Winslow’s Nylah Perry, an Iowa freshman, placed 4th in the 400 Saturday at the Big Ten Championships.

Perry ran the two-fastest races of her life the last two days at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, PR’ing in 54.43 in the trials Friday and running 54.54 in Saturdays finals.

With her 54.43, Perry moved into the No. 9 spot on the all-time Iowa indoor 400 performance list. She’s also the No. 12 freshman in the U.S.

Perry came into the meet with a PR of 55.03 from the B1G Invitational earlier this month on the same track.

At Winslow, Perry ran 55.97 as a freshman outdoors at the Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington, and her indoor PR was 56.19 when she won the Meet of Champions last March at Ocean Breeze.

Perry is teammates at Iowa with former Winslow teammate Tionna Tobias, who placed 5th in the pentathlon and 6th in the high hurdles this weekend at the Big Ten meet.

Paulsboro senior football star Bhayshul Tuten, the South Jersey Player of the Year this past fall, ran a personal-best 7.03 in the 60-meter dash Saturday at the adidas National Championships in Virginia Beach.

Tuten, who rushed for 3,768 yards and 77 touchdowns in his Paulsboro football career, was only running his third lifetime 60-meter dash.

His time is No. 2 in Gloucester County history and No. 8 in South Jersey history. A.J. Bunton of West Deptford set the Gloucester County mark of 6.87 in 2007.

Tuten’s previous lifetime best was a 7.13 at a meet on the same track earlier this month

Tuten ran 7.06 earlier Saturday in the trials.. He placed fifth in the final of the “Open Division,” just 1-10th of a second behind the winner.

His 7.03 is fastest by a South Jersey sprinter since another football star, Timber Creek’s Damiere Byrd, won the 60 at the 2011 Brooks PR meet at Dempsey Fieldhouse in Seattle in 6.70. Byrd played football at South Carolina and recently completed his fifth NFL season with a career-high 47 catches for the Patriots.

<b>ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY BOYS 60-METER DASH</b>

6.70 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2011
6.83 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2001
6.87 … Chris Church [Millville], 2007
6.93 … A.J. Bunton [West Deptford], 2007
7.00 … Daequan Prince [Bordentown], 2008
7.01 … Michael Bolling [Willingboro], 1999
7.02 … Rob McGriff [Camden], 2006
7.03 … Gary Gordon [Willingboro], 1995
7.03 … Bhayshul Tuten [Paulsboro], 2021
7.03 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 1996
7.04 … Thomas Hampton [Clayton], 2018
7.06 … Sherron Bullock [Camden], 2004
7.06 … Fabian Santiago [Oakcrest], 2012
7.08 … Curtis Fitzpatrick [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013

Brandon Outlaw placed 4th in the 400-meter dash Saturday at the ACC Championships at Clemson.

Outlaw, a Moorestown graduate, ran the 2nd-fastest 400 of his life, running 46.69 and finishing 5-100ths of a second behind teammate Jordan Willis.

That’s only 11-100ths of a second off his lifetime best.

Outlaw ran his personal-best of 46.58 when he played fourth in last year’s ACC meet at Notre Dame’s Loftus Center the last week of February in 2020.

That was his last 400 final until Saturday. Outlaw ran 47.16 in Friday’s trials. He was the No. 5 seed going into the final.

Outlaw’s outdoor collegiate best is 47.27 from the 2019 ACC meet in Charlottesville, where he placed 9th. He ran 46.82 to win Group 3 sectionals at Bernards in the spring of 2017 and that remains his outdoor PR. He won the 400 at the Meet of Champions that spring as well with a 47.05.

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Sincere Rhea won his first conference title Saturday, edging four other hurdlers in a Big Ten Championship race that saw the first five hurdlers finish within 2-100ths of a second.

Rhea, a Penn State sophomore from St. Augustine, ran a season-best 7.80 – just 4-100ths off his PR – and edged Gratt Reed of Iowa by 1-100th of a second. Two other Iowa hurdlers – Josh Braverman and Jamal Britt – ran 7.82, as did Josh Zeller of Michigan.

The 7.80 is No. 13 in NCAA Division 1 this year, although that does not include other marks made on Saturday.

