From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Sianni Wynn began her final sectional meet with two firsts Friday in the South Jersey Group 4 meet at Lenape.

Wynn won the 100 in 11.63, leading a 1-2-6 Pennsauken finish, and also anchored Pennsauken’s 400-meter relay team, which set a meet record with a 46.31.

In the 100, Sanaya Dupree placed 2^nd in 11.99, and junior Summer Schaeffer was 6^th in a PR 12.33. Her previous PR was a 12.52 two weeks ago at the BCSL meet at Willingboro.

In the 4-by-1, Wynn and Schaeffer were joined by Dupree and Olivia Dupree, and their 46.31 broke the SJ-4 meet record of 47.03 that Pennsauken ran last year.

Wynn will run the 200 and anchor the 4-by-4 on Saturday.

Sophomore Hope Edwards placed 2^nd to Natalie Dumas in the 400-meter hurdles with a season-best 1:01.35, No. 4 in New Jersey, No. 20 on the MileSplit national database and No. 5 among sophomores.

Pennsauken also scored half a point in the high jump, where freshman Angela Nguyen cleared 4-8 and tied for 6^th.

Dumas won the intermediates in 59.33 also won the 800 in 2:15.00.

Cherokee senior Alyssa Suriano won the 3,200 in 10:51.10, leading four runners below 11– Cherry Hill East sophomore Addison Weiss [10:52.54], Kingsway junior Aubrey Bishop [10:53.61] and Cherokee sophomore Erin Healy [10:54.57]. All four ran PRs.

Cherokee senior Addison Lore won the javelin at 127-8, a nearly seven-foot PR, and Williamstown junior Timia Waters won the triple jump at 38-2, also a PR.

Highland senior Zion Josia Brockenbrough popped the top discus throw in South Jersey this year Friday at the South Jersey Group 3 Sectionals at Delsea.

Brockenbrough threw 166-3 on his final attempt to bump Toms River East’s Jacob Humphrey out of the lead. Humphrey had thrown 156-1 on his 3^rd throw and Brockenbrough’s best through five rounds was 153-1.

Brockenbrough’s previous best was a 164-5 last week at the Camden County Championships at Haddon Township. His throw Friday is No. 13 in Camden County history.

Highland’s only previous sectional discus champ was Devon Starks, who threw 152-9 at the 2018 meet, also at Delsea.

All-Time Camden County Discus List
216-11 … Ron Dayne [Overbrook], 1996
185-7 … Matt Huckabee [Timber Creek], 2010
184-4 … Adam Hunt [Collingswood], 2017
181-10 … Shawn Brady [Bishop Eustace], 2024
180-3 … Howard Clark [Pennsauken], 1998
173-10 … Mark Rifkin [Cherry Hill West], 1978
174-6 … Josh Dillard [Lindenwold], 2005
173-8 … Shaun Brady [Bishop Eustace], 2024
169-10 … Julian Giovinetti [Haddon Twp.], 2016
168-9 … John Purvis [Winslow Twp.], 2019
166-10 … Connor Wade [Haddon Twp.], 2013
166-9 … Joe Doran [Haddonfield], 2011
166-3 … Zion Josia Brockenbrough [Highland], 2026
165-2 … Nicholas Kokolis [Cherry Hill East], 2019

Schalick senior David Stewart soared to the No. 6 triple jump in South Jersey history and No. 1 mark in New Jersey this year Friday at the South Jersey Group 1 Sectionals at Lenape.

Stewart, who PR’d late last month with a 47-8 ¼ at Pennsville, jumped 48-7 ¼ with a legal 1.4 tailwind on his final attempt to break his own Salem County record and top Glassboro sophomore Moses Robles, who had taken the lead with a PR of his own at 47-5 on his 5^th jump with a legal 1.2 wind reading.

Stewart won South Jersey Group 1 last year at 45-4 ¼. He’s the first repeat winner since Allen Killbrew of Penns Grove in 2014 and 2015.

Stewart won the triple jump as part of the first sectional triple ever by a Schalick athlete. He also won the long jump and 400-meter hurdles.

In the triple jump, Stewart broke the meet record of 48-3 ¼ set at 2009 Sectionals at Egg Harbor by Glassboro’s Ryan Chance.

Robles improved his PR from 46-7 from the Woodbury Relays and improved to No. 6 in Gloucester County history. His 47-5 is 3^rd-best ever by a South Jersey sophomore and best by a New Jersey sophomore this year. It’s No. 14 nationally among sophomores in the MileSplit U.S. database.

