Two months after first picking up a javelin, Kevin Burr Jr. is a state champion.

Burr Jr. threw 190-7 and won the state Group 4 title at Franklin Township High Saturday. Burr Jr. first threw the javelin at the Deptford Spartan Relays on April 8 and had a PR of 141-9 a month ago.

But he popped a 179-9 at the County Open, 187-7 at the Olympic Conference meet and a PR 193-4 at sectionals before joining Jason Cowden [190-11 in 1999], Robert Marks [183-10] and state record holder Nick Mirabelli [207-10 in 2017 and 218-11 in 2018] as Rancocas Valley’s 4th javelin state champion. Cowden and Mirabelli both went on to win the Meet of Champions.

Burr Jr. fouled on his first attempt, threw 180-ish on his 2nd and down to his final attempt with the curtailed field events, popped the 190-footer on his 3rd throw.

Full results and his seed for the Meet of Champions aren’t yet available.

Thanks to a blistering 61-second final lap, senior Nick Scarangelli became Ocean City’s first outdoor individual state champion in 15 years Saturday morning with a PR win in the 3,200 at the state Group 3 meet at Delsea.

Scarangelli ran 9:20.89, finishing 10 meters ahead of Wayne Valley senior Sean Matthews, who was 2nd in 9:22.85.

He negative split 4:44.78 and 4:36.11.

Scarangelli’s previous PR was a 9:24.12 from South Jersey Elite on the same track last month. Although Ocean City won the Group 3 4-by-800 with Tyler Greene, *Owen Ritti, Brendan Schlatter and Drew Tarr in 2021, Scarangelli is Ocean City’s first individual state champ since Brett Johnson won the 800 in 1:53.49 and the 1,600 in 4:14.55 in 2008 at South Plainfield.

With 800 meters to go, seven runners were separated by two seconds. Scarangelli and Matthews gapped the field on the 7th lap and at the bell, Matthews had a slight lead, thanks to a 68-second lap.

Matthews closed in a fast 63.68 but Scarangelli ran his final lap in 61.43 to lock up his first state title.

Scarangelli won the 3,200 at the indoor state meet at the Bubble in 9:34.61.

Northern Burlington sophomore Liliah Gordon won her first state outdoor track title and ran an outdoor 3,200 PR Saturday morning.

Gordon became the first Northern Burlington girl to win any running event at an outdoor state championship meet in 28 years.

Gordon, edged by Middletown South junior Rosemary Shay in the Central Jersey Group 3 sectionals last week, avenged that loss by beating Shay by 75 meters Saturday in the state Group 3 meet at Delsea.

Gordon won the race in 10:41.81 and Shay was 2nd in 10:56.38. Gordon became Northern Burlington’s first outdoor state champion since Ashley Edwards won the triple jump with a 38-8 in 2015 and the first on the track since Colleen Sunderland won the Group 3 3,200 in 10:58.23 in 1995 at South Plainfield.

Shay and Gordon ran together the first mile, but Gordon pulled away on the 5th lap with a 77.45 lap, building a 15-meter lead.

She had a wild negative split of 5:31.97 for her first 1,600 and 5:09.84 for her second, closing in 2:32.87 and 75.55.

Gordon a state Group 3 3,200 title indoors as a freshman with an 11:06.89 at the Bubble and she won the state Group 3 XC title with an 18:57 at Holmdel in November of 2022.

Her lifetime best over 3,200 meters is 10:38.20 for 5th at Ocean Breeze in March. Saturday’s 10:41.81 is No. 2 in Burlington County outdoor history behind Megan Lacy’s 10:22.03 at the 2012 Meet of Champions at Old Bridge.

Nobody wants a one-day state championship meet. It’s not fair to the athletes, it’s not fair to the coaches, it’s not fair to anybody. But this is the reality, so here we go.

