From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Lumberton’s Greg Foster won his 4th Heps long jump title Saturday afternoon and had the three-best jumps of the competition at the Ivy League Heptagonal Champiuonships at Cornell’s legendary Barton Hall in Ithaca, N.Y.

Foster, a junior at Princeton, had. 24-6 ½ on his 1st jump, a 24-5 ½ on his 3rd and a 24-10 ½ on his 5th. He fouled every even-numbered attempt.

Foster is competing this winter for the first time since last winter after undergoing foot surgery after last year’s indoor season.

Foster didn’t triple jump this weekend at Heps but he did race in the 60-meter hurdles trials immediately after concluding the long jump and recorded a large-Q qualifier for Sunday’s final with a 7.97. His PR is 7.89, which he’s hit three times.

Barton Hall was the site of one of the most highly regarded Grateful Dead concerts ever on May 8, 1977. To listen click here.

Sterling graduate Jenovia Logan recorded the 2nd-best high jump clearance in Rutgers history Saturday and the 4th-best ever by a South Jersey high school graduate at the Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis.

Logan, who had a high school PR of 5-6 ½, cleared 5-10 ¾ on her 3rd attempt, extending her PR from 5-10 from a meet at the Armory in December.

She trails only Courteney Campbell in Rutgers history. Campbell cvleared 5-11 ½ at the 2022 Rutgers Open at the Armory. Rhonda Rogombe also cleared 5-10 ¾ in a meet in Piscataway in January of 2016.

In South Jersey history, the only jumpers to go higher are Paul VI graduate Priscilla Frederick [6-3 in Toronto in 2015], Holy Cross graduate MaryBeth Labosky [6-1 ½ in Lawrence, Kans., in 1992] and Willingboro graduate Kenady Wilson [6-0 ¾ in Greensboro in 2022].

Logan cleared 5-5 ¾ on her 1st attempt, 5-7 ¾ on her 3rd, 5-9 ¾ on her 2nd and 5-10 ¾ on her 3rd. She took three shots at 6-0.

 

The NJSIAA continues to put out meet programs that are embarrassing in the number of errors that are in there every year and are never fixed.

I wanted to see how quickly I could find 10 mistakes in the boys Meet of Champions program, and it was eight minutes.

The boys program is here and it actually covers state relays, sectionals, states and the Meet of Champions. The girls program is here. But I focused only on the boys program and only on the Meet of Champions section.

If I had  the time I’m sure I could have found a combined 100 errors in the two programs. I stuck to one small section and found 10 without even trying:

1) In the list of winners, 1973 60-yard dash winner John Chambers of Neptune is listed as “John Champers.”

2) The program never indicates that the 55 was a 60 from 1969 through 1979.

3) The 2016 55 winner fron South Plainfield, Marteese Jones, is listed as “Martees Jones.”

4) The list of 400 winners starts with 1989. Where are the 1969 through 1988 winners? I eventually found them under the 200-meter dash list. Which goes from 400 winners to 200 winners in the middle.

5)  The 2000 400 winner, Lenape’s Mohamad Kanu, has his last name spelled “Kann.”

6) The 2015 800 winner Hazem Miawad is listed as “Miawad Hazem.”

7) The 2007 1,600 winner Dennie Waite of Red Bank is listed as “Dennie Wait.”

8) The 1986 hurdles winner, Hackensack’s Jerome Pemberton, is listed as “Jerry Pemberton.” That’s not his name. Nobody ever called him Jerry. He was Jerome.

9) Neptune’s 1978 high jump winner, Dennis Marshall, is listed as “Donis.” Donis? Really? That’s two Neptune errors. What does the NJSIAA have against Neptune?

10) The 2019 pole vault winner Liam Landau of Pascack Hills is listed as “Liam Landua.”

Eight minutes.

Ajani Dwyer ran 6.65 and 20.66 Friday to advance to the 60-meter-dash and 200-meter dash finals at the Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis.

