Glassboro scored in 14 of 18 events over the weekend and piled up double-digit points in eight events and rolled to their 2nd consecutive South Jersey Group 1 Championships at Pennsauken.
The Bulldogs scored 15 points in the shot, 14 in the 1,600 and 3,200, 13 in the long jump and 10 in the triple jump, discus, 100 and 400-meter relay and rolled to a 122-81 win over a very deep and talented Woodbury team.
Glassboro also won South Jersey Group 1 in 2009 and last year.
Senior Cartrell Moore had a monster weekend, winning the triple jump at 46-2, placing 2nd in the long jump with a 21-7 ¾, running a big PR 53.56 for 2nd in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles and running a PR 49.15 for 3rd in the 400.
That’s 32 points for Moore, enough to single-handedly place 6th in Group 1 team scoring.
Moore actually ran under the previous meet record in the 400IH – 54.08 by Chris Mesiano of Schalick in 2015 – but was edged by Riverside’s Jamir Brown, who ran 53.32.
Senior Damere Lassiter swept the two weights with a 50-2 ½ and 174-4, and senior Brysheen Ferguson, sophomore Amari Sabb, freshman Xavier Sabb and senior Caron Wright joined Moore on the 400-meter relay, which won in 42.61, not far off Salem’s meet record of 42.40 from 2017.
Junior Ty Blackman also had a big meet, with a 2nd in the 3,200 in 9:39.29 and a PR 4:30.97 for 3rd in the 1,600.
Xavier Sabb continued to shine in his freshman year, taking 3rd in the 100 in 10.79 – only 3-100ths of a second off the state freshman record of 10.76 by Willingboro’s Malachi James at the 2021 Meet of Champions – and also running 5th in the 200 in 22.50.
Senior Desmond Vassell scored in both hurdles, taking 4th in the highs with a PR 14.97 and 6th in the intermediates in 58.20.
Other Bulldog medalists: Ferguson ran a PR 10.83 for 4th in the 100, senior Charles Graves jumped 20-2 ½ for 4th in the long jump, junior Kyle Williams threw 46-3 ¼ for 4th in the shot, senior Jeremiah Jones was 6th in the shot put with a 44-3 ½, sophomore Amari Sabb cleared 5-10 for 6th in the high jump and Wright jumped 20-0 for 6th in the long jump.
Glassboro also took 4th in the 4-by-4 with a listed lineup of Ferguson, Vassell, sophomore Ison Keith and senior Joseph Hadrick.
Peyton Shute tripled the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 in 1:56.46, 4:24.09 and 9:23.61, unpressed in all three.
James, a senior at Burlington, swept the 100 in 10.18 and 200 in 21.42, Brown won the 110 highs in 14.02 and long jump at 23-3 ½ in addition to the intermediates, Clayton junior Alexander Osayemi won the 400 in 47.98, Gloucester junior Ryan James cleared 6-4 to win the high jump, Pennsville junior Connor Ayars threw 162-0 to win the javelin, Audubon junior Leo Davis cleared 14-0 to win the pole vault.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 