For the first time since 1983 at Rutgers University in Piscataway, the New Jersey state championships will be a one-day affair on Saturday. The NJSIAA turned the two-day meet into a one-day meet – eliminating 100 and hurdles trials and eliminating field event finals – because of concerns about air quality Friday [which was fine mid-afternoon when the meet was scheduled to start]. For the record, NJSIAA baseball, softball and lacrosse state championship tournament games were all played Friday.

But the show must go in, and here’s our link dump with everything you need to follow along from Delsea or Franklin or remotely if you can’t get to either meet.

Any errors or bad links lemme know in the comment section! Good luck everybody!

Updated Time Schedule [still not posted on NJSIAA awful web site]: Click here.

Performance lists
[I edited the NJSIAA’s jumbled mess of performance lists and whittled them down to each group]
Group 1
Group 2 
Group 3
Group 4 
Parochial A
Parochial B 

Live Results
From Delsea [Groups 2, 3 and B]: Click here
From Franklin Township [Groups 1, 4 and A]: Click here

Meet Program
[with all 12,384 pages of ads deleted]: Click here

Meet Records
Click here: Meet records

All-Time Team Champions
Click here: All-time team champions

New Jersey Air Quality chart [it’s fine and the meet could have been run today]: Click here.

Late Thursday afternoon, after the NJSIAA decided to condense the two-day state championships into a one-day meet, the association announced the revised schedule.

The NJSIAA announced on Thursday morning that because of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, the state championships would go from a two-day meet to a one-day meet.

The biggest change is the elimination of trials in the 100-meter dash and 110-meter hurdles. These will now be run as finals, with seed times determining who runs in the fastest sections.

Also, there will be no finals in field events.

The meets will still begin at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, with Groups 1 and 4 and Parochial A at Franklin High in Somerset and Groups 2 and 3 and Parochial B at Delsea in Franklinville.

Hopefully, “EliteFeats” timing company will be nowhere near either meet.

For complete details, click here.

Order of Events
Girls 3,200-meter run
Boys 3,200-meter run
Girls 100-meter dash
Boys 100-meter dash
Girls 800-meter run
Boys 800-meter run
Girls 400-meter hurdles
Boys 400-meter hurdles
Girls 400-meter relay
Boys 400-meter relay
Girls 100-Meter Hurdles
Boys 100-Meter Hurdles
Girls 3,200-meter relay
Boys 3,200-meter relay
Girls 200-meter dash
Boys 200-meter dash
Girls 1,600-meter run
Boys 1,600-meter run
Girls 1,600-meter relay
Boy 1,600-meter relay

Palmyra junior Abdulazeez Iyiola turned in one of the fastest 400 hurdles races in South Jersey Group 1 sectional history Friday.

Iyiola won the race in a big personal-best 54.57 and won by half a second over Glassboro junior Cartrell Moore, who ran 54.97. They’re the top-two seeds for the state Group 1 meet this weekend at Franklin.

Iyiola’s time is fastest in South Jersey Group 1 since Chris Mesiano of Schalick – who went on to become a multiple All-America at Rowan – ran 54.08 in 2015. Since the inception of fully automatic timing at sectionals in 2003, Mesiano and Iyiola have the two-fastest SJ-1 intermediate hurdles times.

There have been some fast hand times in Group 1: Martin Booker – now the Willingboro coach – ran 53.6 for Camden in 1981, Camden’s DiAndre Chandler ran 53.1 in 1986; Paulsboro legend Fred Sharpe 53.0 in 1997; and Burlington City’s Bryan Smith 54.3 in 2001

Iyiola is No. 4 in South Jersey behind the two Pennsauken boys – Bryce Tucker [51.40] and Premier Wynn [52.68] – as well as Deptford’s Lathan Brown [53.67].

He’s the top underclassman in New Jersey and No. 3 state-wide. He and Moore are the only Group 1 hurdlers in the state who’ve gone under 55. And he’s the fastest junior in South Jersey Group 1 since Schalick’s Matt Kates ran 54.15 at the 2007 South Jersey Invitational at Buena.

