Junior Natalie Dumas anchored two winning relay teams and ran on two 2nd-place relays and the Eastern girls won their first state relays title Monday at the Bubble.
Eastern outscored 2nd-place Livingston 37-26 to win the state Group 4 relays title. Dumas anchored 1st-place sprint medley and 1,600-meter relay teams and ran legs on 2nd-place distance medley and 4-by-2 teams. The official esults show her anchoring both.
Sophomore Poetry Anderson, senior Johnna Gonter and freshman Ariana Felix joined Dumas on the sprint medley team, which ran 4:17.73, and senior Jasmine Davies, sophomore Theresa Albertson and junior l;Adriana Marella also ran on the 4-by-4, which ran 4:07.17
Albertson, senior Samantha Osei-Kyei and Marella joined Dumas on the DMR, which ran 12:38.48, and Gonter, Marella and Davies ran the first three 4-by-2 legs before Dumas’s anchor brought the Vikings home in 1:46.53.
Eastern also scored in the shuttle hurdles, with senior Zayanna Fitzpatrick, senior Basirah Corbett-Collier, junior Knoelle Whittle and senior Jean’ae Daniels running 35.19.
Eastern is the fourth South Jersey in the last six Group 4 relay meets to win the title. Millville won in 2019, Cherokee in 2022 and Washington Township last year. There was no meet in 2021.
Cherokee won the 3,200-meter relay in 9:57.24 with junior Madeline Meder, senior Megan Niglio, junior Sofia Recinto and freshman Erin Healy.
Vineland picked up a 2nd in the sprint medley with junior Beatrice Sotomayer, senior Leah Mears, senior Ashlynn Newton and senior Georgina Chalow running 4:22.63 and a third in the pole vault relay with Mackenzie Chalow-Moore clearing 9-0 and senior Natalia Kobys 6-6.
Williamstown’s pole vaulters placed 2nd, with senior Olivia Deletto-Gross clearing 8-6 and junior Brynn Greenwood 8-0.
Senior Ella Karp threw 39-4 ¾ and senior Gianna Shippy 31-6 ¼ for Washington Township, which was 2nd in the shot put relay, and senior Meciah Howell, senior Zaida Taylor-Burch, freshman Nia’Leila Cuascut and senior Dakota Jones ran 32.90 for 3rd in the shuttles for the Minutemaids.
Egg Harbor ran 10:01.51 for 3rd in the 4-by-8 with senior Bithania Andemariam, junior Devyn Per, junior Paige Pacquing and senior Abigail DeCosta.
Kingsway placed 3rd in the 4-by-4 with senior Camryn Stanard, freshman Noemi Haller, junior Norah Brown and senior Jonnell Lewis running 4:09.35.
Rancocas Valley senior Kendra Green threw a huge 41-3 shot put PR, well beyond her previous best of 38-6 ¾ from a meet last month at the Armory. That’s No. 8 in New Jersey this year and No. 2 in South Jersey behind Karp’s 41-5 ½ at the Ott Center. Green is the first 40-footer ever from Rancocas Valley, and her 41-3 is No. 4 on the all-time Burlington County indoor list:
43-10 … Rosetta Hunter [Burlington Twp.], 2015
43-4 ¾ … Jessica Woodard [Cherokee], 2012
41-10 … Lillian Rivera [Pemberton], 1984
41-3 … Kendra Green [Rancocas Valley], 2025
41-0 … Nicole Scott [Willingboro], 1997
40-4 … Shanna Campbell [Pemberton], 2007
40-2 … Chanel Swain [Willingboro], 2023
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 