Glassboro High’s Dallas Hohney, who ran 1:50.71 for Rider last year, has resurfaced at hometown Rowan University and opened his indoor season with a 1:54.99 win at the Fastrack Season Opener Saturday at Ocean Breeze.
That’s 9th-fastest in NCAA Division 1 through opening weekend.
Hohney won the 1st section of the race and sophomore Joaquin Bell-Andrade of Marist University in Poughkeepsie won the 2nd section in the exact same time, so since they were in separate races they were credited with a tie for 1st.
Hohney ran 1:50.71 at the Ott Center in January, 3rd-fastest in Rider history, and in the spring placed 2nd in the MAAC Championships in Lawrenceville in 1:53.64.
Hohney also ran as fast as 47.64 last year – the Rider indoor school record – so will fit right in on Rowan’s 4-by-4. He ran a 50.67 leg Saturday on a 3:17.55 team that also included Eastern’s Rajahn Dixon [50.29], Teddy Wilson [47.30] and Nicholas Garman 49.30].
Rowan’s indoor 800 record is 1:52.63 by Nick Neville when he placed 2nd at the 2018 NJAC meet at Ocean Breeze.
In the same meet, Woodstown’s Cole Lucas, a freshman at Marist, had an outstanding first college race placing 3rd behind Hohney and Bell-Andrade with an indoor-PR 1:55.15. Lucas ran only 28-100ths of a second off his high school PR 1:54.87 from Group 1 sectionals this past May at Pennsauken. It’s an indoor PR by more than five seconds.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 