The last Palmyra intermediate hurdler to win a sectional title was All-America Will Brown, who ran 54.8 in 2005 and 55.65 in 2006. Before that Matt Moore, who ran 55.6 in 1988.

Brown set the Palmyra school record of 53.71 at the state Group 1 meet at Egg Harbor. He set the school record in the highs at 13.97 placing 3rd at Nike Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, N.C.

Iyiola didn’t break a minute last year as a sophomore in his first year in the intermediates. This past indoor season, he did run 51.82 and placed 3rd in the flat 400 at Group 1 states at the Bubble. He started out this spring with a PR 57.59 at the Moorestown Invitational and then dropped to 56.45 at the South Jersey Elite at Delsea before his breakthrough race this past weekend.

At sectionals, Iyiola also placed 5th in both the flat 400 and the 110 highs in 50.95 and 16.66. He’s run as fast as 49.85 and 16.04 so far this spring.

You think Willingboro and you think sprinters and hurdlers, and the Boro has had plenty of them. But Willingboro has a little bit of a tradition of pole vaulters as well, and Jackson Murry is the latest addition.

Murry won the South Jersey Group 2 meet with a personal-best 14-0 clearance, becoming the first Willingboro vaulter to clear 14 feet in 34 years.

The only vaulters to go higher in any group on sectional weekend are two Group 4 seniors – Damian Scouloukas of Hunterdon Central in North 2 and Ridgewood’s Liam O’Meara in North 1.

Murry shares the No. 1 seed in the Group 2 state meet at Delsea with Leonard Izzo of Rumson-Fair Haven, who cleared 14-0 to win Central Jersey Group 2 at Jackson Liberty.

Murry is Willingboro’s first 14-footer since Ricky Clemmons cleared 15-0 to win the 1989 state Group 3 title at South Plainfield over Hamilton East’s Darrin Miglione, who had cleared 14-6 on fewer misses.

Danny Lamp cleared 15-3 ½ at the 1977 East Coast Relays in Elizabeth and Marv Forchion 14-6 at the 1986 state Group 3 meet in Piscataway (he was also 3rd in the long jump at 21-8). Forchion went on to win the Meet of Champions, also at 14-6.

Murry, a junior, is Willlingboro’s 2nd sectional pole vault champ in the last three years. Glenn Ferguson won Central Jersey Group 1 two years ago at 12-0. Murray wasn’t pole vaulting yet, but he did place in the 200 in that meet.

Murry first picked up the pole vault last year as a sophomore and quickly cleared 11-0 by his 6th meet. He led a 1-2 Willingboro pole vault finish at sectionals with Byron Gary and got 2nd at indoor states at the Bubble with a 12-0 clearance.

He improved to 13-0 last spring and won the County Open and placed 5th at states and then got up to 13-6 at the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.

On Friday, he cleared 12-0 on his 2nd attempt, 12-6 and 13-0 on his 1st and 13-6 and 14-0 on his 3rd. He actually would have placed 4th on misses if he didn’t clear 14-0.

Haddonfield senior Alex Hurly [13-6], Cinnaminson soph Ed Frey [13-6], West Deptford junior [Ray Senatore] and Haddon Heights senior Adam Furlong [12-6] also advanced to states.

Murry is tied for No. 2 junior in New Jersey, behind Oakcrest’s Ryan Merlino, a 15-foot vaulter who unfortunately is injured and wasn’t able to compete at sectionals.

The versatile Murry also found time this weekend to place 6th in the 400 in 51.74. He also ran the 3rd leg on Willingboro’s 4th-place 400-meter relay team and anchored the Chimeras’ 4th-place 4-by-4 with a 50.23 split.

Premier Wynn keeps getting faster, and after a hot race at sectionals he’s now 12th-fastest in South Jersey history.

