It was a big day for the Ocean City girls with another Cape May County Championship, and it was a big day for the Red Raiders’ distance group, who scored 63 of a possible 72 points in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200.
Those 63 points accounted for nearly half of Ocean City’s 141 points in team scoring, with Middle Township 2nd with 98.
In the 800, junior Carly Godfrey won in 2:21.55, Middle Township freshman Teagan Emmer was 2nd in a PR 2:31.19 in her 2nd lifetime 800 and Ocean City got 3rd and 4th with junior Peighton Clemens 3rd in 2:32.07 and senior Sadie Heyman 6th in 2:41.09.
Godfrey also won the 1,600 with a 5:13.20, just ahead of sophomore Riley Tolson [5:13.35] and junior Lillian Flora [5:14.49] in a 1-2-3 Ocean City sweep.
And Ocean City went 1-2-4 in the 3,200 behind Tolson [11:24.06], senior Gabrielle Henry [12:21.34] and after Middle senior Olivia Orton placed 3rd [12:33.35] sophomore Julianna Rearick was 4th in 13:02.78.
Ocean City also won the 4-by-4 with Clevenger, junior Kai Linthicum, junior Sophia Pratt and junior Ella Miller running 4:10.10.
How many consecutive titles has Ocean City won? I tried to figure that out. It’s at least several. But some of the back results don’t include team scoring so I’m outta luck. If anyone knows please let me know!
Junior Ella Miller doubled the 100 and 200 for the Raiders, sprinting 12.87 and 26.26. Junior Anna Clevenger was 1st in the 400 in 1:00.55, senior Callie Duff won the high jump at 5-0, sophomore Ava Beningo was 1st in the triple jump with a 33-1 ½ and senior Gianna Endicott threw 82-2 for 1st in the discus.
Other winners in the girls meet were Lower Cape May senior Jasmine Black ran 17.40 in the 100-meter hurdles, Wildwood Catholic senior Angelina Edwards won the intermediates in 1:07.96, Middle Township senior Haylie Rowlands cleared 8-6 in the pole vault, Lower Cape senior Ella Biersbach long jumped a PR 18-1 ¼ to win the long jump, Middle junior Allison Nagle threw a PR 118-0 for 1st in the javelin.
The Ocean City boys scored 186 points to win the team title.
Senior Garrett Sampson swept the three throws [39-9, 132-6, 143-2], senior John Stamm doubled the horizontal jumps [20-1 1/2, 39-2 1/2], and senior Erik Priesner and sophomore Benjamin McCarthy led sweeps in the 800 and 3,200. Junior Nathan Aschmann won the 1,600, senior Jude Govern swept the 100 and 200 [11.33, 23.11] and freshman Jackson Masters won the 400 in 53.31.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 