From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Trailing by six points going into the final event of the meet, Woodstown picked up a 4-by-4 win to clinch its first Group 1 state relays title at the Bubble.

Woodstown is the first Salem County school in 40 years to win a state relays title. Penns Grove won Group 1 in 1986.

Senior Josh Crawford was a triple winner for the Wolverines.

Defending-champion Glassboro led Woodstown and Glen Rock 34-28 going into the 1,600-meter relay, but Woodstown ran 3:32.59 with junior Kyle Reitz, senior Karson Chew, senior Anthony Costello and Crawford to win the race and pick up 10 points for a total of 38, Glen Rock placed 5th to finish with 30 and Glassboro placed 6th for one point and a final total of 32 for 2nd place.

Glassboro opened with a fast win in the distance medley, with senior Jaeden Wesley, sophomore Zacchaeus Harrigan, sophomore Aaron Johnson and sophomore Joseph Saicic running 10:43.76 and holding off 2nd-place Woodstown, which ran 10:45.69 with Jacob Marino, David Farrell, Crawford and Chew.

Those times are both school records and No. 6 and 8 in New Jersey this year and the two-fastest by South Jersey schools.

Woodstown turned the tables on Glassboro in the 4-by-800, with Chew, Marino, Farrell and Crawford running 8:09.20 and Glassboro 2nd in 8:20.74 with Saicic, Harrigan, Johnson and senior Jason Martin. Woodstown, which is No. 1 in New Jersey with its 8:00.24 at the Millrose Trials, just missed the Group 1 meet record of 8:06.41 set by Pleasantville in 2013.

Woodstown also won the sprint medley with Reitz, Costello, senior Benjamin Lippincott and Crawford running 3:38.84. Audubon was 2nd in 3:45.58 with senior Dylan Gallagher, junior Evan Calhoun, senior Aaron Pilla and senior Zachary Fayer, and Glassboro picked up six points in 3rd with sophomore Moses Robles, Johnson, Saicic and junior Joseph Delecce.

Glassboro also picked up 10 points in the high jump, where Robles and Miles Taylor picked up the win, Robles clearing 6-0 and Taylor 5-6.

Also, Haddon Township ran 11:04.84 for 3rd in the DMR, with seniors Shaun Maloney, Jack McGarrigel, Luke Wolfram and James Clauson and 8:40.79 for 3rd in the 4×8 with sophomore James Strimel, Wolfram, Clauson and Maloney.