WINSLOW GUYS RUN AWAY WITH PHILLY CHAMPIONSHIP 4-BY-4 WITH THEIR FASTEST TIME IN 21 YEARS!!!!!!

Winslow ran away with the Philadelphia Area 1,600-Meter Relay Friday afternoon at the 129th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

Karon Ali, Prince Owusu-Twum, Kristopher Jackson and Dominic Bassey ran 3:16.12, fastest in South Jersey this year. Winslow qualified with a 3:17.19. The only faster New Jersey 4-by-4 this year is Toms River North’s 3:11.95 for 6th place in the Championship of America Friday.

Bassey anchored in 47.25, and Winslow finished five meters ahead of Springfield High in Montgomery County,

The time is Winslow’s fastest since 2004, when they ran 3:13.71 at the Penn Relays.

All-Time South Jersey 1,600-Meter Relay
3:09.91 … Camden, 2001
3:10.47 … Winslow Twp., 2003
3:11.24 … Willingboro, 2003
3:11.2h … Edgewood, 1984
3:12.14 … Edgewood, 1985
3:12.17 … Winslow Twp., 2002
3:12.44 … Willingboro, 2001
3:13.08 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2017
3:13.50 … Camden, 2005
3:13.58 … Camden, 2004
3:13.71 … Winslow Twp., 2004
3:13.78 … Camden, 2000
3:13.85 … Edgewood, 2001
3:14.06 … Lenape, 2000
3:14.12 … Edgewood, 1983
3:14.2h … Willingboro, 1982
3:14.58 … Camden, 1999
3:14.78 … Pennsauken, 2023
3:14.79 … Willingboro, 2007
3:14.95 … Vineland, 2002
3:14.99 … Woodrow Wilson, 1996
3:15.00 … Lenape, 2000
3:15.04 … Willingboro, 2002
3:15.29 … Eastern, 2002
3:15.31 … Willingboro, 2007
3:15.34 … Camden, 1997
3:15.41 … Vineland, 2003
3:15.5h … Woodrow Wilson, 1984
3:15.65 … Lenape, 1996
3:15.77 … Absegami, 2008
3:15.79 … Willingboro, 2006
3:16.08 … Camden, 2007
3:16.12 … Winslow Twp., 2025
3:16.13 … Winslow Twp., 2008
3:16.33 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
3:16.3h … Camden, 2002
3:16.46 … Camden, 2004
3:16.47 … Vineland, 2003
3:16.53 … Paul VI, 2016
3:16.57 … Cherry Hill East, 2016
3:16.61 … Oakcrest, 2011
3:16.65 … Timber Creek, 2003
3:16.6h … Willingboro, 1988
3:16.76 … Willingboro, 1993
3:16.9h … Camden, 1981
3:16.9h … Camden, 1986

WITH FOUR SOUTH JERSEY SPRINTERS, ROWAN DESTROYS NCAA DIVISION 3 800-METER RELAY RECORD AT PENN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rowan’s all-South Jersey 4-by-2 team destroyed the NCAA Division 3 record in the 800-meter relay Friday afternoon at the Penn Relays.

Sophomore Eli Hendricks of Penns Grove, freshman Julian Conigliaro from Delsea, senior Robert McKinney from Highland and freshman Rajahn Dixon from Eastern ran 1:25.04 in their heat of the Championship race at Franklin Field, destroying the NCAA Division 3 outdoor mark of 1:25.74 set by Dubuque of Iowa at the 2022 Drake Relays.

Rowan broke the school record of 1:25.45 that they ran at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships at the Ott Center across the railroad tracks from Franklin Field in February. That’s the fastest time ever recorded indoors by a Division 3 school. Dixon, Hendricks, Masai Byrd and McKinney ran on that team.

Rowan’s fastest previous oudoor time was a 1:25.2 hand-timed by Rich Forbes from Westfield, Plainfield’s Keith Thomas,. Ronald Moore from Overbrook and Willie Lawson of Plainfield at the 1985 Penn Relays.

Rowan placed 9th in a field of Division 1 schools.

WINSLOW, PENNSAUKEN, WILLINGBORO GIRLS ALL RUN HOT IN PENN RELAYS 400 RELAYS, ALL QUALIFY FOR NORTHEAST FINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Winslow girls posted the 12th-fastest time of over 500 high schools racing the 400-meter relay Friday morning at the 129th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field.

