Reuben Frank
Hanza Salahuddin became the 6th Cherokee runner to win the freshman boys race at the 30th annual Cherokee Challenge Saturday morning.
Salahuddin ran 10:26.36 over 3,200 meters at Cherokee and won by a fraction of a section over Allentown’s Reed Huggins, who was 2nd in 10:26.67.
Other Cherokee freshmen to win the Challenge on their home course are Mike Caputi in 1996, Keith Krieger in 1999, Sean McLaughlin in 2021, Alex Yersak in 2004 and Jack Tindall last year.
Other South Jersey runners in the top 10 were Braden Bernardini of St. Augustine, who was 4th in 11:06, and Luke Feeley of Cinnaminson, 10th in 11:20.