From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

Haddonfield scored 39 points in the three distance races and won its 13^th state indoor championship Saturday at the Bubble.

Haddonfield netted 50 total points and more than doubled 2^nd-place Voorhees, winning 50-22. Haddonfield actually outscored 2^nd and 3^rd place combined by 50-40. Manasquan was 3^rd with 18 points.

If Haddonfield just brought its XC team, they would have won the meet by double digits.

Haddonfield previously won Group 1 in 1987, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2016 and Group 2 in 2017, 2019 and 2025.

The 13 state titles are tied for 4^th-most in state history and 2^nd-most ever by a South Jersey school, behind Willingboro’s 16.

In the 800, senior Brandon Stoner and Aaron Keith finished 2^nd and 4^th in 2:00.06 and 2:00.63 for 12 points, in the 1,600, senior Benjamin Andrus ran 4:17.89 for 2^nd and senior Peter Simpson was 4^th in 4:23.82 for 12 more, and in the 3,200 senior Ryan Gibson was 2^nd in 9:29.47, Andrus 3^rd in 9:38.37 and Simpson 6^th in 9:45.62 for 15 points.

The Bulldogs also won the 4-by-4 in 3:30.63 with junior Jack P. Brand, junior Ryder Bozine, senior Andrew Brand and Stoner. Bozine ran 7.84 for 6^th in the hurdles.

Pemberton senior Jaden Goins ran 6.47 in the 55 to become the first Pemberton boy to win an indoor state title in 64 years. In 1962, Les Holly won the 60-yard dash at the state Group 3 meet at the Jersey City Armory in 6.7.

Willingboro senior Christopher Jones ran 50.22 for 2^nd in the 400.

For Pleasantville, junior Todd Watson was 6^th in the 400 in 52.23, and the 4-by-4 of junior Marseo Goah, Watson, senior Brandon Williams and senior Qwasim Jackson took 2^nd in the 4-by-4 in 3:31.02.

Oakcrest senior Devon Hannah ran 6.57 for 4^th in the 55.

Cinnaminson senior Shafiq Herrington cleared 6-0 for 6^th in the high jump.