Dwyer, a Penn State freshman from Washington Township, is 5th-fastest into the 60-meter dash finals but just 3-100ths of a second out of 1st. His 200 qualifier was 1-100th-of-a-second off his lifetime-best 20.65 from last month at the Ott Center and 4th-fastest in the trials.

The 60 final is scheduled for 2 p.m. and the 200 final at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Fall Creek Pavillion at the Indianapolis State Fairgrounds.

Some other highlights from Friday’s various conference meets:

√ Sincere Rhea from St. Augustine, a senior at Texas Tech, ran within 5-100ths of a second of his PR of 7.64 and placed 2nd in his heat to advance automatically to the 60-meter hurdles final on Sunday at the Big 12 Championships in Lubbock.

√  La Salle sophomore Helene Usher from Haddonfield ran 16:47.35 for 3rd in the Atlantic 10 5,000-meter run.

√ Austin Gabay from Cinnaminson, a senior at Butler, recorded an auto qualifier into the mile final at the Big East Championships in Chicago. Gabay ran 4:08.71.

√  Rutgers freshman Eric Foster from Willingboro PR’d with an 8.08 in the hurdles trials at the Big Ten meet. That’s No. 8 in Rutgers history.

√  Haddonfield graduate Allison Colflesh, a junior at Richmond, ran a PR 2:15.60 and advanced to the 800 final at the Atlantic 10 Championships in Virginia Beach.

√  Washington Township graduate Jayden Greene and Timber Creek’s Josh Thaler, both seniors at St. Joe’s, advanced to the A-10 800 final, Greene with a 1:55.71 large-Q and Thaler with a 1:53.83 small-Q.

√ UConn junior Jaia James of Winslow Township matched her PR of 7.55 from earlier this month and posted the 3rd-fastest time in the 60 trials at the Big East meet and came back and ran a PR 24.39 to advance in the 200.

√ Kingsway’s Kyle Rakitis, a Rutgers sophomore, ran 4:11.62 in the Big Ten mile trials, about half a second off his PR.

√ Cherry Hill East graduate Alexis Tepper, a UMBC sophomore, PR’d at 4:57.08 for 5th place in the mile at the America East meet at Boston University. That’s No. 5 in school history. She also led off the 2nd-place 4-by-8, which ran 9:12.63 and anchored the 5th-place DMR, which ran 11:51.22

√ Eastern graduate A.J. Brooks, a Monmouth junior, PR’d in the long jump for 4th at the Coastal Athletic Association meet in Virginia Beach and ran 8.14 – within 2-100ths of his hurdles PR – for 6th in the 60-meter highs.

√ Monmouth senior Meredith Updike from Cinnaminson ran a hurdles PR of 8.79 for 4th in the CAA meet.

GIRLS
55-Meter Dash
1980 – Michele Glover [Willingboro], 6.8
1981 – Michele Glover [Willingboro], 6.8
1982 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 7.15
1983 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 6.9
1986 … Artrelia Turner [Wilson], 7.21
1996 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 7.12
1999 …Amandi Rhett [Moorestown], 7.13
2007 … English Gardner [Eastern], 7.08
2010 … English Gardner [Eastern], 7.03
2014 … Torie Robinson [Winslow Twp.], 6.95
2016 … Aliyah Taylor [Pemberton], 7.04
2017 … Bria Mack [Williamstown], 6.99
2019 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 7.06
2023 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 7.00
2024 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 6.81

200-Meter Dash [since 2005]
2006 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 25.07
2015 … Kiera Lester [Deptford], 25.18
2016 … Kiera Lester [Deptford], 24.96
2017 … Aliyah Taylor [Rancocas Valley], 24.94
2023 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 24.48
2024 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 24.00

