A day after shattering the Ivy League long jump record, Lumberton’s Greg Foster broke the Ivy League hurdles record.

Foster, a Princeton senior, won a dramatic battle with Penn senior Shane Gardner at the Ivy League Championships at the Armory.

Both were timed in 7.69, with Foster getting the edge by 2-1,000ths of a second – 7.683 to 7.685.

Foster and Gardner will share the Ivy League record, which Gardner set at last year’s meet when he ran 7.75 in Ithaca.

Foster’s previous PR was 7.77, which he ran at the Ott Center in January. Gardner led all qualifiers in Saturday’s trials with a 7.79, with Foster 2^nd in 7.81 in a separate semifinal race.

Foster won the long jump Saturday at 27-0 ½, which broke his own Ivy League record of 26-10 ½ from February in Fayetteville. That’s also No. 2 in NCAA Division 1 this year and No. 10 in the world.

Foster’s time is No. 10 all-time by a New Jersey high school graduate and 5^th-fastest by a South Jersey alum. Foster’s training partner, Chris Serrao of East Brunswick and Rutgers, ran 7.55 in January at the Ott.

7.46 … Jeff Porter [Franklin Twp.], Feb. 1, 2014, Mondeville, France
7.50 … Renaldo Nehemiah [Scotch Plains-Fanwood], March 10, 1989, Madrid, Spain
7.50 … Anwar Moore [Camden], Feb. 24, 2008, Boston
7.52 … Jack Pierce [Woodbury], Feb. 25, 1995, Fairfax, Va.
7.55 … Devon Hill [Trenton], March 10, 2012, Nampa, Idaho
7.55 … Chris Serrao [East Brunswick], Jan. 17, 2026, Philadelphia
7.58… Jamir Brown [Riverside], Feb. 27, 2026, Boston
7.64 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], Jan. 25, 2025, Lubbock, Texas
7.66 … Cory Poole [East Orange], Feb. 14, 2020, Clemson, S.C.
7.69 … Guy Rose [Wayne Hills], Feb. 24, 2001, State College, Pa.
7.69 … Greg Foster [Lumberton / Lawreneville Prep], March 1, 2026
7.72 … Isaac Williams [Willingboro], Jan. 9, 2015, Houston
7.73 … Todd Matthews [Notre Dame], Feb. 17, 2001, Blacksburg, Va.

Foster and Gardner are now ranked at No. 26 in NCAA Division 1 this year

Delsea’s Elisia Lancaster recorded the 3rd-best throw of her life an placed 2nd in the weight throw Sunday at the USATF Championships at Ocean Breeze.

It’s the first national championship podium finish for Lancaster

Lancaster, competing for Shore Athletic Club, threw 74-9 on her 2nd attempt and finished 2nd to 2024 NCAA champion Jalani Davis from Ole Miss, who won with an 81-6.

Lancaster’s 74-9 is her best January of 2024, when she threw 78-2 and 77-2 ¼ in back-to-back meets in Champaign, Ill., and Bloomington, Ind.

The 2nd-place finish is Lancaster’s best ever at a U.S. championship. She finished 5th in the weight at 2024 indoor nationals in Albuquerque.

Lancaster had solid series, with a 70-0 ¼ opener, the 74-9 on her 2nd throw, then 72-10 ½, 72-1 ½ and 73-3 ½ before finishing with a foul.

Lancaster was an All-America in the weight at Southern Illinois after beginning her track career at Rowan College at Gloucester County in Deptford and Towson (Md.) University. She has a hammer PR of 222-7 from Princeton this past May.

It’s been more than two decades since Eastern had a half-miler run sub-1:57, but senior Brandon Lamon ended that streak with a 1:56.85 at Ocean Breeze and followed that up with a 2nd-place finish in the state Group 4 meet at the Bubble Saturday.

Lamon, who had never even placed at a sectional meet, ran 1:58.10 at states and took 2nd to Tahj Wilson of Toms River North, who ran 1:57.60.

