The Cherry Hill East girls packed all five scorers between 12th and 21st and rolled to 2nd place in the Varsity A race Saturday at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational.

Conestoga High of Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pa. – ranked 16th in Pennsylvania – won the team title with 39 points and Cherry Hill East was 2nd with 72, edging North Penn High of Towamencin Township, Montgomery County, Pa., by one point.

Sophomore Shaelea Conway, junior Cate Feudner and sophomore Ella Davidson placed 12th, 13th and 14th in 20:40.8, 20:54.3 and 21:09.5 for Cougars followed closely by sophomore Keira Conway [17th in 21:36.2] and junior Tiffany Guidarelli [21st in 21:47.9].

In an unofficial MileSplit merge from the four varsity races, Cherry Hill East placed 4th among all girls programs with 233 points, behind Conestoga [111], Pearl River, N.Y. [111] and Allentown of New Jersey [204].

Terrific team race Saturday by the Mainland Regional girls, who placed four finishers in the top 15 on the way to the team title in the Varsity II race at the Bowdoin Classic.

Junior Sofia Day finished 2nd in 19:13.3 and senior Gillian Lovett was 4th in 19:50.2 for Mainland, which outscored 2nd-place Mercy High of Middletown, Conn., 60-80, with Bayport (N.Y.) Blue Point 3rd with 83 points and Hunter College Campus Schools of Manhattan 4th at 84.

It was the first team race over 5,000 metres this year for Mainland, ranked 12th in New Jersey.

Junior Ava McDole placd 12th in 21:27.1, freshman Cecilia Foreman was 14th in 21:40.3 and senior Chloe Malone ran 22:07.5 for 28th. Mainland’s 6th and 7th runners – seniors Sophie Goldstein and Claudia Booth – finished 32nd and 36th. Mainland was the only school with all seven runners in the top 50.

Kingsway placed 6th with freshman Aubrey Bishop [27th in 22:07.0], sophomore Alyssa Reiter [33rd in 22:38.5], junior Rachael Wiley [35th in 22:44.3], senior Kendall Cramer [40th in 23:05.7] and junior Nicole Blum [44th in 23:14.1] in the scoring group.

Kingsway’s Ryan Duffy ran the fastest time ever by a freshman Saturday at the 16th annual Bowdoin Classic at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.

Duffy placed 9th in the varsity race in 16:27.0, which according to the MileSplit venue database broke the freshman meet record of 16:38.8 by Max Dimuccio of La Salle Academy in Providence, R.I., at the 2016 Bowdoin Classic.

Overall, Duffy’s time is 4th-fastest in course history by a freshman, with the three faster times coming much later in the season either at the New York Federation Championships or the Nike Cross Nationals Northeast Regional.

Here’s a look at the five-fastest times in course history by freshmen:

16:07.0 … Sam Toolin [North Kingston, R.I.], 2015 Nike Northeast Regionals
16:12.3 … Sam Affolder [Carthage, N.Y.], 2015 N.Y. Federation Championships
16:24.8 … David Principe Jr. [La Salle Academy, Providence, R.I.], 2013 Nike Northeast Regionals
16:27.0 … Ryan Duffy [Kingsway], 2023 Bowdoin Classic
16:28.5 … Max Dimuccio [La Salle Academy, Providence, R.I.], 2016 Nike Northeast Regionals

The race was Duffy’s second over 5,000 meters. He ran 16:25.7 at Cumberland Regional earlier this month in a Tri-County Conference batch meet. He won the South Jersey Shootout at DREAM Park and ran 15:40.0, but because the lead vehicle made a wrong turn, the course was significantly shorter than 5,000 meters.

Duffy’s time is fastest by a New Jersey freshman at Bowdoin Park by nearly half a minute. CBA’s Gavin Schmitt ran 16:56.6 Saturday in a JV race.

The previous South Jersey freshman course best at Bowdoin Park was 16:58.6 by Haddonfield’s Derek Gess at the 2015 Bowdoin Classic.

Duffy’s time is 13th-fastest overall among all South Jersey runners at Bowdoin Park. Jonathan Vitez of Haddonfield and Cherry Hill East’s Aaron Groff both broke 16 minutes on the layout along the eastern banks of the Hudson River. Vitez ran 15:41.5 at the 2009 Bowdoin Classic, and Groff ran 15:52.7 at the 2015 Nike Cross Nationals.

The previous-fastest time by a Gloucester County runner at Bowdoin Park is Joe Grandizio’s 16:35.0 when he placed 7th in the 2016 Bowdoin Classic.

Sophomore Riley Austin and senior Riley Slootsky finished in the top 10 to pace Haddonfield to a dramatic team title in the Varsity 1 race at the Bowdoin Park Classic in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.

Took day to track down the results, but we finally have them, and Haddonfield had a fantastic race in its first big race this fall, edging Pingry and Corning, N.Y, 81-85-86.

Haddonfield, ranked No. 2 in New Jersey and No. 1 among public schools, packed its five scorers in the top 25 and all six of its finishers in the top 30.

Austin placed 7th in 20:20.7 over 5,000 meters and Slootsky 9th in 20:27.9 for the Lady Bulldogs. Then senior Anna Stolarick, junior Katherine Asher and junior Dylan Melcher all packed between 21:05 and 21:18 in 20th, 21st and 25th.

With four runners across, Corning had 53 points, Haddonfield 57 and Pingry 58

Melcher provided the difference in the final score, finishing one place ahead of Pingry’s 4th runner and three places in front of Pingry’s 5th runner and nine spots ahead of Corning’s 5th runner.

