Egg Harbor’s Anne Rutledge posted the 6th-highest pentathlon score in Monmouth history this weekend at Fast Times at Lehigh at Rauch Fieldhouse in Bethlehem.
Rutledge scored 3,185 points and placed 2nd to Lehigh’s Emma Sanford, who won with 3,329 points. Ruledge’s previous PR was a 3,091 this past February at the Colonial Athletic Association Championships in Virginia Beach.
Four of the top six pentathlon scores in Monmouth history were recorded by South Jersey athletes. Ashley Huffman, who attended Ward Melville High in East Setauket, N.Y., set the school record of 3,919 in 2007. Lenape graduate Lindsey Walsh is No. 2 at 3,563 from 2011 at Bucknell, Bridgeton’s Mary Wilks is No. 3 with a 3,292 at Bucknell in 2010, and Moorestown’s Shatich Rivers scored 3,221 at Yale in 1995. The other non-South Jersey woman in the top 6 is Michaela Reed from Manasquan High, who scored 3,229 in 2014 at Bucknell and is No. 4.
Rutledge opened with a big PR 9.29 in the 60-meter hurdles – her previous PR was a 9.56 at last year’s CAA Championships. She high jumped 4-7 ¾, just shy of her PR of 4-9 ½, and then threw 30-5 ½ in the shot, an indoort PR and only a quarter inch off her lifetime best from the outdoor CAA meet this past May in Williamsburg, Va.
Rutledge long jumped 17-0 ¾, not far off her PR of 17-6 set at the Big 5 Meet at Franklin Field this past April – the only meet she competed in last spring – and then she finished with a 2:29.01 in the 800.
This was Rutledge’s first multi in 10 months, since last year’s indoor conference meet.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 