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Dally Record, Northwest N.J. Sunday, June 2, 1985 CT3 SCHOLASTIC REPORT Cambria a. up foes leg Bernards senior wins Group I javelin crown By JIM MILLER Daily Record Staff Writer i 1 S5 A 4 1- 4e I 01. 4, i j- I AJk V' i Vy 1 I town's Dave Weisser had no such pressure to win the Group IV shot put. He already had the gold won when he let go a throw of 55-5.

"Last week (in the sectional championships) I had it won and I threw a 56-10'4," Weisser said. "I guess I'm more relaxed that way. I think I'm ready to pop one over 57, 58 feet. It's just a matter of everything clicking all at once." That must have happened to Pe-quannock's Dan Bulger, who won the Group II shot put with a throw of 61-9 But even that was paled by the monstrous performance by Andy Pa-pathanassiou of Emerson. Also an outstanding football player and wrestler, Papathanassiou recorded the nation's second best shot put of the year with a state record of 68-3.

Other than Cambria, Smith, Weisser and Bulger, the only local winner yesterday was Bill Pearson of Lenape Valley. The 6-foot-5, 170-pound senior won the Group II high jump with a leap of 6-8, second best of the day for all groups. Pearson also finished second in the 110 high hurdles, adding to his 400 intermediate hurdles victory on Friday. Randolph distance runner John Hayes was a victim of revenge yesterday. After upsetting state cross country champ Andy Martin of North Hunterdon in the 3,200 Friday, Hayes watched Martin pass him on the third lap and coast to a 10-meter win over the Randolph senior in the Group III 1,600.

Teammate Larry Golan, however, found his silver medal rewarding, clocking a 49.7 in the 400 to finish 1.4 seconds behind winner Harold Rollins of Lakewood. Randolph wins WHARTON Pat Kissane scored on a wild pitch to give Randolph a 4-3 victory over Wharton in Iron Area Senior Babe Ruth baseball action yesterday. Kissane hit RBI double the previous inning. Jeff Jamer, the winning, pitcher, had a two-run double for Randolph, 1-1, in the first inning. Wharton is 1-1.

PISCATAWAY Of all the people Joe Cambria proved wrong yesterday, he might have been the most surprised that two strong legs aren't always needed to win in the javelin. A serious knee injury and subsequent surgery ruined Cambria's football season at Bernards, hampered his wrestling campaign and threatened his track fortunes. But yesterday changed all that. The burly senior won the javelin on his final throw and added a second place in the shot put to lead the Bernards boys track team to the Group I title at yesterday's New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Group Track and Field Championships at Rutgers Stadium. Cambria joined teammate Lyle Smith as gold medalists, leading the Mountaineers to a 49-34 margin of victory over second-place Penns Grove.

It was their second straight Group I title and third in the last four years. While no other Daily Record area team won, top 10 finishes came from Morris Hills (third in Group III), Ran-, dolph (fourth in Group III) and Pe-quannock (sixth in Group II). Cambria's performance was remarkable in light of his injury, suffered during the football season when an opponent crashed into his left knee, tearing some cartilage. It was bad enough having to nurse it through the wrestling season, but the knee forced him to alter his track ability, as well. "I wanted to help rehabilitate it, so I didn't practice the javelin all year," said Cambria, who'll be throwing the javelin for the University of North Carolina the next four years.

"I just worked on the shot and the discus because they don't involve running." The end result was a marked improvement in those two events, as he showed this weekend by winning a silver medal in the shot yesterday and a bronze in the discus on Friday. But he surprised even himself with his javelin throw. "The first few throws I didn't get much into it," he explained. "So on the last throw I said the hell with legs. Just throw all arm." Though he said "I've got to use my legs to get into the 200s," Cambria's heave of 188 feet, 7 inches brought him from sixth to first.

Conversely, Smith was in first the whole way for his victory in the run. He wound up with a time of 4 minutes, 18.9 seconds to win by 40 meters. Finishing fourth in that race was teammate Tom Praisner in 4:29.6. The Mountaineers also took second in the 1,600 relay. While Cambria had to win the javelin on his final throw, Morris- r- Daily RecordSTAN GODLEWSKI Daily RecordSTAN GODLEWSKI Bernards' Christine Milke during the long jump competition.

Bernards' Ahearn inspired to victory in Group 1 1,600 Morristown's Dave Weisser as he wins the Group IV shot put. Local teams sweep Parochial titles by winning three events. In the 800 she clocked 2:18.9 and in the 1,600 she crossed the line in 5:24. In the javelin Frick threw for 122-8 and Deb Smetana, also from Pope John, was second with a 108-10. Frick also placed second in the shot.

