Results - Boys - Girls provided by Hillsborough High School
Highlights
Junior Ebony Young contributed to a meet record in the team long jump and to victories in the sprint medley and the 4x400-meter relay, and led the Hillsborough girls, with seven first-place finishes in 13 events, to all-but-certain victory.
The victory is all but secured because Hillsborough leads second-place Montgomery, 106-82, with two events remaining. The team high jump and team pole vault will be contested on Monday at 4 p.m. at Hillsborough, and it does not appear that Montgomery has enough firepower to overtake Hillsborough.
One year after five meet records were broken and one other was tied, it didn’t appear likely that any meet records were in danger yesterday due to the miserable conditions, which included wind, constant rain and temperatures in the 40s. But Young, with a meet-best 17-4, and teammate Allison Moran (15-11) combined for a meet-record 33-3 in the long jump. That erased the former mark of 32-11 ¾ set by Hillsborough’s Ebony Foster and Jenizah Melendez in 2002.
Young split 59 on the 400-meter leg of the first-place sprint medley (4:25.8) and 1:01.1 on the anchor leg of the winning 4x400 relay (4:11.9), and she leaped a meet-best 33-10 in the triple jump while leading her team to second place behind Montgomery, 65-11 to 65-0.
On the boys’ side with the same two events left to finish, the Hillsborough boys lead second-place Somerville, 87-69, and are in solid position to win their fifth straight title. But Somerville, with victories in the triple jump, shot put and discus, has always been a solid field event team and will not allow Hillsborough to coast to the title.
The Hillsborough boys seized the lead thanks in part to winning the 4x100 relay (45.0), the shuttle hurdles (1:07.9) and the team javelin. In the javelin, Hillsborough’s Chris Tillotson threw 159-4 to lead his javelin team, a decent throw given the conditions. His effort was second only to Somerville’s Matt Brianik, who threw 160-0.
Somerville's Jimmy Terris, Scott Maher and Christian Mackey helped their team surge into second place by combining for a sweep of the shot put and discus. Terris led his squad in both events, going 47-3 ¼ in the shot put and 117-4 in the discus.
For the second straight week, Ridge’s Peter Phillips posted the fastest 400-meter hurdles time (56.9) of the meet and combined with Neil Franzese (58.9) and Matt Nafie (59.3) to win the event in 2:55.4. Last week Phillips ran a meet-best 57.9 at the Skyland Conference Relays.
