From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Crazy quad win Friday for Ocean City junior Elaina Styer at the Cape May County Championships on her home track at Ocean City.

Styer won the high jump at 4-10, long jump at 16-9, triple jump with a 36-1 and would you believe the shot put with a 30-1 ½.

That’s 32 points for Ocean City, which won the team title 196-103 over Middle Township.

Although none of those marks is a PR, all are close to PRs, which is impressive considering she competed in four events. She was two inches shy of her PR in the high jump, 1 ¼ inches off her long jump PR, 5 ½ inches shy in the triple jump and just under a foot off her shot put PR.

Other Ocean City winners were freshman Chloe Care [2:30.48 in 800, 5:28.05 in 1,600], freshman Naomi Nnewihe [13.17 in 100], senior Maggie Halbruner [28.42 in 200], senior Abby Inserra [13:22.44 in 3,200], senior Marissa Sampson [89-6 javelin] and the 4-by-4 team of Care, junior Natalie Hope, senior Aimee Altieri and Halbruner.

Other winners were Middle Township senior Keira Phillips [1:00.68 in 400 and 1:08.88 in 400IH], Lower Cape May senior MaryKatelyn West [17.41 in 100HH, 9-0 in pole vault] and Middle Township sophomore Daniella Oliver [99-8 in discus]

For the first time in 11 years, Willingboro is atop the Burlington County track world.

The Chimeras won their 26th Burlington County Open title, outscoring six-time defending champion Rancocas Valley, 107-97.

The meet was held Saturday and completed Wednesday with the triple jump and discus.

From 1976 through 2005, the Chimeras won 24 of a possible 30 team titles. But they won just one of the next 14 meets while R.V. dominated. The Red Devils’ streak of six straight titles was the longest since Willingboro won seven in a row from 1999 through 2005. The Boro won 16 in a row from 1976 through 1991.

Rancocas won titles in 2014 through 2017, plus 2019 and 2021. The meet wasn’t completed in 2018 and the 2020 meet was cancelled. So this is the first time since 2013 RV hasn’t won.

For Boro, the pole vaulters led the way, with sophomore Jackson Murry and senior Bryon Gary placing 1-2 for 18 big points. Murry cleared 13-0 on his second attempt, tying his PR, and Gary cleared 11-6. Murry is the No. 2 sophomore vaulter in New Jersey.

Sophomore Malachi James won his second straight 100-200 double running 11.00 in his first race since last year’s Meet of Champions in June, then coming back to win the 200 in 22.16. He’s the first to double the 100 and 200 in back-to-back years since Robert Jones of Maple Shade in 2012 and 2013.

Senior Jaylen Young won the 400 in a personal-best 50.55 and also took fifth in the 200. Senior Georgdan Collins took fifth in the 400.

C.J. Johnson threw 53-6 ¼ on his final attempt to win the shot put. He’s Willingboro’s first county shot put champ in 21 years, since Dzigbodi Ababio threw 52-6 in 2001. He also placed 4th in the discus at 128-3.

Senior Anais Hughes won the high jump with a PR 6-2, and Hughes and junior Kedaar Wilson scored in the high hurdles, Hughes taking 3rd in 15.45 and Wilson 5th in 15.93, and Wilson also placed 2nd in the intermediates in 60.22, with senior Chris Johnson 6th in 62.60.

In the field, sophomore Derrick Bryant jumped 20-0 for 5th place, senior Bryson Wright threw 124-5 for 5th in the javelin

Young, Jackson Murry, Rae-Juan Gayle and James placed 2nd to R.V. in the 400-meter relay in 44.26. And Christian Bryant, Collin Dixon, Johnson and Karim Nasser combined to run 8:57.46 for 5th in the 3,200-meter relay. Also, Young, Murry, Collins and Johnson ran 3:30.37 for second in the 1,600-meter relay but were DQd.

Other winners were Cherokee junior Patrick Ditmars in the 800 [1:55.93], Cherokee senior Conor Jacob in the 1,600 [PR 4:25.84], Cinnaminson senior Alex Boyko in the 3,200 [9:24.68], Pemberton senior Zach DeBose in the 110 highs [15.10, second in a row], Delran sophomore Jamir Brown in the 400 intermediates [58.39, first from Delran to win the 400IH since Meet of Champions winner Harran Williams in 1999] and long jump [22-0 ½, first from Delran since Dennis Fields in 2011] , Cherokee sophomore Zach Ott in the javelin [138-6], Moorestown soph Rece Englehart in the triple jump [44-6 ½] and R.V. junior Devon Brooks in the discus [137-3].

