Led by an astounding group of freshmen and sophomores – and a senior distance runner – Glassboro won its 3rd straight South Jersey Group 1 title and 4th overall this weekend at Pennsauken.
With freshmen scoring 58 points and sophomores adding 26, Glassboro rolled past Woodstown with the largest South Jersey Group 1 margin of victory in 16 years. The Bulldogs outscored Woodstown 135-66 ½. The 135 points and 68 ½-point margin of victory are both the largest in SJ-1 since the 2009 Glassboro team outscored 2nd-place Haddon Heights by 99 ½ points – 181 ½-82 at Egg Harbor.
So if Glassboro only brought its freshmen, they would have placed 2nd in South Jersey Group 1.
It was a senior, distance runner Ty Blackman, who picked up two wins for Glassboro, taking 1st in the 1,600 in PR 4:27.73 and the 3,200 with a 9:47.48. Freshman Joe Saicic took 2nd in both races with a 4:30.98 and 9:52.38.
Sophomore Xavier Sabb won the 100 in a PR wind-legal 10.69, 12th-fastest in New Jersey this year, and also took 3rd in the 200 [22.07] and high jump [6-2].
Another freshman, Mekhi Parker, ran a legal 15.08 for 2nd in the 110 hurdles, fastest by a South Jersey freshman since St. Augustine’s Sincere Rhea ran 14.99 in 2016. He also took 2nd in the triple jump with a big PR 44-9 ¼ and set a Gloucester County freshman record in the intermediates with a 55.47, fastest by a South Jersey freshman since Alex Reber of Cherry Hill East ran 54.38 in 2010.
All three of Parker’s marks – 15.08, 44-9 ¼ and 55.47 – are best this year by a New Jersey freshman.
And freshman Moses Robles took 3rd in the triple jump with a two-foot PR of 44-5 ½, again best ever by a Gloucester County freshman and best by a South Jersey freshman since Highland’s Floyd Whitaker went 45-10 ¾ in 2018. Robles also placed 4th in the long jump at 20-8 ¼ and 5th in the high jump with a 6-0 clearance.
Yet another freshman, Alex Adeleye took 2nd in the long jump with a 21-9 ¾, best by a New Jersey freshman and best by a South Jersey freshman in seven years, since both Camden’s Corey Palmer [22-2] and Clayton’s Ter-Meir Hill [21-11 ¾] jumped farther.
Senior Kyle Williams took 3rd in the discus [135-1] and 6th in the shot put [44-0], junior Amari Sabb was 4th in the high jump [6-2], sophomore Lucas Kudless ran 5th in the 3,200 [10:08.86], senior Daniel Adams cleared 12-0 for 3rd in the pole vault and sophomore Marty Crowl jumped 42-6 for 5th in the triple jump.
Martin, Johnson, Wesley and Saicic ran 8:24.15 for 2nd in the 4-by-8, and Adeleye, T. Butler, Amari Sabb and Xavier Sabb ran 42.97 for 3rd in the 4-by-1.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 