Usually, if Bryanna Craig is throwing the javelin, it’s part of a heptathlon.

This weekend, she had the rare luxury of competing in an open javelin, and she responded with a huge PR.

Purdue competed over the weekend in the Hurricane Invitational in Coral Gables, Fla., and while the meet doesn’t have a heptathlon, Craig was busy doing four individual events. Which is terrific heptathlon training two weeks out from her first college multi.

The high point for Craig in Miami was the javelin, which she threw 130-4 and placed 4th overall. Her previous PR was 118-6 from World Junior Championships in Cali, Columbia, in August.

Considering that 118-6 is worth 593 points in a heptathlon and 130-4 is worth 662 points, that’s a significant jump.

Craig also ran a near-PR 14.11 for 7th in the 100-meter hurdles, high jumped 5-5 ¼ and ran the 200 in 25.06, a PR but wind-aided (2.7).

So far this spring, she ranks 3rd in the Big Ten in the high jump, 6th in the hurdles and 8th. She hasn’t long jumped yet this spring, but the top two long jumpers so far this spring in the Big Ten are from South Jersey – Rancocas Valley’s Kristina Tossas, a Rutgers junior and the conference champ and school record holder indoors, is No. 1 at 20-5, and Winslow’s Tionna Tobias is No. 2 at 20-1. Both are outdoor PRs.

The 14.11 is only 3-100ths off her PR of 14.08 from 2021 in Austin. She’s high jumped 5-10 outdoors at a meet in West Monroe, La., last April. Her wind-legal 200 PR is 25.29 from Eugene USA Under 20’s in Eugene in June.

Craig, who spent her first two years of high school at Millville and graduated from Ruston (La.) High, set her lifetime best of 5,388 points in June when she placed 2nd in the USA Under-20 Championships in Eugene.

This winter, she scored 4,046 points to place 2nd in the Big Ten Championships, 49 points ahead of Tobias, who was 3rd. That ranked her 2nd among all collegiate freshmen.

Craig’s other PRs: 58.14 in the 400, 2:14.27 in the 800, 18-8 ¼ in the long jump (19-0 ¼ wind aided) and 34-7 shot put.

Craig will make her collegiate heptathlon debut March 29-30 at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin.

She’ll be competing against a loaded field including indoor NCAA pentathlon champ Jadin O’Brien of Notre Dame and All-Americas Sterling Lester of Florida and Kristine Blazeevica of Texas.

Kadence Dumas’s monster 2:10 anchor leg led the Eastern girls to the No. 5 indoor sprint medley time in state history at a meet this weekend in Virginia Beach.

Dumas split 2:10.84 to bring Eastern home in 4:01.78, more than 1 ½ seconds ahead of second place at the Virgina Beach Nationals at the Virginia Beach Sports Center. Tallwood High of Virginia Beach was 2nd in 4:03.45.

Senior Johnay Stilley and junior Lomaria Tengbeh ran the opening 200s, giving freshman Natalie Dumas the stick in 5th place. Dumas split 57.20 – fastest of all the quarter-milers – to move Eastern into the lead, and her older sister put the race away.

Eastern’s time is No. 2 in South Jersey history, behind Willingboro’s 4:01.41 for 2nd place at the 2003 National Scholastic Championships at the Armory. It’s 5th-fastest in South Jersey history overall including indoor and outdoor marks and fastest since Lenape ran 4:01.07 at Greensboro (N.C.) Nationals in 2015.

The previous Camden County record was Haddonfield’s 4:03.93 at 2001 Landover (Md.) Nationals at Prince George’s Sports and Learning Center.

