EAST ORANGE (update Friday June 24, 4:35 p.m.) – The East Orange Campus High School boys’ Swedish Relay team won the national title at the New Balance National Track and Field Championships at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, N.C. on the first day of the three-day meet on Friday, June 17.
The Jaguars ran 1:54.88 to edge Central Track Club of Rhode Island by 0.05.
Junior Willesley Lindo ran 10.3 on the 100-meter leg; sophomore Akeem Lindo, Willesley’s brother, ran 22.2 in the 200; junior Cory Poole ran 33.1 in the 300 and sophomore Immyouri Etienne ran 48.98 in the 400.
Freshman Dominic Dazzell finished 39th in the preliminaries of the boys’ freshman 100-meter dash in 11.64.
On Saturday, June 18, EOCHS took second in the 4×110-meter shuttle hurdles in 58.42. Poole, Akeem Lindo, sophomore Ibrahim Fobay and senior Charon Jenkins were on the team. Fellow New Jersey school, Weequahic, finished first in 57.78.
EOCHS placed 26th in the preliminaries of the boys’ 4×100-meter relay in 42.61, with Akeem Lindo, Dazzell, sophomore Christopher Wilson, and junior Ricardo Lovelock.
On Sunday, June 19, Poole finished second in the 400-meter hurdles in 51.56 behind Infinite Tucker of Huntington Station, N.Y., who won in 50.70. Poole also anchored the EOCHS’ 4×400-meter relay to a third-place finish in an Essex County record 3:12.83. The other runners were Akeem Lindo, Willesley Lindo and Etienne. Huntington, N.Y. was first in 3:10.93 and Archbishop Carroll of Washington, D.C. was second in 3:11.95.
EOCHS first-year head boys’ coach Lance Wigfall was proud of the his Jaguars at the Nationals.
“This was a great way for us to show everybody that East Orange is back,” said Wigfall, a 2003 EOCHS graduate who won the 400-meter dash at both the indoor Meet of Champions and outdoor Meet of Champions in his senior year.
Poole won both the 110-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles and was part of the second-place 4×400-meter relay team during the state Meet of Champions on June 8 at Central Regional HS in Bayville. Poole ran 13.71 in the 110 hurdles to break the Essex County record and ran 52.50 in the 400 hurdles. The Jaguars tied Northern Valley/Old Tappan in the 4×400 relay as both clocked 3:15.43, but NV/Old Tappan was awarded first place based on a photo finish.
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