Juniors Cartrell Moore, Elijah Whitaker, Desmond Vassell, Damere Lassiter and Maddox Wilson combined for 75 points and Glassboro won its first South Jersey title in 14 years this weekend at Pennsauken.
Glassboro outscored Woodbury by one point, winning 102-101 in the South Jersey Group 1 competition.
Moore won the 400 in a PR 49.59 – by 2-100ths of a second – placed 2nd in the intermediates with a 54.97, 3rd in the triple jump at 43-6 and 4th in the 200 in 23.02, Whitaker ran 2nd in the 1,600 in a PR 4:31.02 and 3rd in the 3,200 at 10:07.16, Vassell was 1st in the high hurdles and 6th in the intermediates, Lassiter won the disc with a 184-8 bomb – more on that later – and took 2nd with a 49-8 ¼ in the shot and Wilson won the javelin at 156-9.
Glassboro won its only other sectional title in 2009 in Group 1 with a meet-record 181 ½ points.
Woodbury gave its Gloucester County rival all it could handle. Junior Peyton Shute swept the 800, 1,600 and 3,200, soph Marquis Taylor won the 200, Jabron Solomon won the long jump (22-5) and the Thundering Herd’s 4-by-1, 4-by-4 and 4-by-8 relays all finished 1st (no names available, thanks to the joke of a timing company).
But Glassboro was one point better.
In addition to Moore, Whitaker, Vassell, Lassiter and Wilson, junior Brysheen Ferguson was 4th in the 100 [11.32], junior Caron Wright placed 4th in the long jump [20-11] and junior Charles Graves took 6th in the long jump [20-8 ¼]. Also, Glassboro’s 4-by-1 placed 3rd [names not available].
How close was this meet?
Moore edged Clayton sophomore Alexander Osayemi in the 100 by 2-100ths of a second. If that finished is reversed, Glassboro finishes with 100 points and Woodbury wins the sectional title.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 