Freshman Jack Tindall, sophomore Benjamin Realley and senior Liam Tindall swept the first three places and Cherokee broke the single-race team record at DREAM Park at the Olympic Conference Championships in Logan Township.

Cherokee packed its top five runners in 22 seconds and averaged 15:44.6, breaking the record of 15:48.1 set by Cherokee at the 2022 South Jersey Group 4 sectionals.

In a battle of two of New Jersey’s top programs, No. 5 Cherokee topped No. 6 Cherry Hill East 17-47.

Paul VI edged Shawnee 104-106 for 3rd.

The team title is Cherokee’s 4th straight and 17th since 1997. Either Cherokee or Cherry Hill East has won each of the last 12 Olympic Conference championships.

Tindall won the race in 15:32, breaking the freshman course record of 15:46 set at South Jersey Group 4 sectionals last year by Kingsway’s Ryan Duffy. His time is 11th-fastest in course history.

Really placed 2nd in 15:40, the 2nd-fastest time in course history by a sophomore. Woodbury’s Peyton Shute ran 15:28 at 2021 South Jersey Group 1 sectionals.

Tindall was 3rd in 15:45, junior Logan Bromley 5th in 15:52 and sophomore Sean Sooy 6th in 15:54. Sixth man Enzo Corona, a senior, took 7th in 15:57, and senior Benjamin Weiner ran 12th in 16:07. That’s seven finishers in a 35-second gap.

Two other Cherokee runners finished in the top 20: Anthony DiBattista ran 16:23 for 19th and Tate Midora 20th in 16:29.

The top nine finishers were all from Cherokee or Cherry Hill East. For East, Brandon Lyons placed 4th in 15:47, Alvin Lin 8th in 15:58, Brody Bogos 9th in 16:01, Will Nelson 11th in 16:05 and Cian Sherlock 15th in 16:16 backed up by Colin Moore and Milo Poerner in 17th and 18th in 16:22 and 16:23.

Also under 16:30 on the DREAM Park speedway: Paul VI Sean Alemi [10th in 16:04], Shawnee Noah Stapleton [13th in 16:14], Cherry Hill West Rex Takakjy [14th in 16:14] and Shawnee Simon Bernhardt [16th in 16:22].

Also under 17 minutes: Paul VI Caden Briggs [21st in 16:31], Paul VI Max Long [22nd in 16:32], Rancocas Valley Christopher Gray [23rd in 16:33], Shawnee Yanni Ekatomatis [24th in 16:33], Sickerville Tech Julian Rich [25th in 16:34], Shawnee Elias Knoll [26th in 16:35], Rancocas Valley Alex Kinney [27th in 16:39], Paul VI Chase Cooley [28th in 16:40], Winslow Dominic Bassey [29th in 16:45], Eastern Ryan Haefele [30th in 16:49] and Cherry Hill East Nikhil Raman [31st in 16:54].

Cherokee also won titles in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Schalick senior Jordan Hadfield won her 2nd straight Tri-County Showcase title Thursday in Upper Deerfield.

Hadfield ran 18:57 at Cumberland Regional and finished 40 meters ahead of Williamstown junior Sophia Aldridge, who placed 2nd in 19:06.

Hadfield, the state Group 1 champ last spring at both 1,600 and 3,200 meters and last fall in XC, has raced eight times this year and hasn’t finished worse than 3rd in any race.

She also won titles at Six Flags Wild Safari in Jackson and Salem County Championships in Mannington Township.

For Aldridge, 19:06 is her fastest time ever on any course. Her previous all-course best for 5K was 19:09 at last year’s South Jersey Group 4 sectionals at DREAM Park in Logan Township.

Despite having no finishers in the top seven, Delsea’s pack gave the Crusaders the team title, 57-71, over Williamstown, with Washington Township [74], Kingsway [78] and Clearview [79] making it five schools within 23 points.

Senior Juliana Sieminski led Delsea in 8th place in 20:11 and Laney senior Vecchio was 12th in 20:34, and then juniors Isabella Moran, Olivia Mashburn and Sofia Moran all finished in a pack – 19th, 20th and 22nd, all between 21:08 and 21:29.

The rest of the top 10 looked like this: Wildwood senior Macie McCracken [3rd in 19:22], Washington Township senior Kaylee Russen [4th in 19:34], Washington Township senior Rachael Wilson [5th in 19:50], Kingsway sophomore Aubrey Bishop [6th in 19:59], Highland junior Lyana Gutierrez [7th in 20:03], Williamstown senior Delaney Harbison [9th in 20:14] and Kingsway senior Alaina Zabielski [10th in 20:20].

