From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Cherry Hill East ran the fastest distance medley by a South Jersey school this year Friday afternoon at Boston Nationals, placing 9th overall in 10:32.09.

This is insane because last I checked it’s 2024 and live results have provided names and splits for at least a decade, but the official results do not list splits or relay members. But here we are. Shame on whoever is doing the timing for this meet. That’s just embarrassing.

Anyway, the heat sheets show senior Raine Guidarelli on the 1,200, junior Ashraf Maklache on the 400, junior Brandon Lyons running the 800 and junior Brody Bogos anchoring.

If anybody out there knows whether that’s correct or has splits, please let me know in the comment section and I’ll update this.

Junior Brandon Lyons led off with a 3:15-ish for the 1,200, junior Ashraf Maklache ran 51-ish in the 400, soph Alvin Lin split 2:01.92 and junior Brody Bogos anchored in 4:22.96

The  time is Cherry Hill East’s fastest indoors in 48 years, since the 1975 team ran a 2 ½-mile DMR in 10:33.5 at the Group state relays at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym with the team of Terry Morgan, Bill Galbraith, Jack Kruse and Marty Ludwikowski. That converts to 10:29.9 for the current 4,000-meter race.

Cherry Hill East’s time is No. 12 on the all-time Camden County indoor DMR list and fastest since 2016, when Haddonfield ran 10:12.42 at 2016 Armory Nationals (which is the current Boston Nationals and not the current Armory Nationals) and Eastern ran 10:22.85 at Easterns at the Armory.

All-Time Camden County Indoor DMR List
10:09.78 … Haddonfield, 2010
10:12.42 … Haddonfield, 2016
10:16.60 … Haddonfield, 2002
10:19.24 … Haddonfield, 2009
10:21.11 … Haddonfield, 2011
10:21.38 … Haddon Township, 2015
10:22.85 … Eastern, 2016
10:23.52 … Haddonfield, 2015
10:23.54 … Haddonfield, 2003
10:29.39 … Bishop Eustace, 2013
10:29.9y … Cherry Hill East, 1975
10:32.09 … Cherry Hill East, 2024
10:32.79 … Eastern, 2002
10:33.0h … Eastern, 2003
10:34.11 … Camden Catholic, 2019