Stewart also won the long jump with a PR 22-8 ½ and the 400-meter hurdles in 55.33. His previous long jump PR was a 22-3 ¾ from the Woodbury Relays. He’s run 54.22 in the intermediates

All-Time South Jersey Triple Jump List
50-9 ¼ … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2018
50-6 ¾ …. Dominique Irons [Haddon Heights], 2013
50-2 ½ … Floyd Whitaker [Highland], 2019
48-10 ½ … Larry Russell [Timber Creek], 2015
48-9 … Zamir Chance [Bridgeton], 2025
48-7 ¼ … David Stewart [Schalick], 2026
48-4 ½ .. Rece Englehart [Moorestown], 2024
48-3 ¼ … Ryan Chance [Glassboro], 2009
48-1 ½ … Mubeen Momodu [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2019
48-1 ¼ ……Orion Joyner [Kingsway], 2019
48-0 ………. Josh Butler [Delsea], 2006
47-9 ¼ … Marcus Edghilll [Pemberton], 1981
47-7 ½ … Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2014
47-7 ½ … Jaden Johnson [Timber Creek], 2022
47-6 ½ … Chris Roundtree [Haddon Hts.], 2009
47-5 ½ … Khaliel Burnett [Delsea], 2017
47-5 ¼ … Kevin Kevelier [Collingswood], 2019
47-5 ……… Steven Brown [Penns Grove], 2009
47-5 … Moses Robles [Glassboro], 2026
47-4 ¾ … Cheo King [Woodbury], 2017
47-4 ½ … Zakiyy Williams [Rancocas Valley], 2017
47-4 ……… Tristan Wilson [Delsea], 2014
47-3 ¼ … Antwan Dickerson [Pennsauken], 2013
47-3 ……… Mike Baker [Cherry Hill West], 1976
47-2 ¼ … Josiah Williams [Mainland Reg.], 2025
47-1 … Jabari Woodard [Camden Tech], 2026
47-0 ½ … Mawali Osunniyi [Mainland Reg.], 2023
47-0 ¼ … Earnest Daniel [Kingsway], 2017

Senior Jaeden Wesley, sophomore Zaccheaus Harrigan and sophomore Moses Robles led Glassboro to a 74-point Day 1 in the South Jersey Group 1 sectionals Friday at Lenape.

With nine events in the books, Glassboro leads Schalick 74-48, with Camden [34] and Woodstown [32] in 3rd and 4th.

Glassboro’s remarkable sophomore class scored 39 points, with a freshman adding six more. Wesley was the only senior to score.

Wesley won the 3,200 in a lifetime-best 9:34.67, leading a 1-2-6 Glassboro finish with sophomore Joe Saicic [2nd in 9:37.34] and sophomore Gavin Rakitis [6th in PR 9:56.59], Harrigan placed 2nd in the 800 [PR 1:55.06] and intermediate hurdles [58.24] and Robles was 2nd in the triple jump [PR 47-5] and 3rd in the long jumpo [21-8 ½].

Freshman Gabriel Tarevich threw 137-5 in the discus for 3rd place, junior Marley Crowl placed 5th in both horizontal jumps [20-11 ¾, 42-11 ½], sophomore Aaron Johnson took 6th in the 800 [PR 1:59.19], junior Joseph Delecce was 4th in the discus [PR 131-9] and junior Logan Toledo was 3rd in the pole vault [12-0].

Also, sophomore Miles Taylor, sophomore Alex Adeleye, junior Marley Crowl and junior Ta’sheem Butler ran 43.97 for 4th in the 400-meter relay.

At Delsea, Haddonfield leads Pleasantville 53-36 in Group 2 and Deptford is up 55-52 on Winslow, and in Group 4 at Lenape Southern Regional [34] and Toms River North [31] lead Eastern [28], Williamstown [28], Bridgeton [26], Egg Harbor [24], Cherry Hill East [23], Rancocas Valley [22] and Millville [22].

The Audubon girls, seeking their second sectional championship in three years, piled up 75 points on Day 1 of the South Jersey Group 1 meet at Lenape.

Audubon scored in seven of nine events – all but the shot put and javelin – and leads Glassboro 75-46 after the first day of competition at Lenape. Audubon won its 1^st two sectional titles in 2024 and 2025.

Senior Riley Fayer and freshman Emma Camm ran 1-2 in the 3,200 and 1-4 in the 800 for 32 points, with Fayer running a season-best 2:16.66 in the 800 and and Camm a PR 2:23.98. They ran 11:21.91 and 11:30.82 in the 3,200, with Camm recording her 2^nd PR of the day. Junior Lydia Gravante added a point with a 6^th-place finish in the 3,200 with a PR 12:08.19.

Audubon went 1-3-T4 for 19 more points in the high jump, with senior Julianna Laxton clearing 5-2 for the win, freshman Kathryn Black 4-10 for 3^rd and senior Marissa DeValerio 4-10 for 5^th.