With freshman Amariah Arango, freshman Jasmine Jackson, junior Ma’Syiah Brawner and sophomore Olivia Okaro, Winslow ran the 7th-fastest time in South Jersey history and qualified for the Northeast Championship race, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

Willingboro ran 47.49 – their fastest time in 31 years – and Pennsauken ran 47.45, just off their 47.26 from Woodbury, and both also qualified for the Northeast Championship race. Pennsauken and Willingboro ran the 19th– and 20th-fastest times in the field. They were the only New Jersey public schools under 47.50.

For Willingboro, sophomore Maya Bolden, junior Kaila Speight, junior Jaden Murry and senior Nester Wea raced, and Pennsauken ran juniors Sanaya Dupree and Olivia Dupree, sophomore Abigayle John and junior Sianni Wynn.

For the lineups for the various 400-meter relay championship races, click here.

ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY 400-METER RELAY LIST
46.19 … Timber Creek, 2024
46.43 … Timber Creek, 2023
46.87 … Eastern, 2003
46.98 … Winslow Twp., 2017
46.9h … Willingboro, 1980
47.06 … Winslow Twp., 2014
47.07 … Winslow Twp., 2025
47.18 … Winslow Twp., 2013
47.19 … Winslow Twp., 2018
47.25 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
47.26 … Pennsauken, 2025
47.27 … Delsea, 2017
47.36 … Eastern, 2019
47.40 … Winslow Twp., 2016
47.40 … Winslow Twp., 2025
47.3h … Willingboro, 1981
47.45 … Willingboro, 1994
47.49 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
47.49 … Willingboro, 2025
47.53 … Millville, 2019
47.53 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
47.54 … Winslow Twp., 2003
47.54 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
47.4h … Camden,, 1978
47.4y … Camden, 1979
47.72 … Pennsauken, 2024
47.75 … Eastern, 2002
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2005
47.76 … Winslow Twp., 2012
47.78 … Willingboro, 2023
47.79 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2021
47.81 … Haddonfield, 2024
47.82 … Moorestown, 2000
47.85 … Deptford, 2015
47.87 … Winslow Twp., 2011
47.9h … Willingboro, 1995
47.8h … Willingboro, 2003
47.94 … Camden, 2000
47.96 … Winslow Twp., 2024
47.98 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2019

CHEROKEE GIRLS WIN PENN RELAYS LARGE-SCHOOL 4-BY-800, QUALIFY FOR PENN RELAYS CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICA WITH ALL-TIME SOUTH JERSEY TOP-10 TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cherokee girls ran the 8th-fastest 4-by-8 in South Jersey history and won their 2nd Penn Relays race in four years Friday morning at Franklin Field, advancing to Saturday’s Championship of America for the 3rd time in four years.

Alyssa Suriano, Megan Niglio, Sofia Recinto and Maddie Meder won the 2nd large-school race in 9:15.02, the 11th-fastest time overall from the four 3,200-meter relays. The 12 fastest qualify for the Championship of America, and the cutoff was 9:15.35.

Cherokee will race in the Championship of America at 4:45 p.m. Saturday. This is Cherokee’s 3rd Championship of America 4-by-8 appearance.

In 2022, Cherokee won the 1st Large-School race in 9:21.19 with Kelsey Niglio, Kerry O’Day, Megan Niglio and Nicole Clifford, then placed 4th in the CoA race in 9:17.77. And in 2023, Cherokee ran 9:23.45 with Kelsey Niglio, O’Day, Meder and Megan Niglio in the heats and placed 6th in the Championship race in 9:14.25, which is the outdoor school record.

Suriano led off with a 2:16.32, Niglio ran 2:22.76, Recinto 2:18.95 and Meder 2:17.00. Suriano, Recinto and Meder all PR’d, and for Recinto it was her first time under 2:20.

Cherokee is one of two New Jersey schools to qualify for the Championship of America. Rumson-Fair Haven ran 9:08.76 and placed 4th in the 2nd Small-School race.

In the 2nd Small School race, Winslow ran 9:24.05 with freshman Amariah Arango [2:20.38], senior Ava Millner [2:18.09], freshman Adaiah Arango [2:23.03] and sophomore Tristan Hughes [2:22.56]. They broke the school record of 9:27.27 they set at the Woodbury Relays last weekend.

Moorestown placed 5th in Cherokee’s race with a school-record 9:29.34. Freshman Hope Edwards [2:17.86], senior Sarah Brown [2:24.30], senior Noeila Reyes [2:26.04] and freshman Payton Derer [2:21.15] ran for the Quakers. Moorestown’s previous school record was 9:36.18 at last year’s Meet of Champions at Pennsauken.

