Sophomore Jasmine Jackson won three events, and the Winslow Township girls piled up 114 points in 10 events and won their 6th indoor sectional title in eight years Saturday at the Bubble in Toms River.
Winslow outscored Ocean City 114-67 to win South Jersey Group 3, with Mainland third with 53 points. Those three schools scored 234 of the 310 available points, or 75 percent of all the points in the meet that could be scored.
Winslow scored 24 points before the meet was five minutes old with a 1-2-3 sweep in the 400, with Jackson winning in 56.52, sophomore Amariah Arango 2nd in 58.61 and junior Cinniya Robinson 3rd in 58.66.
Winslow went 1-3-4 in the hurdles with Jackson winning again in 8.16, senior Ma’Syiah Brawner 2nd in 8.56 and junior Justice Green 4th at 8.67.
Winslow then went 1-2-5 for 20 more points in the 55-meter dash, with Jackson picking up her 3rd win with a lifetime-best 7.09, senior Olivia Okaro 2nd at 7.19 and senior Leeya Joseph 5th in 7.46.
That’s 64 points just in the 55, 400 and hurdles.
Winslow also won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:59.92, without any of the girls who medaled in the 400. Junior Amaya Jones, junior Jordyn Cato, sophomore Nylah Lovelace-Crump and senior Leeya Joseph ran 3:59.92.
Brawner and senior Nyla Williams also picked up wins, Brawner taking 1st in the high jump at 5-2 and Williams tying her PR of 10-6 on her 1st attempt to win the pole vault,
Sophomore Annabella Cassidy got Winslow eight points in the 1,600 and 3,200 with a 10-second PR for 4th place in the 1,600 at 5:19.70 and an 11:52.56 for 4th in the 3,200 as well. Arango also placed 2nd in the 800 with a 2:19.12. And junior Jaida Perry threw 33-5 ½ for 5th in the shot put.
Winslow also won indoor sectional titles in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2025. There was no meet held in 2021.Winslow’s 112 points are 2nd-most ever in a South Jersey Group 3 sectional. Haddonfield scored 136 in 2024 in a brief foray up to Group 3 from Group 2.
In addition to a 2nd place by junior Allie Thomas, who cleared 5-2 in the high jump, Mainland picked up five 3rd places.
Senior Emma Preissman placed 3rd in both the 1,600 [5:14.88] and 3,200 [11:46.43], senior Madison Taylor was 3rd in the 800 [2:19.19], as was junior Veronika Andreev in the 55 [7.40]. Also, the relay team of sophomore Alaya Steinberg, Taylor, junior Lily Molinaro and junior Lauren LaMonaca ran 4:20.32 for another 3rd place.
Delsea senior Hannah Nuhfer, who set the South Jersey record of 47-6 last week, won the shot at 45-7 ½ on her 1st throw.
Ocean City went 1-2 in the 1,600, with junior Carly Godfrey and sophomore Riley Tolson running 5:06.79 and 5:07.87. Godfrey won the 800 in 2:16.25, breaking the meet-record 2:17.71 set in 2023 by Mainland Regional’s Sofia Day, and Tolson won the 3,200 in 11:17.42, with Ocean City junior Peighton Clemens 2nd at 11:45.88.
Callie Duff 3rd HJ 5-0
The Red Raiders also placed 2nd in the 4-by-4 with Alana Clevenger, Kai Linthicum, Julianne Goodman and Godfrey running 4:04.52
Hammonton senior Mitra Sampson threw 38-9 ¼ for 2nd in the shot.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 