The rest of the state will see this weekend just how powerful South Jersey Group 1 is.
Some of the numbers are incredible.
We scored the Group 1 state meet as South Jersey vs. the entire rest of the state – Central, North 1 and North 2 – based on seedings and we came up with this:
South Jersey 403, Rest of the State 155.
In other words, based on the seedings c0ming out of sectionals, South Jersey projects to score 72 percent of the available points when just based on enrollment figures SJ-1 would score 25 percent of the points.
On the track, the disparity is even more pronounced.
Check out the projected points in the 11 track events in the state Group 1 meet based on seedings:
100:South Jersey 31, Everyone else 0 points
200: South Jersey 23, Everyone else 8 points
400: South Jersey 26 points, Everyone else 5 points
800: South Jersey 21 points, Everyone else 10 points
1600: South Jersey 18 points, Everyone else 13 points
3200: South Jersey 26 points, Everyone else 5 points
110HH: South Jersey 30 points, Everyone else 1 point
400IH:South Jersey 29 points, Everyone else 2 points
4×1: South Jersey 31, Everyone else 0 points
4×4: South Jersey 30 points, Everyone else 1 point
4×8: South Jersey 21 points, Everyone else 10 point
That’s absurd.
So based on that, South Jersey outscores the rest of New Jersey Group 1 by a ridiculous 286-55 on the track. That’s 84 percent of the available points, including sweeps or near sweeps in the 100, 110 hurdles, intermediate hurdles, 4-by-1 and 4-by-4.
The numbers aren’t quite as lopsided in the girls Group 1 meet but they still show how deep and talented South Jersey Group 1 is on the girls side.
A state meet projection based on all four sectional meets shows South Jersey girls with 281 points and the three other sectionals combined with 277, so South Jersey gets just over 50 percent of the available points (and 195 of 341 on the track, or 57 percent).
Combining the boys and girls meets, the seeds show South Jersey with 684 of 1,116 points, or just over 61 percent.
Led by standouts like Malachi James, Jamir Brown, Cartrell Moore, Alexander Osayemi and Peyton Shute in the boys meet and Riley Fayer, Sydney Greenidge, Anna Buzby, Alanna Woolfolk and Sunsarai Moore in the girls meet, Group 1 is going to be a blast to watch this weekend in Somerset.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 