I’m not sure what the rules are regarding when the indoor season officially ends, but as far as I’m concerned, the track is indoors, they ran the time and it counts.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor Sprint Medley List
4:01.41 … Willingboro, 2003
4:01.78 … Eastern, 2023
4:03.93 … Haddonfield, 2001
4:04.27 … Cherokee, 2022
4:04.38 … Washington Twp., 2010
4:08.21 … Lenape, 2015
4:08.60 … Lenape, 2012
4:09.27 … Millville, 2008
4:10.01 … Willingboro, 2004
4:10.17 … Camden, 1995
4:10.18 … Willingboro, 2005
4:10.22 … Lenape, 2016
4:10.36 … Lenape, 2013
4:10.43 … Kingsway, 2013
4:10.51 … Lenape, 2007
4:11.02 … Lenape, 2006
4:11.19 … Woodrow Wilson, 2005
4:11.61 … Millville, 2009
4:11.66 … Willingboro, 2006
4:11.93 … Cherokee, 2012
4:11.94 … Kingsway, 2010
4:12.35 … Delsea, 2014
4:12.51 … Rancocas Valley, 2004
4:13.00 … Cherokee, 2013
4:13.0h … Lenape, 2008
4:13.11 … Winslow Twp., 2003
4:13.25 … Washington Twp., 2011
4:13.26 … Buena, 1999
4:13.33 … Camden, 2009
4:13.58 … Seneca, 2016
4:13.72 … Overberook, 2001
4:14.03 … Paul VI, 2020
4:14.17 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
4:14.60 … Cherokee, 2010
4:14.49 … Haddonfield, 2017
4:14.70 … Washington Twp., 2010
4:14.74 … Washington Twp., 2005
4:14.74 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
4:14.84 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2015
4:14.90 … Millville, 2013

All-Time South Jersey Combined Sprint Medley List
3:59.6h … Willingboro, 2003
4:00.34 … Willingboro, 2006
4:00.71 … Willingboro, 2002
4:01.07 … Lenape, 2015
4:01.78 … Eastern, 2023 [i]
4:02.60 … Sterling, 2017
4:02.69 … Willingboro, 2004
4:02.89 … Woodrow Wilson, 2002
4:03.04 … Camden, 1995
4:03.42 … Millville, 2008
4:03.54 … Lenape, 2006
4:04.27 … Cherokee, 2022 [i]
4:04.38 … Washington Twp., 2010 [i]
4:04.44 … Millville, 2013
4:04.86 … Woodrow Wilson, 2009

All-Time New Jersey Indoor Sprint Medley List
3:57.19 … Columbia, 2014
3:58.46 … Union Catholic, 2019
4:00.33 … Neptune, 2011
4:01.41 … Willingboro, 2003
4:01.78 … Eastern, 2023
4:03.13 … Sparta, 2010
4:03.14 … Westwood, 2014
4:03.18 … Columbia, 2010
4:03.22 … Columbia, 2013
4:03.57 … Piscataway, 2006
4:03.69 … Pope John, 2007
4:03.85 … Hopewell Valley, 2005
4:03.93 … Haddonfield, 2001
4:04.27 … Cherokee, 2022
4:04.36 … Columbia, 1983
4:04.38 … Washington Twp., 2010
4:04.47 … Neptune, 2009
4:04.49 … Hunterdon Central, 2015
4:04.81 … Union Catholic, 2017
4:05.83 … Union Catholic, 2016
4:06.22 … Ramapo, 2019
4:07.07 … Pope John XXIII, 2019
4:07.87 … Southern Regional, 2007
4:07.95 … South Brunswick, 2011
4:07.98 … Immaculate Heart, 2010
4:08.17 … Sparta, 2013
4:08.18 … Middletown North, 2017
4:08.21 … Lenape, 2015
4:08.1h … Trenton, 2001
4:08.42 … Woodbridge, 2019
4:08.50 … Columbia, 2009
4:08.59 … Old Bridge, 2009
4:08.53 … Hunterdon Central, 2004
4:08.60 … Lenape, 2012
4:09.04 … Westwood, 2013
4:09.19 … Ramapo, 2013
4:09.21 … Pope John XXIII, 2013
4:09.27 … Millville, 2008
4:09.39 … Pope John XXIII, 2014
4:09.2h … Shabazz, 1986
4:09.60 … Pope John XXIII, 2018
4:09.70 … Neptune, 2010
4:09.89 … Ridgewood, 2020
4:09.96 … Southern Regional, 2009

