Colts Neck/Manalapan/Howell/Marlboro

For anyone looking for the results to the Colts Neck/Manalapan/Howell/Marlboro quad in Friday's paper, they weren't ready to be reported. Colts Neck beat Manalapan in convincing fashion 101-39, a bit of a surprise considering Manalapan's strong showing in a loss to CBA last week. According to Colts Neck coach Jim Schlentz, the Braves' Jack Gilburn was injured and only competed in the javelin.

It's never safe to apply the theory of relativity to dual meets, but Colts Neck has to feel pretty good about itself going into the May 15 meeting with CBA. Considering Gilburn's injury and CBA's ability to play matchups and go deep into its talented roster, they'll never be counted out, but you have to be pretty impressed with the way Colts Neck has performed.

With its quad-meet wins over Manasquan, Raritan, and RBC on Thursday, Red Bank may have effectively clinched Class A Central in its inagural season as a divison memeber. Holmdel is the one team that can spoil the Bucs division title when the two teams meet this coming Tuesday. Along with Dennie Waite doing his usual routine in the distance events, Kerone Rhoden has had two good showings so far during the dual meet season. Rhoden ran an 11.0-second 100 and 22.5 in the 200.

I'm currently pounding away at Saturday's notebook, so I'll post the top times for the week sometime tomorrow evening.