400-Meter Dash
1984 … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 55.7
1995 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 58.14
1996 … Dana Burnett [Williamstown], 57.69
1999 … Nadia Davy [Bridgeton], 56.90
2003 … Okechi Ogbuorki [Willingboro], 57.54
2005 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp,.], 56.93
2007 … English Gardner [Eastern], 56.29
2008 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 55.19
2009 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 55.74
2010 … Michelle Brown [Seneca], 55.96
2020 … Nylah Perry [Winslow Twp.], 56.19

800-Meter Run
1990 … Monica Olkowski [Cherokee], 2:12.45
2000 … Courtney McCrudden [Eastern], 2:17.15
2010 … Megan Tiernan [Washington Twp.], 2:11.53
2011 … Emmy Duffey [Lenape], 2:11.53
2012 … Emmy Duffey [Lenape], 2:15.12

1,600-Meter Run
1982 … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 4:55.7
1983 … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 4:49.5
1985 … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 4:56.0
1994 … Liz Moore [Shawnee], 5:09.46
2003 … Brittnee Bynoe [Willingboro], 5:06.53
2017 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 4:59.04

3,200-Meter Run
1981 … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 10:18.9
1993 … Cathy McGuigan [Bridgeton], 11:21.96
1996 … Ann Klocke [Bishop Eustace], 10:58.93
2001 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 10:38.90
2015 … Devon Grisbaum [Ocean City], 10:45.20

55-Meter Hurdles
1980 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 7.9
1981 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 8.0
1983 … Zonya Cross [Edgewood], 8.2
1991 … Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 8.45
1992 … Nichole Belcher [Wilson], 8.13
1993 … Helen Wilks [Bridgeton], 8.36
2000 … Alethia Jenkins [Pennsauken], 8.21
2006 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 8.15
2008 … Samantha Sharper [Wilson], 8.09
2012 … Stey’ce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 7.94
2017 … Lenaami Morton [Camden], 7.94
2019 … Claudine Smith [Atlantic City], 8.03
2020 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], 8.03
2022 … Anabella Chin [Rancocas Valley], 8.22

High Jump
1981 … Carol Lewis [Willingboro], 5-8
1987 … Erin Halpin [Cherry Hill East], 5-6
1990 … Sandy Tokoto [Moorestown], 5-6
1991 … Sandy Tokoto [Moorestown], 5-4
1994 … Shatich Rivers [Moorestown], 5-6
2000 … Patty Dudek [Bordentown], 5-6
2001 … Alison Sheperd [Oakcrest], 5-4
2004 … Marcene Jack [Mainland Reg.], 5-6
2008 … Lindsey Walsh [Lenape], 5-6
2013 … Alicia Terrell [Timber Creek], 5-7
2015 … Gabrielle Bennett [Winslow Twp.], 5-8
2019 … Tierra Hooker [Timber Creek], 5-8
2020 … Bryanna Craig [Millville], 5-6
2022 … Alanna Woolfolk [Clayton], 5-6
2024 … Alanna Woolfolk [Clayton], 5-8

Long Jump [since 2019]
None

Triple Jump [since 2019]
2024 … Sophia Curtis [Ocean City] 40-9 ¼

Pole Vault [since 2005]
None

Shot Put
1984 … Lillian Rivera [Pemberton], 41-10
1996 … Melinda Boykin [Bridgeton], 42-11
1997 … Melinda Boykin [Bridgeton], 42-0 ¾
1998 … Melinda Boykin [Bridgeton], 42-4
2000 … Nacole Moore [Bridgeton], 45-3
2004 … Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 44-1 ½
2006 … Mercedes Hicks [Atlantic City], 43-8 ¾
2019 … Cydney Thomas [Haddon Heights], 42-4 ¾

1,600-Meter Relay
1992 … Willingboro, 4:04.93
1993 … Willingboro, 4:04.20
1994 … Camden, 4:03.99
1999 … Willingboro, 4:10.15
2001 … Willingboro, 4:00.34
2002 … Willingboro, 4:01.33
2003 … Eastern, 3:57.94
2004 … Willingboro, 4:01.90
2009 … Camden, 3:55.08
2011 … Washington Twp., 3:57.96
2024 … Timber Creek, 3:52.06

