Pleasantville’s Irvin Marable III won the 400-meter hurdles and broke the Wilmington (Del.) school record in the 800-meter run at the CACC Championships in Lakewood.
Marable, a Wilmington sophomore, ran 1:55.94 at the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference meet, breaking his season-best of 1:58.16 from an indoor meet in January at the Ott Center. He ran 1:59.06 in his only previous outdoor 800, in Baltimore last month. An article on the school’s web site doesn’t say what the previous school record was.
Marable placed 2nd in the behind Bridgeport sophomore Edoardo Vandelli, who ran 1:52.65.
It looks like Marable ran for Lincoln University in Lower Oxford Township, hester County, and Coffeyville (Kans.) JUCO landing at Wilmington. He ran his PR 1:54.66 in a meet in Mount Olive, N.C., in his final race for Lincoln in May 2023.
Marable won the 400-meter hurdles in 54.94 and then set a PR of 54.40 at a last-chance meet in West Chester.
Marable also anchored Wilmington’s 3rd-place 4-by-4 team, which ran 3:18.41.
Wilmington sophomore Julian Rich from Camden County Tech won the steeplechase in a personal-best 10:15.17.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 