All-Time New Jersey Combined Sprint Medley List
3:50.82 … Columbia, 2014
3:52.07 … Columbia, 2013
3:52.74 … Neptune, 2010
3:53.70 … Columbia, 2010
3:53.93 … Sparta, 2010
3:54.37 … Southern Regional, 2007
3:55.8h … Columbia, 1980
3:56.54 … Columbia, 2009
3:57.19 … Columbia, 2014 [i]
3:57.44 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:57.51 … Columbia, 2012
3:57.82 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:57.96 … Westfield, 2014
3:58.26 … Pope John XXIII, 2014
3:58.41 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:58.46 … Union Catholic, 2019 [i]
3:58.56 … Columbia, 1995
3:58.59 … Shabazz, 1986
3:59.6h … Willingboro, 2003
4:00.33 … Neptune, 2011 [i]
4:00.34 … Willingboro, 2006
4:00.71 … Willingboro, 2002
4:01.07 … Lenape, 2015
4:01.41 … Willingboro, 2003 [i]
4:01.52 … Pope John, 2008
4:01.78 … Eastern, 2023 [i]
4:01.80 … Ridgewood, 2022
4:01.91 … Woodbridge, 2018
4:01.92 … Sparta, 2012

One note about the outdoor sprint medley list. Willingboro’s 3:59.6 in 2003 came at its own invitational. The time is listed everywhere else as 3:59.0, but what happened is the Boro actually ran 3:59.6 and the woman at the finish line who recorded the time scribbled the “6” and it looked like a “0.” Meet management accepted the time as 3:59.0 even though I went back to the finish line and checked with the finish-line official to see what they had on their watch and they said 3:59.6. The time went out in all results as 3:59.0 and since it’s one of the fastest times in U.S. history it remains recorded that way. But as fast as Willingboro was that day, they weren’t that fast. They really did run 3:59.6.

Rowan sophomore Molly Lodge opened her 2023 outdoor season Saturday with a PR in the 400-meter hurdles and the 4th-fastest time so far in NCAA Division 3.

What makes the performance so remarkable is that she’s never run the intermediate hurdles before.

According to New Jersey Milesplit’s database, Lodge never ran the intermediates at Woodstown – she ran the 100 and 200 and did both horizontal jumps – and the DirectAthletics college track database shows her running the 100, 200, 400 and 100 hurdles as well as competing in the high jump and triple jump last spring in her first year of collegiate outdoor track.

Intermediates? Nowhere to be found.

But racing Saturday at the Washington & Lee Carnival in Lexington, Va., Lodge not only ran 1:04.46, she won the race by 20 meters over Amanda Romano of the host Generals, who was 2nd in 1:07.71.

Her time is fastest by a Rowan woman in five years, since Bordentown graduate Jackie Ansong ran 1:02.81 at the 2018 NJAC Championships in Ewing.

This past indoor season, Lodge placed 3rd in both the 60 and 400 at the NJAC Championships at Ocean Breeze and ran a leg on Rowan’s 8th-place 1,600-meter relay team at the NCAA Division 3 Nationals in Birmingham, Ala.

Last spring, she placed in the top eight in the 100, 200, 400 and high jump at the conference meet and ran a leg on the 3rd-place 4-by-4.

Rancocas Valley graduate Kristina Tossas, a Rutgers junior, opened her 2023 outdoor season with a monster 20-5 long jump at the UCF Black and Gold Invitational in Orlando.,

That’s No. 4 in Rutgers outdoor track history behind Shameka Marshall of Oakcrest [21-6 ¾ at the 2005 ECAC Championships at Princeton], Williamstown’s Gabrielle Farquharson [21-5 ½ at the 2016 Seminole Invitational in Tallahassee, Fla.] and Asha Ruth [21- ½ at the 2012 Big East Championships in Tampa].

So three of the top four long jumpers in Rutgers history are from South Jersey. Ruth attended high school in Bowie, Md.

Tossas only managed three legal jumps, but she hit 20-1 ½ and 20-5 on back-to-back jumps in the trials before a 19-3 ½ to open the finals. She fouled on her 1st, 5th and 6th attempts.

Tossas is coming off a monster indoor season that she concluded by winning the Big Ten long jump at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, with a 20-9 ¼. That’s No. 3 in Rutgers history indoors and was a PR by more than a foot. It gave her a final U.S. ranking of No. 18 and left her just 2 ½ inches from qualifying for the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque.

