The CBA Freshmen won big and the Freehold Township Sophomores sneaked by Matawan today at Holmdel High School. Matt Intile of Freehold Township stole the show with victories in the 200, 400 and a 3rd in the 4000IH. For his efforts he won the MVP for the Sophomore meet. For Freshmen, Nick Villani too the 1600 (4:40.05) and the 800 (2:11.3) to take the MVP. Results are posted in the results section.
The Ocean County Champions(Results) was a Southern Regional Party. Both boys and girls teams took home the titles with a well balanced attack. The highlight for Southern was Chelsea Cox’s 55.44 in the 400. TR South’s Rob Whitfield took 3 events, including a meet record 23′4.5″ in the Long Jump.
The Monmouth County Championships(Results) saw one of the greatest single day performances in meet history by Marlboro’s Adaobi Unachukwu as she won 4 events (100 - 12.09, 200 - 25.29, 400 - 55.74, TJ - 38′5″). She led her team to the title. On the boys side, led by a great group of long sprinters and middle distance runners, Freehold Township took their 2nd Monmouth County title of 2009. Neptune’s Michael Peavey took down a year-old meet record and a Sore Conference Record in the 100 with his 10.59 and Holmdel’s George Galasso took ‘The Clash of Titans’ as he won the 3200 over Colts Neck’s Mark Lenninger and Manalpan’s RobbY Andrews.
The results are linked to NJrunners.com. Thank you Matt Shatkus for providing GREAT coverage of both meets. As soon as I get the files, I will post full results on this site.
Please review the seed sheets, located in the ‘Performance Lists’ Tab. They have been updated from information agthered at the seeding meetings on Monday.
Results for both county relays and the Ocean County Boys Frosh/Soph meet are under the ‘Results’ tab.
Coach Heath discusses some of his best teams, some of the Shore’s Best teams, Robbie Andrews, Ed Scullion and how the Shore Conference has prepared his athletes.
I sat with my athlete, George Galasso, for a few minutes after practice on April 3rd. He discusses his Footlocker Nationals experience, racing national champs and college.
We ask that you please use www.athletic.net for results. See the tab above.
West Belmar, NJ