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Defending national outdoor mile champion Erin Donohue leads Haddonfield to 9:11.61 4x800 with a 2:11.7 anchor on a cold and rainy night. (Erin also had a 4:52.2 1600 last week in a small invite) Ed Grant said the relay time could easily have been close to 9:00 in better conditions, and Erin probably would have run under 2:10 even with nobody near her. Haddonfield's third leg Holly Cosnett had put away the field with a 2:15 or so carry.
Ed Grant's Report
Netters: The lengthy siege of bad weather here in the Northest claimed another victim, at least partially, last night when it put the damper on the East Coast relays at Morristown, a meet that usually enjoys perfect conditions.
The program started in cool, but only misting weather, but it got steadily worse and ultimately chased home the teams which had been hoping to finish the night off with a couple of fast 1600Rs.
However, there were a couple of notable efforts.
Perhaps the top effort came late in the program when conditions were at their worst. Haddonfield won the girls' 3200R in 9:11.61 with a 2:11.7 anchor from reigning National outdoor mile champion Erin Donohue (Erin also had a 4:52.2 1600 last week at her school's little invitational). This race could easily have been close to 9:00 in better conditions and Erin probably would have run under 2:10 even with nobody near here (third girl Holly Cosnett had put away the field with a 2:15 or so carry).
For the second year in a row, Christian Brothers put two teams under 18:00 in the 6400MR, going 1-2 in the process as Cherokee---which could have made it a very interesting rest---chose the 3200 (a race it had failed in at penn because of the illness of its top runner, dave Sitzer). Running right after the Haddonfield race, the Chiefs clocked 7:51.14 beating a Columbia team which had run 7:46 plus at penn, finishing 4rd. Cjherokee also won the DMR handily in 10:21.78.
Washington Twp, which had run 10:10+ at Penn in the DMR, chose the SMR this time, but was foiled by a strong anchor leg from Justin Romaniuk of Suffern, which won the event in the rain in 3:27.91.
Perhaps the best individual effort of the meet came in the very last race when Carlos Bedoya of Arcbishop Stepinac ran a 47.6 anchor leg in the unseeded section of the 1600R. Headed for Villanova, Carlos earlier showed his 200M speed bring his team from nowhere to 2nd place in its head. Another National indoor champ who had little support was Paul Joyce of Clarkstown, who was so far back in the SMR when he got the stick that no one bothered to get a split on him.
Linden, which had run a 57.7 SHR a couple of weeks ago, was headed to another race of that caliber when its 3rd runner smashed into the 9th hurdle and fell--the Tigers still won their heat but were dqed because he touched the hurdle in the process. Camden won the race in 59.12 and also took the 400R from rival Edgewood in 42,21 (they had blown a stick pass at Penn and never got to the final where Edgewood was the nO. 1 U.S, school). ERdgewood came back to win the 800 in 1:28.02 with a strong anchor leg by Dennis Davis catching the Camden leaders. This race was run in the heaviest rain and could have been a 1:26 in perfect conditions. But, of course, it is the jinx race of this meet---in the past teams from Weequahic and Plainfield---in separtate years-0--were headed to 1:25 or better when one had a runner pop an achilles and the other dropped the stick (in a meet where it had earlier run 41.0).
Ed Grant
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