The Camden boys ran 1:30.47 to win the 800-meter relay Friday evening at the Temple Twilight Invitational at the Don & Shelly Boyce track at Temple University in North Philly.

Camden edged out Roman Catholic of Philadelphia by about half a second. The Panthers’ time is No. 1 in New Jersey this year and Camden’s fastest 4-by-200 in at least 10 years.

The official results from Temple don’t list relay members, so if anybody knows who ran for Camden, please post the names in the comments section. We’d love to report them along with the news of the N.J. #1 time for 2018.

Camden also ran 43.11 for the 400-meter relay, also No. 1 in New Jersey this year in the early going.

The Pennsauken girls won the 400-meter relay Friday night at the Temple Relays Twilight Meet at the Dan & Shelly Boyce Track at Temple University in North Philly.

Pennsauken ran 49.29, winning by more than a second over Success Academy High School of Liberal Arts of Manhattan, which was second in 50.30.

Pennsauken’s time is No. 1 in New Jersey this year by nearly a second over Piscataway’s 50.11.

Freshmen Jon’Nay Lloyd, Jade Pope and Jasmine Pope and senior Brianna Bryan ran for Pennsauken, whose time is fastest by a Pennsauken 4-by-100 since the 2015 team ran 48.87 at states.

Using the same lineup, Pennsauken also won the 800-meter relay with a 1:45.13, which is No. 1 in South Jersey this year and No. 3 in the state behind only Union Catholic and Union, neighboring schools that ran 1:44.60 and 1:44.70 at the Metuchen Relays last weekend. Success was also second in the 4-by-2, more than a second behind Pennsauken.

Jade Pope also won the high jump at 5-3.

 

The Cinnaminson boys posted the fastest 3,200-meter relay time this year by a South Jersey school Wednesday night and a possible Penn Relays qualifier.

The team of senior Justin Arnold, sophomore Austin Gabay, junior Tommy Ungvarsky and senior Max Adams ran 8:08.72, placing fifth sixth overall at the 11th annual Holmdel Twilight Series Penn Qualifier at Bob Roggy Stadium.

Arnold led off with a 2:02.7 and Gabay followed with a 2:01.0 split. Ungvarsky ran 2:04.4 and Adams anchored with a 2:00.5.

There is no set time to qualify for Penn. The top 35 small schools and top 35 large schools are accepted, and the top 12 overall times advance to the Championship of America race.

The four 4-by-800s are scheduled for Friday morning starting at 9:20 a.m. and the Championship of America race is 4:05 p.m. Saturday. The 123rd annual Penn Relays is scheduled for April 26-28 at Franklin Field in West Philadelphia.

Voorhees won with a 7:59.72, and seven other schools broke 8:10. The race produced the eight-fastest times by New Jersey schools this year.

The only other South Jersey school in the field was Egg Harbor Township, which ran 8:09.01.

The Penn Relays distance medley and 3,200-meter relay qualifiers will be announced Monday morning.

This is the fourth time in the last five years Cinnaminson has run at least one sub-8:10 3,200-meter relay:

2014: 8:07.05
2016: 8:08.51
2017: 8:08.74
2018: 8:08.72

Woodstown graduate Ta’riq Thomas, a five-time NCAA All-America at Delaware Valley College, recorded an impressive jumps double Wednesday night at the 8th annual Gwynedd-Mercy Mid-Week Twilight Invitational at Gwynedd-Mercy College’s track in Montgomery County.

On a cold, breezy night, Thomas won the long jump by more than a foot at 23-2 and won the triple jump by nearly four feet with a 45-10 1/2. Both are season bests.

According to the Direct Athletics database, he ranks eighth in NCAA Division 3 in the long jump and 18th in the triple jump.

Thomas has PRs of 24-0 in the long jump from a meet this past indoor season at Lehigh’s Rauch Fieldhouse and 48-9 3/4 in the triple jump from a meet last spring at Swarthmore.

Thomas also ran on Delaware Valley’s 400- and 1,600-meter relay teams Wednesday evening.