Tossas also had a 20-2 ¼ at indoor Big Ten’s as well as a near-miss 19-11 ½. So after entering Big East with a PR of 19-7 ½ she’s now jumped 20 feet plus four times in her last two meets – one indoors and one outdoors.

Before Saturday, her outdoor PR was 19-0 on her only legal jump at the Tennessee Relays last April in Knoxville.

At R.V., Tossas had a PR of 18-7 ½ from the 2019 state Group 4 meet at Franklin High. Her indoor PR was 17-10 from a meet at Ocean Breeze in February, 2020.

Tossas will be in action a little closer to home next weekend when Rutgers competes in the Monmouth Open in West Long Branch

In his first healthy race in a month, Haddonfield senior George Andrus ran an indoor mile PR at Boston Indoor Nationals in Brighton, Mass.

Andrus ran 4:18.48 for a full mile, which converts to 4:16.98 for 1,600 meters, below his previous indoor PR of 4:17.72 set at Group 2 sectionals at the Bubble. That’s fastest by a South Jersey runner this winter.

Andrus was sick at states and wasn’t close to 100 percent and didn’t race again until Nationals.

Last spring, Andrus ran 4:10.97 for 1,600 meters on his home track as well as 9:09.38 for 3,200 meters at states. He was the state Group 2 XC champ this past fall and ran 15:40 at Holmdel when he was 2nd at the Meet of Champions.

The Villanova-bound Andrus got out in 61.68 and 2:06.38 and came back in 2:10.10. His time is No. 4 in Haddonfield history, behind Greg Pelose [4:11.93 in 2016], Jim Smith [4:15.2 in 1980] and Ben Potts [4:16.85 in 2011] and No. 6 in Camden County history.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 1,600 List
y=converted from yards
4:09.96y … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 2011
4:11.03y … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 2009
4:11.32y … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2022
4:11.89y … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
4:11.93y … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2016
4:13.68y … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
4:13.87y … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2020
4:14.1y … Marty Ludwikowski [C.H. West], 1975
4:15.2y … Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 1980
4:15.52 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2014
4:16.0y … Greg Stremmel [Gateway], 1974
4:16.02 … Erik Johnson [Ocean City], 2012
4:16.3y … Rich Caton [Woodbury], 1979
4:16.61y … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 2004
4:16.71y … Dave Forward [Shawnee], 2009
4:16.85 … Ben Potts [Haddonfield], 2011
4:16.98y … George Andrus [Haddonfield], 2023
4:16.9y … Bob Marino [Williamstown], 1974
4:17.1y … Mike Mantini [Gateway], 1978
4:17.33y … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 2004
4:17.51y … Connor Melko [Bishop Eustace], 2019
4:17.57 … Tobias Janssen [Haddonfield], 2021
4:17.67 … Derek Gess [Haddonfield], 2018
4:17.67y … Sebastien Reed [Pitman], 2020
4:17.98 … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 2022
4:18.21y … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
4:18.22 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
4:18.28 … Alex Boyko [Cinnaminson], 2023
4:18.48 … Justin Kelly [Cherokee], 2018
4:18.50 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
4:18.53y … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 2001
4:18.4y … Al Harden [Millville], 1979
4:18.4h … Mike Myers [Eastern], 2001
4:18.62 … Brady Shute [Woodbury], 2021
4:18.70y … Ethan Wechsler [Cherokee], 2019
4:18.73 … Jacob Cobb [West Deptford], 2022
4:18.80y … Austin Gabay [Cinnaminson], 2020
4:18.83 … Tyler Jackson [Cherokee], 2020
4:19.02 … Jack Bolling [Haddon Heights], 2023
4:19.03 … Noah Culbreath [Kingsway, 2014
4:19.07y … Owen Ritti [Ocean City], 2022
4:19.40 … Justin Branco [Delsea], 2015
4:19.7y … Chris Hageman [Paul VI], 1985
4:19.96 … Robert Rawls [Triton], 2011
4:19.97 … Steve Burkholder [Cherokee], 2010

Oakcrest junior Ryan Merlino broke a 32-year-old county record with a 14-9 clearance at Boston Indoor Nationals Saturday in Brighton, Mass.

That’s No. 11 in South Jersey history.

