Pennsauken is picking up outdoors right where it left off indoors. With some fast relay work.

Racing at the Deptford Spartan Relays, the Indians won the 800-meter relay with a New Jersey No. 3 1:31.45, won the 1,600-meter relay with a New Jersey No. 5 3:24.60 and also ran 44.53 in the 400-meter relay.

Senior Nadir Paige and juniors Kahlil Ali, Elijah Jennings and Bryce Tucker ran on the 4-by-2, Ali, Paige, junior Joel Oquendo and Tucker ran the 4-by-4, and Ali, Tucker, Jennings and Paige the 4-by-100. The Indians also took 2nd in the DMR, with junior Brian Harrell leading off, sophomore Marquai Chestnut running the 400, Oquendo the 800 and sophomore Jaylam Thach the 1,600.

Tucker also won the open 400-meter hurdles in 54.73 in his first 400IH race since he won the USATF Junior Olympics in Jacksonville in July. Deptford junior Lathan Brown finished second in 56.51, a 2 ½-second PR

Pennsauken also won the two-by-intermediates with Tucker and sophomore Zah’kye Copling, although their individual times were not listed in the results.

Washington Township ran a hot early shuttle hurdles race Saturday at the Husky Relays in Matawan.

Junior Kanye Mills led off, followed byfreshman Nico DiGiacomo,sophmore Yashahya Brown and Senior Tracy Marshall.

The Minutemen ran 1:02.17 and won by 3 ½ seconds over host Matawan, which placed 2nd in 1:05.63.

Township’s time is No. 1 in the state so far through two weeks of the outdoor season.

The time is Washington Township’s fastest in 10 years. The 2012 team set the school record of 1:00.48 at New Balance Outdoors in Greensboro, N.C., and also ran 1:00.74 at the East Coast Relays at Randolph. It’s fastest by a Gloucester County relay since Deptford ran 1:01.18 at the 2018 Willingboro Relays. And according to the MileSplit database, it’s No. 6 nationally.

Also Saturday, Washington Township won the 6,400-meter relay in 18:49.50 and medaled in the 800-meter relay [1:34.76], 4-by-4 [3:35.47], sprint medley [3:42.97], 4-by-8 [8:35.50], distance medley [11.41.90].

Also, junior Kanye Mills won the 400 hurdles [57.52] and senior Alex Diaz won the discus [140-9] and senior Nahmere Graves placed 2nd in the high jump [5-10].

For the Township girls team, sophomore Dahlia Beasley won the high jump at 5-6 and senior Gabby Vetere won the pole vault with a 10-0 clearance.

(Thanks to Kanye Mills for providing the correct Washington Township lineup!)

Pennsville graduate Arianna Smith shattered the one-minute barrier in the intermediate hurdles for the first time Saturday and moved into the No. 6 spot in Princeton history.

Smith ran 59.69 and placed second in the 400-meter intermediates at the Hurricane Alumni Invitational at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla.

Smith’s previous collegiate PR was 1:00.51 two weeks ago at the Raleigh Relays at North Carolina State. Her 59.69 is only 57-100ths of a second out of the No. 2 spot on the all-time Princeton list, currently occupied by Haddonfield graduate Carly Bonnet, who ran 59.12 at 2019 Heps.

Her previous lifetime best was a 1:00.13 from her Meet of Champions win at Northern Burlington in June of 2019.

Smith’s time is No. 2 in the Ivy League this year, behind only Cornell senior Brooke Overholt, who ran 59.12 at the South Florida Invitational Saturday across the state in Tampa.

Princeton did not compete in outdoor track in 2020, and Smith only ran two 400IH races in 2021, so Saturday’s race was only her fourth over the 400IH since the 2019 Meet of Champion 34 months ago.

Although Smith raced a few times last spring, she is officially a freshman.

Sophomore Zoe Goldberg got off to a hot start Saturday with the best javelin throw by an Eastern girl in 20 years.

Goldberg won the javelin at the Lenape Girls Invitational with a big PR throw of 126-6, nearly nine feet beyond her previous PR of 117-10, which she set when placing 15th at last year’s Meet of Champions at South Plainfield as a freshman.

That’s the best throw by an Eastern girl since Caitlin Ciello threw 148-8 to win the 2002 state Group 4 title at Egg Harbor and set a South Jersey record. That was the first year the new impliment was in use, and her mark stood as the new-javelin South Jersey record for 10 years, until Maria Jiminez of Vineland threw 160-8 in 2012.

Her throw is No. 8 in Camden County history with the new jav.

