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The Cleveland Glenville Tarblooders could make a run at six official or unofficial Mehock Relays records this weekend. Here's a look at the events, with the Mehock record and year the record was established, and a comment on the Tarblooders' chances this weekend:

110 meter hurdles 13.6 (1981)
Comment: The 13.6, run by Tom Wilcher of Detroit (Mich.) Central, is the third-oldest record on the books. It was a hand-held time, which converts to an automatic 13.84. Glenville's Ted Ginn Jr. ran a 13.62 when he upset two Texas hurdlers to win the national championship last June.

100 meter dash 10.4 (1979)
Comment: The 10.4, run by Anthony Sharpe of Toronto (Ont.) Stephen Leacock, is the second-oldest record on the books. That, too, is a hand-held time, which converts to an automatic 10.64. Glenville's Jamario O'Neal, a Mansfield Senior transfer, ran a hand-held10.4 for runner-up honors last weekend at the Arcadia Invitational in California.

400 meter dash 46.80 (1990)
Comment: This is the first season Glenville's Ted Ginn Jr. is running the open 400, but based on some of his splits in the 4 x 400, the Mehock record held by Chris Nelloms of Dayton Dunbar and Nelloms' state record (45.59) could fall. Ginn has had an unofficial split of 45.5 and ran a 47.57 in the open quarter in California last week.

4 x 100 meter relay 41.7 (1985)
Comment: Three members are back from the Glenville quartet that won a state title last year at 41.2. The Tarblooders ran a 41.84 last weekend in California. The current Mehock mark, a hand-held time, is held by another Cleveland school, John Adams.

4 x 200 meter relay 1:27.62 (2003)
Comment: Three members are back from the Glenville quartet that set the record last year. The Tarblooders went on to set the state record (1:26.25) at the state meet and improved to 1:24.77 at the Adidas nationals in Raleigh, N.C. That mark does not count as an official state record.

4 x 400 meter relay 3:14.09 (1987)
Comment: Toronto Central Tech holds the record, but probably not for long. Glenville ran a 3:10.66 last summer at nationals and is gunning for the national mark of 3:07.4, set by Hawthorn, Calif., in 1985