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Bria Saunders Advances to Meet of Champions as other Red Hawks post PRs!

On Thursday, the Red Hawks track team travelled to Toms River to finally compete in the Group 2 Indoor Championship after multiple postponements.  Coaches and athletes alike were uncertain of what kind of performance lay ahead due training schedule being affected by the postponements.  Fortunately, the athletes were able to gain some focus of the task at hand as some were able post personal and season best performances.  In terms of advancing on to the Meet of Champions, Bria Saunders was the lone Red hawk to advance top 6 finishes in her events.   The MOC take place on Saturday, March 1st at the Bennett Center in Toms River.

Now on to the results:

400m dash

  • Bria Saunders -4th place in 59.07
  • Peter Hernandez -19th place in 53.29
  • Malik Francis -21st place in 53.60…a PR!

1600m run

  • Ally Schlosser -9th place in 5:20.12
  • Haley Pignatelli -10th place in 5:21.19…a PR!

55 hurdles

  • Jennifer Mlynar -21st place in 10.66

800m run

  • Ally Schlosser -11th place in 2:28.00

55m dash

  • Bria Saunders -3rd place in 7.21…a PR!

3200m run

  • Haley Pignatelli -14th place in 12:13.01

4x400m

  • Jen Mlynar, Meghan Wisniewski, Bria Saunders, Gabby Rachmaciej -11th place in  4:16.93
  • Christian Hulse-Carr, Aaron Wood, Josh Crawford, Peter Hernandez -8th place in 3:34.20… a SEASON’S BEST!

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