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DyeStat New Jersey
2000 Outdoor State Meet
All-Group Championship
June 7, 2000 at S. Brunswick NJ
Ed Grant's Highlights
6/7/00 - Netters: There was a lot of fine competition tonight at the NJ all-group championships at South Brunswick, but the highlight was certainly a just-legal 10.35 100M by Camden frosh Jamar Ervin, breaking Dennis Mitchell's state AT record of 10.47. The wind-reading was 2.0. Danny Johnson of Rahway, who had run a windy 10.44 beating Ervin at the Gr. IV meety last Friday, was 2nd this time in 10.46. Ervin is 16 years old and about to be 178 so does not really qualify as a HS freshman for record purposes. He would properly be listed as a sophomore since he has just two years of eligibility left to him under NJ age rules, which are the same as in most states---an athlete turning 19 before Sept. 1 of a school year is no longer eligible.
Johnson came back later in the evening to win the 200M in 21.03, just under Mitchell's state AT record of 21.06, but this time the wind was 2.3. Ervin did not run the 200.
The most surprising result of the night, surprising even to the girl who accomplished it was a MT 159-8 JT by junior Amy Krilla of Red Bank Cathoilic, whose previous PR, set last Saturday in the state Parochial A meet, was a bit over 136 feet. She had no explanation for the rapid improvement. Jennifer Austin of Garfield, the state leader going into the meet, was 2nd at 150-9.
There were four double winners in the meet. Amandi Rhett of Moorestown, headed to Georgia Tech to study chemical engineering, swept the girls' sprints in wind-aided times of 11.61 and 24.01, winning both races by wide margins. Tawana Watkins of Paterson Kennedy doubled the 400 meter races, first taking the hurdles in 59.56, then the flat race in 54.31 She was tariling over the final hurdles in the former race, but Danielle Myricks tripped and fell, later returning to place 2nd in the 400 and anchor a relay win.
Glenn DiGiorgio of Bayonne, like Watkins a sophomore, won the SP and DT, held simultaneously, at 61-7 3/4 and 184-6.
Then there was Erin Donohue of Haddonfield, who was 3rd in that JT mentioned earlier at 136-4 and doubled the 1600 and 3200 in almost identical fashion, trailing Lindsey Gallo of Howell in each unbtil the backstretch of the final lap, then sprinting past her rival to win by 4:50.17 and 10:42+.
Josh Kauke of Ridgewood was within .6 of John Martshall's MR and SR in the 800M at 1:50.19.
Ed Grant
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