Garden City freshman Charles White set a 3200-meter meet best, East Meadow's Kinjal Parikh beat Maegan Krifchin twice and Rachael Gill won her third racewalk title at the meet.
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Garden City freshman Charles White won the 3200 meters at the Class A county championship at Suffolk Community College in 9:45.2, a personal best and the fastest time on record at the meet, by 15.4 seconds over Syosset senior Sean Tully. The previous best was the 9:46.8 run by Syosset's Mark Alizzi.
East Meadow senior Kinjal Parikh won two close races against JFK Bellmore junior Maegan Krifchin. Parikh took the 1000 meters in 3:03.6, a meet best, by 0.4 seconds and the 1500 meters in 5:00.6 by 0.1 seconds. East Meadow senior Rachael Gill won the 1500-meter racewalk for her third title at the meet in 7:16.9, a personal best and the best time on record at the meet, by 24.6 seconds over teammate Jenna Garland.
Elmont senior Atiba Liverpool won the boys 300 meters in 35.9, a personal best and a meet best, by 0.3 seconds over Uniondale senior Michael Wright. Uniondale senior Nickesha Williams won the girls 300 meters in 41.5, also a personal best and a meet best, by 1.3 seconds over Hempstead junior Sayako Daley.
Syosset swept the top two places in the boys 1000 meters, with senior Adam Lampert winning in 2:39.1 and senior Dan Tully second in 2:39.7, and senior Chris Howell won the 1600 meters in 4:39.0, a personal best, by 7.2 seconds over Farmingdale senior Jeff Deitel.
Mepham junior Dawn Leavy won the girls 3000 meters in 10:52.3, a personal best, by 1.3 seconds over Oceanside sophomore Bari Melker. Freeport senior Charrelle Staton defended her 55-meter hurdles title in 8.5, ahead of Uniondale freshman Ashley Hendrix, and Uniondale senior Jean Juste won the boys 55-meter hurdles in 7.6.