Rowan freshman Jah’mere Beasley, a Sterling graduate, ran a fast wind-legal 200 Saturday in a meet at West Chester University’s Farrell Stadium.

Beasley ran 21.72 into a 0.1 meters-per-second headwind, leading a 1-2 Rowan finish with freshman teammate Nana Ageymang, who was second in 22.44.

Beasley, who already ranks No. 1 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference with a 10.86 100 from last weekend (and a 10.95 with legal wind), now ranks No. 1 in the 200 as well. Nobody else in the NJAC is under 22 seconds.

His 200 time is No. 8 in NCAA Division 3 and No. 2 among Division 3 freshmen, behind only Jayden Sloan of McMurry University of Abilene, Texas, who ran 21.67 at the Incarnate Word Invitational in San Antonio this past weekend. 

Sloan also ran a leg on McMurry’s 3:15.13 4-by-4 team, which is the only Division 3 school in the country that’s run faster than Rowan’s 3:15.86.

Beasley has lifetime best of 21.30 from the 2019 Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington. This is the earliest in any season he’s ever run under 22 seconds.

Lehigh sophomore Connor Melko of Bishop Eustace outraced a field of 31 runners to win his first collegiate track 5,000.

Melko ran 14:27.92 at the Bucknell Quad Meet in Lewisburg, Pa., outpacing Garrett Gough of Army by 65 meters. Gough was second in 14:39.23.

In his only other track 5,000, Melko ran 14:47.53 to place 10th at New balance Outdoor Nationals in June of 2019 in Greensboro, N.C.

Melko’s time is No. 2 this year in the Patriot League, behind only Army junior Marshall Beatty, who ran 14:27.61 in a meet in Annapolis, Md., last weekend. Beatty did not compete this weekend at Bucknell.

No splits available on the official results, and as we’ve noted before, Lehigh’s lame web site is one of the few in NCAA Division 1 that doesn’t offer men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor all-time top-10 performance list, so we can’t tell you where Melko ranks in school history or what the school’s freshman record is.

 

Kingsway graduate Rachel Vick dipped down for a rare 800 Saturday and turned in a huge collegiate PR for Connecticut.

Vick, who hadn’t run an open 800 in two years, placed second in the UConn Dog Fight in Storrs with a time of 2:13.48. She finished second to teammate Amy Piccolo, who won the race in 2:12.05.

This was Vick’s first 800 indoors or out since a meet in Storrs in April of 2019. She shattered her PR of 2:16.89, which she ran at the Brown Springtime Invitational in April of 2018 in Providence. Those are the only three 800s she’s run in three years at U. Conn.

Vick didn’t race indoors in 2020 or 2021 and Connecticut didn’t have an outdoor season in 2020, so Vick has only raced three times since May of 2019. Her first two races this spring were 1,500s.

Vick focused on the 1,600 and 3,200 at Kingsway, but she did run a 2:12.28 at Group 4 sectionals in 2017 at Egg Harbor, finishing just behind Brooke Fazio of Ridge, who ran 2:11.25. Fazio has run 2:04.18 this spring.

Francis Terry, Hunter Barbieri, Amara Conte and Vincent Delle teamed up to run the second-fastest 1,600-meter relay time in NCAA Division 3 on Saturday.

Terry is a graduate of Sterling, Barber from Egg Harbor Township, Conte from Ferris High in Jersey City and Delle from Old Bridge. 

Terry, Barber, Conte and Delle ran an unpressed 3:15.86 at the Bill Butler Invitational at West Chester University’s Farrell Stadium. The Profs won by 40 meters over The College of New Jersey, which ran 3:21.12.

The only faster Division 3 time this year was turned in on Friday by McMurry University of Abilene, Texas, which ran 3:15.13 at the UIW Invitational at Incarnate Word University in San Antonio.

The 1985 Rowan team – then Glassboro State College – set the school record of 3:10.1 hand-timed, with Deptford’s Tommy Adams and Overbrook’s Ron Moore on the team. That quartet went on to win the NCAA Division 3 title at 3:11.57

Monmouth freshman Keven Kevelier won the triple jump in a dual meet against Rider Saturday with the No. 7 mark in Monmouth history.

Kevelier, a Collingswood graduate, jumped 47-2 3/4 (with no wind information available) to win the event by about five inches over Rider soph Justin Gladden, who jumped 46-9 1/4.

Kevelier’s previous collegiate PR was 46-8 1/2 in March in a dual meet against Army at West Point, N.Y. 

At Collingswood, Kevelier set his lifetime best of 47-5 1/4 in winning the 2019 Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington. 

Kevelier’s jump is No 2 in the Metro Atlantic Conference this year, behind teammate and indoor MAAC champion Mohamad Didgourga, a former Burlington County Scholastic League champion for Trenton Catholic, who jumped 48-11 3/4 at Lafayette last month.

Buena’s Kristin Siegle obliterated her 800 PR Saturday and shattered Rider’s school record in a dual meet against Monmouth in Lawrenceville.

