Rowan’s 1,600-meter relay team, with freshman Marquis Taylor of Woodbury, sophomore Samuel Agbessi of Sterling and junior Dallas Hohney of Glassboro, ran the 15th-fastest time in NCAA Division 3 history at the D-3 Championships Saturday in La Crosse, Wisc.
The Profs placed 3rd in 3:08.24, with the top four teams all running sub-3:09. The race produced the three-fastest times in Division 3 this year.
Rowan broke the school record of 3:08.74 that it set at the 2023 NCAA Championships in Rochester with Sterling’s Marquise Young, Nana Agyemang from Parsippany, Sterling’s Jah’mere Beasley and Amara Conte from Ferris High in Jersey City.
SUNY-Geneseo won the race in 3:07.62, 6th-fastest in D-3 history, and Wisconsin La Crosse was 2ndin 3:08.20, 13th-fastest on the all-time D-3 list.
Taylor and Agbessi ran the first two legs, getting the btaon to Toms River North’s Teddy Wilson, who split 47.07. Hohney anchored in 46.22.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 