Wynn, half of Pennsauken’s unprecedented 1-2 sprinting-hurdling combo with Bryce Tucker, won the South Jersey Group 4 race Saturday on his home track in 47.39.

That’s the 2nd-fastest FAT time ever run at any South Jersey sectional, 1-100th of a second behind Reuben McCoy’s 47.38 for Winslow in Group 4 in 2004.

The only other sub-48-second FAT 400s at sectionals have been recorded by Woodbury’s Darrell Bush [47.41 in Group 1 in 2011] and Alex Reber of Cherry Hill East [47.96 in Group 4 in 2004].

The South Jersey Group 4 meet record is 46.4 run by Edgewood Olympic gold medalist Dennis Mitchell at the 1984 meet at Buena – at the time the fastest time ever run by a New Jersey quarter-miler in a high school meet.

The fastest FAT time run at sectionals by a South Jersey athlete is 46.82 by Moorestown’s Brandon Outlaw at the 2017 Central Jersey Group 3 meet at Bernards.

Wynn won the sectional race over a fast Rajahn Dixon from Eastern, who was 2nd in 48.05, with Tucker 3rd in 49.37. Also under 50 were New Jersey’s two-fastest freshmen – Julian Coppage-Seepersaud of R.V. [49.38] and Pennsauken’s KaRon Ali [49.39] – as well as Washington Township senior Kanye Mills [49.45] and Egg Harbor junior Christopher Manzo [49.85].

The South Jersey Group 4 race produced six of the top-11 seeds in the state meet this weekend at Franklin. Wynn and Dixon are No. 1 and 2.

Overall, Wynn is No. 2 in New Jersey this year behind Seton Hall Prep’s Xavier Donaldson, who ran 47.13 last month in a meet in Newark.

Indoors, Pennsauken and Seton Hall Prep locked up in a historic 4-by-4 battle at the Meet of Champions, Pennsauken winning with the 11th-fastest time in U.S. history over a Seton Hall Prep team that had run the 9th-fastest time in U.S. history a few weeks earlier, with Wynn and Donaldson going head-to-head on the 3rd leg.

Wynn won the South Jersey Group 3 400 last year in 48.24. He also placed 3rd in the intermediates at sectionals in 53.82, was 2nd to Dixon in the 200 and ran on Pennsauken’s winning 4-by-1.

Wynn plans to run for Norfolk State next year.

All-Time South Jersey 400 List
46.02 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
46.62 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
46.66 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], 2007
46.67 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], 2014
46.77 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 2004
46.82 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], 2017
46.95 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012
47.03 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 1994
47.0h … Darron Outler [Lenape], 1984
47.0h … Ron Hillian [Eastern], 2002
47.30 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 1998
47.39 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
47.1h … Brian Bennett [Edgewood], 1985
47.1h … Barry Douglas [Willingboro], 1993
47.2h … Levin Handy [Vineland], 1969
47.44 … Amir Brock [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017
47.2h … Curtis Mcintyre [Bridgeton], 1992

