Deptford graduate Tyler Garland easily won his first conference title for Rowan University Sunday, running 14.37 to win the 110-meter high hurdles at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at Stockton University in Galloway Township.

Garland finished more than half a second ahead of second-place Daniel Pfueger of The College of New Jersey, who was second in 14.99.

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Garland, a sophomore, is ranked fourth nationally in NCAA Division 3 in the 110 highs with his 14.30 from a meet back in March in Orlando, Fla., in much better conditions.

https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2572/2019_NCAA_Div._III_Outdoor_Qualifying/2019/o?gender=m

Garland will race in the 400-meter intermediates later Sunday. He’s ranked No. 25 nationally. Senior teammate Chris Mesiano from Schalick is the No. 1 seed and ranked fourth nationally at 52.96 behind three runners from different Ohio colleges.

Garland is a transfer from Rowan College Gloucester County, where he was a JUCO All-America in the 110 highs.

Senior Hannah Vendetta and sophomore Alyssa Sanders, Rowan teammates and former Pitman High School teammates, finished 1-2 in the 1,500 Sunday in the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at Stockton University in Galloway Township.

Vendetta won the race in 4:47.01, Sanders was second in 4:50.02 and Moorestown graduate Natalie Cooper, a senior at The College of New Jersey, was third in 4:51.10, giving South Jersey a sweep of the top three places.

The conference title is Vendetta’s fourth. She also won the mile indoors the last two years and the 1,500 last spring.

The second-place finish is Sanders’ best ever in a conference meet. He was third in the 1,500 last spring.

Vendetta and Sanders ran at Pitman for legendary Matt Elmuccio, who won three Meet of Champions titles at 800 and 1,600 meters for Westfield in the late 1990s and anchored Westfield to the 1995 Penn Relays DMR title as a sophomore with a 4:11 anchor split.

Is she a hurdler who also long jumps or a long jumper who also hurdles? Tionna Tobias is making that question very difficult to answer.

Tobias over the last couple weekends has dominated both events, winning the long jump at Woodbury with a season-best 18-9 1/2 and then winning at Rowan with an 18-7 1/4. She ran 14.29 in the hurdles trials at the South Jersey Open Friday night, then ran a season-best 14.24 to win the finals

Tobias is No. 3 in the state in the hurdles, behind Atlantic City’s Claudine Smith, who ran 14.04 at the Carifta Trials in Jamaica last month, and Ramapo’s Grace O’Shea of Ramapo, who was third in the Meet of Champions last spring.

She’s No. 2 in the long jump in New Jersey, behind only Williamstown’s Karissa Watson, who popped a 18-10 1/2 at the Rowland Relays last weekend.

Tobias and Smith hooked up in a titanic battle in the hurdles finals at Rowan, with both being clocked in 14.24.

The photo cameras actually had Tobias winning by 6-1000ths of a second — 14.232 to 14.238 for Smith. Eastern soph Jailya Ash wasn’t far behind in a personal-best 14.36.

Tobias, Smith and Ash ran the three-fastest hurdles times at the Rowan Invite since 2012, when Ste’yce McNeil set the meet record of 13.79. Interesting that Tobias was Winslow’s eighth Rowan Invite hurdles winner in the last 15 years, following Krystal Cantey in 2005 and 2006, McNeil from 2010 through 2012, Gabrielle Bennett in 2015 and Brittany Preston in 2016. You can add Edgewood’s Pam Richardson in 2000 as well, since Edgewood became Winslow.

In the long jump, Tobias came up just short of her own meet record of 18-9 1/4 from last year but she did become the first girl in meet history to win the long jump two years in a row. Her 18-7 1/4 was two inches better than Millville freshman Bryanna Craig, who set a huge PR of 18-5 1/4.

Next for Tobias and the Winslow girls powerhouse is the Camden County Championships Saturday at Haddon Township.

Rancocas Valley graduate Danielle Steff of Monmouth bombed a 161-1 to win the javelin Saturday at the MAAC Championships at her home track in West Long Branch.

