Day 3 Update

Looks like Monmouth's going to miss out on the 4x400 relay championship. Charles Cox ran a low 48 split to get towards the front of the pack but finshed in third place with a time of 3:10.08, .23 seconds behind the heat winner. Before the specialty 4x400's (South Jersey, Suburban Philadelphia, etc.) go off, the Falcons relay of Cox, brother Chris, Kelly Fisher, and Rashon Verrett are in ninth place.

Verrett and Fisher weren't quite as spectacular as they were last week at Holmdel, but it seemed like the reason for the .6 second time increase from last week seemed to be the difficulty to hand off in a crowd. In the relay meets they've done this year, the four Monmouth runners have been so far ahead, that the handoffs have been pretty clean. Today, it was tough for Fisher and Verrett to hand the baton off with the pack surrounding them. It's not to say the baton transfer is the achilles heel of the Monmouth relay, but it seems like the group needed a race like this as a frame of reference. I would expect them to run closer to their goal of 3:13 as the month and season progress, and not closer to the 3:18 they ran today.

No results on the high jump yet, which I watched from afar, but it didn't look like Provaznik made the finals. I'll elaborate later.