Oakcrest junior Brielle Smith, who set a state javelin record of 168-6 at the Woodbury Relays on Saturday, followed that up with a podium finish at the 125th annual Penn Relays on Thursday.

Smith, the New Balance Nationals champion last spring, threw 150-7 for her second straight top-three finish at Franklin Field. She was second with a 145-4 last year.

Smith popped her 150-7 on her first throw. She threw 149-5 on her second attempt and then fouled on her final throw of the trials and first throw of the finals. After a 133-1 on her fifth throw, she passed on her final attempt, knowing she would have had to throw close to the national record to take the lead.

Skylar Ciccolini of Mifflin High in Lewiston, Pa., who went into the meet with a PR of 177-0, which was No. 5 in U.S. history, popped the No. 2 throw in scholastic history with a 184-2 on her first throw of the competition. That’s No. 2 all-them behind Madison Wiltrout of Connellsville (Pa.) High, who threw 185-8 in 2015.

Millville junior Kira Parsons placed ninth but PR’d at 130-2. Her previous high school PR was a 126-9 from the West Deptford Relays earlier this month. She does have a 13311 from a summer javelin-only meet in East Stroudsburg, but that’s not eligible for ranking purposes.

Smith and Parsons rank No. 1 and 2 in South Jersey this year.

The Rancocas Valley girls blew away the field Thursday in the Penn Relays South Jersey Large-School 1,600-Meter Relay, running 3:51.76 and winning by 35 meters.

This is the first time R.V. has ever won the Penn Relays Large-School race. The Red Devils won the small-school race in 4:03.62 in 2007 after being erroneously placed in the wrong division.

R.V.’s time is fastest in the Penn Relays Large-School race in 13 years, since Woodrow Wilson ran 3:50.81 back in 2006.

The Red Devils ended a three-year winning streak by Winslow Township, which placed second in 3:56.91.

R.V. advanced to the Philadelphia Area 1,600-Meter Relay Championships, which is scheduled for 5:40 p.m. Saturday.

Sophomore Sheriyah Nutt led off for R.V. in 58.12, which had R.V. in second place, just behind Lenape, which got a 57.50 leadoff from senior Shelby Whetstone.

Senior Brianna Snowden ran second for R.V., and her 57.99 split gave the Red Devils the lead. Sophomore Alyssa Leak (58.34) and freshman Anabella Chin (57.33) finished up for Rancocas Valley.

Snowden and Nutt also ran on R.V.’s 400-meter relay team, which ran 47.91 and advanced to two regional championship races later this weekend

The time is only about 1 1/2 seconds off R.V.’s school record of 3:50.36, which they set at the Meet of Champions last spring.

Same as the 4-by-100, R.V.’s time was second-fastest by a New Jersey school, behind only Union Catholic. The Scotch Plains school ran 3:45.39 and qualified for Friday’s Championship of America.

R.V. ranked 15th overall in the 4-by-4 out of 608 entrants.

Millville (3:56.75) was next-fastest out of South Jersey in a class race. Senior Malea Broome (59.58), senior Raelynne Miller (59.53), sophomore Zaniah Bowman (60.29) and freshman Bryanna Craig (57.36) ran for Millville, which isn’t eligible for the Philadelphia Area race.

Winslow, which also advanced to the Philadelphia Area race, got a 57.07 second leg from junior Janeya Hammond and an 58.03 anchor from junior Nylah Perry and ran 3:56.91 for second, with senior Nicole Hood (60.76) and senior Rayven Rouse (61.07). Paul VI was third in 3:58.16 with senior Carly Schmidt (61.51), junior Blair Daniels (59.28), freshman Sofia Erichetti (59.67) and junior Aliya Rae Garozzo (57.71).

Here’s the field for Saturday’s Philadelphia Area race:
3:51.76 … Rancocas Valley (Mount Holly)
3:53.35 … Strath Haven (Wallingford, Pa.)
3:54.88 … Paul Robeson (Philadelphia)
3:55.54 … Coatesville (Coatesville, Pa.)
3:55.85 … Central Bucks West (Doylestown, Pa.)
3:56.62 … Cheltenham (Wyncote, Pa.)
3:56.91 … Winslow (Atco)
3:57.24 … North Penn (Lansdale)
3:58.16 … Paul VI (Haddon Township)
3:58.66 … Upper Darby (Upper Darby Pa.)
4:00.23 … Penn Wood (Lansdowne, Pa.)
4:02.27 … Tatnall (Wilmington, Del.)

