South Brunswick boys claim GMC Relays championship

South Brunswick boys claim
GMC Relays championship

By JERRY CARINO • STAFF WRITER • April 28,
2010

SOUTH BRUNSWICK — It's easy to forget that there's
a "field" in track and field, but the South Brunswick
High School boys reminded the rest of the Greater
Middlesex Conference on Wednesday.

The Vikings dominated the throws and jumps to
upset perennial favorite Old Bridge in the GMC
Relays. Victories in the triple jump, high jump,
discus and javelin buoyed the Vikings to 102 points
and their first county relays crown since 2005. Old
Bridge, which had won this meet four years running,
finished with 97 1/2 points after a strong showing
on the track.

"I know we're a deep team, and obviously beating
Old Bridge is the benchmark," South Brunswick
coach Wilfredo Rivera said. "It's nice, especially
because I always look at relay meets like it's the
complete team."

Brendan Vercammen, David Krier and Cody Stephans
going the ball rolling on Tuesday, winning the
javelin with a combined distance of 433 feet, 6 i
nches during Day 1 of the competition.South
Brunswick's discus and shot put trios followed suit,
placing first in the former (401-5) and second in the
latter (135-7) on Wednesday.

"The javelin was huge," said junior Dominic
Padovano, who posted marks of 152 feet in the
discus and 48 feet in the shot. "The three guys who
throw discus and shot, we watched the javelin and
that kind of pushed us. We knew we had to perform
well."

All told, South Brunswick scored 28 of a possible 30
points in the throws.

"I think we stepped up to the challenge," Padovano
said. "We didn't let the team down."

Neither did the jumpers. Junior Derek Forthun led
the Vikings to victories in the high jump and triple
jump on Wednesday. They also took third in the
long jump and tied for second in the pole vault on
Tuesday. More points.

"Coming into it people didn't think we were going to
win. I thought we were going to win," Forthun said.
"It's great. I just really wanted to beat Old Bridge
because they're always beating us."

Over the past four years, South Brunswick had taken
second three times and third once in this meet.


"We're a consistent program. We just hadn't gotten
over that hump," said Rivera, a former Old Bridge
standout who remains friendly with his old coaches.
"It's nice to get over it and let these kids know that
four years of hard work, you get something for it."

Old Bridge didn't exactly leave empty-handed. The
Knights swept the hurdles, including a brisk 1
minute, 1.3 seconds in the shuttles, and the
distance events. A 4:31 anchor mile by Corey O'Neil
secured a distance medley win in 10:42. Anthony
Branco's 1:59 anchor 800 brought home the
Knights' winning sprint medley in 3:39.

East Brunswick flexed its muscles in the sprints,
taking the 4x100 (43.7) and 4x200 (1:30).

Perhaps the most stirring event of the day was the

4x400. Dunellen broke the tape with a blazing time
of 3:23.3, holding off Old Bridge and East Brunswick
down the homestretch. Senior Jonard Hall (49.0
split), senior Luke Francisco (52.9), junior Kerry
Hansen (52.3) and junior Rontik Sadler (48.9) led
wire to wire, earning Dunellen's second gold medal
of the meet.

On Tuesday, thanks largely to Hall's 22-foot leap,
the Destroyers also won the long jump.

"We wanted to be in the fast heat because we knew
our guys hadn't been able to put it all together yet,"
head coach J.R. Lubisco said. "They've been training
their butts off waiting for the chance to run this
4x400. They went for it and it was unbelievable."

They obliterated the old school record of 3:30. The
anchor leg was particularly exciting as Sadler bolted
from East Brunswick's Leonard Robbins (48.9) and
Old Bridge's Christian Boeteng (49.8) after all three
rounded the final turn together.

"My whole idea was to cruise until the last 150,"
Sadler said. "Jonard started us off with a great lead,
Luke kept it up, Kerry finally got his time down,
which I'm loving right now, and they got me the lead
and left the race in my hands, so all I could do was
finish it off."

If folks didn't know it before, the message was loud
and clear: Dunellen is legit.

"We surprised a lot of guys because Dunellen,
nobody really knew about us," Sadler said. "We're a
square-mile town, we've got 78 in our graduating
class. A lot of people don't pay attention to us
because we're so small. Little do they know, for a
small team we've got a pretty dynamite squad."

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Brendan Vercammen- County champ in 3 sports

Brendan Vercammen- County champ in 3 sports
soccer
wrestling
track -javelin relay
not sure if any other athlete in recent years was county champ in three different sports
Middlesex County Relay championship BOYS RESULTS
Javelin: 1. South Brunswick (Brendan Vercammen, David Krier, Cody Stephans) 433-6; 2. Dunellen 412-10; 3. St. Joseph 405-0; 4. Colonia 384-6; 5. Old Bridge 380-5; 6. South Plainfield 375-1.

