{"id":3425,"date":"2012-04-28T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2012-04-28T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T14:09:43","slug":"blue-demons-compete-in-national-treasure-the-118th-penn-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=3425","title":{"rendered":"Blue Demons compete in “National Treasure”, The 118th Penn Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Philadelphia legend and Temple alumni Bill Cosby was omni present on Friday<\/p><\/div>\n

Historic Franklin field played host to Kennett and more than 1400 high school relay teams <\/span><\/strong><\/em>By Dave Conard<\/span><\/strong> Sports Editor, KennettTimes.com<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA\u2014Every April the very best in track and field make their way to historic Franklin Field to compete in one of the grandest stages in the world, the Penn Relays. Over the first two days of the country’s oldest and one of a kind relay carnival,\u00a0 more than 54,000 track enthusiasts have packed the stands to cheer on favorites.<\/p>\n

Olympic greats like Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt, Bruce Jenner, Lauryn Williams and many more have at one point or another competed on the hallowed ground that is the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s home track along with area legends like comedian\/actor Bill Cosby who was in attendance Friday and enjoying time in the infield with the middle schools kids from the area .<\/p>\n

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The Blue Demons 4 x 400 team finished tenth in their heat at the Penn Relays<\/p><\/div>\n

On Thursday, the Blue Demons girl\u2019s 4 x 400 meter relay team of Emma Starr, Lisa Finfrock, Devon Salison, and Stephanie Savage competed in the Ches-Mont heat, posting a tenth place finishing time 4:30.02.<\/p>\n

Kennett High School\u2019s boy\u2019s battled an elite field in the 4 x 100 meter relay heats on Friday afternoon as the sun finally poke through the clouds on a day where the wind was a major factor swirling around the infield.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The group of Tyler Boyer, Maille Dietz, Max Colby and CJ.Lowe finished fourth in their heat with a time of 44.78 which was fast enough to finish 72nd<\/sup> overall out of more than 275 teams form all over the country including Jamaica and Ontario Canada.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Blue Demons will hare the same infield with the very bets Olympic hopefuls in the world as the 4 x 400 Ches-Mont race will take place at 12:10 sandwiches between the USA versus the world Distance medley race and the USA vs. the world 4 x 100 men\u2019s and women\u2019s races.<\/p>\n

Check back with KennettTimes.com for more stats and runners comments.<\/p>\n

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High School boy\u2019s 4 x 100\u00a0 Heat 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1<\/td>\nHaddon Heights<\/a><\/td>\n44.32<\/td>\nEO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nHodgson Vo-Tech<\/a><\/td>\n44.39<\/td>\nFE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nMedgar Evers<\/a><\/td>\n44.68<\/td>\nDI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nKennett<\/a><\/td>\n44.78<\/td>\nFY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nIndian Hills<\/a><\/td>\n45.85<\/td>\nFR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nInterboro<\/a><\/td>\n45.94<\/td>\nFS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nJenkintown<\/a><\/td>\n48.99<\/td>\nFU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nHope Charter<\/a><\/td>\n49.32<\/td>\nFK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nThomas Jefferson<\/a><\/td>\nDNS<\/td>\nFT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Kennett's boy's 4 x100 battled in a difficult field at the Penn Relays<\/p><\/div>\n

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High School Girls’ 4×400 Suburban ChesMont<\/p>\n

Event 150Thursday 4:40 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Records <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

ER<\/td>\nCoatesville (Pa.)<\/td>\n3:58.98<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\nDeborah Douglas, Helen Adams, Melanie Holl, Kenya Woodall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

New Event Record<\/p>\n

Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1<\/td>\nCoatesville<\/a> (Coatesville, PA)<\/td>\n3:53.00<\/td>\nMel Holl, Jasmine Sampson, Helen Adams, Kenya Woodall<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nDowningtown East<\/a> (Exton, PA)<\/td>\n4:00.21<\/td>\nCatherine Sampson, Sarah Black, Danielle Castaldi, Megan Swavenpoel<\/td>\nNG<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAvon Grove<\/a> (West Grove, PA)<\/td>\n4:00.63<\/td>\nEllie Pollock, Caroline Keegan, Sammy Caliguiri, Corinne Glass<\/td>\nNE<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nGreat Valley<\/a> (Malvern, PA)<\/td>\n4:07.44<\/td>\nCarol Burgess, Nicole Hajnik, Sarah Kochinsky, Elise Claffey<\/td>\nNF<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nUnionville<\/a> (Kennett Square, PA)<\/td>\n4:10.37<\/td>\nHannah Weisman, Kim Lapczynski, Taylor Thames, Christina Mapa<\/td>\nNI<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nDowningtown West<\/a> (Downingtown, PA)<\/td>\n4:15.58<\/td>\nMichelle Turnbach, Megan Turner, Maura Ahernne, Sarah Wolverton<\/td>\nNB<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nBayard Rustin<\/a> (West Chester, PA)<\/td>\n4:17.48<\/td>\nAmber Hontz, Annie Pitts , Jess Delviscio, Samara Thomas<\/td>\nNJ<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nWest Chester East<\/a> (West Chester, PA)<\/td>\n4:17.62<\/td>\nDevon Towell, Elizabeth Duguid, Megan Barrett, Brittany Davis<\/td>\nNK<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nSun Valley<\/a> (Aston, PA)<\/td>\n4:28.77<\/td>\nEmily Skwriut, Amini Williams, Nicolette Siermine , Tavil Carter<\/td>\nNC<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nKennett<\/a> (Kennett Square, PA)<\/td>\n4:30.02<\/td>\nEmma Starr, Lisa Finfrock , Devon Salison, Stephanie Savage<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historic Franklin field played host to Kennett and more than 1400 high school relay teams By Dave Conard Sports Editor, KennettTimes.com PHILADELPHIA\u2014Every April the very best in track and field make their way to historic Franklin Field to compete in one of the grandest stages in the world, the Penn Relays. Over the first two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,4,22],"tags":[597,600,595,596,599,598,556,557,594],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-2","category-featured","category-sports","tag-4-x-100-relay","tag-bill-cosby","tag-bruce-jenner","tag-carl-lewis","tag-franklin-field","tag-kennett-high-school-track-and-field","tag-penn-relays","tag-philadelphia","tag-usain-bolt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}