Penn Relays Large-School 4-by-4 Winners
2019 … Rancocas Valley, 3:51.76
2018 … Winslow Twp., 3:55.79
2017 … Winslow Twp., 3:51.84
2016 … Winslow Twp., 3:55.97
2015 … Lenape, 3:59.53
2014 … Lenape, 3:58.42
2013 … Cherokee, 3:54.98
2012 … Winslow, 3:54.53
2011 … Winslow, 3:57.63
2010 … Seneca, 3:56.90
2009 … Seneca, 4:02.63
2008 … Camden, 3:53.88
2007 … Washington Twp., 3:56.69
2006 … Woodrow Wilson, 3:50.81
2005 … Woodrow Wilson, 3:56.77
2004 … Winslow Twp., 3:54.61
2003 … Willingboro, 3:47.30
2002 … Willingboro, 3:51.45
2001 … Woodrow Wilson, 3:51.80
2000 … Willingboro, 3:53.15
1999 … Willingboro, 3:48.80
1998 … Willingboro, 3:53.55
1997 … Willingboro, 3:55.82
1996 … Willingboro, 4:00.45
1995 … Camden, 3:46.94
1994 … Camden, 3:50.45

The Collingswood girls won their second straight South Jersey Small-School 1,600-Meter Relay title Thursday at the Penn Relays, edging Delsea by exactly one second.

Collingswood ran 4:01.66 last year and ran 4:00.51 to win this year. They’re the first to repeat in 14 years, since Bishop Eustace won in 2004 (4:03.88) and 2005 (4:03.58).

Junior Emily Wallace led off with a 58.65 leg that got Collingswood into first, and sophomore Jaaliyah Evans held the lead with a 59.66 split. Seniors Dash Cruz (1:01.68) and Samantha Hamrick (1:00.54) finished off the race for the Panthers.

Wallace, Cruz and Hamrick were also on last year’s winning team, along with Taylor Perkowski, who graduated.

Fastest split of the race belonged to senior Courtney Smith, who anchored Pennsville’s fourth-place team (4:06.39) in 54.84. Smith was state Group 1 champion in the high and intermediate hurdles last spring

Other sub-60 splits belonged to Aalliyha Fox of Delsea (58.90), Meredith Updike of Cinnaminson (59.46), Amirah Sharpe of Paulsboro (59.80) and Carly Nicholson of Delsea (59.79).

All-Time Penn Relays Small School 4-by-400 Winners
2019 … Collingswood, 4:00.51
2018 … Collingswood, 4:01.66
2017 … Audubon, 4:00.44
2016 … Camden Catholic, 4:08.69
2015 … Pemberton, 4:07.97
2014 … Delsea, 4:06.24
2013 … Camden, 4:07.24
2012 … Kingsway, 4:00.77
2011 … Camden, 4:04.27
2010 … Willingboro, 3:54.82
2009 … Camden, 3:57.23
2008 … Haddonfield, 4:01.70
2007 … Rancocas Valley, 4:03.62
2006 … Haddonfield, 4:01.48
2005 … Bishop Eustace, 4:03.58
2004 … Bishop Eustace, 4:03.88
2003 … Haddonfield, 4:06.51
2002 … Paul VI, 4:10.34
2001 … Paul VI, 4:05.56
2000 … Woodrow Wilson, 4:02.48

The Rancocas Valley and Millville girls qualified for both the Northeast Championship race and the Tri-State Championship race following the 400-meter relay heats Thursday at the 125th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

The Northeast race is scheduled for 2:20 p.m. Friday and the Tri-State race is scheduled for 1:38 p.m. Saturday.

Rancocas Valley’s team of senior Darynn Minus-Vincent, senior Brianna Snowden, junior Kristina Tossas and sophomore Sheriyah Nutt ran 47.91 in Thursday’s heats, 20th-fastest from among 628 schools that started. The only faster New Jersey school was Union Catholic, which ran 47.84 in a different race. Millville ran 48.42, 28th-fastest overall.

Millville’s senior Malea Broome, freshman Bryanna Craig, junior Ciera Bowman and junior Zaniah Bowman ran 48.42.

Winslow (48.51) and Paul VI (48.85) were also under 49 seconds.

Union Catholic, Rancocas Valley and Millville now have the three-fastest times by New Jersey 400-meter relay teams this year.

