East Orange Campus HS indoor track teams excel at SEC meet

EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School boys and girls indoor track-and-field teams gave good efforts at the Super Essex Conference–American Division championships on Friday, Dec. 23, at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, N.Y.

The boys took fourth place and the girls took fifth place.

Here are their notable performances.

Boys

• 55-meter dash: senior Valson Gardner Jr., first place, 6.65 seconds; sophomore Jordaine Johnson, eighth place, 7.00.
• 200-meter dash: sophomore Shakur Taylor, first place, 23.10; Gardner, fifth place, 23.63.
• 400-meter dash: senior Michael Henderson, second place, 49.83; Taylor, sixth place, 52.39; sophomore Alex Berry, seventh place, 53.09.
• 800-meter run: Henderson, third place, 2 minutes, 11.70 seconds; sophomore Tyler Walker, seventh place, 2:15.92.
• Shot put: senior Jaiden Stokes, sixth place, 39 feet, 6 inches.

Girls

• 55-meter dash: junior Apple Brown, fourth place, 7.76.
• 200-meter dash: Brown, second place, 27.31; senior Krissan Vassell, fourth place, 27.57.
• 400-meter dash: Vassell, fourth place, 1:04.01; senior Shadae Cockerhan, eighth place, 1:06.43.
• 800-meter run: junior Stephanie Delouis, eighth place, 2:47.13.
• Shot put: junior Kamiya Powell, fourth place, 30-3 3/4.

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