If five South Jersey miles under 4:17 at Haddonfield Thursday night wasn’t enough, a sixth ran well under 4:17 a few hours later at Holmdel.

Cherokee junior Patrick Ditmars ran 4:15.26 and placed 3rd out of more than 600 runners in 27 sections of 1,600 meters at the Holmdel Twilight Series Royal Rumble at Bob Roggy Stadium.

Ditmars’ previous PR was 4:19.61 at last year’s state Group 4 meet at Franklin High School.

Marco Langan from Bridgewater-Raritan won the race in 4:07.93. His PR was 4:11.40 indoors at the North 2 Group 4 sectionals at the Bubble in February – which was the last competitive 1,600 or mile he ran.

Colin Riley of Jonathan Dayton was 2nd in 4:13.92, dropping his PR from 4:16.51 also indoors at the Bubble in the Meet of Champions in March.

Ditmars’ time is No. 3 in Cherokee history, behind only Shawn Wilson [4:11.69 in 2013] and Marc Pelerin [4:11.86 converted from full mile in 2002] and just ahead of Steve Burkholder [4:15.49 in 2010] and Ethan Wechsler [4:15.52 in 2019].

It’s also No. 7 in Burlington County history and fastest since 2013, when Wilson ran 4:11.69 on the same track.

It’s also a Burlington County junior class record, breaking the mark of 4:15.52 set by Wechsler at the 2019 state Group 4 meet at Franklin.

Another Cherokee junior, Conor Jacob, PR’d in 9th place overall with a 4:18.45, a more than seven-second PR from his 4:25.84 when he won the Burlington County Open last weekend at Rancocas Valley.

And Cherokee sophs Nick Kuenkel and Robert Poplau ran 4:24.93 and 4:27.33, lowered their PRs from 4:26.13 at R.V. Saturday for Kuenkel and something north of 4:40 for Poplau, who hadn’t run a competitive 1,600 since freshman year.

Junior Thomas Bromley made it five Chiefs under 4:30. Bromley ran 4:27.89, dropping his PR nearly nine seconds.

Here’s the updated Burlington County sub-4:16 list:

4:11.15 … Ryan Garvin [Lenape], 2009
4:11.69 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
4:11.86y … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
4:13.1y … Ricky Jacques [Burlington Twp.], 1968
4:14.60 … Matt Poskus [Cinnaminson], 2007
4:14.8y … Vance Watson [Willingboro], 1982
4:15.26 … Patrick Ditmars [Cherokee], 2022
4:15.28 … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 2004
4:15.44 … Brian Tetreault [Cinnaminson], 2007
4:15.49 … Steve Burkholder [Cherokee], 2010
4:15.52 … Ethan Wechsler [Cherokee], 2019

Absolutely insane 1,600 at Haddonfield Thursday night, with five Colonial Conference milers under 4:17, including Seth Clevenger and George Andrus with two all-time South Jersey top-10 ties.

Wow!

Clevenger, a Haddonfield senior, won the race at the Haddonfield Invitational in 4:09.34, with Andrus, a Haddonfield junior, second in 4:10.97.

Those times rank No. 6 and No. 8 in South Jersey history and No. 2 and 4 in New Jersey this year.

Clevenger missed the Haddonfield school record of 4:09.30, set at the 2009 Meet of Champions by Colin Baker, by only 4-100ths of a second. Ocean City and Haddonfield now claim five of the eight-fastest times in South Jersey history.

Clevenger’s previous PR was 4:12.92 earlier this month at the South Jersey Elite at Delsea. Andrus’s previous PR was 4:15.93 for a full mile last month at Westfield, which converts to 4:14.45 for 1,600 meters.

Incredible race by Woodbury sophomore Peyton Shute in 3rd place. Shute ran 4:14.89, just off the South Jersey sophomore class record of 4:14.14 set by Haddonfield’s Ben Potts at the 2011 Meet of Champions.