All-Time South Jersey 4-by-8 List
9:00.51 … Haddonfield, 2021
9:05.62 … Lenape, 2012
9:05.83 … Lenape, 2008
9:06.30 … Haddonfield, 2008
9:10.32 … Haddonfield, 2000
9:12.30 … Haddonfield, 2019
9:14.25 … Cherokee, 2023
9:15.02 … Cherokee, 2025
9:15.61 … Ocean City, 2014
9:15.19 … Lenape, 2007
9:15.51 … Ocean City, 2024
9:15.92 … Haddonfield, 2015
9:16.57 … Seneca, 2017
9:16.79 … Haddonfield, 1999
9:17.77 … Cherokee, 2022
9:18.22 … Kingsway, 2016
9:18.37 … Haddonfield, 2019
9:18.57 … Seneca, 2018
9:18.71 … Lenape, 2011
9:18.93 … Haddonfield, 2018
9:18.94 … Lenape, 2006
9:19.15 … Wilson, 2002
9:19.68 … Kingsway, 2017

Winslow boys record their fastest 4-by-1 in 21 years, advance to National Final at Penn Relays!!!!!!

The Winslow boys were the 5th-fastest U.S. team in the 400-meter relay heats Thursday at the 129th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field, and junior KaRon Ali, senior Kristopher Jackson, senior Jayden Poteat and junior Nyqir Helton qualified for the Northeast Final scheduled for 1:35 p.m. Friday.

Winslow ran 41.86, the 13th-fastest time overall among more than 600 schools that ran in the various 4-by-100 races on Day 1 of the Penn Relays.

It was Winslow’s fastest time in 21 years.

Here’s a look at the lineups for all the 400-meter relays on Friday: Click here.

Winslow’s time was 3rd-fastest among New Jersey schools, behind St. Peter’s Prep of Jersey City, which ran 41.71, and Bergen Catholic of Oradell, who also ran 41.86 but slightly faster when broken down to 1,000ths of a second.

Winslow, which ran 42.00 at Woodbury, has only run faster in 2003 [South Jersey-record 40.92] and 2004 [41.64].

The only other South Jersey school under 43 seconds was Lenape, which ran 42.74 with a presumed lineup of sophomore Peyton Brown, junior Zimir Lane, sophomore Srithan Gade and senior M.J. Lincoln. That looks like a Lenape school record.

Deptford’s Kareem Brown runs huge 400 hurdles PR at Cherokee, 2nd-fastest time in S.J. this year!!!!!!

Deptford junior Kareem Brown ran a big intermediate hurdles PR and the 2nd-fastest time in South Jersey this year at FAT Wednesday at Cherokee.

Brown ran 55.84, a nearly full-second PR from his 56.73 also at Cherokee last May. This was his first intermediates race since sectionals 11 months ago. The only faster intermediate hurdler in South Jersey this year is Winslow’s Dominic Bassey, who ran 54.04 earlier this month at the Deptford Spartan Relays.

Brown’s time is No. 11 in New Jersey this year.

Deptford has a rich history of intermediate hurdlers, led by Lathan Brown, who ran 52.65 in 2023 and placed 3rd in the Meet of Champions. He’s now a sophomore at Rutgers.

Shaquille Dixon [54.03 in 2015], Julian Rodriguez [55.15 in 2021], Tyrece Brown [55.28 in 2019], Tyler Garland [55.35 in 2016] and Brown have all run sub-56.

At Penn, Brown will run the 4-by-1 with senior Tyaire Randells, senior Neo Clark-Tabb and senior Kamari Brown at 12:20 p.m. Thursday and the South Jersey Small-School 4-by-4 with Clark-Tabb, senior Ryan Sanchez and junior Kyle Jackson at 5:15 p.m. Thursday

CLAYTON’S ALEXANDER OSAYEMI OPENS 2025 SEASON WITH 9TH-FASTEST 400 IN SOUTH JERSEY HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clayton senior Alexander Osayemi opened his 2025 season in blazing style Wednesday with the 9th-fastest 400 in South Jersey history and the fastest South Jersey time in eight years.

Racing at Cherokee’s FAT Wednesday, Osayemi ran 47.05, matching East Orange All-America Jordaine Johnson for the fastest time in New Jersey this year. Johnson, who ran 47.05 last week at a meet at East Stroudsburg (Pa.) University, placed 5th at Boston Nationals indoors last month.

