We just wrote about Cade Antonucci a few days ago after he threw 232-10 in his first javelin competition in two years. But we’re going to do it again because the Auburn senior snapped his PR on Friday, throwing 241-0 at the Florida Relays in Gainesville. 

Antonucci, a Holy Spirit graduate, broke his PR of 237-5, which he set at the 2019 Penn Relays.

Antonucci placed second to D.J. Johnson of Mississippi State, who won the competition with a 253-5.

Antonucci’s mark is No. 2 in Auburn history. Justin Carter held the school record for seven years, since he threw 239-7 at the 2014 SEC Championships in Lexington, Ky. Senior Nils Fischer, a transfer from Angelo State, broke Carter’s mark with a 241-9 at the Florida State Relays in Tallahassee, the same meet Antonucci threw 232-10.

Those two marks are now No. 1 and 2 in school history. 

Antonucci threw 220-11 in high school when he won the 2017 Meet of Champions. He also threw the shot put 59-5 1/4 and the discus 169-1. 

Jude Misko bombed another huge hammer PR Friday with the top throw in NCAA Division 3.

Stockton’s Darren Wan, an Egg Harbor garduate, also moved into the Division 3 top-10!

Misko, a Cherry Hill East graduate who’s now a senior at Rutgers-Camden, threw 195-5 at the Stockton Invitational in Galloway Township, surpassing his week-old PR by more than five feet.

He actually had four throws over 190 feet in his series, so he actually had the four-best throws in all of Division 3 in one meet.

The next-best throw in Division 3 this spring is a 190-11 by Jacob Bugella of Wisconsin-Stout from a meet Friday at Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Misko opened his series with a foul, but then surpassed 190 feet on four of his next five throws.

He threw a PR 193-6 on his second throw, then 192-10 on his third, 193-5 on his fourth. After a 184-3, he closed with the 195-5.

Misko had an unheralded career at Cherry Hill East, where he threw 43-9 1/2 in the shot (47-4 1/2 indoors) and never placed higher than 19th at sectionals. 

He picked up the hammer while he was at Rowan College at Gloucester County, winning an NJCAA Division 3 national title in 2017 with a throw of 164-9 at Howard Community College in Columbia, Md.

Misko extended his PR to 179-1 at the Widener Invitational in April of 2019 but after transferring to Rutgers-Camden but after being forced to sit out the cancelled 2020 season, he blew that away last month with a 190-2 at the Stockton Invitational No. 1 in Galloway Township, his first meet in two years, before PR’ing again on Friday.

Stockton’s Wan also PR’d with a throw of 180-7, which is No. 6 in NCAA Division 3. His previous PR was 174-2, also at the previous edition of the Stockton Invitational last weekend. His PR coming into this spring season was 169-11 from the 2019 NJAC Championships, also at Stockton, where he was second to Misko’s 172-2 with a 169-11.

Wan last weekend broke the school record of 173-4 set 15 years ago by Steve Cassidy (high school unknown).

Cherokee grad Lucciano Pizarro popped his second PR in as many outdoor meets for Rutgers Friday, hurling the 16-pound shot 55-11 1/4 at the Big 10 Florida Invitational in Jacksonville. 

Pizarro, a freshman at Rutgers, actually PR’d twice in a row. After opening with identical throws of 53-5 3/4 and 53-5 3/4, he hit 55-9 on his third before surpassing 17 meters for the first time on his fourth throw, the 55-11 1/4. He fouled on his last two tosses.

Pizarro’s previous PR was a 55-1 1/4 indoors at Penn State in February. His previous outdoor PR was a 53-11 1/2 at the Maryland Invitational last weekend

His throw is No. 8 in Rutgers history.

Kingsway’s Stone Caraccio is off to an impressive start this spring for Monmouth, where he’s already run a couple fast races in his first couple collegiate meets.

Monmouth didn’t have an indoor season, so Caraccio didn’t race until two weeks ago, when he ran a 1,500 PR of 3:56.63 in a dual meet against Army in West Point, N.Y. 

That’s equal to a 4:14.07 for 1,600 meters or a 4:15.56 for the full mile, which is only a fraction over his high school 1,600 PR of 4:13.46, which he ran in a fast state Group 4 race at Franklin township two years ago. (He also ran an indoor 4:15.35 full mile, which is equal to a 4:13.87 for 1,600). Considering this was his first outdoor race in nearly two years and his first track of any kind since the end of the 2020 indoor season, that’s a great way to start.

This past weekend at Lafayette, Caraccio ran 1:55.76 in an 800, again not far off his lifetime best of 1:54.53 from an indoor race in February of 2020 at Ocean Breeze and just above his outdoor PR of 1:55.30 from 2019 Haddonfield Distance Night.

That’s two open races as a collegian and two near-PRs coming off a nearly two-year layoff, and that’s good stuff.

Caraccio currently ranks 7th in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in the 800 and No. 2 among freshmen and No. 7 in the 1,500 and No. 3 among freshmen. One of the freshmen ahead of him is Camden Catholic’s Richie Castañeda, who we recently wrote about here.