), 2005, 21.67
Wilks, 2007, 21.67s

300-YARD DASH (last run in 1993,)
Clinton Davis (Steel Valley, Pa.), 1983, 30.17
Tony Darden (Norristown), 1976, 30.3
Carlton Young (Central, Pa.), 1979, 30.50
Ty Adams (Monmouth), 1993, 30.80
Lamont Smith (Willingboro), 1991, 30.85
Derrick Love (Meade, Md.), 1989, 30.95
Mike Sullivan (Brockton, Mass.), 1979, 30.96
Gary Satterwhite (Rahway), 1985, 30.98
Ivan Jean Marie (Prospect Heights, N.Y.), 1991, 30.99
Reggie Harris (O’Neill, N.Y.), 1989, 31.06

400-METER DASH (run since 1994,)
Zyaire Clemes (Trenton), 2014, 47.13
Lance Wigfall (East Orange Campus), 2003, 47.20
Taylor McLaughlin (Union Catholic), 2014, 47.30
Rai Benjamin (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.), 2014, 47.31
Ray Williams (Scotch Plains), 2002, 47.45
Najee Glass (St. Peter’s-Jersey City), 2011, 47.54
Kedar Inico (Campus Magnet, N.Y.), 2001, 47.69
Melville Rogers (Transit Tech, N.Y.), 2002, 47.71
Shaquan Brown (JFK Paterson), 2005, 47.75
Adian Sanderson (Ewing), 2004, 47.76

600-YARD RUN (last run in 1993,)
Joe Toles (Uniondale, N.Y.), 1977, 1:10.6
Tony Tufariello (Hewlett, N.Y.), 1977, 1:10.7
Chris Person (Plainfield), 1978, 1:11.2
Ronald Coleman (Denbigh, Va.), 1984, 1:11.29
Darrell Jeffress (Trenton), 1978, 1:11.3
William Reed (Central, Pa.), 1986, 1:11.66
Darryl Bryant (McDevitt, Pa.), 1978, 1:11.7
Ted King (Westbury, N.Y.), 1984, 1:11.80
Paul Steele (Prospect Heights, N.Y.), 1986, 1:11.84
Keith Davis (Lincoln), 1970, 1:11.9

800-METER RUN (run since 1994,)
Paul Joyce (Clarkstown South, N.Y.), 2000, 1:51.98
Edward Cheserek (St. Benedict’s, N.J.), 2013, 1:52.11
Gabriel McLaren (Freeport, N.Y.), 2003, 1:52.12
Brian Scotland (St. Benedict’s), 2005, 1:52.47
Sean Tully (Syosset, N.Y.), 2005, 1:52.65
Jason Apwah (Roxbury), 2007, 1:52.76
Greg Gomez (Franklin), 2004, 1:52.86
Ken Sinkovitz (Bergen Catholic), 2003, 1:53.22
James Buser (Mahwah), 2014, 1:53.27
Justin Romaniuk (Suffern, N.Y.), 2000, 1:53.44

1,000-YARD RUN (last run in 1993,)
Mark Belger (Mepham, N.Y.), 1974, 2:12.3
Don Paige (Baldwinsville, N.Y.), 1975, 2:12.4
Roger Jones (Ramsey), 1978, 2:12.6
John Marshall (Plainfield), 1981, 2:12.6
Marshall, 1980, 2:12.71
Ramon Severino (Washington, N.Y.), 1976, 2:13.3
John Daly (Monsignor Farrell, N.Y.), 1974, 2:13.4
Rick Green (Seton Hall), 1980, 2:13.45
Tony Uzdavines (Williamstown), 1976, 2:13.7
Joe Swenson (Chaminade, N.Y.), 1976, 2:13.7
Jeff Van Wie (Suffern, N.Y.), 1983, 2:13.8
Todd Colas (Osbourn Park, Va.), 1980, 2:13.97