Shute’s previous PR was a 4:17.46 earlier this month at South Jersey Elite. His time is No. 8 among U.S. sophomores, according to the MileSplit national rankings, and it’s the fastest by a New Jersey sophomore in five years.

He’s only about 2 ½ seconds off the Woodbury school record of 4:12.5 – converted from a 4:13.9 full mile – by legendary Rich Caton in when he won the 1978 Penn Relays Scholastic Mile.

West Deptford senior Jacob Cobb was next across the line with a 4:16.20, another PR. Cobb had run 4:16.52 at the South Jersey Elite.

Shute and Cobb are now No. 11 and No. 15 all-time on a very fast Gloucester County list. Gloucester County, which accounts for 16 percent of South Jersey’s population, is responsible for 37 percent of the 35-fastest times in South Jersey history.

Cobb came back to win the 800 with a PR 1:57.25, with Paulsboro junior Jamile Gantt also under two minutes in 1:59.30 – a three-second PR.

Crossing the line just behind Cobb was Haddon Heights junior Colin Patterson with a school-record 4:16.84. He dropped nearly three seconds from his PR of 4:19.82 from South Jersey Elite.

The fast running didn’t stop there!

Audubon senior Scott Hubbard placed 6th in 4:21.20, dropping his lifetime best from 4:24.26 (converted from a full mile) at Ridge earlier this month.

Before we get to the all-time South Jersey list, check out the all-time Haddonfield top-10. It’s insane!

4:09.30 … Colin Baker [Haddonfield], 2009
4:09.34 … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 2022
4:10.97 … George Andrus [Haddonfield], 2022
4:13.26y … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2015
4:14.14 … Ben Potts [Haddonfield], 2009
4:14.25 … Matt Nussbaum [Haddonfield], 2010
4:14.3h … Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 1980
4:14.50 … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 2003
4:15.0h … Dan Gough [Haddonfield], 1987
4:15.52 … Derek Gess [Haddonfield], 2018

And here’s the all-time South Jersey top-50!

4:07.07y … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 2009
4:08.58 … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2021
4:08.7y ….. Mike Elder [Haddon Twp.], 1973
4:09.19 … John Richardson [Ocean City], 2003
4:09.30 … Colin Baker [Haddonfield], 2009
4:09.34 … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 2022
4:10.24y ….. Mike Mantini [Gateway], 1979
4:10.97 … George Andrus [Haddonfield], 2022
4:11.07 … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
4:11.15 … Ryan Garvin [Lenape], 2009
4:11.46 … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 2010
4:11.49 … Jim Wyner [Mainland Reg.], 2004
4:11.69 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
4:11.78 … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
4:11.84 … Tom Cooke [Kingsway], 2012
4:11.86y … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
4:12.05y … Murad Campbell [Overbrook], 1999
4:12.08 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2014
4:12.1y ….. Al Harden [Millville], 1978
4:12.3y ….. Ed Blakeley [Haddon Twp.], 1975
4:12.5y ….. Dick Caton [Woodbury], 1978
4:13.23 … Justin Branco [Delsea], 2015
4:13.1y … Ricky Jacques [Burlington Twp.], 1968
4:13.26y … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2015
4:13.46 … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2019
4:13.4y … Greg Stremmel [Gateway[, 1973
4:13.64h … Jason DiJoseph [Paul VI], 1988
4:13.71 … Dominick Munson [Timber Creek], 2015
4:13.83 … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 2003
4:13.85 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013
4:14.1y … Charles McCarthy [Paul VI], 1972
4:14.14 … Ben Potts [Haddonfield], 2009
4:14.25 … Matt Nussbaum [Haddonfield], 2010
4:14.3h … Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 1980
4:14.50 … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 2003
4:14.60 … Matt Poskus [Cinnaminson], 2007
4:14.84h … Greg Hughes [Mainland Reg.], 2004
4:14.89 … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2022
4:14.8y … Ed McGowan [Highland], 1972
4:14.8y … Vance Watson [Willingboro], 1982
4:14.9h … Jeff Boyer [Camden], 1983
4:15.12 … Owen Long [Haddon Twp.], 2015
4:15.0y … Bob Marino [Williamstown], 1975
4:15.0y … Bradley Pomeroy [Cherry Hill East], 1977
4:15.0h … Dan Gough [Haddonfield], 1987
4:15.0h … Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], 1997
4:15.19 … Mark Sivieri [St. Augustine], 1990
4:15.28 … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 2004
4:15.35 … Steve Mazur [Highland], 1992
4:15.44h … Jeff Davis [Cumberland Reg.], 1985
4:15.44 … Brian Tetreault [Cinnaminson], 2007
4:15.52 … Derek Gess [Haddonfield], 2018

Big race today for Sterling grad Marquise Young, who won the 110 highs with a personal-best time at the AARTFC Championships.

