Freshman Dylan Hosty won the 800 and 1,600 and anchored the winning 4-by-4 team and the Haddonfield girls won their record 15th sectional title Sunday at the Bubble in Toms River.
Haddonfield outscored 2nd-place Willingboro 98 ½-65 to win the South Jersey Group 2 title. Also in double figures: Barnegat 48, Delran 20, Lindenwold 18, Pinelands 17, Seneca 13, Collingswood 12 and Pemberton 10
Ignore everything that’s in the joke of an NJSIAA program, which is riddled with errors, as usual. The NJSIAA put a bunch of Central Jersey champions in its list of South Jersey champs, so I to go through all the results year by year to get the correct team champions. Haddonfield actually won South Jersey Group 1 in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and South Jersey Group 2 in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
The meet has been held every year since 2008 with the exception of 2021,so Haddonfield has won 15 of a possible 18 years – all but 2010, 2013 and 2025.
Hosty ran 2:19.53 to win the 800 and 5:03.93 in the 1,600. She teamed with senior Riley Austin, junior Saya Sood and senior Edith Green to win the 4-by-4 in 4:05.80.
Haddonfield also scored big points in the pole vault with a 1-2 finish by juniors Nina Fiscaro, who cleared 9-0, and Ema Lazarova, who cleared 8-0.
Junior Madison Kelsey won the 3,200 in 11:36.29 and also placed 4th in the 1,600 in 5:17.79.
Austin ran 2:22.77 for 2nd in the 800, junior Molly Mills was 3rd in both the 1,600 in 5:16.99 and 800 in 2:25.33, freshman Tatum Russo placed 3rd in the 3,200 in 12:03.41, juniors Norah Campbell and Ansley Kazmarek placed 4th and 5th in the hurdles in 9.28 and 9.56 and senior Devon Gervasi was 6th in the 3,200 in 12:39.30.
Willingboro swept the 55 with junior Maya Bolden winning in 7.28, senior Kaila Speight 2nd at 7.37 and junior Jade Pinder 3rd with a 7.38.
Pinder won the 400 in 58.27, with Bolden 3rd in 59.25, and junior Trinity Brapoh was 1st in the hurdles in 8.56. Bolden, Brapoh, Speight and Pinder ran 4:06.19 for 2nd in the 4-by-4.
Senior Egypt Bolan won the high jump at 5-4 and Mackenzie Howard was 2nd in the shot put with a 33-5 ½ throw.
Delran senior Ashley Doyle placed 2nd in the 3,200 in 11:40.73 and junior McCoy Lasiter was 3rd in the pole vault at 6-0.
Pemberton senior Olivia Serrano was 2nd in the 400 in 58.88 and Collingswood senior Phallen Still placed 2nd in the high jump at 5-2.
For Sencea, senior Taylor Adamson, junior Jaden Eberman, junior Victoria Rutkowski and sophomore Amber Kovatch placed 3rd in the 4-by-4 in 4:15.95.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 