Also under 21 minutes were Woodstown freshman Abby Marino [11th in 20:31], Clearview senior Lilla Porter [13th in 20:46], Williamstown sophomore Julia Burgio [14th in 20:52] and Triton sophomore Emily Lutner [15th in 20:57].

Isaac Linden ran 17:26 at Palmyra Cove and became Moorestown Friends’ 1st Burlington County Scholastic League cross country champion on Wednesday.

Moorestown Friends joined the BCSL last year and was competing in its first BCSL XC championship.

Linden finished 150 meters ahead of 2nd-place Jack Wessner, a Maple Shade senior, in the Freedom Division race.

Maple Shade outscored Moorestown Friends 31-52 to win the team title, with Westampton Tech 3rd with 76 points.

The Wildcats have won eight straight Freedom Division team titles. Last time Maple Shade didn’t win a BCSL team title was 2015, when they were in the Patriot Division – which no longer exists for XC – and took 2nd to Cinnaminson, 37-39.

Maple Shade went 2-3-6-9-11 in winning its 14th team title overall in various divisions.

Joining Wessner for the Wildcats in the top 10 were junior Ries Fox [3rd in 17:58], junior Michael Smith [6th in 18:20] and senior Dylan Davies [9th in 19:03]. 5th scorer was junior Kai Matis, 11th in 19:15.

Also in the top 10: Westampton Tech senior Elijah Rodriguez [4th in 18:11], Pemberton junior Jeremy Allen [5th in 18:19], Riverside sophomore Ronald McMahon [7th in 18:20], Westampton Tech senior Nasier Fields [8th in 18:49] and Moorestown Friends junior Allan Want [10th in 19:07].

Great race between two of South Jersey’s best Wednesday, with Mainland senior Sofia Day edging Ocean City senior Maeve Smith at the Cape-Atlantic Championships in Egg Harbor.

Day and Smith both ran 18:25, with Day officially crossing the line in 18:25.18 and Smith 18:25.84.

That difference – 66-100ths of a second – is the equivalent of about 2 ½ meters in a 5,000-meter race.

Day and Smith also went 1-2 in last year’s race at Stockton.

After Day, the next four runners were from Ocean City, and the Red Raiders won the team title 23-61 over Egg Harbor Township, with Mainland Regional 3rd with 74.

After Smith, senior Chloe Care, sophomore Carly Godfrey and freshman Riley Tolson all finished virtually together, Care 3rd in 19:12, Godrey 4th in 19:13 and Tolson 5th in 19:13. Senior Zoe Zammit clinched the team title with her 9th-place finish in 19:53. They were backed up by 6th and 7th runners sophomores Lillian Flora and Peighton Clemens, 11th and 15th in 19:56 and 20:13.

Egg Harbor was led by sophomore Addison Lambert and junior Devyn Per, who both finished in the top 10. Lambert was 6th in 19:39 and Per 10th in 19:54.

Mainland sophomore Cecilia Foreman [7th in 19:49] and Vineland senior Kylee Black [8th in 19:52] also placed in the top 10.

Also in the top 20: Egg Harbor junior Paige Pacquing [12th in 20:00], Egg Harbor senior Bithania Andemariam [13th in 20:11], Hammonton senior Natalie Clauhs [14th in 20:11], Vineland senior Gabrielle Brown [16th in 20:25], Vineland sophomore Olivia Masucci [17th in 20:41], Middle Township junior Olivia Orton [18th in 20:42], Mainland senior Ava McDole [19th in 20:53] and Egg Harbor freshman Carlee Steet [20th in 21:07].

Glassboro senior Ty Blackman was the individual winner and Highland the team champion in the Tri-County Conference Showcase Wednesday in Upper Deerfield Township.

Blackman covered 5,000 meters at Cumberland Regional in 15:49, and Highland packed its first four runners in the top 13 to out-distance 2nd-place Williamstown.

It was an unusual race with the top seven finishers all coming from different schools. Blackman’s 15:49 is an all-course PR, 10 seconds faster than he ran earlier this onthg at a batch meet at Salem Tech in Mannington Township.

Blackman finished about 50 meters ahead of Delsea junior Matthew Littlehales, who placed 2nd in 16:00.