Goldberg, New Jersey’s top freshman javelin thrower last year, opened her series Saturday with a 107-0 before popping the 126-6 on her second attempt. She finished with a 109-6 in her three-throw series.

Her throw is best by a Camden County sophomore since Kathrine Johnston of Haddonfield threw 152-2 at the 2010 Haddonfield Invitational.

152- 9 … Kate Johnston [Haddonfield], 2012
148- 8 … Caitlin Cielo [Eastern], 2002
136- 6 … Danielle Still [Bishop Eustace], 2002
132- 4 … Kelsey Reese [Paul VI], 2011
128-5 … Saraly Gonzalez [Sterling], 2018
127-11 … Pam Watson [Haddon Heights], 2016
127-5 … Bernadette McGowan [Paul VI], 2016
126-6 … Zoe Goldberg [Eastern], 2022
124-5 … Maggie Volente [Audubon], 2006
124-3 … Amanda Porter [Audubon], 2013

Nice way to start the season for the Cinnaminson distance crew with a 10:40.74 distance medley win at the 14th annual Moorestown Invitational.

The results are a mess – the times seem to be listed randomly, with slower times ahead of faster times and no particular rhyme or reason to how they’re presented – but it certainly looks like the Pirates won the race over 2nd-place Shawnee, which ran 11:16.67.

So Cinnaminson ran unopposed, which makes an early time like 10:40.74 on a cool, breezy day even more impressive.

Tyler Schill ran the 1,200-meter leadoff leg for the Pirates, Patrick Storti the 400, Matt McCarron the 800 and Alex Boyko anchored.

It’s Cinnaminson’s 2nd-fastest outdoor DMR time ever and fastest since the Pirates ran 10:35.21 at the 2007 Colts Necks Relays, when they finished just behind Jackson.

Cinnaminson set an indoor school record this past winter season with a 10:50.55 at the Group 2 state relays at the Bubble.

Palmyra junior Kwinten Ives opened his outdoor season with a nearly one-foot long jump PR Saturday at the Moorestown Invitational.

Ives won the long jump with a 21-7 jump, winning by over a foot over sophomore Jamir Brown of Delran, who was second at 20-3 1/4.

Ives’ previous PR was a 20-9 1/2 last spring at South Jersey Group 1 sectionals at Washington Township, good for second place behind Clayton senior Ter’Meir Hill’s 23-6 1/2.

According to the MileSplit database, this was only Ives’ third lifetime major long jump competition.

His jump is best by a Palmyra athlete in 18 years, since Will Allison jumped 22-4 3/4 to win the 2004 state Group 1 title at Egg Harbor.

Freshman Robert McKinney from Highland and junior Jah’mere Beasley from Sterling contributed legs to Rowan’s 400-meter relay team, which ran the fastest time in the country in NCAA Division 3 Friday night.

McKinney and Beasley were joined by senior John Owens of West Windsor-Plainsboro North and sophomore Nana Agyemang of Parsippany at the Temple Invitational.

Racing at the Temple Sports Complex in North Philadelphia, Rowan ran 41.16, leading two other New Jersey schools – Bloomfield and The College of New Jersey – under 42 seconds. Bloomfield placed 3rd in 41.61 and TCNJ was 3rd in 41.98.

Rowan bumped Shenendoah of Winchester, Va., out of the top spot in the 4-by-1. Shenendoah ran 41.33 last weekend at the Battleground Relays in Fredericksburg, Va.

Owens led off for Rowan, handing off to McKinney and then Beasley, with Agyemang anchoring.

Beasley and Agyemang were joined by Camden’s Julian Pratt and Donovan Clement of Deptford on Rowan’s 4-by-100 team last year, when the Profs ran 41.01 in the trials at the NCAA Division 3 Championships before placing 7th overall in 41.22.

Agyemang also ran 10.59 and 21.53 Friday night, both huge PRs. He now ranks No. 3 in NCAA Division 3 in the 100 and No. 8 in the 200.

Beasley ran 10.82 and 21.69, and McKinney ran 10.85 and 21.85. Beasley is ranked 25th in the 100 and 13th in the 200, McKinney 33rd in the 100 and 25th in the 200.

McKinney is off to quite a start at Rowan after runing PRs of 11.06 and 22.04 at Highland, both at Group 3 sectionals last spring.

In that 400 relay, Bloomfield’s relay team included senior MarQuel Davis from Deptford, and TCNJ’s lineup included junior Andrew Lodge from Shawnee.

