Sacred Heart senior EJ Williams is fast. Really fast.
As the preliminaries of the 55m hurdles gave way to the semifinals, then the championship race at the 37th Yale Interscholastic Track Classic on Saturday, Williams kept dropping time. He ran the championship race in 7.39 seconds and captured the title for the second straight year. Williams won the championship in 7.51 last year, but he wasn’t far off of that time in the semifinal round this year (7.56). Williams finished the preliminary round in 7.65.
There were a few other strong performances from locals at Coxe Cage over the two-day event. The Bristol Central boys 4x400m relay of senior Jose Navedo, senior Ramon Albert, junior Ryan Krompegal and junior Jose Ramirez took fifth in the 400-600 boys race in 3:37.22, nearly six seconds faster than their seed time. Ramirez placed ninth in the 600m in a time of 1:24.48, over 1.5 seconds better than his seed time.
Wolcott junior Kathryn Rodrigues won the second fastest heat of the 3000m and finished ninth overall in 10:17.26. She knocked nearly 25 seconds off of her seed time and took over her heat a little over halfway through the race. From there, she bested her closest competition by over six seconds.
Sacred Heart senior Kladji Cepa finished ninth in the shot put with a throw of 43 feet, 7.5 inches. The Bristol Eastern 4x800m relay of senior Zach Martin, sophomore Benjamin Johnsky, junior Nico Provenzano and senior Ben Wadowski was 10th in the Connecticut race in 8:47.55, almost 2.5 seconds faster than their seed time. The Crosby 4x400m relay of senior Malik Patrick, junior Jose Leon, senior Danny Medina and senior Elijah Lewis placed 11th in the Connecticut race in 3:44.24. The Bristol Central 4x200m relay of Albert, senior Hunter Peterson, senior Wilmer Rivera-Ortiz and Navedo was 11th in the under 600 boys relay in a time of 1:36.47.
Full results can be found at mysportsresults.com
Gallery
Here are my photos from some of Saturday’s events.
