Big day in the shot at Weaver Stadium Saturday for Princeton freshman Anthony Liakhnovich of Hammonton and Rider sophomore Damere Lassiter from Glassboro.
Liakhnovich placed 2nd in the shot at the Sam Howell Invitational with an outdoor PR 57-0, not far off his lifetime-best 58-5 ¼ from the Ott Center in February. His previous outdoor best throw was a 54-4 ½ last weekend, also at Princeton.
And Lassiter threw 52-6 ¾, the top mark in the Metro Atlantic Conference so far this outdoor season. Lassiter was also not far off his PR of 52-10 last April at the Penn Relays.
In the discus, Liakhnovich placed 5th with a 161-0, U. Mass Lowell grad student Ian Camerato of Lenape was 6th at 158-11, inches off his PR of 159-3 from a home meet in Lowell last April – that’s 3rd-best in school history – and Lassiter PR’d at 141-11.
Lassiter is No. 5 in Rider history with his 52-10 outdoors, and he’s No. 6 indoors at 52-9 ¼.