Young, a sophomore at Rowan, ran 14.37 Thursday and edged Brett Morse of SUNY Cortland by 1-100th of a second to win the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference meet at Moravian University in Bethlehem.

Young had just set a PR of 14.55 in the trials on Wednesday. Before this week, his PR was 14.57 from his win at the NJAC meet in Ewing last week. He had a PR of 14.98 as recently as late March.

That 14.37 was wind-legal with a 1.2-meters per second tailwind and moves Young up from No. 25 to No. 10 this year in NCAA Division 3.

Young and Morse were separated by only 1-100th of a second in Wednesdayt’s  trials also, Young leading all qualifiers at 14.55 and Morse running 14.56.

Next up for Young is the NCAA Division 3 Championships next week at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

This will be Young’s second trip to NCAA Division 3 nationals. He’s already an NCAA Division 3 national champ and All-America as a member of Rowan’s 1,600-meter relay team at indoor nationals in March in Winston-Salem, N.C., but he missed the high hurdles final indoors by 2-100ths of a second.

The 110-meter highs qualifying round is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. a week from Friday at SPIRE and the final is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday.

Delsea senior Jason Nwosu unloaded the 12th-best discus throw in South Jersey history Wednesday.

Nwosu threw 182-7 at the Tri-County Championships at Kingsway, surpassing his previous PR of 177-10 in late April in a meet at East Stroudsburg (Pa.) University.

His mark is No. 3 in Gloucester County history behind Delsea’s Josh Awotunde and Deptford’s Ken Manahan.

Awotunde threw 192-5 at the 2013 state Group 3 meet at South Plainfield and placed 5th in the shot put in March at the IAAF World Indoor Championships at Štark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia. He ranks No. 15 in U.S. history at 72-10.

Manahan threw a then-South Jersey record 185-5 at the 1976 Gloucester County Championships at Woodbury, breaking the S.J. mark of 178-0 set in 1970 by Millville’s Jim Stites at the 1970 Meet of Champions at Highland Park.

Nwosu’s mark is No. 3 in New Jersey this year, behind only Bergen Catholic’s Benjamin Shue, who set a national freshman record of 193-0 at the Penn Relays, and Southern Regional junior Fabian Gonzalez, who threw 184-8 at Penn.

Nwosu also won the shot put at 59-6 ¼, leading a 1-2-3 Delsea sweep. Senior Josh Caudill was 2nd with a PR 55-6 ½ and sophomore Greg Masso 3rd with an outdoor PR of 51-1 ½.

Penns Grove junior Janier Armstead placed second with a monster PR of 165-10, which is No. 9 in New Jersey this year and No. 3 in South Jersey, behind only Nwosu and his Delsea teammate Cade Berardelli, who threw 174-11 at the South Jersey Elite at Delsea earlier this month.

Armstead’s previous PR was 143-11 at the Woodbury Relays, so this was a nearly 22-foot PR. His best throw last year was 105-4, and as recently as April 22 he hadn’t thrown beyond 123-1. Wow!

His throw is No. 3 in Salem County history and best by a Salem County thrower in eight years, since Penns Grove’s Anthony Robertson threw 170-0 at the 2014 Tri-County Conference Championships at Delsea.