Rancocas Valley senior Nick Mirabelli and Schalick senior Zyra Thomas will lead a large South Jersey contingent to the 123rd annual Penn Relays later this month at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia.

Mirabelli is the No. 2-ranked javelin thrower in the U.S at 220-10, and Thomas was the national shot put champion indoors with a 47-5 3/4.

High school acceptances in the 3,200-meter relay and distance medley won’t be announced until next week, but the Penn Relays announced the qualifiers for the individual high school events on Monday.

Athletes in the javelin, discus and 400-meter hurdles were able to use marks from last spring to qualify, since those events aren’t contested indoors. Athletes in all the other events could use marks from either the indoor season or the first few weeks of outdoors. The qualifying deadline was this past Sunday.

Here’s a look at the South Jersey athletes who will make the trip to Philadelphia for this year’s running of the oldest annual track meet in the world!

123rd Annual Penn Relays, Franklin Field
Thursday, April 26
Friday, April 27
Saturday, April 28

BOYS
400-meter hurdles, 9 a.m., Saturday
Kervens Mezilus, Cherry Hill East [53.28]
High Jump, 1:45 p.m., Friday
Kasso Peaks, Eastern [6-6]
Triple Jump, Noon, Saturday
Khaliel Burnett, Delsea [49-1]
Shot Put, 4:30 p.m., Friday
Kamron Kobolak, Cinnaminson [62-7 3/4]
Bill Goldsborough, Delsea [58-8 3/4]
Discus, 12:45 p.m., Friday
Tyler Anzisi, Egg Harbor Twp. [158-10]
Javelin, 2:45 p.m., Friday
Nick Mirabelli, Rancocas Valley [220-10]

GIRLS
400-meter hurdles, 10:20 a.m., Thursday
Jewel Ash, Eastern [1:02.11]
High jump, 2:30 p.m., Thursday
Tierra Hooker, Timber Creek [5-10]
Pole vault, 1:30 p.m., Thursday
Ashley Preston, Delsea [12-7]
Long jump, 1:45 p.m., Thursday
Tionna Tobias, Winslow Twp. [19-8 1/4]
Shot put, 3:30 p.m., Thursday
Zyra Thomas, Schalick [47-5 3/4]
Ciarra Johnson, Winslow Twp. [40-5]
Sydney Thomas, Haddon Heights [40-7 1/2]
Discus, 11:15 a.m., Thursday
Alexis Harrison, Millville [126-10]
Javelin, 4:45 p.m., Thursday
Brielle Smith, Oakcrest [145-0]
Alexa Gardner, Hammonton [142-1]

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Olivier Paul’s first college intermediate hurdles race was a good one. Paul, an Oakcrest graduate, ran 54.97 to win the 400 hurdles on his home track at Stockton University in the Stockton Invitational. Paul won by about four meters.

Paul had a very good indoor season. He was second in the NJAC meet at 400 meters indoors and ran the 400 leg on Stockton’s 10:21.84 distance medley. He made his outdoor debut last weekend with the IH win.

Paul ranks 23rd in NCAA Division 3 and is the No. 3 freshman in the country, according to the Direct Athletics database.

At Oakcrest, Paul ran as fast as 53.65 to win the South Jersey Group 2 sectionals at Central Regional in Bayville.

Paul spent last year at Holy Family College in Northeast Philadelphia but according to archived results on the Holy Family web site he never competed for the Tigers.

Cade Antonucci continued his astounding freshman year at Auburn with a 13-foot javelin PR Saturday at the Jim Click Shootout at the Roy P. Drachman Stadium at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The Holy Spirit graduate bombed a 231-5 to win the meet and lead a 1-2-3 Auburn sweep. The only better throw in Auburn history is Justin Carter’s 239-7 at the 2014 SEC championships in Lexington, Ky.

Antonucci opened at 206-1 and followed with a 198-10 before hitting his 231-5 on his third throw. He fouled, then passed and then finished with a 199-7.

