Hawkins sets three records as Haverford School wins Inter-Ac title

The record books at the Inter-Ac Championships got a late spring cleaning Saturday, thanks in large part to Daiyaan Hawkins.

The Haverford School sprinter won the 100- and 200-meter dashes in meet-record times, while the Fords and Episcopal Academy managed to take down three relay records.

First, Hawkins, who won the 100 in 10.46 seconds, downing the previous meet standard of 10.6 held by three runners. It inches him closer to the Delco mark, held by Penn Wood grad and Daily Times Athlete of the Millennium Leroy Burrell since 1985 at 10.43.

In the 200, Hawkins broke the tape in 21.48, downing by a quarter-second the meet mark set by Haverford’s Tom Hopkins in 2009. He’s three-tenths behind Cardinal O’Hara grad Corey Brown’s county mark from 2010 (21.18).

Hawkins brought home the Fords’ 4 x 100 relay in a record time of 42.65, erasing the Fords’ mark from last year with Caleb Reed, Guillaume Laforest and Tyler Seward. The Fords’ 4 x 800 set a record in 8:11.40, turned in by Lleyton Winslow, Khalil Bland, Ben Szathmary and AJ Sanford.

Laforest took third in the 400. Wilson was second in the 800 with Sanford fifth. Reed was third in the 300 hurdles, an event won by Kevin Thomas in 39.08, who placed third in the triple jump. The 4 x 400 relay of Laforest, Sanford, Reed and Dan Whaley (second in the 400, fourth in the 200) landed second.

The Fords won the team title with 124 points, besting Penn Charter (101) with EA in fourth at 84.

The Churchmen got in the record book in the 4 x 400, the team of CJ Jones, Jack Bush, Bryce Cooper and Chase Zimmerman clocking in at 3:23.21.

Bush was third in the 200 and fourth in the 100 (with Malcolm Folk fifth in each). Zimmerman won the 400 in 48.48. Cooper, a freshman, was second to classmate Thomas in the 300 hurdles, and Owen Maier took third in the 3,200, with EA finishing fourth as a team despite top-3 finishes in all three relays.

Jess Schneider had her chance for history spoiled. The Notre Dame senior finished second in the 1,600 (5 minutes, 2.73 seconds) and 3,200 (10:54.78). She was more than nine seconds under the meet record in the latter event, but she couldn’t beat Isabelle Goldstein of Germantown Academy, who clocked in at 10:50.02. Goldstein also won the mile, scaring the meet record set by Maria Seykora in 2012.

Schneider ran anchor on Notre Dame’s second-place 4 x 400 relay with Gabriella Recchilungo, Kyleigh Calvert and Lindsey Smith, who finished third in the 800 and fifth in the mile. Cara Stevenson was fourth in the 3,200, and Caroline Crossed took fourth in the 100 hurdles.

In the field, Haverford’s Chris Sims medaled second in the triple jump and fifth in the long jump. Seward was third in the latter, the same place that teammate Petey Lemmon picked up in the shot put.

EA’s Peter Lim was the pole vault runner-up. Matt Dade was fourth in the shot put, and Michael Agbeye took fifth in the high and triple jumps.

Episcopal Academy’s girls got a gold medal courtesy of Kat Harrar, who won the triple jump with a leap of 34 feet, 2.25 inches. Cami Beaulieu was third in the 100 hurdles and sixth in the 300 hurdles. Raeleen Keffer-Scharpf took third in the high jump, Jovana Sekulic was fourth in the shot put and Caitlin Jorgensen medaled in the 800 (fifth) and 1,600 (sixth).

Maddie Aguirre scored in sixth in the 3,200 and was seventh in the 1,600 for Agnes Irwin.