Audubon was 2^nd in the 4-by-1 with junior Kathryn McGuire, junior Sophia Rizzo, senior Kylie Tocco and senior Julianna Laxton running 50.29.

McGuire also ran 12.79 for 2^nd place in the 100, freshman Sabrina Passon ran 1:08.95 in the 400 hurdles for 3^rd place and senior Marissa DeValerio placed 6^th in the triple jump with a 34-0.

At Delsea, Haddonfield leads Barnegat and Lindenwold 45-38 after Day 1 in Group 2 and Winslow already has a ridiculous 92 points with Ocean City 2^nd with 37 as Winslow seeks its 12^th sectional title in the last 13, and in Group 4 at Lenape, Southern is up 53-40 over Cherokee, with Pennsauken at 37 ½ going into Saturday.

Glassboro senior Sunsarai Moore shattered the South Jersey Group 1 sectional shot put record with a PR 44-4 ½ Friday afternoon at Lenape.

Moore had a huge series with a PR 43-8 ½ opener, another PR 43-9 ¼ on her 2^nd attempt, a 44-2 on her 3^rd and then her 4^th PR of her series at 44-4 ½ on her 1^st throw of the finals. She fouled before finishing with a 41-7 ¼.

Moore’s previous PR was a 42-7 ¾ just last week at the Tri-County Showcase at Delsea, so she had the four-best throws of her life on Friday.

Moore broke the meet record of 43-7 set by Schalick’s Zyra Thomas in 2018 at Washington Township.

Her throw is No. 15 in South Jersey history and No. 6 on the all-time Gloucester County list. It’s No. 2 by a South Jersey Group 1 thrower behind Thomas’s 46-0 ½ at 2018 Greensboro Nationals.

Moore is Glassboro’s 1^st sectional shot put champ since Shamere Rothmiller won her 3^rd straight South Jersey Group 2 title in 2008. Moore broke Rothmiller’s school record of 43-7 from the 2008 Woodbury Relays

All-Time South Jersey Shot Put List
47-9 … Hannah Nuhfer [Delsea], 2025
47-1 ¼ … Jessica Woodard [Cherokee], 2013
46-4 ……… Janiece Rose [Delsea], 2011
46-1 ½ … Nacole Moore [Bridgeton], 2000
46-0 ¼ … Zyra Thomas [Schalick], 2018
45-7 ½ … Ronetta Hunter [Burlington Twp.], 2015
45-5 ……… Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 2004
45-1 ¼ … Ella Karp [Washington Twp.], 2025
44-9 ¾ … Najeaya Singleton [Vineland], 2016
44-9 ……… Kim Warren [Atlantic City], 2006
44-9 ……… Lola Agabalogun [Egg Harbor], 2013
44-8 … Ciara Demarest [Williamstown], 2023
44-5 ¼ …. Melinda Boykin [Bridgeton], 1998
44-5 ……… Jamine Moton [Delsea], 1997
44-4 ½ … Sunsarai Moore [Glassboro], 2026
44-4 ¼ …. Dana White [Camden], 2000
44-3 …. Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
44-2 ½ …. Typhanie Bates [Williamstown], 1995
44-0 ¾ …. Mercedes Hicks [Atlantic City], 2006

Deptford senior Johann Hernandez, who according to his MileSplit profile had never run a 100-meter dash, ran one of the fastest in South Jersey history Friday.

Hernandez won the South Jersey Group 3 100 in 10.51 with a legal 0.8 wind reading at Delsea. The only Gloucester County sprinters to run faster with or without legal wind are Ajani Dwyer of Washington Township [10.21 in 2024, 10.32 legal] and Glassboro’s James Brown [10.47 no wind reading in 2009].

Although the program shows a hand-timed meet record of 10.2, the actual meet record is 10.36 by Timber Creek’s Damiere Byrd from 2011 at Egg Harbor.

His time is 9^th-fastest in South Jersey history regardless of wind conditions.

Also under 11 seconds in the race were Winslow senior Quayd Hendryx [10.66], Winslow freshman Keyon Ali [10.76], Timber Creek junior Timothy Whitaker [10.89] and Ocean City senior Jude Govern [10.93]

All-Time South Jersey 100-Meter Dash List
10.28 … Malachi James [Burlington City], 2024
10.32 … Ajani Dwyer [Washington Twp.], 2024
10.35 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2000
10.36 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2010
10.45 … James Townsend [Holy Cross], 2003
10.47 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
10.47 … James Brown [Glassboro], 2009
10.49 … Jonathan Taylor [Salem], 2017
10.51 … Johann Hernandez [Deptford], 2026
10.53 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2001
10.54 … Fabian Santiago [Oakrest], 2010
10.55 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2002
10.55 … Donte Davis [Burlington City], 2025
10.56 … Julian Onesti [St. Augustine], 2025
10.57 … Jamil Benjamin [Cumberland Regional], 2006
10.57 … Tymir Gayle [Cherry Hill East], 2026
10.57 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024
10.57 … Geoff Navaro [Absegami], 2008
10.58 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003
10.58 … James Burris [Moorestown], 2022
10.58 … Jaylen Day [Atlantic City], 2026
10.60 … Robert Page [Kingsway], 2008
10.60 … Marquis Bonds [Millville], 2007
10.60 … Shawney Kersey [Woodbury], 2009
10.60 … Thomas Hampton [Clayton], 2019

