EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Campus High School junior Jordaine Johnson won the boys 400-meter dash at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Group 4 state track and field championships at Franklin High School in Somerset on Friday and Saturday, June 7-8.
Johnson was clocked in 47.89 seconds.
Johnson was the only EOCHS boys competitor at the meet. He also competed in the 100-meter dash and 200-meter dash, taking second place in both events. Johnson clocked 10.70 in the 100 meters and 21.68 in the 400 meters.
On the girls side, senior Apple Brown, the 4×100-meter relay and the 4×400-meter relay teams competed for EOCHS at the meet.
Brown took 10th place in the 100-meter dash preliminaries in 12.49 and she took 17th place in the 200-meter dash finals in 26.25.
The 4×100 relay took 15th place in 50.27 and the 4×400 relay team took 20th place in 4 minutes, 18.84 seconds.
Johnson qualified for the NJSIAA’s state Meet of Champions, which was scheduled for Wednesday, June 12, at Pennsauken High School in Camden County.
The group meet consisted of the top-six finishers in each event from the four sectional meets.
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