All-Time New Jersey 400 top-100
45.71 … Clayton Parros [Seton Hall Prep], 2009 [2nd, Great Southwest, Albuquerque, N.M.]
46.02 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984 [1st, International Prep Invitational, Elmhurst, Ill.]
46.28 … Zyaire Clemes [Trenton], 2013 [3rd, New Balance Nationals, Greensboro, N.C.]
46.34 … Ray Williams [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], 2002 [2nd, adidas Outdoor Championships, Raleigh, N.C.]
46.43 … Najee Glass [St. Peter’s], 2011 [1st, Meet of Champions, Carl Sandburg Middle School, Old Bridge]
46.4y … Ron Freeman [Jefferson], 1965 [1st, C.J. Group 4, Union]
46.62 … Gary Satterwhite [Rahway], 1985 [2nd, International Prep Invitational, Elmhurst, Ill.]
46.62 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991 [1st, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
46.67 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], 2014 [2nd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
46.68 … Lance Wigfall [East Orange], 2003 [1st, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
46.73 … Mario Heslop [Franklin Twp.], 2018 [1st, Group 4 States, Franklin]
46.77 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 2004 [1st, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
46.81 … Andrew Valmon [Manchester Twp.], 1983 [2nd, Jumbo Elliott, Villanova]
46.81 … Taylor McLaughlin [Union Catholic], 2014 [7th, USATF Junior Nationals, Eugene, Ore.]
46.82 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], 2017 [1st, C.J. Group 3, Bernards]
46.84 … Kevin Lyles [Franklin], 1991 [2nd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
46.84 … Mario Heslop [Franklin], 2017 [1st, Group 4 States, Franklin]
46.87 … Ty Adams [Monmouth Reg.], 1993 [2nd, Keebler Invitational, Elmhurst, Ill.]
46.88 … Shaquan Brown [JFK Paterson], 2005 [3rd, Nike Outdoor Nationals, Greensboro, N.C.]
46.90 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], 2007 [5th, Nike Outdoor Nationals, Greensboro, N.C.]
46.8h … Darrell Jeffress [Trenton], 1978 [2nd, International Prep Invitational, Elmhurst, Ill.]
46.94 … Bryant McCombs [Old Bridge], 2005 [1st, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
46.95 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2012 [2nd, Meet of Champions, Old Bridge]
46.95 … Charles Cox [Monmouth Reg.], 2007 [1st, C.J. Group 3 Sectionals, Monmouth Reg.]
46.98 … Adian Sanderson [Ewing], 2003 [1st, Group 3 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.03 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 1994 [4th, American Airlines National Scholastic, Raleigh, N.C.]
46.9h … Tony Valentine [Plainfield], 1983 [2nd, Group 4 States, Rutgers Stadium]
47.13 … Xavier Donaldson [Seton Hall Prep], 2023 [1st, Super Essex County, Newark]
47.16 … Isaiah Gill [Plainfield], 2008 [1st, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.18 … Walt McCall [Hackensack], 1988 [3rd, International Prep Invitational, Elmhurst, Ill.]
47.19 … Tyrone Ross [Metuchen], 1997 [6th, National Scholastic Outdoors, Raleigh, N.C.]
47.21 … Jermaine Griffith [Nottingham], 2013 [3rd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.22 … Taj Burgess [Carteret], 2017 [2nd, Meet of Champions, Northern Burlington]
47.1h … Harold Rollins [Lakewood], 1985 [1st, S.J. Group 3, Buena Reg.]
47.1h … Darron Outler [Lenape], 1984 [2nd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.30 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 1998 [1st, Group 4 States, South Plainfield]
47.33 … Joey Mendel [Wayne Hills], 1999 [1st, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.2y … Duval Moore [Asbury Park], 1965 [2nd, C.J. Group 4, Union]
47.2y … Joe Bryant [Englewood], 1966 [1st, Group 3 States, Rutgers Stadium]
47.2h … Walt James [East Orange], 1980 [1st, N.J. Section 2, Group 4, Elizabeth]
47.2h … Brian Bennett [Edgewood], 1985 [1st, S.J. Group 4, Buena]
47.39 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023 [1st, S.J. Group 3, Pennsauken]
47.3y … Fred Brown [Weequahic], 1972 [1st, N.J. Section 2 Group 3, Elizabeth]
47.3y … Levin Handy [Vineland], 1969 [1st, Group 4 States, Highland Park
47.4y … Bill Butler [East Orange], 1972 [2nd, N.J. Section 2 Group 3, Elizabeth]
47.3h … Charles Pennington [Plainfield], 1984 [1st, Plainfield Invitational, Hub Stine Field, Plainfield]
47.3h … Keith Barker [Weequahic], 1992 [1st, N.J. Section 2 Group 3, Morristown]
47.3h … Curtis Mcintyre [Bridgeton], 1992 [unknown]
47.44 … Amir Brock [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017 [2nd, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.46 … Kevin Sembrat [Roxbury], 2018 [1st, Group 3 States, Central Reg.]
47.48 … Hakim Johnson [Toms River South], 1998 [2nd, Group 4 States, South Plainfield]
