Senior Alyssa Boucher and sophomore Sophia Aldridge finished 1-2 Thursday to lead the Williamstown girls to their first Gloucester County Championships title in 15 years.
Boucher won the race in 19:36 and Aldridge was 2nd in 19:46, and Williamstown placed all five scorers in the top 15 on the way to a 38-52 win over Clearview.
Boucher became Williamstown’s first individual champion since Vicky Ajimoko won the 2012 race at Gloucester County College in in Deptford in 18:49.3. The 1-2 Williamstown finish was the first in the meet’s 44-year history.
It’s Williamstown’s first team title since 2008, when the Braves outscored Kingsway 61-77 with Maria Ruiz 2nd and Kristin Mathis 6th, also at Gloucester County College.
Junior Delaney Harbison, freshman Julia Burgio and senior Paige Franklin rounded out Williamstown’s top-5, Harbison in 12th in 21:44, Burgio 14th in 21:56 and Franklin in 15th in 22:03.
Also in the top 10 were Weat Deptford freshman Taylor Sierzega [3rd in 20:09], Clearview senior Margaret Wisniewski [4th in 20:22], West Deptford senior Isabella Mackey [5th in 20:26], Kingsway senior Kay Wiscount [6th in 20:33], Washington Township junior Kaylee Russen [7th in 20:36], Clearview senior Allison Roes [8th in 20:52], Washington Township junior Rachael Wilson [9th in 21:19] and Kingsway senior Kendall Cramer [10th in 21:19].
Clearview placed 2nd in team scoring based on a 6th-runner tiebreaker with Kingsway. Clearview junior Lilla Porter finished one spot ahead of Kingsway’s 6th runner.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 