By Carl Little, The Washington Post

NEW YORK – Solomon Haile, an immigrant from Ethiopia, won the Manhattan Invitational yesterday in New York and set a course record.

The Sherwood High School senior finished the 2.5-mile course at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx in 12 minutes 6. 61 seconds, breaking the record by three seconds. Sherwood finished third in the Varsity E division with 210 points. La Salle (R.I.) Academy (141 points) won the meet.

“I pushed myself, and I broke the record,” Haile said. “I’m happy for that.”