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title is the second in a row for Steff, who threw 160-7 to win last year’s title.

She’s the first Monmouth woman ever to win back-to-back conference javelin titles going back to Monmouth’s days in the NEC.

Steff PR’d last month with a 163-1 in a meet at Moravian College in Bethlehem. That’s only a foot off the school record of 164-4, set in 2014 by Kelsey Reese. No. 2 and 3 in Monmouth history — Steff and Cinnaminson graduate Faith Blamon (162-7 in 2017) — are from South Jersey and more specifically from the Burlington County Scholastic League.

Steff wasn’t far off the meet record of 164-3, set in 2014 by Reese.

Steff opened with a 150-0 that would have been good enough to win. She threw 143-4 and then fouled to finish the trials, then opened the finals with throws of 141-0 and 136-0 before hitting the 161-1 on the final throw of the competition.

Monmouth swept the top three spots with Stephanie Roones second and Kristin Krier third. In all, Monmouth went 1-2-3-5-7-8 in the event.

Good luck finding team scores anywhere — they don’t seem to be on the results web site — but the Monmouth women seem to have a huge lead going into Sunday’s final events.

Matter of fact, the MAAC web site is a disaster. As of noon Sunday they still hadn’t updated Saturday’s team scores. There is no order of events to be found. There is a meet program, but it’s from 2018 and doesn’t include an order of events.

Rowan freshman Rakim Coyle was already in the lead. But he had something special saved for his final jump of the long jump competition Saturday at the New Jersey Athletic Conference championships at Stockton University in Galloway Township.

Coyle, a freshman from Wildwood Catholic, had jumps of 22-6 1/4, 22-7 1/4 and 22-6 1/2 in the trials  and went into the finals leading sophomore teammate John Owens of West Windsor-Plainsboro, who had a 22-4 1/2 and a 22-1.

Another Rowan freshman, Cheo King from Woodbury, sat in third with a 22-1 1/2. King has a PR of 22-9 1/2 from his win at the Group 1 sectionals at Egg Harbor two years ago.

Coyle fouled on his first two jumps of the finals, but Rowan still sat 1-2-3. Then, on the final jump of the day, Coyle sailed 23-6, the best jump of his life.

Coyle had a 23-1 3/4 last spring in the Meet of Champions, but his best jump as a collegian before Saturday was 22-3 1/2 at a meet at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., last month.

Then he popped the four best jumps of his college career and the four best jumps of the competition Saturday. He’s the first freshman to win the NJAC long jump competition in 11 years.

Top-seeded George Alexandris of Montclair State, the NCAA Division 3 championships record holder (and a one-time Rowan athlete), scratched.

Coyle’s 23-6 ranks No. 17 in NCAA Division 3 so far this year and second-best among freshmen, behind only Kevon Bouaud of SUNY-Cobleskill, who has a 23-10 to his credit. Alexandris is No. 1 in the country at 24-9 3/4.

Coyle’s 23-6 is the best jump by a Rowan freshman since 2008, when Kyle Hayes from Point Pleasant Boro High went 24-0 3/4 with a legal 0.8 wind at the New Balance Qualifying Challenge at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island in Manhattan.

In all, Rowan went 1-2-3-5-6 in the long jump for 31 team points, with sophomore Frankie Richard of Northern Highlands fifth at 21-11 1/2 and sophomore Zaire Weaver of Passaic County Tech sixth at 21-9 1/2.

Going into Sunday’s second day of activity, Rowan leads Stockton 76-51. The Profs from Glassboro in Gloucester County are seeking their fifth straight team title after The College of New Jersey had won 17 straight.

Princeton senior Carly Bonnet ran the fastest intermediate hurdles time by.a Princeton woman in 36 years Saturday.

Bonnet, a Haddonfield graduate, ran a big personal-best of 59.12 in the qualifying rounds of the Heps, the Ivy League Championships, advancing to Sunday’s finals. She’s the second-fastest qualifier, behind only Maya Miklos of Harvard, who ran 58.26.

