Elizabeth’s Will Inglis from Moorestown opened his senior season of cross country with a win at the Elizabethtown Blue Jay Alumni Challenge.

Inglis ran 14:00 over 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) at the Solar Array Cross Country Course on E’town’s campus. The meet record of 13:31 was set in 2021 by Schalick’s Samuel Gerstenbacher of

Inglis placed 7^th in the Landmark Conference XC Championships last fall in Clark, Union County, then won the 800 at the indoor Landmark meet in Selinsgrove and the 1,500 and steeplechase at the outdoor conference meet in Huntingdon, Pa.

He ran 1:50.82 in a meet at Widener last May, 3^rd-fastest 800 all-time by a Burlington County high school alum.

Inglis is No. 4 in school history at 800 meters, tied for No. 3 in the 1,500 [3:53.42] and No. 4 in the steeplechase [9:25.02]. Indoors he’s No. 4 in the 800 [1:54.54]

While I was going through this I noticed that No. 8 on the school’s all-time 10,000 list is one-time Cinnaminson runner Dave Bresnahan with a 31:38.64 at Bucknell in 2008.

Haddonfield sophomore Bella DeFinis ran 14:12 over two miles to win the season-opening Colonial Conference batch meet at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield and Cherry Hill.

Haddonfield swept the top four spots, with DeFinis followed by seniors Nora Hastings [14:26], Grace McCool [14:28] and Penelope Mathews [14:35]. Junior Corinne Kelly broke up a Haddonfield sweep, taking 5^th in 15:02.

The Haddonfield boys swept the top five spots, with junior Ian Rodriguez 1^st overall in 11:50, followed by sophomore Lucas Larson [11:51], junior William Krier [11:51], senior Luke Patterson [11:59] and junior Oliver Setchel [12:08].

Gloucester freshman Luke Madrack placed 6^th in his high school XC debut in 12:28.