Antonucci, a Mays Landing native, moved up to No. 12 among collegiate throwers, according to the DirectAthletics data base, and he’s also No. 12 among U.S. men, according to the IAAF database.

Before Saturday, Antonucci’s PR was his 220-11 from last year’s Meet of Champions at Northern Burlington. He approached that with a 218-8 two weeks ago at the Florida State Relays in Tallahassee.

Before the Meet of Champs last spring, Antonucci’s PR was a 206-10 from the state Parochial B meet his junior year. He has since thrown 220-11, 217-9, 218-8 and 231-5 in his last four meets.

At Holy Spirit, Antonucci threw 169-1 in the discus, 59-5 1/4 in the shot and 220-11 in the javelin.

Antonucci’s 231-5 is the No. 2 mark in college track this spring by a freshman. Anderson Peters of Mississippi State via Grenada opened with a 268-10 at the Bulldog Relays last month in Starkville, Miss.

His teammate, former NCAA champ Curtis Thompson of Florence, has not thrown this year.

The New Jersey Milesplit database only shows a handful of career meets that Mainland Regional senior Kobe Roberts has thrown the javelin in.

There were three meets in 2016 and two last year, so the Jim Camburn Relays on Friday appears to be Roberts’ sixth career major meet in three years of high school track.

Talk about coming out of nowhere. The elusive Roberts, who is also Mainlands quarterback during football season, threw 197-1 in the large-school javelin competition at Buena, winning by more than 30 feet.

It’s the No. 2 throw in the state this year, behind only RV senior Nick Mirabelli’s 220-10 last weekend at the Rebel Relays in Howell, and it appears to be the No. 2 mark in Atlantic County history with the new implement, behind only Holy Spirit’s Cade Antonucci’s 220-11 at last year’s Meet of Champions.

Roberts’ previous career-best was a 184-4 at the same meet last year. His best throw ever outside Buena was a 172-5 at the 2016 South Jersey Group 3 sectionals at Northern Burlington.

What a day for Delsea senior Khaliel Burnett at the West Chester University Golden Ram Invitational Friday!

Burnett jumped a lifetime-best 23-0 1/2 to win the long jump and nearly PR’d also in the triple jump, winning with a 48-2. His PR is 48-9 1/2, which won the Meet of Champions last year.

Burnett’s marks are both No. 1 in New Jersey this year. There was no wind information listed with the results of the field events.

In the long jump, Burnett won by nearly a foot over Miles Duncan of William Penn, who was second at 22-2. He won the triple by more than two feet over Naheem Moore of Coatesville, who jumped 46-0.

Teammate Tymir Kizee had a heck of a meet, too, jumping a personal-best 43-0 1/2 for third in the triple jump and winning the 110 highs in a near-PR 15.06 despite a 2.6-meters-per-second wind. Kizee ran 15.03 at sectionals last spring.

Back to Burnett.

His 23-0 1/2 is best by a Gloucester County jumper since Woodbury’s Anthony Averett jumped 25-2 1/2 at the 2012 Woodbury Relays [without a wind gauge]. He’s already No. 3 on the all-time South Jersey triple jump list.

How many 23-foot long jumpers have there been in South Jersey history? It’s quite a list!