The final is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday at Princeton’s Weaver Track.

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Bonnet’s previous personal-best was 1:00.01 at a meet at Princeton last month. Before that it was 1:00.60 at Ivy’s last year. So she’s lowered her PR by about 1 1/2 seconds in the last few weeks.

Bonnet’s time is second-fastest in Princeton history, behind only Sally Anderson, who ran 58.19 at the 1983 NCAA championships at Robertson Stadium on the University of Houston campus.

Bonnet, racing in lane 2, won the first of two semifinal races. Miklos won the second section.

Bonnet’s high school PR was 1:02.90, which she ran when she won the state Group 2 title at Egg Harbor as a junior in the spring of 2014.

Two weeks ago, Bonnet ran a personal-best 56.63 in the flat 400, a sign that she was ready for a breakthrough in the intermediates.

Rowan junior Darielle Cross ran the No. 1 time this year in NCAA Division 3 in the 100-meter hurdles in the trials of the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at Stockton University in Galloway.

Cross’s 14.03 time was wind-legal, with a 1.1 meters-per-second breeze at her back. She ran in lane three in the third of three heats, advancing to the final at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Cross broke the Rowan school record of 14.12 set 25 years ago by Rona Henderson when the school was known as Glassboro State.

She also broke the meet record of 14.17 set in 2010 by Priscilla Senyah.

Cross lowered her PR from 14.39, which she ran in the finals at the NCAA Division 3 nationals in La Cross, Wisc., last year, when she placed eighth and earned All-America honors. Her previous season-best time was a 14.50, which she ran last month in a meet at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa.

Cross, senior teammate Aspen McMillan of South Brunswick, who ran 14.56, and freshman Ashley Edwards of Sayreville, who ran 15.03, gave Rowan the three-fastest qualifiers.

Curiously, Senyah, the former meet record holder, is also a graduate of Sayreville High.

Cross also ran a personal-best 12.41 in the 100 and advanced to the final as the fifth-fastest qualifier. Her previous career-best was a 12.43 at last year’s NJAC meet.

McMillan is a four-time conference hurdles champ and NCAA runner-up indoors. She has a PR of 14.28 from the 2016 conference meet at Stockton. Her best time this year is 14.42.

Edwards only ran the 100 highs twice previously as a collegian with a college-best time of 15.82 in a meet in March in San Diego. Her PR was a 15.70 last spring as a senior at Sayreville in a meet at JFK Iselin. Either way, huge breakthrough race for her.

Edwards also placed second in the long jump with a 17-11 1/2 jump on her first attempt.

Stockton sophomore Keith Holland destroyed his pole vault PR with a 15-7 victory Saturday at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Meet at his home track, Larry James Stadium in Galloway Township.

Holland’s previous PR was 15-0 from last year’s NJAC meet at the College of New Jersey in Ewing. Holland is now only 6 1/4 inches from the school record of 16-1 1/4 set in 2006 by Jake Owens.

Holland led a 1-2-3 sweep for Stockton, with all three vaulters setting PRs.

Holland has competed in the pole vault in four NJAC meets as a collegian and won all four — indoors and outdoors both last year and this year.

On Saturday, he passed the first five heights — 10-6 through 12-5 1/2 — and cleared 12-11 1/2 on his first attempt.

He had a miss at 13-5 1/4 but then cleared 13-11 1/4 on her first try.

The only vaulters over 13-11 1/4 were Holland and teammates Qudratullah Qadiri, a junior decathlete from Ocean Township, and Matthew Carter, a freshman from Oakcrest.

At 14-5 1/4, Carter cleared on his first attempt, beating his PR of 14-1 1/4 from a meet at Widener last month, to take the lead, Holland cleared on his second try and Qadiri on his third.