Merlino broke the Atlantic County mark of 14-6 ¼ set in 1991 by Absegami’s Brandon Kurtz.

Merlino placed 3rd in the Rising Stars division of the pole vault and added three inches to his PR of 14-6, which he set at the Meet of Champions a week earlier at Ocean Breeze.

Merlino was one of three vaulters to clear 14-9 but placed 3rd because he had more misses at earlier heights than the two others, Jason Olivera Jr. of St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Tyler Cash of Allatoona High in Acworth, Ga.

After clearing opening height of 13-3 ½ on his second attempt, 13-9 ¼ on his third try and 14-3 ¼ on his second, Merlino was one of six vaulters still alive with the bar moving up to 14-9 in the metric progression.

All six missed their first two attempts, and Olivera, Cash and Merlino cleared on their third try. All three then missed three attempts at 15-1.

The meet capped a tremendous junior year for Merlino, the top underclassman in New Jersey and only the third South Jersey underclassman ever to clear 14-9 or higher, following Nico (15-6) and Marco (15-0) Morales of Delsea in 2019.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor Pole Vault List
16-0 … Marco Morales [Delsea], 2020
15-6 … Dan Batdorf [West Deptford], 2008
15-6 … Nico Morales [Delsea], 2019
15-1 … Dylan Altland [Kinsgway], 2014
15-0 ¼ … Devon Purves [Haddonfield], 2006
15-0 … Mark Murphy [Haddonfield], 1985
15-0 … Mike Davis [Haddonfield], 2004
15-0 … Mike Rivard [Haddonfield], 2009
15-0 … Noah Kriesman [Cherry Hill East], 2021
14-11 ¼ … Tom Jeffers [Triton], 2011
14-9 … Ryan Merlino [Oakcrest], 2023
14-7 … Brian Banks [Eastern], 2011
14-6 ¼ … Brandon Kurtz [Absegami], 1991
14-6 … Mike Maira [Seneca], 2009
14-6 … Michael Oberg [Ocean City],
14-6 … Jarrod Brovero [Delsea], 2016
14-6 … Kyle Loveland [Moorestown], 2016

Three South Jersey women contributed to a huge Rowan school record Saturday in the 1,600-meter relay.

Sophomores Jasmine Broadway of Burlington Township, Molly Lodge of Woodstown and Neveah Lorjuste of Triton – along with senior Kat Pedersen of Hillsborough – ran 3:50.39 at the NCAA Division 3 National Championships in Birmingham, Ala. Rowan placed 8th.

Pedersen led off with a 58.54 split, Broadway ran 57.87, Lodge split 57.71 and Lorjuste anchored in 56.28.

Rowan had qualified with a 3:52.23 in Friday’s trials, with Pedersen [58.84], Broadway [58.46], Lodge [57.75] and Lorjuste [57.18].

The previous school record was 3:50.98 at Ocean Breeze last month with Kat Pedersen, Jasmine Broadway, Molly Lodge and Naveah Lorjuste.

When the year began, Rowan’s 4-by-4 record was 3:54.38 set in 2015 at the ECAC Championships at the Armory by a team that included Pemberton’s Shailah Williams and Cherokee’s Jessalynn Wright. Brianna Angellela from Southern Regional and Melirah Searcy of Edison also ran on that team.

Rowan first broke the school record in February when Pedersen, Broadway, Lodge and Lorjuste ran 3:52.57 at Boston University. Two weeks later, the same quartet ran 3:50.98 at Ocean Breeze to lower the record again.

Rowan’s 3:50.39 moves them into the No. 19 performer spot on the all-time NCAA Division 3 list.

Lorjuste also qualified for nationals in the open 400 and set a PR of 58.06, finishing in 15th place overall.

Pennsauken finished a magical indoor season with 3rd place and All-America honors Sunday in the 1,600-meter relay at Boston Indoor Nationals, the final race of the year.

Freshman KaRon Ali, junior Ladanian McGrath and seniors Premier Wynn and Bryce Tucker ran 3:17.10 and finished behind only Seton Hall Prep of West Orange, which broke its own state record of 3:15.73 with a 3:14.53 – No. 5 in U.S. history – and Cuthbertson High of Waxhaw, N.C., which ran 3:16.27.