Lamon is Eastern’s fastest 800 runner since Andrew Riviello set the school record of 1:56.60 at the 2003 Meet of Champions at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym. Lamon bumped Michael Twist for the No. 2 all-time spot at Eastern. Twist ran 1:57.64 at 2013 Easterns at the Armory.

Nicholas Pschunder set Eastern’s outdoor record of 1:53.79 when he place 4th at the 1990 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield. Lamon ran 2:00.42 last spring at Cherokee but didn’t compete at sectionals.

Looks like Eastern is not entered in Easterns at the Armory on Wednesday, but Lamon will race at the Meet of Champions on Sunday at Ocean Breeze. He goes into the 800 as the No. 9 seed:

1:55.83 … Keandre Kelly [Union Catohlic], 1st, Parochial B
1:56.06 … Ciaran Brosnan [Union Catholic], 2nd, Parochial B
1:57.04 … Connor Polen [Newark Academy], 3rd, Parochial B
1:57.43 … *Quintin Clemons [Union Catholic], 4th, Parochial B
1:57.60 … *Tahj Wilson [Toms River North], 1st , Group 4
1:56.67 … **Liam Angley [St. Peter’s Prep], 1st, Parochial A
1:57.62 … Josh Crawford [Woodstown], 1st, Group 1
1:58.07 … *Brady McHugh [Shore Regional], 2nd, Group 1
1:58.10 … Brandon Lamon [Eastern], 2nd, Group 4
1:58.25 … Seven Garcia [Hackensack], 3rd, Group 4
1:58.35 … Ryan Foley [Mount Olive], 1st, Group 3
1:58.53 … Brady Byrne [Chatham], 2nd, Group 3
1:58.68 … Ronald Ciaccia [Old Bridge], 4th, Group 4
1:58.78 … *Nikos Davlouros [Westfield], 5th, Group 4
1:58.87 … Karson Chew [Woodstown], 3rd, Group 1

Cherokee graduate Fejiro Akiri, a senior at Rutgers-Newark, won her 1st conference title Saturday after four prior podium finishes.

Akiri threw 51-0 ¼ on her final attempt to win the weight by three inches over TCNJ’s Allison Lavin.

Akiri previously placed 3rd in the shot at the 2022 indoor meet, 4th in the shot outdoors in 2022, didn’t compete in 2023 or 2024, then took 3rd in the shot and 4th in the weight indoors in 2025, 2nd in the shot and 3rd in the hammer outdoors in 2025.

Akiri threw within 10 inches of her weight PR of 51-11 ¼ from a meet last March in Ithaca, N.Y. She also has PRs of a school-record 42-11 ½ in the shot, a school-record 150-0 in the hammer and 114-5 in the discus.

She also placed 5th in the shot at the conference meet with a season-best 38-6.

Rowan sophomore Nyla Jones from Timber Creek won her 3^rd straight NJAC hurdles title Friday .

Jones ran 8.87 to win the 60-meter hurdles at the Ott Center. Jones is No. 9 in NCAA Division 3 with her 8.69 at Widener in February. That was 1-100^th of a second off the Rowan indoor record of 8.68 set by Aspen McMillan at 2019 Division 3 Nationals in Roxbury, Mass.

Her 8.87 was off her PR but is still tied for 2^nd-fastest in meet history behind only McMillan’s 8.77 in 2019 and tied with McMillan’s 8.87 in 2018. McMillan set the meet record of 8.76 in the 2019 trials.

Jones won the 60 highs last year in 8.95 at the Ott and she won both the 100-meter highs in 14.85 and the 400-meter intermediates with a school-record 1:00.42 last spring in Ewing. She went on to earn All-America honors with a 5^th-place in the 400IH at the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Geneva, Ohio.

Jones also placed 2^nd in the 200 Friday with a PR 25.11 and ran on Rowan’s 2^nd-place 800-meter relay team, which ran a school-record 1:40.65. Sophomore Paige Franklin of Williamstown, sophomore Ava Reilly of Toms River East and sophomore Amari Pinkett from Egg Harbor township also ran on the 4-by-2.

The Rowan women won the NJAC team title for the first time since 2017.