Freshman Skyhe Seamon and sophomore Olivia Okaro ran on three top-3 teams and the Winslow Township girls won their 8th state relays title and 6th in a row Sunday.
Winslow outscored neighborhood rival Timber Creek 52-42 in the Group 3 competition at the Bubble in Toms River.
Seamon ran on 2nd-place 4-by-200 [1:43.83], sprint medley [4:21.31] and 4-by-400 [4:00.86] and Okaro was on the 4-by-2 and 4-by-4 and 3rd-place 4-by-800 as Winslow won a close battle with neighboring Timber Creek, 52-42.
Winslow’s streak of six straight titles is 3rd-longest in meet history behind a nine-year streak by Hopewell Valley from 2002-2010 – their coach at the time was Mike Hammill from Moorestown – and Union Catholic’s streak of eight straight in Parochial A.
Winslow also won titles in 2011, 2013 and 2015 for a total of nine championships. That’s tied for 4th-most in history behind Willingboro [11], Columbia [10] and Hopewell Valley [10] and tied with Haddonfield.
The other legs on Winslow’s 4-by-200 were Dominique Clement and Djassi Dean. Joining Seamon on the sprint med were Clement, Dean and sophomore Ava Millner. The other 4-by-4 legs were freshmen Cinniya Robinson and Tristan Hughes. Joining Okaro on the 4-by-8 were Millner, Robinson and Hughes.
Winslow won the shuttle hurdles in 31.76 with sophomore Ma’Syiah Brawner, Clement, sophomore Taneyah Picott and senior Sierra Handy.
Brawner cleared 5-4 and teamed with sophomore Chantina Walker to place 3rd in the high jump relay.
Timber Creek won the 4-by-200 in 1:42.69 and 1,600-meter relay in 3:57.96 as well as the shot put and high jump relays. Freshman Amaya Jones, junior Ryan Jennings and seniors Naylah Jones and Chloe Jones ran the 800-meter relay and Naylah Jones, Chloe Jones, freshman Taylor Gaines and Nyla Jones the 1,600-meter relay.
The shot put results are messed up, but senior Guerlande Pierre threw 35-2 ½ and sophomore Nasira Gordon a PR 24-5 ¾ and it looks like they won. Pierre and Gordon also won the high jump relay with Pierre clearing 5-2 and Gordon a personal-best 4-10.
Hammonton sophomore Mitra Sampson also PR’d with a 38-2 ½, the 2nd-best throw of the competition.
Moorestown junior Hannah Byrd-Leitner cleared 12-0 and junior Jaya Stockham 9-6 and the Quaker tandem won the pole vault relay.
Pennsauken ran 1:44.85 and 4:03.16 and placed 3rd in both the 4-by-200 and 4-by-400, with Sianni Wynn, sophomores Olivia Dupree and Sanaya Dupree and junior Ameenah Rodriguez on both teams.
The Mainland Regional girls won both the 4-by-800 and distance medley. We wrote about their fast double here.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 