Osayemi had not raced this spring. This was his first race since Boston Nationals. His previous PR was 47.98 last year at South Jersey Group 1 Sectionals at Pennsauken.

His time is fastest by a South Jersey quarter-miler since Moorestown’s Brandon Outlaw ran 46.82 at 2017 Central Jersey Group 3 Sectionals at Bernards and 2nd-fastest all-time in by a New Jersey Group 1 runner, behind only Woodbury’s Darrell Bush, who ran 46.95 at the 2011 Meet of Champions at Old Bridge. Bush is also the only runner now ahead of Osayemi on the all-time Gloucester County list.

It’s also the fastest time ever recorded by a South Jersey runner before May. It’s No. 29 in state history. It’s also No. 29 nationally so far this spring according to the MileSplit database.

Osayemi was runner-up in the 400 at last year’s state meet outdoors, behind only Marquis Taylor of Woodbury, who hasn’t raced this spring. Taylor ran 48.23 and Osayemi 48.78. He went on to run 48.22 and place 4th at the Meet of Champions.

At indoor states this winter at the Bubble, he was again 2nd to Taylor, 50.91 to 50.96, and then he was 4th in the Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze with his indoor PR 48.57.

Clayton will run the 4-by-1 at Penn at 10:40 a.m. Thursday with Osayemi, senior Demetris Williams, junior Juson Stewart and freshman Willie Weather and the 4-by-4 in the South Jersey Small School race with Osayemi, senior MarcAnthony Muhaw, Stewart and Williams.

All-Time South Jersey 400 List
46.02 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1984
46.62 … Lamont Smith [Willingboro], 1991
46.66 … Antonio Abney [Willingboro], 2007
46.67 … Jamaad Muse [Timber Creek], 2014
46.77 … Reuben McCoy [Winslow Twp.], 2004
46.82 … Brandon Outlaw [Moorestown], 2017
46.95 … Darrell Bush [Woodbury], 2011
47.03 … Royce Reed [Bridgeton], 1994
47.05 … Alexander Osayemi [Clayton], 2025
47.0h … Darron Outler [Lenape], 1984
47.0h … Ron Hillian [Eastern], 2002
47.30 … Rob Gary [Lenape], 1998
47.39 … Premier Wynn [Pennsauken], 2023
47.1h … Brian Bennett [Edgewood], 1985
47.1h … Barry Douglas [Willingboro], 1993
47.2h … Levin Handy [Vineland], 1969
47.44 … Amir Brock [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2017
47.2h … Curtis Mcintyre [Bridgeton], 1992

Sophomore David Stewart’s triple win lifts Schalick to Salem County championship!!!!!!

Huge performance Tuesday at the Salem County Championships in Salem by one of New Jersey’s top sophomores.

Schalick’s David Stewart won three events and placed in a 4th to help the Cougars win the team title 102-72 over Woodstown.

Biggest highlight of Stewart’s triple win was a huge PR of 49.19 in the 400, dropping his overall PR from 50.30 indoors at the Ott Center in January and lowering his outdoor PR from 52.25 at last year’s Salem County meet at Pennsville.

That 49.19 is 2nd-fastest in New Jersey this year fastest by a Group 1 runner, a South Jersey runner or a sophomore and I believe 3rd-fastest all-time in Salem County, behind Tim Reed of Penns Grove, who ran 47.94 in 1984 at the Delaware Valley Meet of Champions at Franklin Field, and Jaymes Dennison of Penns Grove, who ran 48.33 at 2013 Group 1 states at Egg Harbor.

Stewart also won the 100 in a PR 11.22 and the triple jump at 43-1 ½ and was 5th in the long jump with a 19-5 ¼.

Stewart’s previous 100 PR was an 11.28, also at last year’s Salem County meet. The 11.22 is 2nd-fastest this year in Group 1, behind Kinnelon’s Ryan Geng, who ran 11.08 earlier this month.

In the horizontal jumps, Stewart has PRs of 21-4 ½ from last year’s Salem County meet and 44-4 from a meet at Delsea last month. That 44-4 is No. 3 in New Jersey Group 1 and No. 4 in South Jersey.

At Penn, Schalick will race the 400-meter relay at 11:55 a.m. Thursday and a 4-by-4 class race at 3:39 p.m. Thursday. Listed lineups are senior Reggie Allen Jr., senior Michael Eberl, senior Kenai Simmons and Stewart in the 4-by-1 and Allen Jr., Eberl, Stewart and junior Steve Chomo in the 4-by-4.