Of the 18 other schools that ran faster than R.V., 12 are from Jamaica, one from the Bahamas, two from Virginia, one from Maryland, one from New York and one from Central Pennsylvania.

Here are all the qualifiers for all the 400-meter relay championship races: http://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/qualifiers.aspx?l=HSG#HSG_4x100

Rancocas Valley placed second in its heat, just behind South Lakes of Reston, Va., which ran 47.28. Millville was also second in its race, finishing behind Ruseas of Lucea, Hanover, in Jamaica.

This is the third straight year R.V. has broken 48 seconds in the 4-by-100. The Red Devils ran 47.49 in 2017 and 47.63 last year. Their time is No. 8 in Burlington County history

All-Time South Jersey 400-Meter Relay List
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017
46.9h … Willingboro, 1980
47.06 … Winslow Twp., 2014
47.18 … Winslow Twp., 2013
47.19 … Winslow Twp., 2018
47.27 … Delsea, 2017
47.40 … Winslow Twp., 2016
47.45 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
47.45 … Willingboro, 1994
47.49 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
47.3h … Willingboro, 1981
47.54 … Winslow Twp., 2003
47.63 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
47.4h … Camden,, 1978
47.4y … Camden, 1979
47.75 … Eastern, 2002
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2005
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2012
47.8h … Willingboro, 2003
47.82 … Moorestown, 2000
47.85 … Deptford, 2015
47.87 … Winslow Twp., 2011
47.91 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
47.9h … Willingboro, 1995
47.94 … Camden, 2000

The Haddonfield girls raced their way into the Championship of America 3,200-Meter Relay with a 9:20.33 for third place in the second small-school race Thursday at the 125th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Sarah Naticchia’s 2:17.82 leadoff leg got Haddonfield up front early, and her teammates kept the Bulldogs near the front the rest of the way, Lindsay Colflesh splitting 2:19.75, Payton Weiner 2:23.27 and Allison Colflesh 2:19.50.

The time is No. 17 in South Jersey history indoors or out and sixth-fastest in Haddonfield history.

Haddonfield was third in its race behind Newmann-Goretti of Philadelphia (9:05.84) and Union Catholic of Scotch Plains, N.J. (9:15.58).

The Bulldogs had the fifth-fastest time among all small schools and the sixth-fastest time overall.

The 12-fastest schools from the four combined races — two small-school races and two large-school races — advance to the Championship of America race, which is scheduled for 1:10 p.m. Friday.

Here’s what that field looks like:
2019 Penn Relays Championship of America 4-by-800
9:02.43 … Edwin Allen, Clarendon, Jamaica
9:05.84 … Newmann Goretti, Philadelphia
9:15.57 … Shenendehowa, Clifton Park, N.Y.
9:15.58 … Union Catholic, Scotch Plains
9:16.82 … Portsmouth, R.I.
9:20.33 … Haddonfield
9:20.40 … West Springfield, Va.
9:21.24 … Severna Park, Md.
9:23.25 … Friends Central, Wynnewood, Pa.
9:23.76 … Elizabethtown Area, Pa.
9:25.54 … Corning-Painted Post, Corning, N.Y.
9:26.09 … South Lakes, Reston, Va.

All-Time South Jersey List
9:05.62 … Lenape, 2012
9:05.83 … Lenape, 2008
9:06.30 … Haddonfield, 2008
9:10.32 … Haddonfield, 2000
9:15.61 … Ocean City, 2014
9:15.92 … Haddonfield, 2015
9:16.57 … Seneca, 2017
9:16.79 … Haddonfield, 1999
9:18.22 … Kingsway, 2016
9:18.57 … Seneca, 2018
9:18.71 … Lenape, 2011
9:18.93 … Haddonfield, 2018
9:18.94 … Lenape, 2006
9:19.15 … Wilson, 2002
9:19.68 … Kingsway, 2017
9:20.33 … Haddonfield, 2019
9:20.39 … Sterling, 2017
9:20.39 … Haddonfield, 2014
9:20.55 … Seneca, 2008

In the first of the two large-school division races, Lenape ran 9:34.79 for seventh, with Shelby Whetstone leading off in 2:17.09, and Kingsway was eighth in 9:40.94.

The Haddonfield, Lenape and Kingsway times are the three-fastest times by South Jersey school this year.