That Stockton trio moved up to 14-11, where Qadiri took the lead by clearing on his second, shattering his personal-best of 14-9. Holland cleared on his third, and Carter went out, leaving Holland and Qadiri moving onto 15-7.

Holland skied over the bar on his first try and Qadiri missed three attempts, giving Holland the win and giving Stockton a sweep of the top three spots.

Holland had the bar moved up to 15-9 3/4 but after 10 attempts at lower heights he took three misses.

Qadri had set his pole vault PR of 14-9 as part of a decathlon last spring.

Carter’s high school PR was a 13-6 at last year’s South Jersey Invitational. Qadiri’s scholastic PR was 14-0, which he did twice in the spring of 2016, at the East Coat Relays at Randolph and the Central Jersey Group 3 sectionals at Northern Burlington.

After five of 21 events, Stockton led Rowan 48-45 in men’s team scoring.

The girls 400 at the Rowan Invitational Friday night was ridiculous.

Winslow Township senior Nylah Perry won the race in 56.38, leading three girls under 57 seconds, seven under 58 seconds, 15 under 59 seconds and a whopping EIGHTEEN girls under a minute.

Perry, Millville freshman Bryanna Craig and Paul VI junior Aliya Rae Garozzo ran the No. 2, 3 and 4 times in the state this year, with Craig second in 56.62 and Garozzo third in 56.88.

In the latest New Jersey MileSplit 400 rankings, 21 of the 24-fastest times in the state this year came from this race.

Let’s take a look at the 14 South Jersey girls who broke 59 seconds:

1st, *Nylah Perry, Winslow Township, 56.38
Perry ran within half a second of her PR of 55.97, which she ran as a freshman at the Meet of Champions while attending Cherry Hill East. Perry’s 56.38 is No. 1 by a South Jersey girl this year and No. 2 in New Jersey behind Kaira Brown of Kent Place School in Summit, the indoor Meet of Champions winner, who ran 55.38 in a meet in Potomac, Md., last month. Her time is fastest at Rowan since Faleesha Dowe of Penns Grove won the 2013 race in 56.25.

2nd, ***Bryanna Craig, Millville, 56.52
Craig’s previous PR was a 58.14 indoors at Ocean Breeze back in December. Craig, who excels in virtually every event, had never run a competitive 400 as a high schooler outdoors. Her time is No. 1 among New Jersey freshmen this year and third-fastest ever by a Cumberland County quarter-miler, behind Nadia Davy of Bridgeton, who ran 54.70 at the 1999 Meet of Champions, and Britney Mott of Millville, who ran 56.30 in 2009.

3rd, *Aliya Rae Garozzo, Paul VI, 56.88
Garozzo, third in the Meet of Champions last year in the Intermediates, can also run a pretty good flat 400. Her previous PR was 58.42 at states last year, and the 56.88 is a school record.

4th, Maya Drayton, Cherry Hill East, 57.42
Drayton, the first senior across the finish line, ran just under her PR of 57.81 from states last year. Her time is second-fastest by a Cherry Hill East sprinter, behind only Perry.

5th, *Janeya Hammond, Winslow Twp., 57.59
Hammond focuses on the intermediates as well and rarely runs the flat 400 outdoors. Her previous PR was a 58.60 from indoor sectionals.

6th, **Sheriyah Nutt, Rancocas Valley, 57.78
Nutt recorded a big PR, lowering her previous personal best of 58.94 from states last spring. Her time is second-fastest this year by a South Jersey sophomore, behind only Absegami’s Diamond McLaughlin, who ran 57.63 at the Lenape Invite last month.

8th, **Neveah Lorjuste, Triton, 58.13
Lorjuste hasn’t run many high school 400s, so the 58.13 was a big PR over a 1:01.85 that she ran at sectionals last spring. Looks like a Triton school record, but we’re not positive of that, so if you have the Triton school record and it’s faster than 58.13 please let us know!