47.48 … Ron Hillian [Eastern], 2002 [3rd, Meet of Champions, South Brunswick]
47.49 … Nadale Buntin [J.P. Stevens], 2018 [1st, Greater Middlsex County, Carl Sandburg Middle School, Old Bridge]
47.53 … Thomas Kalieta Jr. [Matawan], 2016 [2nd, Group 2 States, Northern Burlington]
47.4h … Jack Armour [Lincoln], 1980 [found 47.9, Union County meet]
47.4h … John Marshall [Plainfield], 1981 [1st, Group 4 States, Rutgers Stadium]
47.4h … Will Hamilton [Elizabeth], 1984 [unknown]
47.4h … Ken Moore [Overbrook], 1984 [4th, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.4h … Brandy Wells [Montclair], 1984 [1st, Essex-Union, site unknown]
47.4h … Glenwood Jackson [East Orange], 1984 [unknown]
47.4h … Chuck Carter [Eastern], 1985 [1st, Camden County, Haddon Twp.]
47.4h … John Grimsley [Newark West Side], 1989 [1st, N.J. Section 2 Group 4 Sectionals, Morristown]
47.4h … Charlz Hester [Toms River South], 1998 [1st, S.J. Group 3, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.57 … Nakia Fenner [Newark East Side], 1994 [unknown]
47.58 … Clayton Gravesande [Franklin Twp.], 2010 [1st, N.J. Section 2 Group 4 Sectionals, Ridge]
47.59 … Jade Smith [Camden], 2002 [4th, Meet of Champions, South Brunswick]
47.60 … Jordan Jimerson [Union Catholic], 2013 [2nd, World Youth, Edwardsville, Ill.]
47.62 … Barry Douglas [Willingboro], 1993 [1st, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.63 … Jessie Legister [Montclair], 2021 [1st, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.64 … Keith Griffith [Florence], 2010 [4th, Princeton Elite, Princeton]
47.5h … Jim Adams [Hanover Park], 1980 [unknown]
47.65 … Leonard Robbins [East Brunswick], 2011 [1st, C.J. Group 4 Sectionals, Hillsborough]
47.65 … Jaden Marchan [Leonia], 2023 Bergen County Championships, Old Tappan]
47.67 … Alex Moore [JFK-Iselin], 2017 [2nd, Group 3 States, Northern Burlington]
47.67 … Cashieve Blair [Irvington], 2022 [1st, N.J. Group 4 Sectionals, Ridge]
47.68 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], 1999 [2nd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.68 … Keith Taylor [Elizabeth], 2003 [2nd, adidas Outdoor Nationals, Raleigh, N.C.]
47.68 … Cory Poole [East Orange], 2017 [3rd, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.69 … Colin Winslow [Sayreville], 2013 [2nd, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.73 … David Fields [Monmouth Reg.], 1989 [1st, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.6h … Keith Davis [Lincoln], 1970 [2nd, Easterns, Randall’s Island]
47.6h … Mike Penniston [Neptune], 1976 [unknown]
47.6h … George Cooper [Newark Central], 1983 [3rd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.6h … Steve Brown [McCorristin], 1983 [1st, Easterns, Randall’s Island]
47.6h … Rob Totten [Peddie], 1997 [unknown]
47.6h … Devon Matthews [Pleasantville], 1999 [2nd, S.J. Group 2 Sectionals, Buena Reg.]
47.75 … Ian Arcia [Montclair], 1994 [unknown]
47.76 … Carl Smith [Camden], 2005 [2nd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.78 … Harmodio Cruz [South Brunswick], 2017 [4th, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.78 … Nick Givan [Union Catholic], 2022 [1st, Parochial A, Middletown North]
47.79 … Duan Freeman [Winslow Twp.], 2003 [2nd, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.80 … Allan Lukenheimer [Old Bridge], 2007 [1st, C.J. Group 4 Sectionals, Hillsborough]
47.82 … Shamali Whittle [Hamilton North], 2022 [1st, Mercer Coaches Classic, West Windsor-Plainsboro North]
47.83 … Antraye Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003 [3rd, Group 4 States, Egg Harbor Twp.]
47.7h … Elliott Johnson [Ewing], 1981 [1st, Meet of Champions]
47.7h … Tyrone Elijah [Barringer], 1983 [4th, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.7h … Barry Solomon [Asbury Park], 1984 [1st, Shore Conference, Brick]
47.7h … Maurice Gibbs [Vailsburg], 1986 [unknown]
47.84 … Garrett Kroner [Indian Hills], 2006 [3rd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.85 … Jason Bass [Morristown], 1990 [2nd, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.8h … Hardge Davis [Montclair], 1966 [1st, State Federation Championships, Highland Park]
47.88 … Shawney Kersey [Woodbury], 2009 [1st, Group 1 States, South Plainfield]
47.88 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2011 [1st, Group 3 States, South Plainfield]
47.88 … Mike Andre [Ocean Township], 2012 [1st, C.J. Group 3 Sectionals, Monmouth Regional]
47.89 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 2019 [1st, Meet of Champions, Northern Burlington]
47.89 … Damon Merkerson [St. Mary’s-Rutherford], 2007 [4th, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]
47.89 … Corey Wright [Neptune], 2006 [4th, Meet of Champions, South Plainfield]

