Tanners' Relay Team Medals at Nationals

The Tanners' track stars put in a strong showing this past weekend in Greensboro, N.C., easily competing with some of the best high school athletes in the nation.

The boys' 800 meter sprint medley relay team of Chris Cennami, Vlasi Duni, Austin Brewster and Nick Ingham earned a medal at the New Balance Outdoor National Championships, grabbing 4th in the emerging elite category in a time of 1:36.03.

Top performances on the boys' side were also a 9th place finish by the 1,600 sprint medley team of Michael Reardon, Zach Grube, Jason Hiou and T.J. D'Amato, followed by a 13th place finish (1:32.55) by the 4x200 relay team of Cennami, Brewster, Duni and Reardon, and a 15th place run by the 4x400 team of Brewster, Hiou, Grube and Ingham in 3:25.49.

All those races were in the emerging elite category, along with two top individual efforts by Tommy Drover in the javelin (7th in 152-03) and Grube in the high jump (10th in 6-02 3/4). Grube actually set the meet record last year, leaping 6-06, but that was broken this year.

Nick Christensen also ran a 15:25.30 in the 5K for a 23rd place finish. The boys' distance medley (D'Amato, Ingham, Drover and Christensen) likewise finished 23rd in 10:33.64, and Grube also took 23rd (15.43) in the preliminary heat for the 110 meter hurdles.

On the girls' side, the distance medley team (Samantha Allen, Heather MacLean, Sarah May and Catarina Rocha) powered in a 9th place finish in 12:21.56.

Rocha also finished 13th in the 2-mile in a time of 10:39.77 -- she won her individual heat, but placed lower when all seeded races were factored in.