3,200-Meter Relay [since 2017]
2022 … Cherokee, 9:13.42
2024 … Haddonfield, 9:16.28

Boys
55-Meter Dash
1975 … Manny Small [Williamstown], 6.3y
1981 … Mike Parker [Salem], 6.3
1983 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 6.3
1985 … Lee Jerkins [Edgewood], 6.4
1989 … Lamar Wright [Penns Grove], 6.55
1993 … Rufus Wright [Bridgeton], 6.55
1996 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 6.56
1997 … Albert Newkirk [Camden], 6.50
1998 … Richard Hubbard [Eastern], 6.55
1999 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], 6.57
2002 … James Townsend [Holy Cross], 6.57
2004 … Darren Ford [Vineland], 6.47
2009 … James Brown [Glassboro], 6.38
2012 … Darnell Charles [Oakcrest], 6.46
2013 … Dominique Irons [Haddon Heights], 6.42
2014 … Kashif Miller [Haddon Heights], 6.46
2015 … Caleb Williams [St. Joe’s-Hammonton], 6.48
2024 … Malachi James [Burlington City], 6.22

200-Meter Dash [since 2005]
2015 … Sterling Price [Rancocas Valley], 22.20
2017 … Martin Booker [Pennsauken], 22.21
2023 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], 21.75
2024 … Malachi James [Burlington City], 21.28

400-Meter Dash
1981 … Kevin Overton [West Deptford], 50.1
1984 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 49.3
1985 … Brian Bennett [Edgewood], 49.5
1990 … William Mobley [Eastern], 49.80
1991 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 48.68
1992 … Curtis McIntyre [Bridgeton], 50.02
1994 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 50.06
1995 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 49.92
1998 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 49.53
1999 … Nick Brown [Bridgeton], 49.76
2000 … Mohammad Kanu [Lenape], 50.18
2001 … Marvin Lewis [Willingboro], 50.13
2012 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 49.11
2017 … Luke Colehower [Haddonfield], 49.17
2022 … Michael Mazero [Paul VI], 49.02

800-Meter Run
1976 … Tony Uzdavines [Williamstown], 1:56.0
1977 … Tony Uzdavines [Williamstown], 1:56.6
1979 … Rich Caton [Woodbury], 1:57.4
1998 … Joe Lewis [Pleasantville], 1:56.13
2005 … Rob Novak [Bordentown], 1:57.52
2009 … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 1:54.82
2013 … Isaac Clark [Pleasantville], 1:51.72
2020 … Gabriel Moronta [Pleasantville], 1:52.46

1,600-Meter Run
1974 … Greg Stremmel [Gateway], 4:18.2
2003 … Chris Platt [Haddonfield], 4:16.64
2004 … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 4:19.09
2011 … Erik Johnson [Ocean City], 4:16.02
2015 … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 4:14.71
2020 … Tyler Jackson [Cherokee], 4:18.83

3,200-Meter Run
1978 … Mike Mantini [Gateway], 9:15.0
1980 … Jim Smith [Haddonfield], 8:48.1 [3,000 meters]
1986 … Kevin Pumphrey [Highland], 9;15.76
1990 … Albert Donawa [Camden], 9:27.45
1992 … Steve Mazur [Highland], 9:32.71
2002 … Dan Deichert [Eastern], 9:25.86
2010 … Jon Vitez [Haddonfield], 8:58.81