Not many schools have a javelin tradition like Rancocas Valley.

Going back to Drew Forbes, who threw the old javelin 221-7 back in 1978, No. 7 in South Jersey history with the old jav; South Jersey Group 4 winner Gary Forsythe, who threw 196-4 in 1996; Meet of Champions winner Jason Cowden, who threw 202-8 in 1999; and more recently 2018 Meet of Champions winner Nick Mirabelli, who holds the South Jersey record of 227-10 and went on to throw 236-6 and earn a top-20 U.S. ranking; and Robert Marks, who threw 191-6 in 2016 and won the state Group 4 title.

Time to add Kevin Burr Jr.’s name to R.V. javelin lore.

Burr Jr., who hadn’t thrown 142 feet until two weeks ago, popped his 5th straight PR Friday, winning the South Jersey Group 4 javelin with a 193-4 throw, 2nd-best in New Jersey this year, No. 14 in South Jersey history with the new jav [since 2003] and No. 5 in Burlington County history with the new jav.

Burr Jr. is the top seed in the Group 4 meet at Franklin Township High this weekend by 23 feet over Braden Paulmenn of South Brunswick.

According to his MileSplit page, this is Burr Jr.’s first year of outdoor track. MileSplit shows him running a 55 and a 200 indoors as a freshman and then not competing again until April 8 at the Deptford Spartan Relays, where he threw 132-1 and placed 8th in what appears to be his first-ever javelin competition.

Two weeks later, he thres 141-9 and placed 7th at the Blue Devil Classic at Westfield, but between the Blue Devil Classic on April 22 and the Burlington County Open on May 13 at Northern Burlington, something happened.

He got really good.

He won the County Open with a 179-9 throw – a 38-foot PR – and then improved to 187-7 at the Olympic Conference Championships across the street from R.V. at the Gertrude C. Folwell Elementary School field.

Which led to sectionals and a 26-foot win over Lenape junior Miles Acchione, who’s the 3rd seed at states this weekend.