They were the 2nd All-America honors of the weekend for Wynn and Tucker.

Pennsauken had run 3:15.83 – No. 11 in U.S. history – in edging Seton Hall Prep at the Meet of Champions last Sunday at Ocean Breeze. Sunday’s 12th and final section of the 4-by-4 featured the four-fastest teams in the country – Montverde (Fla.) Academy [3:15.31], Seton Hall Prep, Pennsauken and IMG Academy of Bradenton, Fla. [3:16.55].

Cuthbertson won the 11th section in 3:16.27, and Seton Hall and Pennsauken went 1-2 in the final race, although Cuthbertson’s time held up for second place. Toms River North placed 4th in 3:17.19, No. 13 in state history and a 1-3-4 New Jersey finish.

Seton Hall Prep was DQ’d when an official ruled that their 3rd runner interfered with Monteverde on the second lap of their 400-meter legs, but the Pirates were reinstated about an hour later after successfully appealing the ruling.

Ali opened with a 51.59 for Pennsauken, followed by McGrant at 50.82. Wynn followed with a 47.42 split and Tucker anchored in 47.27.

All in all, it was a remarkable weekend for Pennsauken.

In the sprint medley, with juniors Elijah Jennings and Bronze Whitmore along with Wynn and Tucker, Pennsauken ran 3:29.31 for 2nd place and No. 3 in South Jersey history an No. 14 in state history and All-America honor for juniors Elijah Jennings and Bronze Whitmore as well as Wynn and Tucker.

In the 800-meter relay, the Indians ran 1:28.77 with Ali, Whitmore, Jennings and Wynn, Pennsauken placed 11th with the 7th-fastest time in South Jersey history and No. 18 in state history.

 

Paul VI junior Shaelan McNally joined the sub-5 club Saturday with a PR performance at the New York Indoor Nationals at the Armory.

McNally ran 5:01.18 for a full mile and placed 2nd in the Emerging Elite division. Her time converts to 4:59,.43 for 1,600 meters and makes her the 17th girl in South Jersey history to go under five minutes indoors.

She’s the fastest miler in South Jersey this winter.

McNally placed 2nd to senior Grace Tyson of Lafayette High in Wildwood, Mo., who won the race in 4:57.61.

Her previous PR was 5:01.74 at last weekend’s Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze, and her outdoor PR is 5:02.10 from Delsea last May.

McNally is the No. 2 junior in New Jersey this indoor season, behind only Freehold Township’s Emma Zawatski, who ran 4:48.71 in Boston last month and won the Meet of Champions in 4:49.53.

McNally doubled back later in the day and ran 18:38.57 for the 5,000.

All-Time South Jersey Indoor 1,600-Meter List
4:41.52y … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
4:49.46y … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
4:51.60 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2016
4:52.33y … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
4:53.36 … Lindsey Kane [Washington Twp.], 2014
4:53.85 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
4:54.58 … Celine Mazzi [Delsea], 2014
4:55.04y … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2010
4:56.1h,y … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1985
4:57.12 … Megan Quimby [Lenape], 2015
4:57.72 … Caitlin Orr [Lenape], 2010
4:57.77y … Aubrey Pierontoni [Kingsway], 2022
4:58.48 … Natalia Ocasio [Lenape], 2010
4:59.28y … Grace Wassell [Highland], 2022
4:59.29 … Julia Despirito [Shawnee], 2014
4:59.39 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012
4:59.43y … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2023

Washington Township junior Yashahya Brown advanced easily to the hurdles finals at Boston Indoor Nationals on Sunday morning.

Brown, whose 7.80 in Saturday’s qualifying rounds is 4th-fastest in state history over the 60-meter hurdles, followed that with a 7.82 to win the first of four semifinal races Sunday in Brighton, Mass.

He’ll be the No. 3 seed in the final behind only Abdoul Sy-Savane of Parkview High in Lilburn, Ga. [7.76] and Joshua Mooney of Stonington High in Pawcatuck, Conn. [7.80].

In the final, Brown will line up in Lane 3, Sy-Savane in Lane 4 and Mooney in Lane 5.

The final is scheduled for 12:26 p.m. Sunday.