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June 19-20, 1998 at North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC
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1998 National Scholastic Outdoor
Highlights - Day 1
Fort Worth O.D.Wyatt Boys run 39.80 in 4x100 prelims! -
great anchor legs in the 4x800 relays send the crowd home happy
Day 1 details
 | The most astonishing performance of Day 1 was not even in a final. National record
holding Ft. Worth O.D. Wyatt, the only HS boys relay team ever to break
40 seconds, did it for the fourth time this year. Their 39.80 was the second fastest
for the event in history. National 100 meter leader Demario Wesley was all alone as
he raced down the straightaway in the anchor leg. |
| Anchors who refused to lose thrilled the crowd in 4x800 relays that
ended Day 1 near midnight. First, Dara Crocker did it with a 2:11
anchor leg for the perennial distance relay champs Columbia HS of New
Jersey, whose time of 9:09.85 was less than a second better than Central HS of New
Hampshire. Then, Shawn Jeffers led Boys and Girls High
of New York to a 7:41.34 victory in the same fashion. Both anchors fought off
numerous challenges. Boys and Girls added the outdoor title to go with their
National Scholastic Indoor and Penn Relays victories. Three teams finished within
1.14 seconds of the winner: Fort Wayne IN Northrop, Stillwater MN, and Dublin-Coffman OH.
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| Another great anchor leg highlighted the girls sprint medley. Kimberly
Jordan (Cleveland OH Collinwood) came from behind on the far
turn of the 800 meter leg to give her team a 1.66 second win over Virginia Beach VA
Bayside, with Menchville VA and Columbia NJ close behind. |
| Jodi Schlesinger (Bardonia NY jr) dominated the girls triple jump.
She grabbed the lead with her first jump (41-3.75) and never lost it. She
added three more jumps over 40 feet, but didn't need them as no one else could reach the
40 foot mark. Greg Yeldell (East Spencer NC sr) won the boys
triple jump with a leap of 51-3.75 to repeat his Golden West victory a week earlier,
albeit 2 feet shorter; Tuan Wreh (Rockville MD Richard Montgomery HS sr)
was second at 49-00.25. |
| Jim Autenreith (Houston TX sr), the nation's leading pole vaulter, was
impressive just by showing up. Last Saturday, he fell into the box at the Golden
West attempting 17-6 and left the meet in an ambulance. Despite a bruised kidney
that still bothers him, Autenreith made 15-1 on his third attempt tonight to qualify for
the finals Saturday. |
| Erin Sullivan (Jericho VT jr), who showed she was back in form by
taking the national 1500 and 3000 lead in the Vermont state meet, sprinted away from the
pack to win the girls 2-mile in 10:29.64. Erin turned the last lap in 69 seconds to
win convincingly over Laura Turner (Portsmouth RI sr), Jillian Mastroianni (Sayville NY
soph), Liz Reusser (Middleton WI jr), and Golden West winner Michelle dela Vina
(Valparaiso IN fr). |
| Murad Campbell (Lindenwold NJ jr) trounced the boys 2-mile field in
9:02.78. |
| Terrence Glover (Trenton NJ jr) sent national boys discus leader Reedus
Thurmond (Gardena CA sr) to his second straight post-season defeat.
Glover's 196-10 was 3 feet better than Thurmond, who went into last week's Golden
West with the only throw in the country better than 200 feet this year (209'). |
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