Kingsway’s Stone Caraccio, a Monmouth junior, ran an 800 PR at the IC4A Championships over the weekend in Boston, placing 5th in 1:50.37.
Caraccio’s previous indoor PR was a 1:51.62 one day earlier in the IC4A trials. His indoor PR before the weekend was 1:52.01 from a meet in February 2022 at Boston University. He’s run 1:50.83 outdoors – at a meet at Princeton in May 2022. That’s No. 6 in Monmouth history outdoors.
Caraccio’s 1:50.37 is 4th-fastest in Monmouth history and fastest since Chris Marco of Toms River North ran 1:50.07 at a meet in Boston in 2018.
Caraccio’s PR at Kingsway was 1:54.53 indoors at Ocean Breeze in the winter of 2020, a couple weeks before the shutdown. His time is fastest by a Gloucester County alum since Fred Sharpe of Paulsboro ran 1:48.26 in Santry, Ireland, in 2003.
Ten South Jersey half-milers have run sub-1:50, most recently Pleasantville grad Gabriel Moronta, who ran 1:49.33 outdoors in College Station, Texas, in 2021, and before that Jaymes Dennison of Penns Grove, who ran 1:47.63 outdoors in Tempe, Ariz., in 2017.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 