10 ELITE SOUTH JERSEY ATHLETES & RELAY TEAMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON AT PENN RELAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!

We recently put together as complete a rundown of South Jersey athletes headed to Franklin Field this week for the 129th annual Penn Relays. You can find those here: High school boys click here, high school girls click here, local college and open athletes click here.

But with the meet around the corner – first event kicks off at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning – we thought we’d take a deeper look at 10 events where some of South Jersey’s top talent will compete. This isn’t meant to be complete and we apologize in advance if we didn’t get to your school. There is so much track talent from South Jersey that it’s not easy to limit it to 10.

But here are 10 events where South Jersey runners, jumpers and throwers could really do well over the next few days in West Philly.

Live results will be posted here in real time throughout the three days.

Aliya Garozzo, Arianna Smith
Championship 400-Meter Hurdles
5:45 p.m., Thursday

Garozzo returns to Penn, where she spent her four years of college before graduating last spring. She’s now a grad student at Duke and ranked sixth in NCAA Division 1 with her 55.77 earlier this month at the Duke Invitational. That’s 2nd-fastest ever by a New Jersey woman, behind Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin. Smith, a Pennsville graduate, started out at Princeton and was at Rutgers briefly before arriving at Howard. She PR’d with a 57.14 – also at the Duke Invitational – and is ranked No. 19 in Division 1.Garozzo and Smith should be in the same section of the race. Also in the field is Rowan senior Molly Lodge of Woodstown, who is ranked 7th in Division 3 with her PR 1:01.69 from earlier this month in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Jenovia Logan
Championship High Jump
11:30 a.m., Saturday

Logan, a Sterling graduate and sophomore at Rutgers, soared 5-11 ½ in Tampa last month and is ranked 18th in Division 1 in the high jump. That broke the Rutgers school record, and she’s now just half an inch from joining Priscilla Frederick of Paul VI [6-3 in 2015], MaryBeth Labosky of Holy Cross [6-1 ½ in 1992], Nia Ali of Pleasantville [6-1 ¼ in 2011] and Kenady Wilson of Willingboro [6-0 ¾] as the 5th six-footer from South Jersey. Also entered is Rutgers freshman Alanna Woolfolk of Clayton, who cleared 5-8 indoors and 5-7 this spring.

Jamir Brown, Yashahya Brown
Championship 110-Meter Hurdles
3:30 p.m., Friday

Two of the fastest freshmen hurdlers in all of college track are from South Jersey. Riverside’s Jamir Brown, a freshman at Rowan and the indoor NCAA Division 3 record holder, is now No. 2 all-tine outdoors in Division 3 with his 13.79 in Atlanta last weekend. Yashahya Brown, a Rutgers freshman from Washington Township, is the No. 6 freshman in Division 1 with his 13.82 in Tampa two weeks ago. The two Browns haven’t raced each other in college. They last raced at the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken in June, with Yashahya and Jamir finishing 1st and 2nd over the 39-inch hurdles. Across all college divisions, Brown and Brown are the 6th- and 8th-fastest freshmen. Rowan has the three-fastest hurdlers in Division 3, and the other two – junior Kwaku Nkrumah from Teaneck and junior Jason Agyemang from North Plainfield – are also in the championship hurdles field.

Pennsauken, Winslow, Willingboro, R.V., Timber Creek girls
400-Meter Relay heats
Friday 9:45 a.m.

South Jersey is loaded in the girls sprint races, and Pennsuaken, Winslow, Willingboro, Rancocas Valley and Timber Creek are ranked 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th in New Jersey so far this year.Pennsauken has run 47.26, Winslow 47.40, Willingboro 48.17, R.V. 48.31 and Timber Creek 48.55. The nine-fastest teams in the prelims race in the Championship of America on Saturday, the next nine-fastest advance to the International Final, and the nine-fastest from the Northeast [New England plus Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania] race in a Northeast final on Saturday. Note that the 400 relays will run all morning Friday starting at 9:45 a.m.. Pennsauken, Rancocas Valley, Timber Creek, Willingboro and Winslow are all in the final set of heats, starting at 11:50 a.m.
Here are the lineups listed in the Relays program:
Pennsauken: Abigayle John, Amina Dyer, Sanaya Dupree, Sianni Wynn
Winslow: Cinniya Robinson, Jasmine Jackson, Jordyn Cato, Olivia Okaro
Willingboro: Nester Wea, Maya Bolden, Kaila Speight, Jaden Murry
Rancocas Valley: Autumn Austin, Angelina Brown, Damanique Johnston, Rhyann Roseboro
Timber Creek: Ryan Jennings, Billie Frazier, Samiyah Puckett, Taylor Gaines