Siegle won the race in 2:10.83, edging Monmouth freshman Katie Locker, who ran 2:11.48.

She broke Rider’s outdoor school record of 2:11.24, set by Stephanie Welte at the 2016 Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton.

The 2:10.83 is a ridiculous seven-second outdoor PR for Siegle, who hadn’t raced an outdoor 800 since the 2019 Metro Atlantic Conference Championships in Long Branch, where she ran 2:17.90.

Her indoor PR is 2:13.90 from a meet in Albana in February of 2020, before last year’s indoor season ended prematurely.

Siegle went from not even being on Rider’s all-time outdoor 800 top-10 to being on top of the list.

At Buena, Siegle had an 800 PR of 2:20.03 at 2015 Group 3 states at South Plainfield, so she’s shaved nearly 10 seconds off her high school best.

Siegle and Locker moved into the top two spots on the 2021 Metro Atlantic Conference performance list.

Delsea graduate Nico Morales, a freshman at Rutgers, cleared a personal-best 15-7 1/4 at the Rutgers B1G Tri-Meet Saturday in Piscataway.

Morales’ previous PR was 15-7. Since he already had the meet won, he had the bar moved up to a PR height, which he cleared. The meet results site doesn’t have series information, so I’m unable to tell you where he entered, where he had misses, what attempt he cleared 15-7 on and whether he attempted another height. Hopefully, that info is eventually updated within the results.

In any case, Morales’ mark is https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/scarletknights.com/documents/2019/9/19/2019_20_Men_s_Track_and_Field_Fact_Book.pdf

Morales first cleared 15-7 at the 2019 Tri-County Conference Championships at Delsea. He also cleared 15-7 this past winter for Rutgers, in a meet at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. That’s No. 9 in Rutgers indoor history.

Morales’ mark makes him the No. 4 freshman in the Big Ten Conference this year.

Claudine Smith missed the Rutgers outdoor triple jump school record by just three inches Saturday.

Smith, an Atlantic City graduate, jumped 40-11 3/4 at the Rutgers B1G Tri-Meet in Piscataway, an outdoor collegiate best. The timing company did not provide series information or wind information.

Smith’s mark is No. 3 in Rutgers history outdoors, behind only school record holder Kahimah Liverman, who jumped 41-3, and Nwamaka Okobi, who jumped 41-0 1/4.

Her mark is No. 6 this year in the Big Ten Conference.

Her overall collegiate best is a 41-7 1/4 in a meet at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in January of 2000. That’s the best jump in Rutgers history either indoors or outdoors.

Smith’s lifetime best is a 42-2 at the 2019 Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington.

Also in the triple jump, Rancocas Valley graduate Kristina Tossas, a Rutgers freshman, jumped 36-5 for fifth place. She jumped 38-1 1/4 indoors in a meet at Penn State in January. Her high school best was a 37-2 1/2 at 2000 Easterns at the Armory.

Smith also ran 14.24 in the 100-meter hurdles, which is also a collegiate best in only her second outdoor hurdles race. No wind information was provided.

Michigan State’s Shakira Dancy, a graduate of Winslow Township, won the 200 Friday at the Big Ten Invitational Indiana #2 with a collegiate PR.

Dancy ran 24.26 into a 0.2-meters-per-second wind, out-racing second-place Hannah Waller of Michigan, who ran 24.45.

Dancy ran 24.23 last weekend in Iowa City, but that was assisted by a 3.4-MPS wind, and anything over 2.0 is considered wind-aided and not eligible for records and performance lists.

Dancy’s previous college wind-legal PR was a 24.79 indoors at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, in February. That’s an oversized track, so it’s not eligible for indoor records but is considered a legal overall mark.

At Winslow, Dancy ran 23.85 at the 2017 sectionals (with no wind gauge). She was the 2016 Meet of Champions winner in the 200 and a M-of-C runner-up in high school both in the 100 and 400.

Dancy also equalled her collegiate 100 PR Friday with a 12.00. She ran 57.33 last month.

Dancy is a transfer from Florida, where she competed through the middle of the 2020 indoor season. 

Blair Daniel, a Delaware State freshman from Paul VI, recorded a big 400-meter dash PR this week.

Daniel ran 57.78 to place second to freshman teammate Kyra Lyles at the Sting Invitational on Delaware State’s home track in Dover. Delaware State freshmen actually swept the top three spots in the race, with Lyles winning in 56.67 Khaliyah White third in 57.89. All three PR’d.

For Daniel, her previous PR was a 58.38 at the 2019 Camden County Championships at Haddon Township.

Daniel’s previous collegiate best was a 59.56 last month in a meet at High Point, N.C.

Daniel didn’t run on the Lady Hornets’ 4-by-4 in that meet, but she did run a leg on the 400-meter relay team and she did run a 400 leg on Delaware State’s 3:56.74 relay at the Towson Invitational earlier this month.

Delaware State does not have an all-time top-10 on its women’s track and field web site.

Daniel ranks No. 9 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in the 400 and is the No. 2 freshman, behind Lyles.