The Woodstown boys ran the 13th-fastest 3,200-meter relay in South Jersey history Sunday at the 118th Millrose Games at the Armory.
Senior leadoff Karson Chew split 1:56.42 and senior anchor Josh Crawford 1:54.42 and Woodstown ran 7:55.62, becoming the 4th-fastest Group 1 school in state history.
That’s a Penn Relays qualifier, although Woodstown won’t be able to race at Franklin Field the last weekend of April.
Woodstown finished 7th overall and 2nd among New Jersey schools, behind Union Catholic’s state-record and meet-record 7:37.96.
After Chew’s leadoff, senior Jacob Marino split 2:01.39 and junior David Farrell 2:03.40 before Crawford’s anchor, 3rd-fastest anchor of 13 schools that qualified for the race.
The only faster New Jersey Group 1 schools are Pleasantville’s 7:45.55 when they won 2013 Easterns at the Armory and two Bernards performances from the 1980s converted from two-mile relays. Bernards ran a converted 7:54.18 in 1984 and 7:45.5 in 1983.
Woodstown also only lowered its own Salem County record from its 8:00.24 at Millrose Trials earlier this month it ran the fastest time by any South Jersey school indoors in six years, since Kingsway’s 7:47.50 when it won the 2020 Meet of Champions at Ocean Breeze.
All-Time South Jersey 3,200-Meter Relay List
7:43.64 … Cherokee, 2012
7:45.55 … Pleasantville, 2013
7:47.50 … Kingsway, 2020
7:48.92 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2017
7:51.45 … Washington Twp., 2009
7:51.78 … Cherokee, 2000
7:52.77 … Pleasantville, 2006
7:52.95 … Willingboro, 2003
7:53.64 … Willingboro, 2002
7:54.76 … Pleasantville, 2007
7:55.40 … Washington Twp., 2008
7:55.44 … Haddonfield, 2010
7:55.62 … Woodstown, 2026
7:57.28 … Rancocas Valley, 2018
7:57.29 … Oakrest, 2009
7;57.56 … Haddonfield, 2019
7:58.08 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2016
7:58.5h … Willingboro, 1983
7:59.05 … Pleasantville, 2015
7:59.51 … Pleasantville, 2012
7:59.84 … Kingsway, 2014
7:59.91 … Kingsway, 2013
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 