Timon Dual Meet 5-9-12

Cornell Overfield (So)

As the storm clouds moved in, lightning was inevitable. The meet was unfortunately “called” prior to the two-mile. No race was rescheduled due to St. Joe’s domination of the Monsignor Martin competitor Timon/St. Jude. 70-18.  St. Joe’s started off strong with a victory in the 4x800. Total time of 9:17 seconds was clocked by sophomores Greg Schlant, Cornell Overfield, Joe Suhay as well as junior Justin Benzino.

 Then Alli Akono was the victor in the triple jump while on the other side of the field, senior Jason Klinkman was the only double winner for the day in both the shotput and discus. On to the 1600m run where sophomore JD McGuire was victorious in a time of 4:58 to lead his teammates to a sweep in the 1600m.

Greg Schlant (So)

By far the best race of the day was freshman Cordell Owens in the 400m. Owens, who is St. Joe’s top sprinter, usually prefers to run the 100m and 200m only. This meet was different though, Cordell decided to test his limits, and test them he did. Cordell finished in an astounding time of 53.6 seconds as a freshman! What a race it was! Unfortunately Owen’s agent turned down an interview for Cordell claiming “Our young All-Catholic champion needs his rest.”

Jack Karnes 

The team was riding high on such great performances. The team is back to work this weekend in preparation for the 2-day All-Catholics where St. Joe’s will be the underdogs looking to upset the top seeded competitors.