ONE-MILE RUN
Blair Mancini (North Penn, Pa.), 1981, 4:11.6
Brian Pettinghill (Chevarus, Portland, Maine), 1981, 4:11.8
Robby Andrews (Manalapan), 2009, 4:12.31
John Tuttle (Alfred-Almond, N.Y.), 1977, 4:13.2
John Trautman (Monroe-Woodbury, N.Y.), 1986, 4:13.71
Dan Predmore (Fairport, N.Y.), 1976, 4:13.8
Bill Ledder (Bishop O’Connell, Va.), 1976, 4:13.8
Tom Camien (Sewanhaka, N.Y.), 1977, 4:13.8
Jim Tyler (Norwood, N.Y.), 1981, 4:13.9
Chip Marsala (New Dorp, N.Y.), 1983, 4:14.13

TWO-MILE RUN
Edward Cheserek (St. Benedict’s), 2012, 8:54.82
Alberto Salazar (Wayland, Mass.), 1976, 9:01.1
Edward Cheserek (St. Benedict’s, N.J.), 2011, 9:02.40
Brian Dalpiaz (Sayville, N.Y.), 2002, 9:03.65+
Charles Alexander (St. Christopher, N.Y.), 1982, 9:04.17
Steve Murdock (Shenendehowa, N.Y.), 2007, 9:07.85
Kris Hardt (Whitman, Md.), 1984, 9:07.87
Jim Rosa (West Windsor-Plainsboro, North, N.J.) 9:08.32
Steve Ferri (O’Connell, Va.), 1977, 9:09.0
Chris Hallinan (Bernards), 1976, 9:09.1
Hakon DeVries (John Jay, N.Y.), 2003, 9:09.27

55-METER HURDLES (hand time)
Renaldo Nehemiah (Scotch Plains), 1977, 6.9+
Kerry Bethel (Bartram, Pa.), 1975, 7.0+
Paul Lankford (Farmingdale, N.Y.), 1975, 7.0
Paul Snipes (Essex Catholic), 1976, 7.1+
Jim Little (Moorestown), 1976, 7.2+
Dave Bannar (Rancocas Valley), 1976, 7.2+
Dudley Dorival (Ewing), 1993, 7.2+
Gary Ramsey (Neptune), 1976, 7.3+
Tony Smith (Norristown, Pa.), 1977, 7.3+
Mel Pinckney (Trenton), 1977, 7.3+
Gary Boyer (Horseheads, N.Y.), 1978, 7.3+
Greg Smith (Kennedy, N.Y.), 1978, 7.3+
Rodney Wilson (Bartrum, Pa.), 1978, 7.3+
Greg Hines (Walt Whitman, N.Y.), 1993, 7.3+

55-METER HURDLES (FAT time)
Rodney Wilson (Bartrum, Pa.), 1979, 7.17+
Sultan Tucker (Delsea), 1996, 7.23
Patrick Mann (Gar-Field, Va.), 1984, 7.27+
Calvin Holmes (Denbeigh, Va.), 1984, 7.28+
Anthony Acklin (Triton), 2001, 7.29
Nate Harley (Pleasantville), 1996, 7.29
Will Brown (Palmyra), 2006, 7.29
James Purvis (Brentwood, N.Y.), 1984, 7.30+
Danyne Brown (Camden), 1999, 7.31s
Dwayne Allen (Harrisburg, Pa.), 1980, 7.32+
Stephan Fletcher (Princeton), 1983, 7.32+
Jonathan Dickey (Penns Grove), 1985, 7.32+
Jeff Porter (Franklin), 2003, 7.32s, t

ONE-MILE WALK (held 1980-1984,)
Tim Lewis (Shenendehowa, N.Y.), 1980, 6:37.1
Jim Mahn (Bishop Gibbons, N.Y.), 1982, 6:38.7
Paul Schwartzburg (Mamaroneck, N.Y.), 1984, 6:39.2
Ed O’Rourke (Glen Cove, N.Y.), 1980, 6:44.1
Ed Kasch (Burnt Hills, N.Y.), 1982, 6:45.4
Pat Flannery (East Meadow, N.Y.), 1983, 6:45.6
James Eastwood (Port Washington, N.Y.), 1983, 6:47.2
Mike Stauch (Delaware Valley), 1982, 6:49.4
Peter Brandt (Pearl River, N.Y.), 1980, 6:50.1
Andy Liles (Monroe-Woodbury, N.Y.), 1981, 6:50.3

