Juniors Joe Saicic and Zacchaeus Harrigan finished 1st and 2nd for a 2nd straight year and Glassboro rolled to its 2nd Gloucester County title ever and 2nd in a row Thursday at West Deptford Park.
Saicic won for the second straight year with a 15:55 and Harrigan was 2nd in 15:56. Junior Gavin Rakitis took 4th for the Bulldogs in 16:22, junior Aaron Johnson was 6th in 16:30 and freshman Christian Hughes took 16th in 17:16.
Glassboro averaged 16:23.8 over 5,000 meters at West Deptford Park and outscored 2nd-place Kingsway 29-52 without a senior in its scoring group. Glassboro won its first title last year, 42-81, over Washington Township.
Glassboro’s 29-point total is lowest since Kingsway won the 2018 meet 28-60 over Washington Township.
Glassboro, the top Group 1 school in New Jersey, is ranked 6th overall in New Jersey by MileSplit.
Junior Trevor Szilier of Washington Township placed 3rd in 15:57, breaking up a 1-2-3-4 Glassboro sweep. Kingsway senior Ryan Duffy was 5th in 16:25, with Kingsway junior Michael Beaver 7th in 16:33, West Deptford senior Lane McClintock 8th in 16:37, Williamstown sophomore Brandon Basilio 9th in 16:54 and Kingsway senior Payton Veilleux 10th in 16:55.
