Washington Township junior Dakota Jones didn’t wait long to break a 10-year-old county record.
The 88th annual Easterns was only 20 minutes old Tuesday afternoon when Jones won her heat in the 55-meter hurdles at the Armory in New York in 8.30.
That breaks the Gloucester County record of 8.39 set by Kingsway’s Delicia Sample at the 2004 state Group 3 meet at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym and matched by Washington Township’s Lexie Fraction – now one of her coaches – in the semifinals of the 2014 Easterns.
Jones, who ran her previous PR of 8.39 at Ocean Breeze late last month, is No. 1 in South Jersey this winter and No. 7 in New Jerey.
She goes into the semifinals later this afternoon 3rd-fastest in the trials, behind Morristown senior Aaliyah Murphy [8.23] and Rahway senior Morgan Ryerson [8.23].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 