HIGH JUMP
Greg Gonsalves (Falmouth, Mass.), 1981, 7- 3
Milt Goode (Monmouth), 1979, 7- 2 ¼
Eric Taylor-Perry (Montclair), 1990, 7- 2
Mike Morrison (Willingboro), 2003, 7- 2
Tim Walker (Rogers, R.I.), 1975, 7- 1 ½
Rudy Reavis (New Rochelle, N.Y.), 1975, 7- 0
Desmond DaCosta (Overbrook, Pa.), 1980, 7- 0
Eldred Williams (Music-Art, N.Y.), 1981, 7- 0
Terrence Ferguson (Cherry Hill West), 1987, 7- 0
Tommy Thompson (St. John Baptist), 1993, 7- 0
Morrison, 2002, 7- 0
Adam Bergo (Westfield), 2008, 7- 0

POLE VAULT
Jordan Yamoah (Arlington, N.Y.), 2011, 16- 6
Adam Sarafian (Ocean Twp.), 2004, 16- 3 ¼
Bill Hartley (Southern Ocean), 1976, 15-10
Vince Reilly (St. Joseph-Metuchen), 1977, 15- 6
Don Heyburn (Cranford), 1980, 15- 6
Eric Richard (Bridgewater East), 1981, 15- 6
Chris Lockett (Woodbridge, Va.), 1986, 15- 6
Gavin McMahon (Fordham Prep, N.Y.), 2003, 15- 6
Brian Duggan (Monsignor Farrell, N.Y.), 2005, 15- 6
Casey DeCesare (Irvington, N.Y.), 2005, 15- 6
Dan Batdorf (West Deptford), 2008, 15- 6
Darwin Gibbons (Caravel Academy, Del.), 2009, 15- 6
Greg Gallagher (Iona Prep, N.Y.), 2012, 15- 6
Craig Hunter (Robbinsville, N.J.), 2013, 15- 6
Matt Fay (Iona Prep), 2015, 15- 6
Chris Rough (Westhill, Ct.), 2015, 15- 6
Derek Dibona (Warwick Valley), 2015, 15- 6
Ryan Herrera-Murphy (Iona Prep), 2015, 15- 6
Nick Marino (Hatboro Horsham), 2017, 15- 6
Colin Duignan (Fordham Prep, N.Y.), 2017, 15- 6

LONG JUMP
Dion Bentley (Penn Hills, Pa.), 1989, 26- 0 ¾
Marvin Ford (Uniondale, N.Y.), 1993, 25- 7 ¾
Carl Lewis (Willingboro), 1979, 25- 5 ½
Eric Metcalf (O’Connell, Va.), 1985, 25- 3 ¾
Ron Dickerson (State College, Pa.), 1989, 24-10 ½
Gerard Reynolds (Willingboro), 1990, 24- 6 ¾
Metcalf, 1984, 24- 4 ¾
Jason Grimes (Overbrook, Pa.), 1977, 24- 2
Boris Goins (Cardozo, Wash., D.C.), 1985, 24- 1 ½
Isaac Samuels (Kennedy), 1983, 24- 0 ¼
Justest Nance (Blair Academt), 2016, 24- 0 ¼