Greg Foster
Championship Long Jump
11:30 a.m. Saturday

Foster, a Princeton junior from Lumberton, had a couple huge wind-aided jumps this past weekend in Charlottesville with a 26-6 ¾ and a 26-7 ¼ on his last two attempts. But they were aided by tailwinds of 3.6 and 4.1 meters per second. He’s got a wind-legal PR of 26-1 ¾ from the 2023 Ivy League Championships at Franklin Field, but he’s got a wind-legal 25-8 ¾ earlier this month at Princeton. This will be Foster’s first time competing in an individual event at Penn. He also PR’d in Charlottesville in the hurdles with a 13.83 – that was legal and is No. 2 in the Ivy – but he is only long jumping at Penn.

Egypt Bolan, Hannah Byrd-Leitner, Ma’Syiah Brawner, Hannah Nuhfer, Ella Karp
High Jump, Pole Vault, Triple Jump, Discus, Shot Put
9:30 a.m. Friday

We’re listing all these outstanding field event competitors in one entry since they’re all among the best in New Jersey and they all compete at the same time on Friday. Lindenwold’s Bolan is No. 1 in New Jersey with her 5-8 clearance at Woodbury, Moorestown’s Byrd-Leitner is No. 3 in New Jersey history with her 13-2 to win last year’s Meet of Champions, Winslow junior Brawner is New Jersey No. 1 in the triple jump with her 39-1 ½ at Woodbury and jumped 40-6 ¼ last year, Delsea junior Nuhfer is No. 1 in New Jersey with her monster 153-2 discus throw at Woodbury and Washington Township’s Karp was No. 6 in New Jersey indoors with her 43-3 ¾ at Easterns.

Winslow boys
400-Meter Relay
12:20 p.m., Thursday

Winslow leads the New Jersey 4-by-1 contingent after its New Jersey No. 1 42.00 at Woodbury. Expected lineup is Karon Ali, Cameron Miller, Nyquir Helton and Jayden Poteat. Same as the girls race, top nine go to the Championship of America, next nine-fastest to the Internationl final and the nine-fastest from New England plus Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania qualify for a Northeast final. Rancocas Valley [42.62], Camden [42.68], Millville [42.71], Williamstown [42.78] and Deptford [42.95] also ran under 43 at Woodbury and will all also be in the 400 relay heats.

Haddonfield
Distance Medley
5:15 p.m., Friday

The Bulldogs ran 10:11.61 indoors at the Ott Center in February, 2nd-fastest in South Jersey history, and are one of 15 schools invited to the Penn DMR, which is a one-race Championship of America final. Bennet Wright, Luke Andressen, Ben Andrus and Jack Brand are listed as Haddonfield’s runners, although I suspect they won’t run in that order.

Anthony Liakhnovich, Jonathan Harris
Shot Put
9:30 a.m., Thursday

A couple 65-foot throwers from South Jersey will be headed to the shot put area across the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks from Franklin Field. Liakhnovich, a senior at Hammonton, threw 66-3 ¾ when he won Boston Nationals indoors, and Harris has a PR of 65-6 from a meet at the Armory in Decemer. They’re among a field of 18 throwers, including nine from New Jersey.

Rowan, Masai Byrd, Shamir Love, Eli Hendricks, Evan Corcoran
400-Meter Relay
1:25 p.m., Friday

The Profs bring the fastest 400-meter relay team in NCAA Division 3 this year to Franklin Field, and with their 40.27 they qualified for the fastest 4-by-1 section, so they’ll be mixing it up with some of the fastest Division 1 schools in the country. Better yet, this Rowan quarter is comprised entirely of South Jersey high school graduates. Byrd ran for Rancocas Valley, Love for Bridgeton, Hendricks Penns Grove and Corcoran Kingsway. The Profs will also race in the 800-meter relay Championship division at 2:45 p.m. Friday with a listed lineup of Rajahn Dixon from Eastern, Robert McKinney from Highland, Hendricks and James Coleman from Audubon, and in the 4-by-4 at 7:30 p.m. Friday with Coleman, Ocean City’s Luke Halbruner, Samael Milevoix from Union County Vo-Tech and Lowrentzky Ambroise of Toms River North.

Quad wins from Gia Martellacci and Jordan Hadfield lead Schalick girls to Salem County championship!!!!!!

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].