Senior Gia Martellacci and Jordan Hadfield each won three events and ran on the winning 1,600-meter relay Tuesday at the Salem County Championships at Pennsville. Hadfield picked up a meet record along the way.
Schalick outscored Woodstown 133-70 to win the team title.
Martellaci and Salem freshman Raniyah Parsons-Smith tied for 1st in the 100 in 12.83, Martellaci won the 200 in 26.41 and won the 400 with a 1:00.26. The 200 and 400 times are fastest this spring by any New Jersey Group 1 sprinter. All three times were lifetime bests for Martellaci, a state Group 1 medalist at 400 metes indoors.
Hadfield won the 800 in 2:21.84, the 1,600 in 5:15.02 and the 3,200 in 11:55.47, unpressed in all three. Her 1,600 time broke her own meet record of 5:16.54 set two years ago at Pennsville.
Hadfield ran 62.88 on the 3rd leg of the relay and Martellaci anchored in 62.22. Sophomore Brooke Valentine and senior Sophia Harris ran the first two legs, and Schalick won in 4:15.44.
Also for Schalick, junior Phoebe Alward won the long jump with a lifetime-best 15-10 ¼ and also placed in the 100 and 200, freshman Jaelynn Jarmon won the triple jump at 32-9 and also placed in the 200 and long jump and senior Allyson Green led a 1-2-3 Schalick sweep in the javelin with a 100-6 throw. Senior Olivia Sacerdote and freshman Navaeh Robinson were 2nd and 3rd.
Pennsville senior Megan Morris cleared 10-6 on her 1st attempt and broke the meet record of 10-0 set in 2016 by Rachel Ondricek, also of Pennsville.
Other winners were: Woodstown junior Lia Covely [17.82 hurdles], Salem senior Audrey Boggs [1:10.65 intermediates], Pennsville junior Kallie Morrison [4-10 high jump] and Salem junior Ava Rogers [32-11 shot].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 