55-Meter Hurdles
1970 … Jim Robinson [Camden], 7.3
1984 … George Barry [Camden], 7.6
1985 … Jon Dickey [Penns Grove], 7.6
1987 … George Bland [Penns Grove], 7.43
1989 … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 7.58
1990 … Mike Anderson [Edgewood], 7.56
1992 … Ed Loges [Shawnee], 7.54
1996 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 7.36
1997 … Sultan Tucker [Delsea], 7.44
1999 … Danyne Brown [Camden], 7.44
2001 … Anthony Acklin [Triton], 7.42
2002 … Aaron Ross [Clearview], 7.77
2004 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 7.48
2006 … Will Brown [Palmyra], 7.71
2010 … Devon Carter [Washington Twp.], 7.49
2018 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 7.35
2019 … Sincere Rhea [St. Augustine], 7.22
2020 … Anthony Vazquez [Egg Harbor Twp.], 7.31
2023 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 7.22
2024 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 7.18

High Jump
1976 … Barry Anderson [Rancocas Valley], 6-6
1980 … Mike Pascuzzo [Lenape], 6-10
1984 … Scott Harrison [Willingboro], 6-8
1985 … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 6-8
1987 … Terry Ferguson [Cherry Hill West], 6-10
1998 … Raffael Craig [Millville], 6-6
1999 … Raffael Craig [Millville], 6-10
2000 … Paul Klemic [Mainland Reg.], 6-10
2002 … Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 7-1
2004 … Jamal Ames [Vineland], 6-6
2006 … Josh Butler [Delsea], 6-6
2015 … Tyriq Adams [Pleasantville], 6-8

Pole Vault [since 2005]
2006 … John Oberg [Ocean City], 14-6
2008 … Dan Batdorf [West Deptford], 15-6
2024 … Ryan Merlino [Oakcrest], 15-6

Shot Put
1985 … Rich Lewis [Williamstown], 57-9 ½
1987 … Dave Dixon [Mainland Reg.], 58-3 ½
1990 … Chris Robinson [Penns Grove], 59-8
1994 … Ray Wilks [Bridgeton], 58-0
1995 … Ray Wilks [Bridgeton], 62-7 ½
2012 … Braheme Days Jr. [Bridgeton], 67-8 ¾
2013 … Braheme Days Jr. [Bridgeton], 66-10 ½
2014 … Nick Pulli [West Deptford], 61-3

Long Jump [since 2019]
2020 … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 23-5 ½
2022 … Chace Pearson [Timber Creek], 23-3

Triple Jump [since 2019]
2020 … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 46-3 ¼
2022 … Jaden Johnson [Timber Creek], 46-9 ½

1,600-Meter Relay
1985 … Edgewood, 3:26.0
1988 … Willingboro, 3:28.35
1990 … Willingboro, 3:28.80
1994 … Wilson, 3:30.49
1995 … Willingboro, 3:27.96
1996 … Wilson, 3:24.64
1998 … Lenape, 3:24.53
1999 … Camden, 3:25.23
2000 … Lenape, 3:24.50
2001 … Camden, 3:22.44
2002 … Eastern, 3:27.04
2003 … Winslow Twp., 3:24.43
2004 … Camden, 3:27.53
2008 … Winslow Twp., 3:24.32
2012 … Oakcrest, 3:20.53
2016 … Egg Harbor Twp., 3:22.75
2022 … Pennsauken, 3:22.84
2023 … Pennsauken, 3:15.83

3,200-Meter Relay [since 2017]
2020 … Kingsway, 7:47.50

 

Deptford senior Marcus Hood became the 5th South Jersey pole vaulter to clear 15-6 indoors Wednesday in Toms River.

No series information available because the Bubble and their results platform are a joke, but Hood cleared 15-6 at the final South Jersey Track Coaches Assocation meet.

That equals No. 13 in state history indoors and No. 6 on the combined South Jersey indoor-outdoor list. Six of the top nine pole vaulters in South Jersey are from Gloucester County.

Hood’s 15-6 equals No. 3 in South Jersey indoor history, behind Delsea’s Marco Morales [16-0 in 2020] and Oakcrest’s Ryan Merlino [16-0 last year]. Delsea’s Nico Morales cleared 15-7 outdoors, so Hood equalled No. 4 all-time indoor or outdoor in South Jersey history.