Frick's teammate, Kathy Costello, won the 400 intermediate hurdles in a time of 1:06.1. Delbarton finished fourth in the overall competition. Marcus Hickerson won the long jump at 21-7' and teammate Scott Pickering finished second at 21-Vfc. Delbarton also got a second-place performance from Chris Shilakes, who clocked a 1:58 in the 800. Frick helped her Pope John team score 12 points and take the girls title PLAINFIELD Morris Catholic's Todd Urbanik and Pope John's Kathy Frick each won three events to lead their respective schools to the boys and girls Parochial titles at the Track and Field Championships at Hub Stine Field yesterday.

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Chris D'Alessandro of Ridge, a winner Friday in the Group II 3,200, almost took another first-place medal in the 1,600. D'Alessandro was behind eventual winner Amy Holcomb of Holmdel until the last turn, when she surged ahead to take a five-meter lead. Holcomb, however, passed D'Alessandro again in the homestretch for a close one-tenth of a second win Dover's Yolanda Santana (5:14.5) was fourth in the same race. Kim Baten of Madison (15.1) earned a second-place medal in the 100 high hurdles. Her sister Joyce, who earlier took third in the 100, finished fourth.

In Group III, Tanya Smolin earned all 11 of sixth-place Randolph's points. Smolin was the runnerup in the long jump with a distance of 17-U and was fifth in the 200. On Friday, though, she won the high jump for the fourth straight year by clearing 5-8. Two Daily Record area athletes, Vernon's Lisa Parak and Boonton's Lisa Kohut. brought home discus medals.

Parak threw 4 feet farther than Ocean City's Diane Urban to win the Group III event with a throw of 120-9. Kohut, freshman, was third in Group II with a distance of 107-10. Stephanie Saleen was a triple winner for Group IV Neptune in the 100, 200 and 400. Saleen's best per-fomance was in the 400, where she beat second-place finisher Allison Wesley of Group IV champion Plain-field by 3 seconds. Summaries, Page C12 Long's 3-hitter lifts Mendham MENDHAM Greg Long pitched a three-hitter for Mendham to beat Montville, 2-0, in a Morris County Majors Baseball League game.

Long struck out two and walked three Mendham (3-1) scored both of its runs By SANDY SEEGERS Daily Record Staff Writer PISCATAWAY As a freshman on the Bernards girls track team, Karen Ahearn idolized senior teammate Meg Waldron. Waldron, one of the top female distance runners in New Jersey, has since graduated and gone on to the University of Virginia, but not before leaving her impression on Ahearn. Ahearn, now a Junior, did her best Waldron imitation to win the 1,600 meters in a record time of 4 minutes, 54.7 seconds to lead the Mountaineers to the Group I New Jersey State In-terscholastic Athletic Association Track and Field Championship yes-terday at Rutgers Stadium. The record she shattered by nearly eight seconds just happened to belong to Waldron. "I always looked up to Meg," said the 17-year-old Ahearn, "She was an awesome runner and a great team leader.

She was my idol but I never, ever dreamed I'd be as good as her." Yesterday she was better. For half of the race, Ahearn trailed rival Ruth Lockbaum of Glassboro by 10 to 15 meters. She waited until the third lap, then made her move. "I knew I had to save some until the end," said Ahearn. "But I had to stick with Ruth, too.

If I let her get too far away, it would have been over. "At the 100-meter mark at the beginning of the third lap, I passed her on 'he outside and never looked back. Ruth died on the pass." Ahearn didn't. She cruised across the finish line, easily outdistancing Lockbaum (505.4) by 50 meters. Two of Ahearn's teammates, Debbie Fordyce and Patricia Sullivan, finished third and fourth, respectively, as Bernards slipped by Newark Science, the second-place team, by a four-point margin, 43-39.

"The 1,600 was the peak of our performance today," said Mountaineer coach Bob Mount "Ahearn is a dynamite runner and Fordyce and Sullivan, both sophomores, are, too. I say she's the best miler to New Jer-sey and that says something about a Group I school "Our distance running has always been strong," he added. The kids worked hard to reach this plateaa in the track season. It's a great feeling for me to know that so many of our 273 ROUTE 46 Mrtv eVMf pt Dow Gtnttwl Hotff. MINP HII I .1 ELLULAR OlaOTCMO.

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