By ROBERT NIEDZWIECKI
Special to The News Journal
05/06/2001

GREENVILLE - Meet records seemed to be up for grabs Saturday at the 21st annual Twilight Relays at Alexis I. du Pont High.

Ursuline's girls squad won the Division II title with 90 points. The Cape Henlopen boys team took the Division II title with 82 points.

The Brandywine girls (94.5 points) and Salesianum boys (116) took home the Division I team titles.

But team wins were overshadowed by several startling individual and tandem performances.

Brandywine established a meet record in the high jump thanks to the Schmidt brothers, Ivan and Mike. The two combined to jump 12 feet, 6 inches to break the record of 12-0 the school set last year. The Schmidts were also part of the winning 1,600-meter relay team and combined to win the long jump with a total of 40-4 1/2.

Delcastle set a meet record in the shuttle hurdle relay with a time of 1 minute, 4 seconds, eclipsing by six seconds the mark set a year ago by Archbishop Ryan (Pa.).

And Newark obliterated its own shot put mark by nearly 30 feet and the discus mark by almost 50 feet. Omar Rogers and Isaac Wolkowicz recorded a combined distance of 114-5 in the shot put to shatter the previous mark of 85-6 1/2. The same duo recorded a 293-11 mark in the discus to eclipse Tower Hill's 2000 standard of 244-9.

"We've got a lot to improve on as far as our form," Wolkowicz said. "But I think the [shot put] mark is going to last a while. I was looking forward to breaking that mark today."

William Penn's Lateefah Vaughn, who took sixth place in the Penn Relays last weekend with a toss of 124-6 in the discus, did even better this week in throwing 127-5.

Her effort combined with Stephanie Crawford's 103-9 gave the duo a total of 231-2, breaking a 15-year-old mark set by Seaford (218-4). The distance was 89 feet farther than the runnerup in Division I. Vaughn and Crawford also combined to win the shot put relay (69-8). The Colonials also established a pole vault relay record with a mark of 15-0.

"I could have done better," Vaughn said. "We threw a 240 [in discus] at the Lake Forest Invitational. Now, I'm just hoping to be a state and county champ."

Polytech's Tyresha Smith flirted with a meet record, but in the end had to settle for a tie.

The sophomore long jumper tied the individual meet record set in 1981, leaping 5 feet, 6 inches.

She just missed setting the record on her second attempt at 5-8, clipping the bar with her feet on the way down.

"I was feeling good today," said Smith, whose previous best was 5-5. "I usually just focus on getting up, but I know I have to focus on my jumping and my speed to get higher."

Several coaches said Smith's slow runs likely cost her the record.

Complete results of Saturday's meet were not yet available for publication in this edition.