According to his MileSplit profile, Hood didn’t vault as a freshman, cleared 10-0 indoors as a sophomore and then 11-6 outdoors and then 13-0 last year as a junior indoors and 15-3 outdoors.

This was his 5th meet over at least 15 feet this year with five other meets at 14-6 or higher.

Hood placed 6th in the 55-meter hurdles at Group 3 sectionals but didn’t vault, so he won’t be vaulting at the Meet of Champions on Sunday at Ocean Breeze. But he will be eligible for Easterns a week from Tuesday at the Armory or either of the two national meets – Armory Nationals in New York or THE TRACK Nationals in Boston, both the weekend of March 13-16.

Deptford junior Mason Henry placed 2nd at the Bubble Wednesday at 13-0, and senior Tiburcio Torres was 3rd at 12-0.

Yesterday, we posted a look at the top 10 seeds from South Jersey heading into Sunday’s 57th annual Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.

You can find that list here.

Now let’s take a look at the top girls seeds, and there are a lot of them! With four No. 1 seeds, seven No. 2 seeds and four No. 3 seeds, South Jersey girls have a real chance to dominate this meet.

We’ll have some other stuff leading up to Sunday, including our annual all-time Meet of Champions boys and girls performance lists and a list of every South Jersey boy and girl that’s ever won an indoor MoC title.

55-METER DASH
1. *Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 6.84
2. Ryan Jennings [Timber Creek], 6.90
6. Nester Wea [Willingboro], 7.14
7. ***Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 7.16
10. *Olivia Okaro [Winslow Twp.], 7.17

400-METER DASH
2. *Natalie Dumas [Eastern] 54.45
3. *Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken] 56.06
5. Nester Wea [Willingboro] 56.32
9. ***Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.] 57.54

800-METER RUN
5. *Natalie Dumas [Eastern] 2:13.81
9. ***Hope Edwards [Moorestown] 2:16.11
10. *Austin Riley [Haddonfield] 2:16.82

1,600-METER RUN
3. Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 4:53.69

3,200-METER RUN
3. Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 10:37.86

55-METER HURDLES
2. ***Jasmine Jackson [Winslow Twp.], 8.14
4. Dakota Jones [Washington Twp.], 8.28
5. Nester Wea [Willingboro], 8.33
8. *MaSyiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.], 8.40
9. *Olivia Dupree [Pennsauken], 8.45
10. ***Isabella Alvarez [Pleasantville], 8.47

1,600-METER RELAY
1. Winslow Township 3:57.57
3. Eastern Regional 4:01.66
5. Moorestown 4:02.88
6. Kingsway Regional 4:02.97
7. Willingboro 4:04.13

HIGH JUMP
1. *Egypt Bolan [Lindenwold] 5-6
2. *Ma’Syiah Brawner [Winslow Twp.] 5-5
3. ***Isabella Alvarez [Pleasantville] 5-4
T7. Addison Inge [Williamstown] 5-2
T7. Ashley Armstrong [Glassboro] 5-2

POLE VAULT
1. Hannah Byrd-Leitner [Moorestown] 13-0
2. Rebecca Hoover [Haddonfield] 12-6 ½
T8. *Cali Lacovara [Washington Twp.] 10-6
T8. *Gianna Cianfrani [Paul VI] 10-6

SHOT PUT
2. Brook-lynn Roberts [Winslow Twp.] 43-5
8. *Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea] 40-10 ¾
8. Ella Karp [Washington Twp.] 40-7 ¾

Here’s a look at every South Jersey boy with a top-10 seed heading into the Meet of Champions Saturday at Ocean Breeze!

Girls list coming up soon!

The 57th annual Meet of Champions is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Sunday at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island.