Chris Gabor, a senior at St. Mary’s and a graduate of St. Joe’s Hammonton, scored a lifetime-best 6,792 points and won the decathlon at the 125th annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Gabor went into Wednesday’s second day 180 points behind leader Ken Mullings of the University of the Bahamas but moved into the lead when Mullings no-heighted in the pole vault and finished with a 143-point margin of victory.

Going into the final event, the 1,500-meter run, Gabor led by 184 points and needed to finish within about 30 seconds of Mullings to record the overall win.

Mullings finished first in the 1,500 with a time of 4:56.61 to score 579 points, but Gabor was only seven seconds behind in 5:03.76 to score 538 points and wrap up the win.

Gabor, a native of Upper Township in Cape May County, had placed second at Penn the last two years — last year behind Mullings. Because the Northeast Conference championships don’t have a decathlon, this was Gabor’s final decathlon as a student athlete at the Emmittsburg, Md., school.

Gabor’s previous-best decathlon score was 6,660 at the Sam Adams Combined Event Invitational at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., earlier this month.

For a look at Gabor’s event-by-event performance on Tuesday, click here.

Here’s how things went for him on Wednesday:

110-METER HURDLES: Gabor ran a personal-best 15.82 over the 42-inch barriers for 753 points. His previous PR was 15.86 at the Sam Adams meet earlier this month.

DISCUS: Gabor threw 104-10 for 503 points, the fewest points he scored in any of the top 10 events.

POLE VAULT: Gabor cleared 14-5 1/4, by far the best clearance of any of the competitors. That earned him 731 points.

JAVELIN: Gabor scored 622 points with a solid 171-5 throw in the javelin.

1,500-METER RUN: As mentioned above, Gabor finished with a 5:03.76 to clinch the title.

For complete event-by-event scoring, click here.

Chris Gabor, Mount St. Mary’s senior from St. Joe’s Hammonton, had a terrific first day in the decathlon at the 125th annual Penn Relays and goes into Day 2 only 180 points behind the leader.

Gabor, a native of Upper Township in Cape May County, scored 3,645 points on Day 1 and trails Ken Mullings of the University of the Bahamas, who scored 3,825.

Let’s take a look at Gabor’s Tuesday afternoon at Franklin Field:

100-METER DASH: Gabor posted the fastest 100 time, earning 810 points and matching his personal-best time.

LONG JUMP: Gabor’s 20-9 3/4 was second-best, behind Mullings’ wind-aided 22-5 and earned him 661 points.

SHOT PUT: Gabor came very close to his PR of 42-7 1/4 with a throw of 42-3 3/4. That was the best throw of the competition and earned him, oddly, another 661 points.

HIGH JUMP: Gabor cleared 6-0 for 653 points. Mullings scored 813 by clearning 6-7. Gabor has cleared 6-2 3/4.

400-METER DASH: Gabor finished with a big personal-best of 49.97, leading all competitors in the 400 and scoring 816 points. His previous PR in the 400 came at Penn in 2016, when he ran 50.51.

Action starts at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the 110-meter high hurdles. The competitors will also contest the discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run.

Gabor’s career-best decathlon score is 6,660 from the Sam Adams Combined Events Invitational at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., earlier this month.

Gabor was a New Jersey Parochial B state champion in the triple jump and 200 at St. Joe’s Hammonton and a state medalist in the 100.

Former Cherokee star Megan Lacy won her second straight title Saturday at the grueling Race to Robie Creek, a half-marathon up and down a mountain in Boise, Idaho.

Lacy was the first woman across the line and finished ninth overall out of more than 2,000 starters. She averaged 7:03 per mile to the summit, which appears to be about about 8 1/2 miles.

She then averaged 5:28 for the approximately 4 1/2 downhill portion from the summit to the finish line.

Overall, she covered the extremely challenging 13.1-mile test in a remarkable 1:25:17, which broke the women’s course record for the chip-timing era of 1:26.44, set in 2009 by Cori Mooney. There is a hand-timed record of 1:23.52 for Mooney from 1998.

Lacy, now living in Boise, finished only about 10 minutes behind overall winner Greg Montgomery, who ran 1:15.47 to win the men’s division.

Last year, Lacy won the women’s division in 1:33.46 and finished 19th overall.

The course begins at Fort Boise Park and after a short flat loop it begins the ascent up Shaw Mountain Road and Rocky Canyon Road before it reaches Aldape Summit at 4,845 feet. The rest is downhill, finishing at Robie Creek Park.

The course starts at 2,746 feet above sea level and finishes at 3,134 feet for a net gain of about 400 feet.

Here’s a great mile-by-mile description of the course: https://runsignup.com/Race/RacetoRobieCreek/Page-10

Lacy ran 10:22.02 for 3,200 meters and 16:50.75 for 5,000 meters at Cherokee and won state Group 4 titles in XC and on the track and 1,600 and 3,200 meters. She was also a two-time scholastic All-America. She ran for Stanford before finishing her collegiate eligibility at Boise State, where she has remained.

She was runner-up in the 5,000 at the USATF Junior Nationals in the spring of 2013 and raced at NCAA XC nationals twice for the Cardinal.

Sophomore Carly Nicholson ran on three winning teams to lead the Delsea girls to the first Woodbury Relays team title in school history.

Delsea outscored second-place Camden 52-36 to win the Group 2 title at the 47th annual Woodbury Relays.

Nicholson, a Meet of Champions medalist in the 800 indoors, split 2:26 leading off the winning 4-by-800, 2:24 anchoring the sprint medley and 3:53 leading off the DMR.

Sophomore Julia Cipollone, junior Haley Hoffman and junior Gabby Carbonara also ran on the 3,200-meter relay team, which ran 10:19.55. Sophomore Aalliya Fox, junior Jordan Barr and junior Sierra Harden were also on the sprint med, which ran 4:16.84. And Cipollone, Hoffman and Carbonara ran the other legs on the DMR, which ran 13:25.59.

Delsea also ran 50.50 for second in the 400-meter relay with Barr, Fox, Harden and sophomore Katie Sellu and 1:47.69 for second in the 800 relay with Barr, Fox, Harden and freshman Emily Hill.

Junior Diona Scimeca, sophomore Jaelyn McGruder and freshman Julia Gleason joined Harden on the shuttle hurdles team, which was third in 1:27.24.

The Rancocas Valley girls recorded the fastest 400-meter relay in the state this year along the way to their team title at Woodbury Saturday.

The team of seniors Darynn Minus-Vincent and Brianna Snowden, junior Kristina Tossas and sophomore Sheriyah Nutt ran 48.34, winning by six meters over a Millville team that ran 49.09.

That 48.34 means R.V. has run sub-49 four years in a row, including a school-record 47.49 at the Meet of Champions in 2017. R.V. ran 48.62 in 2016 and 47.54 in 2018.

Five of the top eight times in the state this year came out of Woodbury, with Winslow No. 2 at 48.47 from its win in Group 3, Pennsauken No. 5 at 49.05 with second place in Group 3, Millville seventh at 49.09 from the Group 4 race and Egg Harbor No. 8 at 49.15 from third in Group 4.

Eastern is No. 4 on that list at 48.88 from earlier this month at Lenape, but the Vikings DNF’d at Woodbury.

R.V. won the Group 4 team title with 48 points, 10 more than Millville, with Eastern third at 34. It was R.V.’s second straight title after never winning a team title at Woodbury. As recently as 2014, R.V. didn’t even score a point at Woodbury.

But the Red Devils covered everything Saturday, taking second in the 800-meter relay (1:42.82), winning the 1,600-meter relay (4:00.52), taking fifth in the 3,200-meter relay (10:23.02), winning the sprint medley (4:12.43), running fifth in the DMR (13:17.19) and placing third in the shuttle hurdles (1:09.77).

The 4-by-4 win came courtesy of Nutt, Snowden and juniors Maya Primas and Kharonay Brown. Freshman Anabella Chin, junior Break-in McClenahan, Minus-Vincent and sophomore Alyssa Leak ran on the winning sprint med team.

But the 4-by-1 was probably the best performance of the day. It’s No. 11 in Burlington County history, with all but one of those times coming from Willingboro and R.V.

46.9 … Willingboro, 1980
47.3 … Willingboro, 1981
47.45 … Willingboro, 1994
47.49 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
47.54 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
47.82 … Moorestown, 2000
47.8 … Willingboro, 2003
47.9 … Willingboro, 1995
48.08 … Willingboro, 2009
48.1 … Willingboro, 1979
48.34 … Rancocas Valley, 2019

Rancocas Valley will race the 4-by-1 and the 4-by-400 at Penn on Thursday, with the 400-meter relay trials on Thursday morning and early afternoon, and the South Jersey large-school 1,600-meter relay following late Thursday afternoon.