TRIPLE JUMP
Ronel Forde (Shaker, Va.), 2016, 51- 6
Gary Jones (Webster Schroeder, N.Y.), 2006, 49- 9
Craig Halyard (Ridgewood, N.J.), 1989, 49- 6 ½
Eric Bethea (Piscataway, N.J.), 2015, 49- 6 ½
Dodley Thermitus (Elizabeth, N.J.), 2017, 49- 5 ¼
Erik Clinton (Hope, R.I.), 1993, 49- 1 ¼
Sanya Owolabi (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.), 1977, 48- 9 ½
Steve Crouse (Colonie, N.Y.), 2008, 48- 9 ¼
Shawn Tittley (Seneca Valley, N.Y.), 1983, 48- 6 ¾
Dewey Sanders (Seton Hall Prep), 1986, 48- 6 ½
Antonio Davis (Walt Whitman, N.Y.), 1990, 48- 6 ½

SHOT PUT
Nick Vena (Morristown), 2011, 71- 3 ¼
Braheme Days (Bridgeton), 2012, 70- 8
Vena, 2009, 69- 2
Vena, 2009, 68-11
Days, 2013, 67- 8
Glenn DiGiorgio (Bayonne), 2002, 66- 2
Steve Adams (St. Joseph-Montville), 1970, 64- 8
Dan Krueger (Bayside, Va.), 1978, 64- 7 ¾
Bruce Heide (Dayton), 1975, 64- 5 ¼
Jim Gilligan (Toms River East), 1984, 64- 2 ½
Kevin DiGiorgio (Bayonne), 1997, 64- 1 ½
Adams, 1969, 63-11 ¼
DiGiorgio, 1998, 63-11
Jordan West (Rahwah), 2017, 63-10 ½
Aaron Echternacht (Hopewell Valley), 1991, 63- 6 ½
Jordan West (Rahway), 2016, 63- 2 ¾

WEIGHT THROW
Walter Henning (St. Anthony’s, N.Y.), 2007, 86-3 ¾nr
James Schwendtner (Shenendehowa, N.Y.), 2007, 63-11
Ryan Loughney (Tri-Valley, N.Y.), 2007, 61- 5
Dennis Aliotta (Monsignor Farrell, N.Y.), 2007, 56- 4 ½
Charles Winslow (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.), 2007, 56- 3 ¾
Garrett Grey (Tri-Valley, N.Y.), 2007, 55- 4
Jason DiBuono (New Rochelle, N.Y.), 2007, 54- 2 ¾
Matt Jimenez (Monsignor Farrell, N.Y.), 2007, 53- 9 ¼
Vincenzo Chiariello (Mons. Farrell, N.Y.), 2007, 53- 4 ½
Chris Radman (Archbishop Malloy, N.Y.), 2007, 52- 9

800-METER RELAY
Camden, 2004, 1:26.90
Campus Magnet, N.Y., 2001, 1:28.05
Camden, 2004, 1:28.07q
Vineland, 2004, 1:28.18
Trenton. 2008, 1:28.35
Union Catholic. 2008, 1:28.35
Lenape, 2000, 1:28.46
Camden, 2002, 1:28.82
Lawrenceville School, N.J., 2011, 1:28.77
Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 2011, 1:28.77

1,600-METER RELAY
Camden, 2001, 3:15.78
Vineland, 2003, 3:16.5*
Trenton, 2003, 3:17.0*
Pleasantville, 2007, 3:18.90
Boys and Girls, N.Y., 1977, 3:19.0+
Asbury Park, 1978, 3:19.1+
Fairmont Heights, Md., 1979, 3:19.2+
Chester, Pa., 1981, 3:19.3+
Winslow, 2003, 3:19.3*
Seton Hall Prep, 2005, 3:19.36

3,200-METER RELAY
Pleasantville, N.J., 2013, 7:45.55
Pope John XXIII, 2012, 7:47.00
Morris Hills, 2009, 7:47.81
Cherokee, 2012, 7:47..84
Roselle Catholic, 1970, 7:48.6+
Maria Regina, N.Y., 1975, 7:49.4+
South Brunswick, 2014, 7:49.89
Old Bridge, 2017, 7:49.96
Warwick Valley, N.Y., 2012, 7:50.68
Boys and Girls, N.Y., 2012, 7:50.86

