Millville senior Isaac Roberts continued his rapid progression in the high hurdles with a speedy win Wednesday at the Cape Atlantic Championships at Bridgeton.
Roberts ran a lifetime-best 14.58 and became the first Millville hurdler to win the Cape Atlantic 110 highs since Millville’s Tyreck Newman won the 2017 meet at Bridgeton in 14.52.
Roberts has improved dramatically since his junior year, when his fastest hurdles race was a 15.83 at the Cape Atlantic Championships, also at Bridgeton.
He PR’d in his opener with a 15.20 at Fast Times at Cherokee and then dropped to 14.70 in the prelims of South Jersey Elite at Delsea. So he lowered his PR from 15.83 to 14.70 – more than a second – in the span of 2 ½ weeks.
Wednesday was a final by time with no prelims and Roberts dropped another chunk of time down to 14.58, which makes him 7th-fastest in South Jersey this year.
Oakcrest senior Clayton Husta ran 14.99 for 2nd place, and Mainland junior Josiah Williams PR’d with a 15.08 for 3rd. Husta is No. 9 in New Jersey with his 14.33 from South Jersey Elite. Husta is No. 2 in New Jersey Group 2 behind Willingboro senior Eric Foster, who ran 13.99 at South Jersey Elite. Williams, whose previous PR was a 15.14 at the Atlantic County Championships last week at Buena, is now the No. 5 junior in South Jersey this year.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 