Rhea, a St. Augustine graduate and native of Maurice River Township in Cumberland County, ran his previous PR of 7.76 in the trials of last year’s Big Ten Championships on the same track and ultimately placed third.

It appears from an impossible-to-navigate Penn State Track Yearbook on the school’s web site that Rhea is the first Penn State hurdler ever to win a Big Ten title indoors or outdoors. 

Rhea has yet to compete outdoors as a collegian.

 

In his first high school race, Willingboro freshman Malachi James ran 7.16 to lead all qualifiers in the freshman 60-meter dash Saturday morning at the adidas National Championships in Virginia Beach.

James ran the No. 4 time in Burlington County history. He raced within 15-100ths of a second of Michael Bolling’s Willingboro school record. The Burlington County record is 7.00, set in 2008 by Bordentown’s Daequan Prince.

James advanced to the final at 2:10 p.m.

Here’s a look at the all-time South Jersey 60-meter dash list. 

<b>ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY BOYS 60-METER DASH</b>
6.70 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2011
6.83 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2001
6.87 … Chris Church [Millville], 2007
6.93 … A.J. Bunton [West Deptford], 2007
7.00 … Daequan Prince [Bordentown], 2008
7.01 … Michael Bolling [Willingboro], 1999
7.02 … Rob McGriff [Camden], 2006
7.03 … Gary Gordon [Willingboro], 1995
7.03 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 1996
7.04 … Thomas Hampton [Clayton], 2018
7.06 … Sherron Bullock [Camden], 2004
7.06 … Fabian Santiago [Oakcrest], 2012
7.08 … Curtis Fitzpatrick [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
7.11 … Kashif Miller [Haddon Heights], 2014
7.13 … Cameron Dobbins [Williamstown], 2015
7.15 … Reggie Morton [Oakcrest], 2012
7.16 … Malachi James [Willingboro], 2021
7.19 … Sterling Pierce [Rancocas Valley], 2015

 

Eastern’s Jailya Ash opened her senior season Saturday morning by advancing in the high hurdles at the adidas Indoor Nationals in Virginia Beach.

In her first race in a year, Ash auto advanced to Sunday’s semifinals by placing second in her qualifying heat in 8.74. The top two hurdlers in each of five heats and the next 14-fastest advanced.

Ash’s previous PR over the 60-meter indoor Barries was an 8.82 in 2019 at the Bullis Invitational at the 168th Street Armory, and her 8.74 is tied for 6th-fastest in South Jersey history. The 55-meter distance is usually run for high school meets, and Ash has a 55 hurdles PR of 8.03, which is tied for No. 8 in South Jersey history.

This is Ash’s first meet since she won the Meet of Champions with that 8.03 last March at Ocean Breeze. Ash was 3rd in the 100 at a the 2019 outdoor Meet of Champions in 11.90. The versatile Ash, who is headed for U. Conn, also won the 2019 indoor Meet of Champions at 55 meters with a 7.06.

Ash will race in the hurdles semis at 9:40 a.m. Sunday. The final is scheduled for 12:20 p.m. Sunday.

ALL-TIME S.J. GIRLS 60-METER HURDLES TOP-10
8.36 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2006
8.50 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
8.52 … Alethia Jenkins [Pennsauken], 2000
8.62 … Lenaami Morton [Camden], 2017
8.64 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 2019
8.74 … Sherese Price [Pleasantville], 1998
8.74 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 2021
8.80 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 1980
8.80 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], 2019
8.83 … Brittany Preston [Winslow Twp.], 2016

EDIT: Ash just ran 7.85 to qualify for the 60-meter dash semifinals as well.

Bria Mack ran a 60-meter dash PR Friday at the Big Ten Championships.

Mack, a Maryland senior from Williamstown, ran 7.45 in the trials of the 60 at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

She qualified for Saturday’s nine-lane final with the fourth-fastest qualifying time after placing third in the third of four heats. The winner of each heat plus the next four-fastest times advanced. Six of the nine qualifiers ran between 7.42 and 7.49.

Mack lowered her PR from 7.49, which she ran in the trials of the B1G Indoor Invitational earlier this month on the same track.

