Josh Crawford won the 800, placed in the 400 and anchored the winning 1,600-meter relay team and Woodstown won its 1st state indoor championship Saturday at the Buble.
Crawford won the 800 in 1:57.62 and senior teammate Karson Chew was 3rd in 1:58.87 for a big 16 points in one race. Crawford also ran 51.83 for 6th in the 400 and Chew ran the second leg on the 4-by-4.
Jacob Marino led off the winning 4-by-4 and placed 2nd in the 1,600 in 4:28.65 for the Wolverines.
Joining Crawford, Chew and Marino on the clinching relay team was senior Anthony Costello. That quartet ran 3:31.03.
Woodstown outscored Glen Rock and Ramsey 35-28, with Haddon Township and Camden tied for 4th with 20 points and Glassboro – which had won the last three Group 1 state titles – 6th with 18 points.
Woodstown is the first Salem County school to win a state indoor title in 40 years, since Penns Grove won Group 1 in 1986.
Haddon Township senior Shaun Maloney won the 1,600 in 4:27.28, junior Bobby McIlvaine was 3rd in the pole vault at 12-6 and junior Kyle Stephens threw 47-2 for 4th in the shot put.
Camden got a win from junior Jaleel Dickerson-Dempsey, who ran 7.73 in the 55-meter hurdles, and a 2nd from senior Jaiden Steele, who ran 6.51 in the 55. Senior Jawan Brownlee ran 6.66 for 6th in the 55. Sophomore Terrell Davis, Brownlee, junior Aiden Jones and Steele ran 3:38.02 for 6th in the relay.
For Glassboro, sophomore Moses Robles cleared 6-4 to win the high jump, and sophomore Joe Saicic took 4th in the 1,600 in 4:29.56 and 4th in the 3,200 in 9:44.86.
Audubon senior Zach Fayer placed 5th in the 1,600 in 4:30.86, and the Green Wace took 4th in the relay, with junior Evan Calhoun, senior Aaron Pilla and senior Dylan Gallagher joining Fayer running 3:37.92.
Buena senior Yandel Montanez ran 51.37 for 2nd in the 400.
Schalick senior Salvatore Longo cleared 12-6 and placed 2nd in the pole vault.
West Deptford junior Lane McClintock ran 2:02.41 for 4th in the 800.
Penns Grove sophomore Ja’Ka Ingram placed 5th in the shot put with a 46-7 throw, and Salem senior Jailon Fletcher-Wilson was 6th with a 45-6.
Gateway senior Nathanial Martinez ran 51.79 for 5th in the 400 and joined senior Mekhi Foster, sophomore John Bradley and senior Alton Rattle on the 5th-place relay, which ran 3:37.95
Woodbury senior Elijah Young cleared 6-0 for 4th in the high jump.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 