By Christopher Hunt
NEW YORK – Middletown’s Manny Mosley could only say one good thing about the 400 hurdles race he ran Friday: He won.
Oh, and he handled the first hurdle pretty well too. Outside of that, well, it was good that he won. Mosley overcame a race where he never found his rhythm – the most important thing in the 400 hurdles – and held off a charge from Longwood’s Joe Payton and Adrian Lewis of Medgar Evers to win at the New York Relays in 54.98 seconds at Ichan Stadium.
“It wasn’t good,” Mosley said. “My steps were just off.”
He almost didn’t get away with it either. Clinton’s Jeremiah Obeng Agyapong almost snatched the race from a third section. The junior arrived with his teammates to the track just before the start of the girls’ race. But then Obeng Agyapong couldn’t find his bib number.
After he searched all over, he found it with his coach, Chris Lockett. He checked in to the clerk late, which meant that Obeng Agyapong was reg...
