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tl Tl Tl Ti 1 1 (bamfflemi to oine mv eav at renm Kemw By DAVE EVANS Courier-Post Staff PHILADELPHIA In less than four hours Saturday, they ran three races, won one and bore witness to a display of phenome ST, AV -w: 1 missed out of the finals, but won the big schools consolation race. Camden's Brown, Alston, Scot McCray and Newkirk placed sixth in 41.83, another best this season. Long Beach Poly of California won with a time of 41.04. The South Jersey record in the 4x100 is 41.69, set by Willingboro in 1982. "We were hoping to do better," said after the 4x100.

"But now we're just trying to get ready for the next one (4x400 championship). That's our job; that's what we need to do." However, during the 4x100, Camden lost Alston, who strained his hamstring. Troy Spencer filled in for Alston in the 4x400 championship, but only Newkirk, the anchor, could replicate his split time from earlier, and Camden settled for 3:18.42 and seventh place. Contending would have been unlikely, though, as defending champion John Muir of Pasadena, California, blew away the field with a winning time of 3:08.72, a meet record. John Muir's anchor Obea Moore ran his leg in 45.08 to help his team break the three-year-old mark of 3:10.61, set by Vere Tech of Hayes, Jamaica.

and fifth respectively in the South Jersey race) earned berths in the consolation Philadelphia Area 4x400, won by Glen Mills in 3:19.69. Pleasantville, with Ahmad Jones, Joe Lewis, Clarence Black-well and Mike Patterson, improved upon its earlier time by a second, placing fourth in the Philadelphia race. Patterson received the baton in sixth place and got his team to within a half second of which' placed third. Earlier, Pennsauken's team of Clinton Tabb, Ricky Haughton, Marc Williams and Mark Brown won its heat in 3:23.06, a school record, but was not in the proper heat to qualify for the Philadelphia area race. Buena also won its heat in 3:31.81.

Highland, South Jersey's only entry in the 4x800, ran its 3,200 meters in 8:15.18 and failed to qualify for the championships. Girls William Penn won the Philadelphia Area 4x100 in 47.46 and Camden's team of Spring Harris, Salydia Johnson, Terri Harris and Sharay James placed fourth in 48.59, the same time as third-place Penncrest. "We had a chance," said Sharay, who ran the anchor leg. "It had to be perfect. If it wasn't perfect, it would be like that." Pleasantville earned a spot in the Philadelphia Area 4x400, also won by William Penn, and placed 10th in 4:05.98.

1 i h' nal speed. It was quite a busy day for six members of the Camden High School boys' track team. If nothing else, the Panthers went to the Penn Relays and defended their position as South Jersey's fastest 4x400-meter relay team. The team of Corey Alston, Floyd Ingalls, Sean Brown and Albert Newkirk led a field of 12 in the South Jersey race with a time of 3:15.33, the area's best time this season. It was also the third astest of the qualifying heats, and it gave them a berth in the 4x400 Championship of America later in the day.

"They accomplished a lot today," Camden coach Martin Booker said. "If you improve your time week by week, day by day, hour by hour, you accomplished something." Lenape's Mike Brown had given his team the lead after one leg in the South Jersey qualifying heat, but Ingalls put his team in front in the next leg, and Brown find Newkirk each ran splits of 47.7 to finish four seconds ahead of- the Indians. hour later, Camden was running in the 4x100 Championship of America, which it- qualified for on Friday. Last year srtJ OX nM inJ 1 1 1J There not much I can do at that point except put in another leg," Booker said. "We expected (John Muir) to be tough again.

"Muir was gonna do what they were gonna do." Lenape, Egg Harbor Township and Pleasantville (third, fourth By Curt Hudson, for th Coufier-Pst Around the track: Camden's Sean Brown (left) leads Lenape's Musa Cooper during the South Jersey 4x400-meter relay. at the Penn Relays on baturaay. uamaen won me race in o.i,j:oj South Jersey athletes find success laeeynins I more and it's made a difference Nichole Bartlev. Eusheka away from field win the mile to sister who will also graduate1 ijn May with a psychology degreW. still running for Auburn fter sitting out a year for personal reasons.

Nichole helped thTt-gers to a fifth-place finish the college women's 4x800 in 8:44.51. Shawnee's Jason LaBaxliera (South Carolina) was fourth, in the college men's javelin (21311!) and 19th in the college jnis hammer throw (170-05). ara St. Augustine's Mark SiJeri leg." Mazur's eligibility ends this spring but he is applying for a job as an assistant coach at Gloucester County College while completing his masters thesis. Eusheka Bartley, a former All-South Jersey hurdler at Highland, put South Jersey right in the mix Thursday, winning the Olympic Development Intermediate Hurdles in 58.82.