SPRINT MEDLEY (held 1989,-1991,)
Elizabeth, 1991, 3:33.51
Newark West Side, 1990, 3:33.79
Franklin, 1990, 3:37.04
H.D. Woodson, Washington, D.C., 1990, 3:37.42
Clarkstown South, N.Y., 199 3:37.91
Central, N.Y. 1991, 3:38.72
South Shore, N.Y., 1991, 3:38.99
Franklin, 1989, 3:40.58
Don Bosco, 1990, 3:41.32
Bishop Loughlin, N.Y., 1991, 3:42.05

DISTANCE MEDLEY (held since 1971,)
West Windsor-Plainsboro North, 2009, 10:07.21
Fordham Prep, N.Y., 2016, 10:10.23
Haddonfield, 2010, 10:10.60
St. Benedict’s, 2012, 10:10.70
T.C. Williams, Va., 1979, 10:11.5+
Archbishop Ryan, Pa., 1976, 10:12.1+
Paramus Catholic, 1977, 10:13.0+
West Windsor-Plainsboro South, 2013, 10:13.60
Chaminade, N.Y. 10:14.02
Haddonfield, 2016, 10:14.31

KEY:
q – questionable performance
s – mark made in semifinals
does not include some non-winning marks before 1973
meet not held in 1973 or 1992
Schools in New Jersey Unless Otherwise Noted

Kevin Veltre ran the race of his life Monday, trimming five seconds off his mile PR and chasing the top-ranked miler in NCAA Division 3 to the finish line at the New Jersey Athletic Conference championships at the Sea Breeze facility on Staten Island.

Veltre, a Rowan senior and a steeplechaser outdoors, raced Ramapo’s Jeremy Hernandez stride for stride. Hernandez, who ran a D3-leading 4:01.83 in Boston last weekend, won in 4:10.18, with Veltre second in 4:12.30.

Veltre led the first 600 and was still within 3-10ths of a second with two laps to go before Hernandez closed with laps of 30.9 and 29.4 for a final 400 of 60.3. Veltre closed in a fast 62.1 but still lost ground over the final two laps.

Veltre’s previous PR was a 4:17.17 in late January at Ramapo, also racing against Hernandez. But before that, his mile PR was a 4:23.59 from a meet last winter, also at the Sea Breeze facility.

So Veltre lowered his PR more than 11 seconds in the span of about a month.

Veltre, a Brick Memorial graduate, ran within a second of the Rowan indoor mile record of 4:11.3 set 21 years ago by Sean Mick, a Delsea graduate.

Veltre and Hernandez separated from the pack quickly. By the 800, they had more than a one-second lead over the second pack, which was led by Dale Johnson, a West Deptford graduate now a senior running for The College of New Jersey.

Here’s how Veltre and Hernanez matched up lap by lap:
1/8 mile
Veltre 31.4, Hernandez 31.6
1/4 mile
Veltre 1:02.0, Hernandez 1:02.2
3/8 mile
Veltre 1:33.6, Hernandez 1:33.7
1/2 mile
Hernandez 2:05.9, Veltre 2:06.0
5/8 mile
Hernandez 2:37.8, Veltre 2:38.1
3/4 mile
Hernandez 3:09.9, Veltre 3:10.2
7/8 mile
Hernandez 3:40.8, Veltre 3:41.5
Mile
Hernandez 4:10.18, Veltre 4:12.29

And lap-by-lap splits:

Hernandez 31.6, 30.6, 31.5, 32.2, 31.9, 32.1, 30.9, 29.4
Veltre splits: 31.3, 30.6, 31.6, 32.4, 32.1, 32.1, 31.2, 30.9

As for Johnson, he finished third with a PR of his own at 4:16.19, fifth-best in TCNJ history indoors. Johnson ran his last five laps within the range of 32.1 to 32.4.

Johnson’s previous lifetime best was a 4:18.72 from his freshman year at TCNJ and a meet at Boston University. His previous season best was a 4:20.66, also in Boston.

