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Joe Rosa looking for course record #3 of 2009.  11 Dyestat Elite/ESPN Rise national or nationally ranked teams set to square off in Easterns race

October 8, 2009 – Joe Rosa (photo below by John Nepolitan) isn’t making any predictions, but after what he did last week there is no doubt that the junior from West Windsor-Plainsboro North could be on the verge of taking down another historic record at Saturday’s 37th Manhattan Invitational.

Rosa, arguably one of the best runners in the nation right now, will chase his third course record of the season when he takes the line in the F Division race (1:51 p.m.) at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

The time Rosa’s shooting for over the slighty altered 2.5-mile course (the start was moved up and the finish moved back due to construction) is 12:06.7, set a year ago by Solomon Haile of Sherwood High in Maryland.

Rosa is coming off perhaps one of the greatest races ever run by a runner in the Northeast with his mind-blowing 15:04 course record at Holmdel Park at last Saturday’s Shore Coaches Invitational. Rosa’s time chopped 12 seconds off the former mark of 15:16, set by legendary Craig Forys of Colts Neck.

Almost as remarkable was the runner-up finish by Jim Rosa, Joe’s twin, who matched Forys’ mark with a time of 15:16.

The races by the Rosa’s were voted as the top two performancs of the week in the nation by DyeStat viewers.

Joe Rosa said the Shore Coaches race has put him in the right frame of mind to make a run at Haile’s record.

``Shore coaches really gives me a lot of...