"When I ran in high school and in college (Auburn) I won most of the time on sheer speed, not technique," said Bartley, who will graduate in May. "Now I'm training under Sam Matece, who's ranked second in the world, and I'm not stutter-stepping any- $1 LEE WAGNER i Staff The final day of the 103rd running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field '-All i was seventh in the Uiympi Development mile run in and Schalick's Candyce DeLoatc ran a leg on Maryland ECA oaiuraay Drougni me sun, trie crowds and the tradition that only the oldest relay carnival in America can produce. It also brought Mary Slaney, Devers, the Villanova Uni- versity women's 4x800 relay team, I iL. 1 A 1 ixzuu reiay unu. wo v.

nt mvt. I I 4 yJ. evat una me nationally ranKeu nrKun- sas University men's By LEE WAGNER Courier-Post Staff PHILADELPHIA There was a strong touch of South Jersey in the air at the 103rd running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field Thursday through Saturday. Shana Williams, the former Bridgeton High School standout who graduated from Seton Hall, produced the best result from a South Jersey athlete Saturday when she successfully defended her Olympic Development long jump crown with a jump of 21 feet, inches, one-half inch shorter than last year. "My first jump and my last jump were close but I think it was my first jump that actually won it," said Williams, a 1996 Olympian now lives in Eugene, Ore.

and competes under the adidas label. "This is my first meet so I'm really happy about the result. "I started doing some of the things I wanted to do. I have a tendency to shoot off the board but today I was trying to cycle my legs under me and it worked. "It's great to come to Penn and win.

It's fun and it gives my family a chance to see me compete, and it's a great meet to use as a springboard for the rest of the outdoor season." Highland graduate Steve Ma-zur ran the third leg on Viva's eighth-place team. "We're really disappointed in our race today," said Mazur, who graduated in May from Villanova and who is pursuing his masters at Villanova. "We felt we had a chance to be in the top five at least but we started off bad and dropped back on each succeeding Marina 8c boat DIRECTORY relay team. Suii2 leg IflGJ hoj Canotti-fishing Boats AY LINER RANGER BASS BOATS CANOES-FISHING BOATS Major brands new A used. All materials all sizes.

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She broke the Penn Relays record of 4:33.06 set by Tennes-', see's Alissa Harvey in 1986 with a 4:26.10. Juli Henner was second un 4:31.38. "I felt good and I went out Jstrong," said Slaney, who is running for Nike. "I felt the wind a but that may have been because I was running by myself and you tend to think about it when you're alone like that. ''Overall, I'm pleased with the Jrun because I haven't done much track work since the indoor world 'championship.

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"I knew that the 4x800 was going to take a lot of guts to win, but this is the race we really wanted to win because the. odds were the most against us," Villanova coach John Marshall said. "Georgetown looked better on paper but I knew we could do it. "When I saw Georgetown take the lead on the last leg, I knew that Krestena could do it." Sullivan and Georgetown anchor Miesha Marzell (2:06.9) took turns leading with Sullivan prevailing. "I had some doubt that I could catch her after she took the lead," Sullivan said.

"But as soon as I could tell that she started to cut back, I knew I could win. I wanted it really bad. "When I turned back on the stretch, I was surprised that she wasn't still on me. I tried not to smile until I crossed the line." Arkansas' quartet of Mike Ryan Wilson, Phillip Price and Seneca Lassister won in 15:02.08. The key was the second leg run by Wilson, who took the baton slightly behind Michigan's Don McLaughlin, in 3:42.1 as compared to McLaughlin's 3:46.6.

"This is the best I've run since I've been coming to Penn," said Wilson, a junior. "In the back of my mind I wasn't sure how I'd feel after running Friday but it became a matter of hanging in. "When I made my move, I made it hard. I was just trying to stretch out. I told the guys there's nothing like a victory lap at the Penn Relays." The Penn quartet of Greg Davis, Mike Stiffler, Kael Coleman and Robin Martin brought the partisan crowd to its feet with a win in the IC4A 4x400 relay in 3:10.31, just edging fast-closing Lincoln University Villanova's foursome of Kia Davis, Leashia Rahr, Kesha Wal-ley and Grizzle won the ECAC 4x40Q in an event record 3:37.76, erasing the mark of 3:37.84 set by Pittsburgh in 1991.

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