Servite CA Cracks Top-10 All-Time List With 1:22.76; American Fork Makes It Five 4x1600 Titles In A Row; Loyola CA Impresses With No. 3 All-Time SMR

By Keenan Gray of DyeStat

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ARCADIA, Calif. - If there was any way Servite CA could send a message to Bullis MD before Saturday night’s 4x400-meter relay battle at the Arcadia Invitational, it found a way in the 4x200 relay.

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Jace Wells, Kamil Pelovello, Jaelen Hunter and Benjamin Harris is now the only non-Texas quartet to crack the top 10 all-time list in the boys 4x200 relay, running 1 minute, 22.76 seconds to move to No. 4 all-time during Friday night’s Burning Baton action at Arcadia High School.

Both Servite’s boys 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams, which is primarily made up of sophomore and juniors, have produced the fastest times in the country this season.

Last week at the Trabuco Hills Invitational, Servite ran 39.82 in the 4x100 to better their own California record. Six days later, Servite overtook Westwood SC for the nation’s top spot in the 4x200.

“We don’t care who’s on your relay, we don’t care who you got,” Harris said, who anchored both US#1 teams.

“We the best in the nation and we mean that. We mean business.”

A combination of both speed and strength has carried Servite to a new level of dominance in California. Last season, with freshman and sophomores, Servite ran 1:23.88 but won by two-tenths of a second. This year, over a second faster and won by almost two seconds.

“We hit the standards, but we always set them higher,” Pelovello said. “I feel great going 39, 1:22. We can do better, but overall, just happy with what we can do.”

Servite has conquered Texas and California in just a month into the outdoor season. Tomorrow night, they’ll race for another potential US#1 in the 4x400 but face their greatest challenge of the year: Quincy Wilson and Bullis.

Wells and his twin brother, Jorden, Pelovello and Hunter will aim to improve their 3:10.33 from Trabuco Hills. Bullis is US#1 with a 3:09.88 from the Pepsi Florida Relays.

American Fork Five-Peats 4x1600 Title

For the fifth consecutive year, American Fork UT was victorious in the boys 4x1,600 relay. However, it had to work for it against a strong Bozeman MT team.

After the first exchange, American Fork trailed Bozeman by as much as six seconds with Chase Hejny opening with a 4:24.86. By the second exchange, Grant Hejny closed within a second of Bozeman. 

Dallin Harrington maintained American Fork's position behind Bozeman by a second behind Bozeman before handing off to Austin Plewe on the anchor, who gave American Fork their first lead with two laps to go before pulling away in the end by two and a half seconds in 17:07.67.

This year's team moves to No. 4 all-time in meet history and now makes it five American Fork teams in the all-time top five at Arcadia. 

"It's a special opportunity to come to this meet and always run this race," Plewe said, a member of the 2025 winning 4x1600 relay.

"It's something we look forward to every year. It's just special following the legacy of the guys before us. They set us up, they set an example."

Elsewhere around the track, the Union Catholic NJ boys shattered the 4x800 relay meet record by nearly nine seconds in a US#1 7:32.78.

Elijah McCoy (1:54.06), Quinton Clemons (1:53.59), Keandre Kelly (1:53.74) and Ciaran Brosnan (1:51.39) ran three seconds faster than their national record time that won them New Balance Nationals Indoor in March, beating Belen Jesuit FL by almost five seconds.

Belen Jesuit’s Marcelo Mantecon, four-time Nike Indoor Nationals champion, split the fastest 800 in 1:49.75.

Loyola CA climbed to No. 3 all-time in the boys 800 sprint medley relay in 1:28.85, a little over four tenths off the meet record set by Poly (Long Beach) CA in 2007. London Gray, Jayden Davis and Zion Phelps help set up Ejam Yohannes to anchor the 400 in 47.67, where he held off Cathedral CA’s Gianni Haynes, who anchored 46.90.

Wilson (Long Beach) CA, the newly minted four-time co-ed team champions of the Oregon Relays, won their lone relay race of the day in the boys 1,600 sprint medley relay with Dshon Lone Beaver, Kyle Harris, Kaedyn Burroughs and Jordan Kincherlow running 3:26.62.

Notre Dame CA, featuring Maxwell Martin-Beckmann, Elijah Pullins, Daniel Slaughter and Beckham Borquez, won the boys 110 shuttle hurdles relay in 58.77

In the only individual race of the evening, Quenton Lanese of Olympia WA got the sub-9 party started in the boys 3,200, running a Washington freshman class record of 8:58.76 to win the first open section.

Lanese was one of four sub-9 performances on day one along with Benjamin Olds of Palmer Ridge CO (8:57.42), Reynolds Young of Christ School NC (8:58.98) and Kiefer Willcox of Tahoe Truckee NV (8:59.37) from the third open section.