Audubon senior Aiden Williams led four runners under 16 minutes at the Colonial Conference All-Star Meet Thursday.
Williams ran a lifetime all-course best 15:24.48 for 5,000 meters at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield and now has wins this year at the Six Flags Wild Safari, South Jersey Open and Colonial Conference meet to go with a 2nd-place at Shore Coaches.
Williams’ time is 6th-fastest in course history and only 16 seconds off the course-record 15:08 set by Sterling’s Sean McPherson at the 2014 Colonial Conference All-Star Meet.
He’s Audubon’s first Colonial Conference winner since at least 1987. Earlier results are not available.
Collingswood senior Elijah Forrest ran 15:40 for 2nd place, followed by five Haddonfield runners – junior Bennett Wright [3rd in 15:49], sophomore Ryan Gibson [4th in 16:00 (15:59.26)], sophomore Benjamin Andrus [5th in 16:04], sophomore Luke Andressen [6th in 16:18] and senior Reid Gervasi [7th in 16:32].
There is no team scoring at this meet, but if there were Haddonfield would have scored 25, Haddon Heights 74 and Haddon Township 85.
Also in the top 10 were Haddon Heights junior Reggie Hernandez [8th in 16:41], Haddonfield junior Linus Kucer [9th in 16:48] and Haddon Heights senior Jayden Gonzalez [10th in 16:52].
Also under 17 minutes were Haddonfield senior Matthew Sullivan [11th in 16:54] and sophomore Brandon Stoner [12th in 16:55].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 