Winslow senior Ma’Syiah Brawner won her 5^th sectional title Friday afternoon and surpassed the meet record in the triple jump at the South Jersey Group 3 Championships at Delsea.

Brawner jumped 40-5 ½ on her 4^th attempt to break the meet record of 40-4 set by Ocean City’s Sophia Curtis in 2024. There are no wind readings in the results, unfortunately, so it appears there wasn’t a wind gauge at the horizontal jumps at this championship meet. There was no wind gauge at Delsea when Curtis jumped 40-4 so who even knows what the actual official wind-legal meet record is.

Brawner set her PR of 40-6 ¼ at West Philly Nationals in 2024. Her previous best jump this year was a 39-9 ½ at the Penn Relays.

She had the five-best jumps of the competition Friday, with a 39-0 opener, a 39-8 ½,, the 40-5 ½, a 40-2 and a 39-10.

Junior Brooklyn Ezekiel of Cherry Hill West was 2^nd with a season-best 37-9.

Brawner has now won two sectional titles in the high jump, two in the triple jump and one in the long jump.

Pleasantville junior Raliel Wiggins broke the 24-foot plateau in the long jump at South Jersey Group 2 sectionals, but it appears there was no wind gauge at Delsea.

Wiggins, who began the day with a PR of 22-10 ½ from the Atlantic County Championships at Egg Harbor earlier this month, jumped 24-0 ½ on his 6^th attempt after PR’ing on his 1^st attempt with a 23-4 ¼. He also had a 23-2 and 22-7 in his series along with two fouls.

The results do not show any wind readings, which makes the mark ineligible for record consideration and most performance lists.

Overbrook junior Jaiden Mitchell also surpassed 23 feet, taking 2^nd with a PR 23-4 ¼.

Burlington City’s Mike Boone set the meet record of 24-1 ¼ in 1990 in Bridgeton.

Wiggins is the 12^th South Jersey long jumper to surpass 24 feet regardless of wind conditions. His mark is just 3 ¾ inches off the Atlantic County record of 24-4 ¼ set by Egg Harbor Township’s Ahmad Fogg at 2023 West Philly Nationals at Franklin Field.

Wiggins is the first Pleasantville long jumper to win a sectional title in 32 years, since Herb Simon won the 1994 Group 2 title at West Deptford with a 21-2 ¾ in 1994.

All-Time South Jersey 24-Foot Club
26-8 ¼ … Carl Lewis [Willingboro], 1979
25-2 ½ …….. Anthony Averett [Woodbury], 2012
25-1 ½ … Gerard Reynolds [Willingboro], 1990
25-0 …….. William Spearman [Woodrow Wilson], 1996
24-8 ….….. Isaac Samuels [Willingboro-Kennedy], 1983
24-11 ¼ … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2002
24-5 ….….. Mike Morrison [Willingboro], 2003
24-4 ¼ … Ahmad Fogg [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2023
24-3 ¾ … Mikhail Micheaux [Eastern], 2013
24-1 ½ … Mike Boone [Burlington City], 1990
24-0 ½ … Kerry Vivett [Edgewood], 1984
24-0 ½ … Raliel Wiggins [Pleasantville], 2026

Riverside’s Jamir Brown ran the 7th-fastest 110-meter hurdles time in the world this year in the trials of the ACC Championship Friday in Louisville.

Brown, a Syracuse sophomore, led all qualifiers into the final with a 13.28 made with a legal 1.7 meters-per-second wind.

Brown tied the Sytacuse record of 13.28 set by Jaheen Hayles in 2023 when he placed 3rd in the NCAA Championships in Austin in 2023.

Brown’s time is 6th-fastest ever by a New Jersey native and fastest in 14 years, since Jeff Porter of Franklin ran 13.08 at the 2012 USATF Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. He’s 6th-fastest American this year and 5th-fastest collegian.

Brown’s previous PR was a 13.39 in Jacksonville in May. He’s the fastest high hurdler from South Jersey since Camden’s Anwar Moore ran 13.12 at the 2007 Modesto [Calif.] Relays..

The final is scheduled for 4:40 p.m. Saturday back at Louisville’s Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park.