Another big 800 PR for Lenape graduate and Rutgers sophomore Shelby Whetstone.

Whetstone ran 2:08.02 at the Stanford Invitational, her first time under 2:10 outdoors. Her previous outdoor PR was a 2:10.55 when she won the state Group 4 title for Lenape at Franklin High in the spring of 2019. He previous outdoor Rutgers PR was a 2:12.42 from just a few weeks ago in a meet in Orlando.

Whetstone’s previous lifetime best was 2:09.77 from the Big Ten Indoor Championships in February at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

Whetstone got out in 62.49 and came back in 65.54.

Her 2:08.02 is No. 5 in Rutgers outdoor track history. I wish the Rutgers web site would list details for these marks – when, where, what meet – but I looked ‘em up and included all the information I could find. It would also be nice if they updated their web site, which doesn’t include marks from after 2018.

2:06.59 … Dominique Sanon [Bridgeport (Conn.) Central], NCAA East Regional, Greensboro, N.C., May 26, 2006
2:06.91 … Jenna Sobieski [Old Bridge], Florida Relays, Gainesville, March 28, 2019
2:07.46 … Amonica Phipps [Morse, San Diego], ECAC Championships, Princeton, May 15, 2005
2:07.46 … Jennifer Heggie [Monmouth Regional], unknown, 1994
2:08.02 … Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], Stanford Invitational, Palo Alto, Calif., April 1, 2022
2:08.36 … Sarah Robbie [Cherokee], Big Ten Championships, State College, Pa., May 14, 2017
2:08.98 … Krista Dunbar [Shoreham-Wading River, Shoreham, N.Y.], unknown, 1994
2:09.85 … Elizabeth Graham [unknown], unknown, 2000

It took a few days but we finally have some Buena Relays results, and one of the highlights is a big PR javelin throw by Hammonton senior Austin Hudak.

Hudak threw 188-2 in his 2022 season opener, adding more than 12 feet to his lifetime best of 175-9, which he threw in June when he placed 4th at the Meet of Champions at South Plainfield. That was his first time over 162 feet, so he’s now PR’d over 25 feet in his last two meets (separated by 10 months).

Hudak’s throw is No. 26 in South Jersey history with the new javelin and No. 4 in Atlantic County history.

Here’s the all-time Atlantic County top-10:

220-11 … Cade Antonucci [Holy Spirit], 2016
199-10 … Kobe Roberts [Mainland Reg.], 2018
196- 9 … Terrence Smith [Oakcrest], 2016
188- 2 … Austin Hudak [Hammonton], 2022
187-11 … Javier Garcia (Pleasantville), 2009
183- 5 … Kyle Wright [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2004
183- 2 … Alex Garcia [Pleasantville], 2009
182-11 … Yvanda Rigby [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2018
181- 8 … Tony DeFeo [Oakcrest], 2003
180- 8 … Pat Casey [St. Joe’s-Hammonton], 2011

Hudak’s throw is No. 2 in the state through the first weekend of action behind only Ryan Drwal of North Hunterdon, who threw 188-4 Saturday at the Summit Relays. Drwal, the Meet of Champions runner-up last year, previously had a PR of 177-1.

Jude Misko, Rutgers-Camden’s record-setting hammer thrower, PR’d Saturday at a meet in Chester, Pa.

Misko, a Cherry Hill East graduate, threw 204-1 in the invitational hammer throw competition at the Danny Curran Invitational at Widener University.

The event included three of the top hammer throwers in the country, including another Cherry Hill East graduate, Johnnie Jackson Jr.

Vlad Pavlenko won the event at 242-6, Jackson threw 230-6 and former Widener star Tyler Williams 229-0. Those three throws rank No. 20, No. 54 and No. 58 in the world this year and No. 1, No. 7 and No. 8 in the U.S.

Misko was the top collegiate thrower and had a very good series with 197-7 opener after a foul, then the 204-1, followed by another foul and then throws of 196-2 and 195-3.

He came in with a PR of 200-9 from a meet last spring at Franklin Field and then proceeded to average 197-5 on his four legal throws on Saturday.

Misko’s throw is No. 21 in NCAA Division 3 history and best ever by an NJAC thrower.

Misko is the defending NCAA Division 3 champ with a throw of 198-5 at last year’s national meet in Greensboro, N.C.

Jackson, 27, has a PR of 237-1 from a meet at LSU in Baton Rouge last April. He ranks No. 62 in U.S. history and placed 10th in the U.S. Olympic Trials last June in Eugene.

His 230-6 on Saturday is his 3rd-best throw ever.