The final is slated for 4:25 p.m. Saturday. Mack will be in lane 8.

Iowa sophomore Tionna Tobias, a Winslow graduate, placed fifth in the pentathlon Friday at the Big Ten Championships with the 6th-highest score in Iowa Hawkeyes history.

Tobias scored 3,625 points in the five-event, one-day test, which includes the hurdles, long jump, high jump, shot put and 800.

Iowa pentathlon all-time top-10
4,200 … Tria Simmons, 2019
4,123 … Jenny Kimbro, 2019
3,974 … Tammilee Kerr, 2008
3,798 … Chris Davenport, 1983
3,701 … Kamesha Marshall, 2005
3,625 … Tionna Tobias, 2021
3,511 … Tiff Pedersen, 2004
3,472 … Sarah Ryan, 2013
3,427 … Maureen Abel, 1979
3,421 … Allison Wahrman, 2017

Tobias opened up by running 8.61 for 993 points in the 60-meter high hurdles, only 16-100ths of a second off her personal-best 8.45 and the third-best hurdles mark in the competition.

Next up was the high jump, and Tobias cleared 5-3 1/4 on her third attempt, chalking up 747 points. 

In the shot, Tobias hit 29-11 1/4, only about a foot shy of her PR of 31-0. That was good for 472 points. She dropped from 2nd place overall to 9th after the shot but moved back up to fifth when she posted the 4th-best long jump mark of the competition at 18-0 1/2, good for 700 points.

In the closing 800, Tobias ran 2:28.38 for 713 points. The 800 was the only event where Tobias didn’t score higher than she did in her first collegiate pentathlon last month.

Tobias’s previous lifetime best pentathlon score was 3,470 points in a multi-event competition at the University of Illinois in Champaign last month, where she ran 8.79 in the highs, high jumped 5-1, threw the shot 30-0 1/2, long jumped 17-3 and ran the 800 in 2:26.88

Tobias also 8.53 to qualify for the 60-meter hurdles final on Saturday.

Atlantic City graduate Claudine Smith placed third in the triple jump Friday at the Big Ten Championships.

Smith, a Rutgers sophomore, leaped a season-best 40-11 1/2 on her second attempt, finishing behind only Nebraska senior Ieve Turke (41-10 3/4) and Iowa grad student Eavion Richardson (41-3 1/4). Turke is from Latvia and Richardson from Great Britain.

Smith also had jumps of 40-5 and 40-3 1/4 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

Smith’s college PR is 41-7 from a meet last winter at Vanderbilt. She hasn’t had a chance to compete outdoors yet as a collegian.

Smith also ran 8.79 in the hurdles trials but didn’t advance to the final.

At Atlantic City, Smith went 40-1 1/2 indoors and 42-2 outdoors when she won the 2019 Meet of Champions. She was 6th last year at the Big Ten Championships with a 39-11 1/4 jump.

Syracuse hurdlers Isaiah Lewis and Jamil Adams, former teammates at Winslow Township, both qualified for the high hurdles final at the ACC Championships Friday. 

https://results.flashresults.com/2021_02-25_ACC/028-1.pdf 

Lewis and Adams both ran PRs of 8.06 although they ran in different heats. Lewis was second in the first heat and Adams fourth in the third heat. The winners of each heat and the next four-fastest time advanced to Saturday’s final.

Lewis’s previous PR over the 42-inch barriers was 8.10 at a meet earlier this month at Blacksburg, Va. Adams matched his lifetime PR of 8.06, which he also ran at a meet at Harvard in January of 2020.

Syracuse sophomore Naseem Smith from Deptford ran 8.17 and finished 11th overall. He was less than 1-10th of a second off his lifetime PR of 8.08, also from that meet at Harvard last winter.

Anthony Vazquez, a Syracuse freshman from Egg Harbor, ran a personal-best 8.29 and finished 14th overall. His previous PR over the 42’s was 8.32 from Virginia Tech earlier this month.

The fifth South Jersey hurdler in the race, Syracuse senior Tyler Garland, unfortunately was not able to finish the race. Garland ran 7.86 at last year’s ACC Championships at Notre Dame and placed 6th.

The final is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday.