Senior Helene Usher was a double winner and the Haddonfield girls won their fourth straight Group 2 sectional title and 11th overall Saturday at the Bubble.

Usher led a 1-2-3 Haddonfield sweep in the 1,600 and a 1-2-5 finish in the 3,200, and the Bulldogs scored in every event other than the 400 and shot put to pile up 111 points aand win the team title by 81 points.

This is the 9th time Haddonfield has scored over 100 points at indoor sectionals. Only four other teams have scored 100 points (Willingboro, Delsea twice, Collingswood).

Haddonfield’s 11 titles are the most in state history at indoor sectionals. Ridge has won 10 going into the North 2 Group 4 meet at the Bubble next week. Haddonfield’s streak of four straight titles is 2nd-longest by a South Jersey school. Delsea won five straight from 2010 through 2014.

Indoor sectionals began in 2008 and the meet wasn’t held in 2021, so Haddonfield has won 12 titles out of a possible 15 – the first seven in Group 1, the last five in Group 2.

In the 1,600, Usher ran 5:24.21, with junior Riley Slootsky [5:26.32] and senior Libby DeMichele [5:34.90] in 2nd and 3rd. In the 3,200, Usher ran 11:40.01, junior Ava Thomas was 2nd [11:45.02] and sophomore Dylan Melcher 5th [12:33.20].

Haddonfield added a 1-3-4 finish in the 800 for 60 out of a possible 72 points in the three long track races. Junior Stella Stolarick ran a PR 2:24.28 for the win, senior Thea Spellmeyer ran 2:26.75 for 2nd and senior Maya Carey was 5th in 2:29.73.

Sophomores Audrey Adams and Avery Connor both PR’d in the 55-meter hurdles and picked up 14 more points, Adams winning in 9.15 and Connor 4th in 9.63. Adams also placed 3rd in the high jump at 4-8

Sophomore Mia Bompensa PR’d at 9-6 in the pole vault for another Haddonfield win and junior Chloe Kamp ran 7.53 in the 55 for 2nd place.

Slootsky, Solarick, Ava Carpenter and Spellmeyer ran 4:15.06 to win the 1,600-meter relay.

Other winners: Oakcrest senior Royanah Farmer in the 55 [PR 7.18], Deptford junior Djassi Dean in the 400 [1:00.16] and Sterling senior Jordyn Caul in the shot put [34-9 ¾].

Seniors Bryce Tucker and Premier Wynn combined to score 48 points – enough to win the title by themselves – and Pennsauken sprinted its way to its third straight sectional title at the Bubble Sunday.

Tucker won the 55-meter hurdles in 7.85 and the 800 in 2:00.12 and placed second in the 400 in 50.28, and Wynn won the 55 with a PR 6.57 and the 400 in 50.10.

They also ran the third and fourth legs on Pennsauken’s winning 1,600-meter relay team, which won in 3:26.52 to finish off the meet. Freshman KaRon Ali and junior Ladanian McGrath ran the first two legs on the 4-by-4.

Pennsauken outscored 2nd-place Winslow Township 78-42.33, and the 78 points are most in a Group 3 sectional since Kingsway scored 97 in 2015.

McGrath and Elijah Jennings picked up 2nd-place finishes, McGrath with a 2:00.18 behind Tucker in the 800 and Jennings with a 6.58 just behind Wynn.

Junior Bronze Whitmore finished 5th in the 55 in 6.71. That race saw the first seven placers all finish with 17-100ths of a second of one another. Ali also scored in the 400 with a PR 52.58.

Other winners were Highland junior Cortland Webb in the 1,600 [4:24.60], Ocean City’s Nick Scarangelli in the 3,200 [PR 9:45.09], Winslow senior Jaylen Wall in the high jump [four-inch PR 6-4] and Delsea junior Greg Masso in the shot put [53-10].

In the 3,200, Delsea’s Matthew Littlehales placed 2nd in 9:50.72, fastest by a South Jersey freshman indoors in 15 years. In 2008, Triton’s Robert Rawls ran 9:45.41 at Group 4 sectionals, also at the Bubble. Littlehales’ previous PR was 10:11.09 last week at the Bubble. That was his only previous 3,200.

Another huge meet for Pennsauken freshman Sianni Wynn at the SJTCA Winter Meet #10 at the Bubble.

Wynn ran a big indoor 400 PR with the No. 2 time in South Jersey this year and also won the 55-meter dash.

She ran 58.02 in the 400, No. 2 in the state behind only Piscataway senior Brooke’lyn Drakeford, who ran 56.51 at Ocean Breeze late last year. Wynn’s time is No. 11 nationally among freshmen, according to the MileSplit database, and it’s fastest by a South Jersey freshman since another Pennsauken girl, Jade Pope, ran 56.98 / 57.79 at Group 3 states at the Bubble in 2018.

The South Jersey freshman record is 56.29 by Olympian English Gardner of Eastern at the 2007 Meet of Champions, also at the Bubble in Toms River.

http://milesplit.live/meets/505891/events/1/results/F/F

In the 55, Wynn won in 7.14 unpressed (second place was 7.62). She ran a state-leading 7.06 at the Armory in early January, No. 12 in South Jersey history.

Wynn this winter has also run a S.J. No. 1 24.81 in the 200 and 39.17 for 300 meters – both at the Armory.

Wynn’s 400 time is No. 17 on a very fast all-time Camden County list, but only a little over half a second outside the top 10.

55.16 … Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], 2006
55.4h … English Gardner [Eastern], 2008
55.6h … Denise Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
56.19 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.44 … Avionne Sloan [Camden], 2006
56.62 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], 2012
56.85 … Nylah Perry [Winslow], 2020
56.98 … Jade Pope [Pennsauken], 2020
57.36 … Flora Ahiarakwe [Winslow Twp.], 2018
57.43 … Raniyah Walker [Camden], 2002
57.59 … Jewel Ash [Eastern], 2020
57.61 … Janeya Hammond [Winslow Twp.], 2020
57.72 … Aishia Lawson [Camden], 1995
57.76 … Olivia Jamison [Pennsauken], 2015
57.7h … Jenelle Wilson [Eastern], 2003
57.84 … Tamara Jones [Woodrow Wilson], 2007
58.02 … Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
58.15 … Kristina Keegan [Haddonfield], 2002
58.19 … Shakira Dancy [Winslow Twp.], 2017
58.28 … Jennifer Civatte [Eastern], 2017