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Marks fall at Spring Invitational

Saturday was a bad time to be a record in Coatesville. Athletes were smashing marks left and right during the 44th Track and Field Association of Greater Philadelphia Spring Invitational.

La Salle's Charles Headen wins the 100-meter dash in a meet-record
10.87 seconds Saturday at the Coaches Association’s Spring
Invitational boys’ track and field meet at Coatesville. Trailing are
Cheltenham's Jalen Coriano-Nix (left) and Chester's Purvis Bush
(right).  (LOU RABITO / Staff)
La Salle's Charles Headen wins the 100-meter dash in a meet-record 10.87 seconds Saturday at the Coaches Association’s Spring Invitational boys’ track and field meet at Coatesville. Trailing are Cheltenham's Jalen Coriano-Nix (left) and Chester's Purvis Bush (right). (LOU RABITO / Staff)Read more

Saturday was a bad time to be a record in Coatesville.

Athletes were smashing marks left and right during the 44th Track and Field Association of Greater Philadelphia Spring Invitational.

Five individual meet records fell in the boys-only event, including in the 100-meter dash, a race in which two runners broke the old mark.

La Salle's Charles Headen won the 100 in 10.87 seconds. Randall Johnson of Central Bucks South came in right behind at 11.13.

Cardinal O'Hara's Kevin James broke the 1,600 record by less than a second when he crossed the finish line in 4 minutes, 16.86 seconds.

Dave Stellato of Wissahickon set a standard in the 400, coming in at 48.7 seconds.

Andy Pancoast of Malvern Prep cleared 6 feet, 6 inches in the high jump, matching the meet record set two years ago by fellow Friar Tom Pitt.

Upper Darby's Mason Weh won the 110 hurdles in 14.7 seconds. Cordell Richardson of Cheltenham took the 300 hurdles in 39.14. Central's Walt Pegues triumphed in the triple jump (43 feet, 41/2 inches).

Viking Invitational. Spring-Ford's Ryan Connelly set a meet record by finishing the 110 hurdles in 14.70 and also won the 300 hurdles (40.31) at Perkiomen Valley.

Upper Moreland's Tyler Whitmore holds the invitational's 400 record after coming in at 48.13.

Jhaloni Jackson of Springfield (Montco) surpassed the meet record in the 200 (21.88), but Xavier Smith of Daniel Boone came in .7 of a second ahead of him to win.

Black Knight Invitational. Mike Burton finished second in the 110 hurdles (14.49) and ran on Coatesville's champion 4x100 team (42.9) with Dorian Pennington, Austin Shank and Jay Stocker at Hempfield.

Shank won the 200 in 22.08. Coatesville's Darrik Muroski threw 54-5 to win the shot put.

Avon Grove's 4x800 team of Joe Wheeler, Matt Jacobs, Nate Howard, and Joe Smith took first in 8:11.27.

Girls

After making the short trip to Perkiomen Valley for the Viking Invitational, Spring-Ford's Isabella Marchini went on a long run to victory.

Marchini, a freshman, won the 3,200 in 11:47.79, nearly seven seconds faster than second-place finisher Emily Schumaker, of Boyertown.

Owen J. Roberts' Jill Weston raced to first place in the 300 hurdles (46.41) and the 800 (2:17.82)

Souderton's Allison Gallagher took the 100 hurdles in 15.3 seconds, then finished second in the 300 hurdles (46.62).

Black Knight Invitational. Avon Grove's McKenna Keegan won the 800 in 2:23.51. In addition, Keegan anchored Avon Grove's winning 4x400 team, which also featured Caroline Keegan, Logan Jarrat, and Moriah Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald cleared 12-2 to win the pole vault.

Coatesville's Jolesha Boulware cruised to victory in the 100 hurdles in 15.71 seconds.

Pan-Ram Invitational. Robeson won the overall team title at Central Dauphin. Quadisha Newkirk placed first in the 400 (57.36), edging Central Bucks West's Jamila Branch.