Johnson had a 1,600 PR in high school of 4:20.46 at the 2014 indoor Meet of Champions. That was slightly faster than his outdoor PR of 4:20.69 from the 2014 South Jersey Invitational.

Veltre also led off Rowan’s 3,200-meter relay team, running head-to-head with Johnson, as a matter of fact. Veltre split 1:57.7 and was followed by Martin Maldonado [1:58.1], Nick Nocco [2:02.1] and Nick Neville [1:58.1] as the Profs ran 7:55.97 and edged TCNJ, which ran 7:56.46. Johnson split 1:58.3 opening up for TCNJ.

Nick Neville has been getting closer and closer, and on Monday he finally shattered a 36-year-old school record.

Neville gave Ramapo’s Jeremy Hernandez, a five-time All-America, all he could handle in the 800-meter run at the New Jersey Athletic Conference meet at the Ocean Breeze facility on Staten Island before finishing second in 1:52.63. Hernandez won the race in 1:52.02.

Their times are No. 4 and No. 11 in NCAA Division 3 this year.

But Neville’s time broke the school record of 1:53.57, set in 1981 when Rowan was known as Glassboro State by Tavo Rivera, who  won the 1977 Meet of Champions at 880 yards for Pemberton.

Neville’s previous PR was 1:53.02 outdoors at a meet last April at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He had lowered his collegiate indoor PR from 1:59.00 coming into this season to 1:54.32 in January at Sea Breeze and then 1:53.92 in February in a meet at Ithaca and finally to 1:53.60 last weekend, again at Sea Breeze.

Neville placed fourth in the 2015 Meet of Champions with a 1:54.21 for South Brunswick.

Rowan sophomore Martin Maldonado of Egg Harbor ran 1:55.56 for fifth place for Rowan. His previous season-best was a 2:00.87 and his indoor college PR was 1:59.76, so that’s more than a four-second improvement! Maldonado’s outdoor PR is 1:57.19 from last spring.

Maldonado’s high school PR was 2:00.31 at 2013 sectionals, and his indoor PR was 2:03.18 from a SJTCA meet at the Bennett Center in January of 2013.

There are PRs and then there are PRs.

Rowan sophomore Francis Terry, who brought a PR of 49.37 into Monday’s New Jersey Athletic Conference meet, won the 400-meter dash at the NJAC conference meet with a blistering 47.99 at the Ocean Breeze facility on Staten Island.

Terry’s time is No. 2 in NCAA Division 3 this year.

Terry ran within 13-100ths of a second of the meet record of 47.86 set in 2000 by Rowan’s Rich Dixon.

It’s more than a 1 1/2-second indoor PR for Francis and gets him within only 65-100ths of a second of Dixon’s school record of 47.34, which the Delaware native set in 1999.

Dixon, recruited to Rowan to play soccer by soccer coach Dan Gilmore, was a five-time national champion and 11-time All-America at Rowan, is a member of the Rowan Athletic Hall of Fame and is now a police sergeant in Evesham Township.

Terry, a graduate of Sterling, competed outdoors last year for Neumann University in Aston, where he won the CSAC conference title at 200 meters at Gwynedd-Mercy College but only placed fifth in the 400 in 51.06.

On Monday, just nine months later, he ran more than three seconds faster on a 200-meter indoor track.

Terry’s previous overall 400 PR was 49.37 at the 2016 Camden County Championships at Haddon Township, when he placed second to Haddonfield’s Luke Colehower with a time of 49.37.

His previous indoor PR was a 49.72 for fifth place at the 2016 Easterns at the Armory.

His previous college PR was a 49.55 from the Great Dane Classic, also at Ocean Breeze, back in January. His fastest 400 time last year running for Neumann was 51.07 at a meet at George Mason.

Second place in the race is also a remarkable story.

Terry won by 10 meters over second-place Olivier Paul of Stockton, an Oakcrest graduate, who was second in 49.30.

