The sprint quartet of seniors Kevin Lepore & Aeron Gilson and juniors John Johnson & Dan Maya smashed the competition in the 4 x 100 in the opening day of the Morris County Relays held 4/30-5/1. Their time of 43.36 was just .09 off their previous week's time at the Randolph Relays but easily beat the 2nd place team (44.22). Their times place them in the top ten in the state. Their goal is to qualify for the elite race in the Meet of Champs. This is a repeat for the 4 x 100 team who won last year. Gilson returned to anchor this year's team and add yet another gold to his collection.
One of the most exciting races of the meet turned out to be the sprint medley. Outstanding legs were turned in by all members of the team as John Johnson (22.8), Dan Maya (22.3), Aeron Gilson (48.8) and Scott Rennalls (1:58.8) ran 3:33.07 to take silver. The squad had a 5 sec. lead at the handoff between the 400 and 800 and made Morristown's Hamar Farag run 1:52.5 to beat the Marauders. The 3:33 time narrowly missed the school record (3:32.91) by a legendary Steve Slattery-anchored team in 1997.
Gilson and Johnson also teamed with Byron Reed and Chris Duran in the shuttle hurdles to grab bronze medals. Their 1:03.49 is a season best and just off the 1:02.3 school record.
The 4 x 100 team came back late in the meet Saturday to just miss a bronze medal by running a season-best 1:33.25. Gilson was sharp again in that relay, splitting 21.7.
The distance med and long jump teams placed 8th, just outside the scoring. Jon Weiss had a p.r. 3:16 leadoff 1200 and soph Dan Baules a big 53.6. Kevin Lepore cracked the 19' barrier in the long jump for the first time. In the triple jump, Jamal Davis had a near-3' improvement in his triple jump, hop-skip-jumping to 41' 4 1/4".
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