Freshman Jasmine Jackson won two events and placed 3rd in another and junior Ma’Syiah Brawner picked up a 1st and a 2nd and the Winslow girls won their 5th sectional title in seven years Saturday in Toms River.
Jackson ran 58.05 to win the 400 and 8.25 to win the hurdles and ran 7.21 for 3rd place in the hurdles for 26 total points.
Brawner won the high jump at 5-2 – she took three jumps without a miss to win the competition – and was 2nd in the hurdles in 8.43.
Winslow outscored 2nd-place Ocean City 106-75. Winslow won four straight titles from 2018 through 2022 – there was no meet in 2021.
Winslow also got a win in the 4-by-4, with junior Olivia Okaro, freshman Amariah Arango, Skyhe Seamon and junior Leeya Joseph running 4:04.05.
Okaro also placed 2nd in the 55 in 7.19 and Arango was 2nd in the 800 in 2:20.73 and 4th in the 400 in 59.31.
Junior Cinniya Robinson placed 2nd in the 400 in 59.14, senior Brook-lynn Roberts PRd with a 41-11 for 2nd in the shot put, sophomore Justice Green took 4th in the hurdles with a PR 8.75, senior Ava Millner ran an indoor PR 2:21.60 for 4th in the 800, sophomore Tammy Ellis was 5th in the 55 with a 7.42 and junior Nyla Williams tied her PR of 9-6 to take 3rd in the pole vault.
Ocean City swept the 1,600 and 3,200 and went 1-6 in the 800 for 59 of its 75 points in the three long track races.
In the 1,600, senior Maeve Smith ran 5:05.10, sophomore Carly Godfrey took 2nd just 1-100th of a second back in 5:05.11 – that’s essentially a dead heat – and senior Chloe Care was 3rd in 5:09.32. In the 3,200, Smith doubled back to win in 11:16.16, freshman Riley Tolson was 2nd in 11:16.52 and Care took 3rd in 11:27.47. And in the 800, Godfrey ran 2:18.69 for the win and freshman Lillian Flora took 6th in 2:21.90.
Ocean City also placed 2nd in the 4-by-4, with Alana Clevenger, Callie Duff, Julianne Goodman and Godfrey running 4:13.68.
Duff also cleared 5-0 in the high jump for 2nd place.
Timber Creek senior Ryan Jennings won the 55 in 7.00, which tied the South Jersey overall sectional record set last year by teammate Naylah Jones.
Senior Jaidah Garrett placed 3rd in the 400 in 59.55 and anchored Absegami’s 3rd-place 4-by-4, which ran 4:13.94. Junior Samia Ghazaz, sophomore Analyse Pagan and junior Averie Caregena also ran for the Braves.
Clearview sophomore Nyla Jackson-Smith PR’d at 8.55 to place 3rd in the high hurdles and Shawnee senior Sandra Cutbush PR’d with 2:20.75 for 3rd in the 800.
For Mainland, sophomore Gianna Shea cleared 10-0 for 2nd in the pole vault and senior Aryanna Perez placed 3rd in the high jump with a 4-10 clearance.
Delsea junior Hannah Nuhfer threw 38-6 for 3rd in the shot put, and Timber Creek junior Nasira Gordon tied for 3rd with a 4-10 in the high jump.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 