NA’s Owens wins national hurdles title, breaks state record

By: HSSN Staff
Sunday, March 11, 2018 | 3:18 PM

North Allegheny hurdler Ayden Owens won a national title Sunday and set a state record at the same time.

The senior won the 60-meter hurdles at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in 7.59 seconds, shaving more than a tenth of a second off his personal best. Owens’ time broke a state record set in 1995 by Deworski Odom of Philadelphia’s Overbrook High School, according to Milesplit.com.

Owens won Sunday ahead of Germantown Academy’s Kyle Garland (7.74), who Owens battled Saturday in the pentathlon . The New Balance meet was at the Armory Track and Field Center in New York

Owens’ previous best in the 60-meter hurdles was 7.70 seconds at the TSTCA indoor meet Feb. 17. He ran 7.71 Saturday in the preliminary heats and 7.83 in the semifinals earlier Sunday.

Upper St. Clair’s Savannah Shaw was eighth in the girls mile (4:51.99) Sunday and Butler’s Noah Beveridge placed 18th in the boys mile (4:18.52).

Owens and Garland…1-2 in the nation once again!

This time it comes in the hurdles #NBNationals pic.twitter.com/AKn3lvkB4i

— PennTrackXC (@PennTrackXC) March 11, 2018

Chris Harlan is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at charlan@tribweb.com or via Twitter @CHarlan_Trib.

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