Bishop Eustace senior Shawn Brady and Bordentown senior Brock Schenck both opened the season with 160-foot-plus throws at the Don Danser Relays in Mount Holly Saturday.
Brady won the event with a 167-0 and Schenck threw 162-1 for 2nd place. They appear to be the only boys over 160 feet in New Jersey so far this year other than national scholastic runner-up Ben Shue of Bergen Catholic, who threw 195-3 at the Penn Relays Qualifier at CBA last week.
Brady came within a couple feet of his PR of 169-1 from his 6th-place finish at last year’s Meet of Champions. Before last year, Montel Johnson held the Eustace discus record with a 157-5 at the 2017 state Parochial A meet at Egg Harbor.
Schenck didn’t compete last year. He threw 138-2 when he won Central Jersey Group 2 sectionals at Middletown North as a sophomore in June 2022. So this was his first discus competition in nearly two years. He returned to action indoors and threw 54-8 in the shot.
The previous Bordentown school record … I’m not sure, but the best I could find was a 147-1 by James Coleman to win the 1990 Burlington County League Liberty Division title at Northern Burlington.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 