Burr Jr.’s full series isn’t available [thanks for nothing, “EliteFeats”], but his 193-4 was best of all 16 sectional meets over the weekend. He’s No. 2 overall in the state behind George Kalkanas of Mahwah, who threw 195-6 at a meet at River Dell in April. He won North Group 2 Friday at Vernon with a throw of 187-3.

All-Time South Jersey 190-Foot Club
[with new javelin, which went into use in 2003]
227-10 … Nick Mirabelli [Rancocas Valley], 2017
224-10 … Curtis Thompson [Florence], 2014
220-11 … Cade Antonucci [Holy Spirit], 2016
216- 6 … Chris Mirabelli [Holy Cross], 2014
212- 2 … Alexander Georgia [Timber Creek], 2017
209- 4 … Steve Jernee [Ocean City], 2017
203- 6 … Stephen Benigno [Cherry Hill East], 2014
201- 1 … Sean Biehn [Burlington City], 2006
200- 8 … Cade Antonucci [Holy Spirit], 2016
199-10 … Kobe Roberts [Mainland Reg.], 2018
196- 9 … Terrence Smith [Oakcrest], 2016
195-11 … Joshua Moore [Middle Twp.], 2017
194-5 … Austin Hudak [Hammonton], 2021
193-4 … Kevin Burr Jr. [Rancocas Valley], 2023
192- 6 … Matt Rafferty [Northern Burlington], 2012
192- 6 … Chris Reider [Eastern], 2010
192- 3 … Shane McDevitt [Cinnaminson], 2014
192- 1 … Nick Cando [Eastern], 2004
191- 6 … Robert Marks [Rancocas Valley], 2016
191- 5 … Andrew Pierce [Cumberland Reg.], 2009
190- 0 … Andrew Forbes [Williamstown], 2011
190- 2 … Ian Meneswisch [Highland], 2003

Before sectionals, Riley Fayer’s entire track career consisted of a 3,200 at the Camden County Championships, a 1,600 at the Haddonfield Invitational and an 800 at Haddonfield Distance Night.

On Friday – 11 days after her first lifetime 800 – she became a sectional champ.

Fayer, a freshman at Audubon, not only won the South Jersey Group 1 800 in 2:19.44, she earned the No. 1 seed in the state Group 1 meet. The top four seeds are all out of the South Jersey Group 1 race, with Haddon Township senior Sara Weideman [2:21.47], Woodstown senior Katelyn Deal [2:21.74] and Salem junior Anna Buzby [2:22.06] also in the mix.

Fayer is the 3rd Audubon girl to win a South Jersey Group 1 title at 800 meters in the last decade. Molly Furlong won in 2:18.51 in 2014 and Alexis Staib in 2017 in 2:20.30.

Fayer didn’t run indoors – she played hoops for the Green Wave – so other than possible dual meets, her first lifetime track meet was the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township, where she ran 11:14.40 and placed 3rd behind Haddonfield’s Ava Thomas and Helene Usher.

She ran 5:18.93 in her 1,600 debut May 17 at Haddonfield, placing 4th behind Meghan Lex of Haddon Township, Haddonfield’s Riley Slootsky and Bishop Eustace’s Elena Cicchini.

And then on May 22 came her first-ever 800 back at Haddonfield and she took 5th, behind two girls from Wilberforce School in Princeton, West Deptford soph Talia Thomasson and Holy Cross junior Sara Sherlock.

That’s it.

Three races and then off to Group 1 sectionals at Pennsauken, where she won the 800; ran 5:13.29 for 2nd in the 1,600, just behind Lex, who ran 5:12.95; and took 2nd to Schalick sophomore Jordan Hadfield in the 3,200 with 11:39.22.

She scored 26 of 4th-place Audubon’s 53 points in SJ-1.

At the state Group 1 meet this weekend at Franklin High, Fayer will be the top seed in the 800, No. 2 in the 1,600 – behind Lex obviously – and No. 5 seed in the 3,200 with her 11:37.91.