Paul also recorded a huge PR. His high school PR was 51.88 at a SJTCA meet at the Bennett Center and his college PR before Monday was a 50.77 at a meet at the Armory in January.

 

Natalie Cooper of Moorestown, Madeleine Tattory of Delran and Emma Bean of Mainland Regional, three College of New Jersey juniors, swept the top three spots in the 5,000-meter run Monday afternoon at the New Jersey Athletic Conference championships at the Ocean Breeze facility on Staten Island.

Cooper and Tattory repeated their 1-2 finish of last year, although both ran much faster. Bean improved from fifth last year to third this year. All three ran indoor PRs.

Cooper ran 18:05.82, Tattory 18:09.69 and Bean 18:18.21 to sweep the top three sports and deliver 24 points to TCNJ in the first final of the meet. Another TCNJ runner, Olivia Shenkman, placed fifth, making the Lions’ total 28 points in the 5,000.

Cooper’s previous indoor 5,000 PR was an 18:29.73 at last year’s conference meet. Tattory’s previous indoor PR was an 18:18.90 at a meet on the same track last month. Bean’s previous indoor PR was 18:28.94 at a meet in Boston last weekend. She also surpassed her outdoor PR of 18:22.99 from a meet at Widener last spring.

This is the third straight year Tattory has placed third in the indoor NJAC meet 5,000. She was second to a runner from Stockton as a freshman, when Cooper was fourth.

The distance team of junior Connor Melko, senior Nick Hutchinson, junior Andrew Massaro and senior Brian Hutchinson combined for 41 points in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200, and Bishop Eustace rolled to its fourth straight state Parochial B title Sunday at the Bennett Center in Toms River.

Eustace outscored second-place Mater Dei of Middletown Township, Monmouth County, 69-59 1/2 in a two-team race. No other school had more than 24 points.

Eustace’s four-season winning streak is tied for second-longest among South Jersey schools in indoor state meet history. Willingboro won five straight  in Groups 3 and 4 from 1986 through 1990. Haddonfield also won four straight, from 2000-2003.

Senior Nick Hutchinson won the 3,200 in 9:48.57 and was second in the 1,600 in 4:34.05. Junior Connor Melko won the1,600 in 4:26.94 and took third in the 800 in 2:05.56. Junior Andrew Massaro placed in both the 800 and 1,600 (2:06.96 for fourth, 4:40.87 for sixth), and senior Brian Hutchinson ran fifth in the 3,200 (10:28.95).

That’s 41 points in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200.

But that group got some help in the field. Junior Mason Domino (12-0) and senior Luke LaRosas (10-6) scored 14 points in the pole vault, going second and third. And shot putter Andrew Sobocinski threw 41-6 1/2 for second place.

Eustace also scored in the 1,600-meter relay, with four juniors placing third in 3:49.55 — Manik Dhawan, Domico, Nick Massaro and Sean May.

Paul VI speedster Antonio Tarantino won his first indoor state title Sunday, running a PR 6.45 to win the Parochial A 55-meter dash at the Bennett Center in Toms River.

Tarantino took 1-100th of a second off his PR of 6.46, which he ran in the trials at the New Jersey Catholic Track Conference Wayne Letwink Memorial Winter Championships at the Ocean Breeze track earlier this month.

Tarantino broke the meet record of 6.50 set in 2014 by Jordan Jimmerson of Union Catholic.

The Paul VI senior led all qualifiers with a 6.54 in the trials before lowering that to 6.45 in the final.

He’ll go into the Meet of Champions as the No. 2 seed behind Mario Heslop of Franklin Township, who ran 6.39 to win the state Group 4 title.

Tarantino won the state Parochial B 200-meter dash title last spring, but this is his first indoor state championship.

His time is fastest in South Jersey this year and No. 4 in the state and equals the No. 13 in South Jersey history.