BOYS
55-METER DASH
3. M.J. Lincoln [Lenape] 6.45
6. Marquis Taylor [Woodbury] 6.46
8. John Santos [Washington Twp.] 6.48

400-METER DASH
3. Jayden Poteat [Winslow Twp.] 50.09
5. Darryl Pitt [Northern Burlington] 50.28

800-METER RUN
4. *Aaron Keith [Haddonfield] 1:56.54
6. Dominic Bassey [Winslow Twp.] 1:56.96
7. Christian Napoli [Paul VI] 1:57.25

1,600-METER RUN
3. Matthew Littlehales [Delsea] 4:15.50
6. *Luke Andresen [Haddonfield] 4:17.56

3,200-METER RUN
None

55-METER HURDLES
3. Ryan Sanchez [Deptford], 7.42

1,600-METER RELAY
2. Winslow Township 3:25.46

HIGH JUMP
T2. Jayden DeLeon [Highland] 6-8

POLE VAULT
3. Henry Cifaloglio [Delsea] 15-0
5. Ed Frey [Cinnaminson] 14-6
T7. *Mason Murray [Delsea] 13-6
T7. *Mason Henry [Deptford] 13-6
T9. Brant Nicholls [Haddonfield] 13-0
T9. Jacob George [Haddon Twp.] 13-0
T9. Tobin Horwath [Cherokee] 13-0

SHOT PUT
7. Jonathan Harris [Delsea] 59-5
8. Anthony Liakhnovich [Hammonton]

Monmouth senior Ahmad Brock from Egg Harbor Township won the long jump with a 23-10 ¼ on his final jump Wednesday afternoon at the Coastal Athletic Association Championships at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.

That’s Brock’s first conference title in the long jump. He’s won two in the triple jump.

Brock also advanced in the 60 with a 6.88 in the qualifying. The 60 final is at 1:16 p.m. Thursday. Monmouth junior Aaron Brooks from Eastern PR’d in the long jump with a 23-3 ½ for 4th place.

Camden Catholic graduate Leah Clear, a sophomore at Delaware, ran a big mile PR in the qualifying rounds.

Clear ran 4:56.32 , 9th-fastest in school history, and advanced to Thursday’s final. Her previous PR was 4:57.05 from the final at last year’s CAA meet, which was at the Armory.

Her time was 2nd-fastest among the 12 qualifiers for the final. Kyra Holland of William and Mary ran 4:55.145 in a separate semifinal. The final is scheduled for noon on Thursday.

Also Wednesday in Virginia Beach, Monmouth freshman Nico Grilli from Cherokee ran 4:13.23 to advance to the men’s mile final at 12:10 p.m. Thursday.

Monmouth senior Meredith Updike from Cinnaminson ran a PR 8.80 in the 60-meter hurdles trials, 8th-fastest in school history. Her previous PR was 8.85 last month at the Armory. She advanced to the final at 12:25 p.m. Thursday.

Kingsway graduate Stone Caraccio, a Monmouth senior, advanced to the 800 final after running 1:53.85 in Wednesday’s trials. The final is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Monmouth freshman Nick Kuenkel from Cherokee PR’d in the 5,000 with a 14:48.90 for 11th place.

Ian Moore from Rancocas Valley ran the 4th-fastest 800 in Monmouth history at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University.

Moore ran 1:50.34, lowering his PR from 1:50.52, which he ran at the outdoor Colonial Athletic Conference meet in Elon, N.C., in May. His previous indoor PR was a 1:51.11 at the Ott Center in January.

Moore was out in 26.61, came through 400 in 53.36 and 600 in 1:21.02. His time is fastest by a Monmouth half-miler in seven years, since Chris Marco from Toms River South ran 1:50.07 on the same track in 2018.

Moore’s time is fastest by a Burlington County 800 runner since Rob Novak ran a South Jersey-alumni-record 1:46.01 in Los Angeles in 2011.

Monmouth competes in the CAA Championships this week in Virginia Beach.