Friday, the Red Hawks ended the Drew University Series competing at the Morris County Championship. With a talent pool of teams in the county, the Red Hawks looked to have impressive performances to place in the top 6. Let’s get to the results, shall we! First up was the 55m hurdles…where Junior Malik Francis ran a fast 8.11 to earn a spot in the finals. In the finals, Malik finished 6th with a time of 8.17 and earning the first point of the night for the Red Hawks.
Next up was the 1600m run where Sophomore Ally Schlosser used her sprinting to finish 3rd with an impressive 5:19.26! Freshmen Haley Pignatelli finished 8th in 5:23.04. Sprinter, Bria Saunders took the track next earning an expected berth to the 55m finals in 7.47. Later in the 55m finals, Bria powered her way to 2nd place finish in 7.40. For the 600m, Seniors Peter Hernandez and Jennifer Mlynar just missed out on a top 6 finish in their respective races. Peter finished 7th place in 1:27.71 and Jen finished 10th place in 1:46.15. In the 300m dash, Bria capped off an exciting race with a 2nd place finish in 42.71 while Josh Crawford and Malik Francis finished 8th and 9th respectively in the boys’ race.
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With the attention back to the distance runners…Ally finished 3rd in the 1000m in a new PHS record 3:07.12! The previous 1000m record was 3:10.19 set in 2001. In the last distance event, Haley Pignatelli ran 11:52.92 in the 3200m run to earn 6th place…hats off to this freshmen with a tremendous upside!
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In the relay the Lady Red Hawks finished in 4th place with a season best of 4:16.54. The exciting part of the race was Bria’s closing a wide gap and putting the team in 2nd with a sizzling 60sec split. The boys relay, Aaron Wood was a late adjustment with Josh not feeling well..and what an adjustment! Aaron ran a 53 split, helping the relay to his season best time of 3:36.71 and a 5th place finish.
Off the track, the Lady Red Hawks had some decent showings. Junior Emily Fales, finished 13th with a mark of 27-11.75 in the shot put and Seniors Jennifer Mylnar and Kelly Higinbotham tied for 7th place with both equaling their best height of 4-08.00 in the high jump.
In the final team standings, the boys finished 13th with 3 points with the Girls scoring 33 points tied for 4th place.
A season note: this season the Red Hawks have rewritten the School records in 4 events thus far. Congrats!
- Girls - 1000m – Ally Schlosser
- Girls - DM – Samantha Pignatelli, Bria Saunders, Jen Mlyner, Ally Schlosser
- Girls - SMR – Jennifer Mlynar , Bria Saunders , Gabby Rachmaciej, Ally Schlosser
- Boys- SMR – Christian Hulse-Carr, Josh Crawford, Malik Francis, Peter Hernandez