All-Time South Jersey Long Jump List
26- 8 1/4 … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979
25- 2 …….. Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
25- 0 …….. William Spearman [Woodrow Wilson], 1996
24- 8 1/4 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1989
24- 8 ….….. Isaac Samuels [Willingboro-Kennedy], 1983
24-11 1/4 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2002
24- 5 ….….. Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003
24- 3 3/4 … Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2013
24- 0 1/2 … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 1984
23-11 1/2 … Syteek Farrington [Camden], 2009
23-11 ….….. Preston Beckley [Eastern], 1993
23-11 ….….. Nick Brown [Bridgeton], 1999
23-10 3/4 .. Bob Schuenemann [Collingswood], 1932
23-10 1/4 … Ben Liles [Kingsway], 1992
23-10 …….. Jerry Mathis [Willingboro], 1985
23-10 …….. Steve Harper [Atlantic City], 1993
23- 9 ……… Dave Klemic [Mainland Reg.], 1996
23- 9 ……… Robert Jordan [Millville], 1999
23- 8 1/2 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
23- 8 1/2 … Lamar Sturdivant [Woodbury], 1996
23- 8 1/2 … Sean McPherson [Delsea], 2010
23- 8 ….….. Jamal Powell [Bridgeton], 1991
23- 7 3/4 … Clem Jones [Vineland], 1968
23- 7 1/2 … Matt Rose [Bordentown], 1984
23- 7 1/4 … Reginald Morton [Oakcrest], 2013
23- 6 1/2 … Ed Loges [Shawnee], 1992
23- 6 1/2 … Reggie Riggs [Pennsauken Tech], 1988
23- 6 …….. Tyler Clybourn [Oakcrest], 2016
23- 6 …….. Chris Gillis [Pennsauken], 2000
23- 5 1/2 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2011
23- 5 1/2 … John Meekins [Cinnaminson], 1988
23- 5 1/4 … Chris Vasser [Cape May], 1978
23- 4 1/2 … Bo Melton [Cedar Creek], 2016
23- 4 1/2 … Sean Clifton [Edgewood], 1982
23- 3 1/2 … Tracy Hall [Moorestown], 1977
23- 3 1/4 … Stevenson Cajuste [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2008
23- 3 …….. Kimere Brown [Penns Grove], 2014
23- 3 …….. Jon Dickey [Penns Grove], 1985
23- 3 …….. Bill Conover [Collingswood], 1931
23- 3 …….. Lance Sherer [Vineland], 1978
23- 2 1/2 .. Jamar Byrd [Vineland], 2004
23- 2 1/4 .. Terrence Sorrell [Salem], 1988
23- 2 …….. Quasheem Taylor [Bridgeton], 2015
23- 2 …….. Dave Fairchild [Holy Cross], 1983
23 2 ……… Charles Armstead [Schalick], 1986
23- 2 …….. John Stone [Mainland Reg.], 1997
23- 2 …….. Louis Smith [Burlington Twp.], 1997
23- 1 3/4 … Curtis Wright [Edgewood], 1991
23- 1 3/4 … Marv Forchion [Willingboro], 1986
23- 1 3/4 … Andre Faulcon [Glassboro], 2002
23- 1 ……… Roosevelt Dunmore [Vineland], 1991
23- 1 ……… Jamil Sanders [Bridgeton], 1994
23- 1 ……… Daryll Williams [Deptford], 1996
23- 0 3/4 … Gary Melton [Cedar Creek], 2012
23- 0 1/2 … Iverson Clement [Rancocas Valley], 2017
23- 0 1/2 … Khalil Barge [Camden], 2000
23- 0 1/2 … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2018
23- 0 1/2 … Gary Moore [Overbook], 1974
23- 0 1/4 … Brian Winchester [Vineland], 2010
23- 0 …….. Dave Still [Glassboro], 2016
23- 0 …….. Adam Kucinski [Highland], 2002
23- 0 …….. Keith Washington [Woodbury], 1978

Maryland senior Nick Pulli, a West Deptford High graduate, has made huge strides in the hammer throw this spring, and he PR’d on Saturday in a quad meet in Charlottesville, Va.

Pulli threw 174-1, finishing second to U.S. #7 Hilmar Orn Jonsson of the host Cavaliers. It was Pulli’s third straight meet over 170 feet and broke his PR of 173-4, set three weeks ago at a meet on his home track in College Park, Md.

Before this year, Pulli’s hammer PR was 166-0 from the 2016 Maryland Invitational two years ago. He only threw it once last year.

Pulli was a shot and discus Meet of Champions winner at West Deptford, but he has only thrown the discus in one meet in college. He has thrown the 16-pound shot 53 feet but the hammer, an event he never contested in high school, has emerged as his strongest event.

Pulli’s 174-1 moved him into the No. 9 spot on the all-time Maryland hammer throw performance list.