ALL-TIME S.J. 55-METER DASH LIST
6.30 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2001
6.31 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
6.34 … A.J. Bunton [West Deptford], 2006
6.36 … Kenny Reynolds [Willingboro], 1986
6.37 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979
6.38 … James Brown [Glassboro], 2009
6.39 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2009
6.41 … Chris Church [Millville], 2007
6.42 … Thomas Walls [Wilson], 2006
6.42 … Dominique Irons [Haddon Heights], 2013
6.43 … George McKey [Willingboro], 1982
6.43 … Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2013
6.45 … Paul Wheeler [Willingboro], 1983
6.45 … Sherron Bullock [Camden], 2004
6.45 … Rob McGriff [Camden], 2006
6.45 … Antonio Tarantino [Paul VI], 2018
6.46 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 1996
6.46 … Darnell Charles [Oakcrest], 2012
6.46 … Kashif Miller [Haddon Heights], 2014
6.47 … Anthony Jones [Edgewood], 1982
6.47 … Darren Ford [Vineland], 2004
6.47 … Reggie Morton [Oakcrest], 2012
6.47 … Curtis Fitzpatrick [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
6.47 … Jonathan Taylor [Salem], 2016
6.48 … Gary Gordon [Willingboro], 1995
6.48 … Fabian Santiago [Oakcrest], 2012
6.48 … Caleb Williams [St. Joe’s-Hammonton], 2015
6.48 … Clayton Crosse [Washington Twp.]. 2016
6.49 … Louis Smith [Burlington Twp.], 1997
6.49 … Michael Bolling [Willingboro], 2001
6.49 … Martin Booker [Pennsauken], 2016
6.49 … Ryquell Amstead [Millville], 2014
6.50 … Jamaal Harris [Palmyra], 2002
6.50 … Zachary Clarke [Camden], 2008
6.50 … Shawney Kersey [Woodbury], 2007
6.50 … Rasheed Grandy [Absegami], 2010
6.50 … Bobby DeMarco [Holy Spirit], 2008
6.51 … Thomas Hampton [Clayton], 2018
6.51 … Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2013

Rider sophomore Asia Young, a Pleasantville native who competed scholastically for Holy Spirit, tied her career-best mark Sunday, winning the long jump title at the Metropolitan Atlantic Athletic Conference championships at the Armory with a jump of 19-8 3/4.

Young has competed in three MAAC conference championships and has won the long jump in all three. She jumped an identical 19-8 3/4 last year to win the indoor meet, then won the outdoor meet last spring with a 19-7 1/2.

She’s the only 19-footer in school history indoors or outdoors.

Young’s high school best was 19-2 3/4 from Parochial B sectionals at Central Regional in 2016. She was a two-time state champion in the long jump and also won a state title indoors in the 400.

Young will compete in the triple jump later Sunday.

The Winslow girls scored 65 points in winning the state Group 3 indoor title, and they did it with just six girls scoring. That’s crazy!

Winslow’s three stars did most of the damage: Senior Flora Ahiarakwe won the 400 in 57.67 and placed third in the 55 in 7.37 after a 7.28 in the trials, senior Shakira Dancy was second in the 55 in 7.32 and third in the 400 in 58.55 and junior Tionna Tobias was second in the hurdles in 8.32 after an 8.28 in the trials, third in the high jump at 5-4 and sixth in the 55 in 7.46.

That’s 45 points just from Ahiarakwe, Dancy and Tobias!

Senior Ciarra Johnson was second in the shot put with a 40-foot throw and sophomore Janeya Hammond ran fifth in the 400 in 58.71, and Dancy, Hammond and Ahiarakwe joined sophomore Nylah Perry to run 3:57.36 and win the 1,600-meter relay.

Winslow out-scored second-place Allentown of Monmouth County, 65-24. The 65 points are the most ever in Group 3, and the 41-point margin of victory is the largest ever. Winslow set both previously in winning the 2014 title 60-20 over West Morris Central of Chester, Morris County.

The title is the eighth indoors for the Winslow girls. They won Group 4 in 2003 and have won Group 3 in 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. They also won the 1984 title in Group 4 with Denise Mitchell as Edgewood.