It didn't matter the race or the meet, Cambrya Jones couldn't beat star sprinter Breehana Jacobs last year. But now that Jacobs has graduated, Jones has moved into the fast lane.

Jones, a senior at Woodland Hills, further established herself as the top sprinter in the area this spring by winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes last night at the Baldwin Invitational at Baldwin High School Stadium. The meet is one of the largest in the eastern part of the country and featured many of the top athletes in the WPIAL.

A year ago at Baldwin, Jones finished second in the 100 and 200 to Laurel Highlands' Jacobs, one of the top sprinters in WPIAL history who is now at the University of South Carolina.

"Last year, the target was on her back," Jones said. "This year, I feel like it's on my back."

Jones, a Pitt recruit, won the 100 in 11.92 seconds and the 200 in 25.23.

"She was a great athlete," Jones said of Jacobs. "She ran an 11.93 here last year, and I ran 11.92. So I beat her by a little bit. She wasn't here to actually beat, but it's still just a little better."

Jones was one of two girls to win two individual events. The other was Latrobe's Natalie Bower, who won the 1,600 in 4 minutes, 56.76 seconds and the 3,200 in 10:55.22. She also ran the anchor leg on Latrobe's winning 3,200 relay team.

Bower's times in both individual events were the best in the WPIAL this season, but her mark in the 1,600 was most impressive. She had the best time (5:07.52) in the WPIAL coming into the event, and took more than 10 seconds off it.

Baldwin's T.J. Hobart was the standout in boys' distance events, winning the 800 in 1:56.13, the 1,600 in 4:16.24 and anchoring both the 1,600 and 3,200 relay teams to a first-place finishes.

In other meet highlights, the Penn Hills girls' 400 relay team finished first with a time of 47.38 seconds. But not only was the time a meet record, it also was the fastest in the history of the WPIAL in any meet.

The old Baldwin Invitational record was 48.15, set two years ago by Penn Hills. Senior Taelor Fowler was a member of both teams. The other three runners last night were Arrie Smith, Gisele Adanlete and Jordan Lee.

"We've been wanting to get into the 47s this year and now we did it," Fowler said. "We're right where we wanted to be at this time of year. We're trying to run in the 46s by the end of the year."

Penn Hills also won the boys' 400 relay. The race was one of the most anticipated of the meet because Aliquippa came in with the No. 1 time in the WPIAL this season and Penn Hills No. 2. But the Penn Hills team of Dan Darnell, Brandon Bailey, Chris Washington and Brandon Ifill won with a time of 42.74 seconds. Aliquippa, whose relay team included Pitt football recruit Jonathan Baldwin who ran the second leg, took second in 43.16.

Two other girls set meet records -- West Allegheny's Kristen Lang in the 300 hurdles and Norwin's Shelby Haitz in the 800.

Lang ran 44.15 to break the record of 44.18. It was a coming out party of sorts for Lang, a junior who was only ninth at the WPIAL Class AAA championships a year ago.

"I didn't expect this," Lang said. "I didn't even know what the record was coming in. I thought it would be something ridiculous, like something in the 43s."

Haitz's record time was 2:13.44, breaking the old mark of 2:14.14. She had trouble getting to the top of the winners' stand when they announced her name because she got sick after the race.

"I've never gotten sick like that before," Haitz said. "But I've never run so hard before. I've never pushed myself like that."

The other meet record was set by Erie McDowell's Dan Kwiatkowski, who won the shot put with a throw of 63 feet, breaking the record of 62-4.