The EOCHS boys' track and field team gathers after winning the Essex County team title at the Jersey City Armory on Jan. 29.
Correction: The names of the 4×400 relay have been corrected.
EAST ORANGE, NJ (updated Tuesday Jan. 31, 10:13 a.m.) – The East Orange Campus High School boys’ indoor track and field team won the boys’ team title at the Essex County Championships on Sunday, Jan. 29, at the Jersey City Armory.
The Jaguars had 72 points based on the top six finishes in each event. St. Benedict’s Prep was second with 57.5 points. Seton Hall Prep was third with 36 points.
The following are EOCHS highlights:
University of Florida-bound senior Cory Poole won the 55-meter hurdles in a meet-record 7.25, breaking his own meet record of 7.43 he set last year. Junior Al-Tariq Dunson was second in 7.80 in the same event.
Akeem Lindo, a junior, won the 55-meter dash in 6.57.
Poole won the 400-meter dash in 50.37, followed by Lindo in 50.56 in second place.
Sean Duncan, Kishaun Richardson, Shawn Williamson and Michael Abrams took fourth place in the 4×400-meter relay in 3:36.91.
In the 200-meter dash, Lindo won in 22.80 and senior Willesley Lindo, Akeem’s brother, was fourth in 23.18.
Treymont Carter, a junior, took second place in the shot put with a throw of 47 feet, 1 inch.
On the girls’ side, EOCHS tied for fifth overall with West Orange with 18 points.
Sophomore Mellica Gordon took second in the 55-meter dash in 7.31 and fifth in the 200-meter dash in 26.60. Gordon joined freshman Renesha Campbell, and juniors Osarieme Enabulele and Kevaray Gilette in taking fourth in the 4×400 relay in 4:14.65.
Gilette was fourth in the 55 hurdles in 8.76.
The Orange High School girls were led by sophomore Shahyan Abrahm, who took third in the shot put at 32 feet, 4 inches. Junior teammate Tatayanna Beckford was 13th in the shot put at 29 feet, 4 1/2 inches.
Poole last spring won both the 110 high hurdles and 400 intermediate hurdles at the state Meet of Champions.
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