9th, Brianna Snowden, Rancocas Valley, 58.24
The second Red Devil across the line, Snowden also recorded a big PR. Her previous best time was a 59.04 at Easterns indoors at the Armory in February. Her outdoor PR was 59.56 from sectionals last spring.

10th, **Diamond McLaughlin, Absegami, 58.28
McLaughlin came up a bit short of her 400 PR of 57.63 from Lenape, but she did PR in the 200 with a 26.23.

11th, **Maya Harper, Pleasantville, 58.43
Another quarter-miler with a PR on the fast Rowan track in Glassboro. Harper lowered her PR from 59.26, which she ran indoors at the Hispanic Games at the Armory. Her time is fastest by a Pleasantville girl since Lordess Shabazz ran 58.11 back in 2009.

12th, Autumn DeMary, Kingsway, 58.44
How much has DeMary improved? She placed 60th in this meet last year in 1:04.66. This year she placed 12th and ran more than six seconds faster! DeMary’s previous 400 PR was a 1:01.99 at a meet in the Jersey City Armory of all places in February of 2018. DeMary is now the fastest Kingsway girl since Thaila Cooper — who now runs for Maryland — ran 56.24 as a sophomore in 2013.

13th, *Amanda Demko, Shawnee, 58.66
Demko didn’t run track last spring, so you have to go back two years for her previous PR of 59.43 from the Olympic Conference Championships. Her time is fastest by a Shawnee girl since the amazing Annie Johnson ran 56.42 at states in the spring of 2011 — her first year of outdoor track after playing varsity softball for two years.

14th, *Blair Daniel, Paul VI, 58.82
This race is the king of PRs. Daniel came in with a PR of 1:02.14 from indoor states at the Bennett Center. That came down 3 1/2 seconds.

15th, **Anne Rutledge, Egg Harbor Twp., 58.85
Another fast sophomore with a huge breakthrough. Rutledge had a previous PR of 1:00.03 from sectionals last spring.

Delran graduate Madeleine Tattory, a College of New Jersey senior, lapped the field — and lapped most of the field twice — in winning the 10,000-meter run Saturday morning at the New Jersey Athletic Conference championships.

Tattory ran a personal-best 37:38.96, and teammate Emma Bean of Mainland Regional was second. Tattory’s previous PR was a 38:02.95 last month in a meet at Princeton.

The conference title is Tattory’s third. She won the 10,000 at the 2017 outdoor meet and the 5,000 at the 2019 indoor championships.

Tattory had PRs of 5:13.16 for 1,600 meters and 11:33.49 for 3,200 meters at Delran.

On Saturday, Tattory led from wire to wire. She had built a 14-second lead just one lap into the 25-lap race and led the field by over a minute by the sixth lap.

Tattory ran 82.9 for her first lap and 88.50 for her second, then settled into a steady pace that saw her run between 89.3 and 91.5 for 18 consecutive laps.

Check out her splits:
400: 1:22.82
800: 1:28.50 / 2:51.32
1200: 1:29.77 / 4:21.08
1600: 1:29.52 / 5:50.60
2000: 1:29.30 / 7:19.90
2400: 1:30.08 / 8:49.97
2800: 1:29.74 / 10:19.70
3200: 1:30.04 / 11:49.74
3600: 1:30.08 / 13:19.81
4000: 1:29.31 / 14:49.12
4400: 1:30.80 / 16:19.91
4800: 1:31.32 / 17:51.22
5200: 1:30.51 / 19:21.72
5600: 1:31.02 / 20:52.74
6000: 1:31.08 / 22:23.81
6400: 1:30.99 / 23:54.80
6800: 1:31.27 / 25:26.07
7200: 1:31.31 / 26:57.37
7600: 1:31.18 / 28:28.55
8000: 1:31.46 / 30:00.00
8400: 1:32.27 / 31:32.26
8800: 1:31.97 / 33:04.23
9200: 1:31.12 / 34:35.35 —>
9600: 1:33.07 / 36:08.41 —>
10000: 1:30.55 / 37:38.96 —>