3×400 Intermediate Hurdles: 1. Old Bridge (Christian Boateng, Tom Perry, Chris Thornton) 2:51.6; 2. South Brunswick 2:55.7; 3. St. Joseph 3:00.6; 4. East Brunswick 3:04.8; 5. J.F. Kennedy 3:05.9; 6. J.P. Stevens 3:06.3.

4×1600: 1. Old Bridge (Mo Thomas, Anthony Branco, Corey O’Neill, Shawn Burke) 18:46.5; 2. North Brunswick 19:03.4; 3. South Brunswick 19:08.9; 4. Metuchen 19:14.8; 5. East Brunswick 19:31.6; 6. Bishop Ahr 19:35.0.

4×200: 1. East Brunswick (Julian Quintin, Evan Walton, Danow Urschel, Leonard Robbins) 1:30.2; 2. Old Bridge 1:30.8; 3. Sayreville 1:32.8; 4. Woodbridge 1:32.9; 5. Dunellen 1:33.0; 6. South Brunswick 1:33.6.

Long Jump: 1. Dunellen (Jonard Hall, Rontik Sadler, Vinnie Grausso) 61-4.25; 2. East Brunswick 60-1.25; 3. South Brunswick 59-2.25; 4. J.F. Kennedy 58-10.5; 5. New Brunswick 58-9.5; 6. Sayreville 54-9.75.

Pole Vault: 1. East Brunswick (Tyler Flood, Tim O’Sullivan, Greg Dakiewicz) 31-0; 2. (tie) J.F. Kennedy, South Brunswick 30-0; 4. South Plainfield 28-6; 5. St. Joseph 27-0.

South Brunswick High School’s Brendan Vercammen wins javelin South Brunswick 91, St. Joseph 49

South Brunswick 91, St. Joseph 49

100: Chris Troche (SJ) 11.2; 200: Brian Oni (SB) 22.2; 400: Juwan Tisdale (SB) 52.2; 800: Tom Hogarty (SJ) 2:04.2; 1600: Kapil Sathyakumar (SB) 4:42; 3200: Mike Fernandes (SJ) 10:04.9; 4x400: South Brunswick (Kotey Ashie, Tre Tisdale, Kapil Sathyakumar, Juwan Tisdale) 3:31.2; 110 hurdles: Chris Troche (SJ) 15.2; 400 hurdles: Tyrin Fairman (SB) 57.7; High jump: Tim Moczula (SJ) 5-10; Pole vault: Derek Forthun (SB) 10-0; Long jump: Jaleel Alston (SB) 20-3; Triple jump: Nikhil Yerramilli (SB) 42-5; Shot put: Dominick Padovano (SB) 46-11; Discus: Dominick Padovano (SB) 142-9; Javelin: Brendan Vercammen (SB) 158-9. Records: South Brunswick 5-1, St. Joseph 1-3.
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East Brunswick 82, South Brunswick 58

100: Leonard Robbins (EB) 10.8; 200: Leonard Robbins (EB) 21.8; 400: Evan Walton (EB) 50.3; 800: Kapil Sathykumar (SB) 2:00.8; 1600: Brian Smith (EB) 4:35.4; 3200: Nick DeNuzzo (SB) 10:04.5; 110 High Hurdles: Jevon Tyree (SB) 15.5; 400 Hurdles: Kevin Mulcahey (EB) 58.9; 4x400: East Brunswick(Mulcahey, Donald Urschel, Thomas Marciante, Robbins) 3:28.6; Long Jump: Leonard Robbins (EB) 21-10; Triple Jump: Julian Quintin (EB) 41-11; Pole Vault: Tyler Flood (EB) 11-6; High Jump: Derek Forthun (SB) 6-2; Discus: Sam Mattis (EB) 184-8; Shot put: Sam (SB) 48-3; Javelin: Brendan Vercammen (SB) 159-7. Records: East Brunswick 4-0, South Brunswick 4-1.
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South Brunswick 87.5, Woodbridge 52.5

100: Isnard Mir-Merced (SB) 11.7; 200: William Orbach (W) 23.0; 400: William Orbach (W) 50.7; 800: Wismith Francois (W) 2:04.8; 1600: Nick DeNuzzo (SB) 4:43; 3200: Stephen Ragany (SB) 10:18; 4x400: South Brunswick (Cody Stephan, Juwan Tisdale, Kotey Ashie, Tre Tisdale) 3:32.2; 110 hurdles: Julian Bonado (W) 15.9; 400 hurdles: Jevon Tyree (SB) 59.8; High jump: Derek Forthun (SB) 6-0; Pole vault: Derek Forthun (SB) 10-0; Long jump: William Orbach (W) 19-2.5; Triple jump: Robby Robinson (SB) 40-0; Shot put: Max Issaka (SB) 43-8; Discus: Dominick Padovano (SB) 148-8; Javelin: Brendan Vercammen (SB) 152-0. Records: South Brunswick 4-0, Woodbridge 1-3.
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