Nwosu is the 7th thrower in South Jersey history to hit 60 feet in the shot and 180 feet in the discus:

Ron Dayne [Overbrook]
SHOT: 64-6 ¼, 1996
DISCUS: 216-11, 1996

Braheme Days Jr. [Bridgeton]
SHOT: 68-8 ½, 2012
DISCUS: 199- 6, 2013

Josh Awotunde [Delsea]
SHOT: 61-6, 2013
DISCUS: 192- 5, 2013

Ray Wilks [Bridgeton]
SHOT: 64-5, 1995
DISCUS: 189- 7, 1995

Matt Huckabee [Timber Creek]
SHOT: 61-2 ½, 2010
DISCUS:185-7, 2010

Kamron Kobolak [Cinnaminson]
SHOT: 61-11 ¾, 2018
DISCUS: 185- 6, 2018

Jason Nwosu [Delsea]
SHOT:60-11 ½, 2022
DISCUS:182-7, 2022

South Jersey 180-Foot Club
216-11 … Ron Dayne [Overbrook], 1996
199- 6 … Braheme Days Jr. [Bridgeton], 2013
197- 0 … James Plummer [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
192- 5 … Josh Awotunde [Delsea], 2013
189- 7 … Ray Wilks [Bridgeton], 1995
185-11 … John Mooers [Middle Twp.], 2015
185-10 … Russ Willett [Penns Grove], 1985
185- 7 … Matt Huckabee [Timber Creek], 2010
185- 6 … Kamron Kobolak [Cinnaminson], 2018
<u>185- 5 … Ken Manahan [Deptford], 1976</u>
184- 4 … Adam Hunt [Collingswood], 2017
182- 7 … Jason Nwosu [Delsea], 2022
181-10 … Jason Winrow [Cumberland Reg.], 1989
180- 3 … Howard Clark [Pennsauken], 1998

Nylah Perry dipped under a minute in the intermediate hurdles this weekend for the first time.

Perry, a Winslow graduate and freshman at Iowa, ran 59.67 in the trials of the Big Ten Championships in Minneapolis.

Her previous PR was a 1:00.59 just two weeks earlier at a meet in Iowa City and before that 1:01.95 from earlier in April in Tucson.

Perry missed qualifying for the final by less than half a second. Her time in the trials would have placed her 6th in the final

Her high school PR was 1:02.00 from junior year of high school in the spring of 2019, which was the last time she competed outdoors. She ran 1:02.00 when she won Group 4 sectionals at Delsea.

So she’s now improved nearly 2 ½ seconds since April 9.

As of now, Perry is ranked No. 45 in the NCAA Western Region. The top 48 qualify for the NCAA West Region Preliminary scheduled for May 25-28 at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Ark. The top 12 in each of two regions advance to the NCAA Championships in Eugene in June.

Cinnaminson graduate Mike Ungvarsky, in his first race since suffering a stress fracture in March, ran the fastest steeplechase ever by a South Jersey alum.

Ungvarsky, a grad student at Duke, ran 8:46.16 at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships at Duke’s Morris Williams Track and Field Stadium in Durham.

It was only his second race this spring and first since March 25, when he ran 8:53.10 in the steeple at the Raleigh Relays.

His time is No. 17 in the NCAA East Region and qualifies him for the NCAA East Preliminary.

Ungvarsky closed in 4:38.82 for his final 1,600, 2:16.41 for his final 800 and 65.84 for his final 400.

Ungvarsky’s time is No. 5 in Duke history.

When Ungvarsky ran 8:53.10, that broke the South Jersey alumni record of 8:53.66 set by Shawnee graduate Connor Herr at the 2015 Penn Relays when he ran for Michigan.

But Sam Gerstenbacher – a Schalick and Elizabethtown graduate – ran 8:51.03 at Princeton in April to claim the record from Ungvarsky, who then reclaimed it this past weekend.

This was only Ungvarsky’s second steeple since the 2019 outdoor season. His PR before this spring was 9:02.04 from the 2019 Penn Relays.

The top 48 competitors in each individual NCAA event qualify for two NCAA preliminary meets the weekend of May 25-28. Duke is in the East Region, so Ungvarsky will race in the NCAA East Preliminary at Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex in Bloomington, Ind.

The top 12 finishers in each of the two preliminary meets advance to the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., June 8-11.

What a huge weekend for Eastern graduate Jailya Ash, a freshman at UConn.

Ash PR’d in the 100-meter hurdles and placed second at the Big East Championships in Storrs and also anchored the Huskies’ 2nd-place 400-meter relay team.

Ash ran 13.58 in the hurdles final, finishing second to Villanova sophomore Jane Livingson, who ran 13.47. Ash’s PR coming into the meet was a 13.64 at Navy just three weeks ago. She ran 13.65 in the prelims before her big race in the final.