Kingsway sophomore Ryan Duffy [3rd in 16:17], Highland senior Mason Wassell [4th in 16:26] and Williamstown junior Dominic Burgio [5th in 16:29] also crossed the line under 16:30.

Also under 17 minutes were Clearview senior Ethan Worst [6th in 16:33], Washington Township senior Hunter Bostwick [7th in 16:36], Williamstown senior Dylan Saber [8th in 16:40], Highland junior Andrew Dopkin [9th in 16:49], Williamstown junior Logan Pavelik [10th in 16:52] and Woodstown senior Cole Lucas [11th in 16:54].

Highland finished with a 63-89 margin of victory over Williamstown, with Kingsway a close 3rd with 96 points.

After Wassell and Dopkin, freshman Andrew Kellem [12th in 17:10], sophomore Colin Roznowski [13th in 17:10] and sophomore Pierce Dopkin [25th in 17:32] also scored for Highland, with sophomore 6th man Liam Murphy [26th in 17:38] not far off. Junior Daniel Gee was 35th in 18:08 for the Tartans.

Last year, Liliah Gordon became the first 3-time winner in BCSL cross country history. Now she’s the first 4-time winner.

Gordon, a Northern Burlington senior, cruised to her 4th straight Liberty Division title Wednesday and also led NBC to its 4th all-time team title and 4th in a row.

Gordon toured the 5,000-meter Palmyra Cove Nature Park course in 17:42, her fastest time ever on any 5K course. Her previous all-course best was 17:51 last November at Foot Locker Northeast in Franklin Park in Boston.

Gordon is a two-time state Group 3 XC champ and a 10:22.20 two-miler on the track. She was a Foot Locker finalist last fall.

The Greyhounds had six of the first eight finishers, with senior Kayla Leonhardt 3rd in 19:58, senior Zou Chou 4th in 20:15, junior Emma Price 5th in 20:27 and freshman Kamiyah Vergo 7th in 21:11. They were backed up by senior Sienna Lyon [8th in 21:15] and sophomore Sophia Raba [12th in 23:16].

Northern outscored 2nd-place Bordentown 16-67, with Cinnaminson and Pennsauken just behind with 72 and 84 points.

Delran junior Ashley Doyle broke up the Northern pack in 2nd place with a 19:37, an all-course best.

Also in the top 10: Bordentown junior Katherine Kovac [6th in 20:55], Pennsauken freshman Rain’ana Rucker [9th in 21:45] and Bordentown junior Olivia Delaney [10th in 22:53].

Moorestown, now in the Olympic Conference, won the BCSL Liberty Division title every year from 2000 through 2019, and the meet wasn’t held in 2020. It also wasn’t held from 1991 through 1999. The last school other than Moorestown or Northern to win the BCSL Liberty was Shawnee in 1990.

Junior Erik Preisner led a 1-2-3 Ocean Sweep and the Red Raiders scored 19 points on their way to their 6th straight Cape-Atlantic Conference Championship and 13th in the last 15 years.

Preisner ran 15:45 over 5,000 meters at Egg Harbor High School, senior Ethan Buck 15:56 and sophomore Keenan Neuman made it three under 16 minutes in 3rd place in 15:58.

Sophomores Michael Romano and Nathan Aschmann made it five of the first eight finishers for the Red Raiders, Romano placing 7th in 16:23 and Aschmann 8th in 16:25. Sixth man senior Zach Hutchinson was 11th in 16:50 and freshman Nevin Millstein 19th in 17:27.

Ocean City, ranked 11th in New Jersey, finished with a 19-79 margin over Egg Harbor to win the team title. Cedar Creek was 3rd with 93.

Millville senior Arjun Patel ran 16:02 for 4th, Pleasantville senior Melvin Lewis 5th in 16:19, Cedar Creek junior Sean Martino 6th in 16:21, Middle Township sophomore Jamar Mack 9th in 16:41 and Egg Harbor’s junior Matthew McDevitt 10th in 16:45.

Also under 17 minutes were Cedar Creek juniors Vincenzo Vecchio and Ryan McCann in 16:50 and 16:52.

The last team other than Ocean City to win the Cape-Atlantic team title was Mainland Regional in 2017. The meet wasn’t held in 2020.

Julian Rich, a senior at Sicklerville Tech, ran an all-course PR and won the NJTAC Championship in Mannington Township.