Her time is fastest by a UConn hurdler in 12 years and it ranks 13th among all NCAA Division 1 freshmen hurdlers.

I would love to tell you where Ash’s 13.58 ranks in Connecticut history, but the UConn web site is one of the few Division 1 sites that doesn’t provide all-time top-10 lists. There is a 2015 media guide – that’s the most recent one on the site – but, alas, it doesn’t have any all-time performance lists. I can’t even find school records on the site. Disappointing.

But I can tell you after going through all the recent UConn pages on the Track and Field Results Reporting System that her 13.58 is fastest by a UConn hurdler since Madalayne Smith ran 13.47 at the 2012 Big East Championships in Tampa. But her mark was wind-aided (2.9 meters-per-second).

The last faster wind-legal mark by a UConn hurdler is a 13.39 by Phylicia George at the 2010 Big East meet in Cincinnati. There is a 2012 media guide buried deep within UConn’s web site and it lists that mark as the school record. Since we’ve determined nobody’s run faster since, that has to remain the school record, although that’s a apparently a deep dark secret in Storrs. That doesn’t mean Ash’s 13.58 is necessarily No. 2 in school history because there could have been marks between 13.39 and 13.58 before 2010, which is as far back as TFRRS goes.

But it is a heck of a performance by Ash, whose high school PR was a 14.02 from just this past June when she won the Meet of Champions in South Plainfield. She doubled the 55 and hurdles at the indoor M-of-C last year at Ocean Breeze.

Ash’s older sister Jewel is a sophomore at Charleston Southern and is ranked 19 among U.S. women in the 400 hurdles at 57.16.

Versatile senior Jaden Johnson won the high jump and triple jump and placed fourth in the long jump and javelin Saturday to lead Timber Creek to the Camden County Large-School Championship at Haddon Township.

Johnson cleared 6-2 in the high jump, leaped 45-9 ½ in the triple jump, hit 20-2 ½ in the long jump and threw 139-5 in the javelin.

Timber Creek outscored 2nd-place Sterling 114 1/3 to 84, with Pennsauken third with 68 points competing without Bryce Tucker, who is healthy but was resting.

Senior Chace Pearson won the long jump with a 21-2 ½ and ran 16.12 for second in the 110-meter hurdles, and junior Zyheem Coleman Frazier won the 100 in 11.14 and placed 3rd in the 200 in 23.58.

Johnson, Pearson and Coleman Frazier combined to score 66 of Timber Creek’s 114 1/3 points.

Senior Austin Brown, Coleman Frazier, sophomore Bobby Wakefield and sophomore Nasir Ali ran 3:27.98 to win the 1,600-meter relay

Brown also ran 50.04 for 2nd in the 400 and 23.71 for 5th in the 200, and Ali finished just behind Brown in the 400, taking 3rd in 50.66.

Wakefield took 3rd in the 800 in 2:00.87, and senior Cole Mylan clocked 9:48.42 for 4th in the 3,200.

Junior Darien Cade threw 44-7 ¼ for second place in the shot put and 144-2 for second in the javelin, finishing behind only Sterling senior Rob Carter in both throws.

Carter won the javelin with a 149-2 and the shot at 44-10 and was second in the discus with a 126-0 throw.

With Tucker taking the weekend off to prepare for sectionals and states, junior Premier Wynn took center stage for Pennsauken and tripled the 200, 400 and intermediates. He ran 23.24 in the 200, 48.96 and 54.74 in the intermediates. Only four underclassmen in the state have run sub-55 in the intermediates, and two of them run for Pennsauken.

Other winners: Cherry Hill sophomore East Ari Greenberg ran 1:59.17 to win the 800, Haddonfield junior George Andrus ran a solo 4:17.88 in the 1,600, Haddonfield’s George Andrus won the 3,200 in 4:17.88, senior Seth Clevenger ran an all-time South Jersey No. 10 9:03.65 to win the 3,200 [https://sjtrackblog.com/2022/05/14/seth-clevenger-moves-into-s-j-all-time-top-10-with-blazing-3200-at-camden-county-meet/], Eastern senior A.J. Brooks ran 15.25 and was first in the 110 highs, Cherry Hill East senior Noah Kriesman with 14-0 in the pole vault and Haddonfield junior Christopher Clax with a 132-4 in the javelin.