The NJTAC is the New Jersey Technical Athletic Conference. The race was held on Salem County Tech’s 5,000-meter course

This is Rich’s 2nd consecutive title after placing 5th as a sophomore. He won last year in 17:28 on the same course.

Rich won last year’s title by two meters over Luke Damato of Medford Tech. He won this year’s race by three meters over Victor Melnik of Passaic County Tech. Melnik was 2nd in 16:41.

Rich’s previous all-course 5K PR was a 16:45 last month at the South Jersey Vo-Tech Championships at Westampton Tech.

Passaic County Tech won the team title 47-56 over Gloucester County Tech. Sicklerville Tech was 4th with 114.

Gloucester was led by seniors Connor Auge in 3rd in 16:53 and Owen DeLuca in 7th in 17:39. Other South Jersey runners in the top 20: Medford Tech senior Damato [11th in 17:58], Thomas Wodazak of Atlantic County Tech [12th in 18:01], Gloucester Tech sophomore Duke Snyder-Shellito [13th in 18:06], Gloucester Tech senior Gavin Kravchuk [15th in 18:09], Gloucester Tech senior Patrick Monaghan [18th in 18:25] and Sicklerville Tech senior Leo Vargas-Trinidad [19th in 18:29].

South Jersey girls in the top 10 in the girls race, Gloucester County Tech freshman Jordan Moczydlowski placed 4th in 21:43, Salem Tech senior Sarah Seiden 6th in 22:30, Gloucester County Tech sophomore Natalie Pandolfo 8th in 22:52 and Westampton Tech senior Janelle Sanabria 9th in 22:56.

Also in the top 20: Sicklerville Tech senior Sonai Castrillo [11th in 23:09], Atlantic County Tech senior Ashlyn Warker [12th in 23:17], Cape May County Tech junior Kirstyn McHale [14th in 23:31], Atlantic County Tech senior Saniah Robles [15th in 23:45], Gloucester County Tech senior Sydney Huang [16th in 23:46], Gloucester County senior Tech Keira Petro [18th in 23:57] and Gloucester County sophomore Tech Jonna Lisi [19th in 23:57].

Morris County Tech won the team title 37-58 over Gloucester, with Atlantic County Tech 4th [123] and Sicklerville Tech 5th [131].

In his 3rd race for Butler as a grad student, Cinnaminson’s Austin Gabay rolled a 23:36 at Wisconsin Pre-Nationals on the Thomas Zimmer Championship course in Madison.

Gabay was Butler’s 2nd finisher and matched his 8,000-meter PR, which he ran earlier this year in a meet at Sydney Marovitz Golf Course in Chicago.

During his three cross country seasons at Duke, Gabay’s fastest 8K was a 23:44 at the 2022 Paul Short Run on Lehigh’s south campus in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon Township.

Next for Gabay is his first Big East Championships, scheduled for Nov. 1 at Morven Park just outside Leesburg, Va., in Loudoun County.

UMBC sophomore Alexis Tepper from Cherry Hill East ran a 6K all-course PR Saturday and placed 10th out of more than 250 runners in the ECAC Championships in the Bronx.

Tepper ran 21:17 on the challenging Van Cortlandt Park course, lowering her 6,000-meter best from 21:20 from earlier this month at Paul Short on Lehigh’s south campus course in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon Township.

University of Maryland Baltimore County’s web site lists an all-time 6,000 performance list, and Tepper’s 21:17 would be 6th-fastest and fastest since 2015. But the list doesn’t include the course the performance was achieved on, so no way to tell if Tepper’s time is fastest at Vanny by a UMBC runner or where it ranks.

Her time equals 17:44 pace for 5,000 meters over 6,000 meters. Tepper’s 5,000 PR is 18:13 from her season opener in August in Emmittsburg, Md.

Tepper has raced four times this year and hasn’t finished outside the top 10. Next for UMBC is the America East Championships a week from Saturday over 5,000 meters at the Hard’ack Recreation Area in St. Albans, Vt.

Cherokee graduate Kerry O’Day, a freshman at Bucknell, also ran a PR, placing 32nd in 21:51. O’Day, the 6th freshman across the line, lowered her all-course 6K PR from 21:59 at Penn State last month. Another Bucknell freshman, Paul VI graduate Shaelan McNally, placed 39th in 21:59.

Bucknell, ranked 8th in the NCAA Division 1 USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region, scored 103 points and finished 2nd to Yale, which won with 53.

Also, Seton Hall senior Julia Smith from Schalick placed 47th in  22:12.