Freshman Harper Benjamin backed up Haddonfield’s top five, finishing 31st overall in 21:35.6. She was the 2nd freshman finisher.

Haddonfield had the low score as well in a merge of the two varsity races with 124 points, one fewer than Pingry and four fewer than Corning.

Mainland Regional won the Varsity 2 race with 60 points and was 5th in the merge. More on the Mustangs’ race soon!

The same Bowdoin Park course located along the East Bank of the Hudson River an hour north of the Tappan Zee Bridge is used for the Nike Cross Country Northeast Regional in November.

Cherry Hill East used some tremendous pack running to win the Varsity A team title at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational Saturday in Jackson.

The Cougars packed all five scorers between 8th and 16th and all seven runners in the top 20 and edged Conestoga of Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pa., by one point – 62-63. Colts Neck – ranked 7th in New Jersey – was 3rd with 70 and Manalapan – ranked 13th – was 4th with 81 points.

Cherry Hill East is not ranked in the most recent MileSplit poll but obviously should be and most likely will be next week.

Raine Guidarelli, Nikhil Raman, Brody Bogos, Cole Pizzo and Colin Moore packed in 23 seconds in wet, rainy conditions at Great Adventure.

Guidarelli led the Cougars in 8th place in 16:37.2, with Raman also in the top 10 in 10th place in 16:41.3. Bogos ran 16:49.2 for 13th, Pizzo was 15th in 16:59.8 and Moore 16th in 17:00.5.

They were backed up by Alvin Lin [17th in 17:01.4] and Brandon Lyons [20th in 17:15.2], giving East seven finishers in 38 seconds.

It takes seven runners to make a team, and this race is exactly why. After four runners, Conestoga led Cherry Hill East 36-46. But Pizzo, Moore, Lin and Lyons all finished ahead of Conestoga’s 5th runner, and that was the difference in the team standings.

Senior Aziz Muhammad-Kane and junior Mason Wassell placed 1st and 3rd to lead Highland to the Varsity B team title Saturday at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational.

It was the first XC invitational victory for Muhammad-Kane, who was 2nd to Peyton Shute at Group 3 sectionals last fall at DREAM Park.

Muhammad-Kane ran 16:16.2 in wet, rainy conditions over 5,000 meters at Great Adventure in Jackson, and Wassell ran 16:36.0, lowering his all-course 5,000 PR from 16:59.9 from sectionals last fall.

Highland won the team title with 56 points, ahead of McKee High of Staten Island [63] and Fox Lane of Bedford, N.Y. [64].

The Tartans placed all five scorers in the top 25. Sophomore Andrew Dopkin placed 12th in a PR 17:39.1, junior Andrew Kellem was 16th in 18:02.6 and sophomore Daniel Gee took 24th in a PR 18:23.8.

Kingsway’s Kylie Anicic, a senior at Edinboro, remained undefeated this fall with a close win over Scottish steeplechase star Sarah Tait of West Virginia Saturday at the Lock Haven Invitational.

Anicic ran 20:13.7 over 6,000 meters at the West Branch course across the west branch of the Susquehanna River in Woodward Township, Pa., and edged Tait, who ran 20:14.4 for 2nd place. They both finished 150 meters clear of the rest of the field.

Tait has run 9:54.74 for the steeple, No. 20 on the all-time Great Britain-Northern Ireland performance list. This was her first race for WVU.

Anicic shattered her 6,000 PR of 21:07.5, which set ran when she won the NCAA Division 2 Atlantic Region title last November in Mansfield, Pa.

Schalick junior Jordan Hadfield, in her first year of cross country, recorded her first XC invitational victory Saturday morning at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational.

In rainy conditions, Hadfield covered the 5,000-meter course at Great Adventure in Jackson in 19:18.6, finishing 150 meters clear of the field in the Varsity D race. Dagny Shiffler of Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., was 2nd in 19:59.0.

Hadfield ran 5:14.80 and 11:17.17 as a sophomore last spring and was a medalist in both races at the state Group 1 championships at Franklin High. She’s the 3rd-fastest Group 1 returner in the state in both the 1,600 and 3,200.

But she made her XC debut with a 19:56.32 in a batch meet earlier this month and then placed 3rd at the South Jersey Shootout at DREAM Park last weekend with a 19:27.4.

She lowered that to 19:18.6 with her big win on Saturday.

Schalick’s No. 2 runner Saturday was freshman Elizabeth Petrunis, who placed 21st in 23:27.8.

Audubon senior Aiden Williams ran away with the Varsity D race in rainy, wet conditions Saturday morning at the Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational in Jackson.

Williams, 9th in the state Group 1 meet as a junior last year, covered the 5,000-meter course at Great Adventure in 16:16.5, finishing 75 meters ahead of 2nd-place Colby Twyman of Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Del. Twyman ran 16:32.8.

Schalick senior Charles Fuerneisen placed 9th in 17:30.8 leading the Cougars to 3rd place in team scoring with 90 points, behind only two Wilmington schools – Wilmington Christian (52) and Tower Hill (53).

Sophomore Salvatore Longo [14th in 18:12.3] and senior Matthew Tozer [17th in 18:35.9] also placed in the top 20 for Schalick.

Senior Michaela Schlemo placed 2nd and led four Egg Harbor girls in the top 20 as the Eagles won the team title at the Osprey Invitational Friday afternoon.

Schlemo covered the 5,000-meter course at Stockton University in Galloway Township in 19:03.7, finishing second to Toms River North’s Jessica Abbott, who won the race in 18:20.4, 4th-fastest in course history.

Sophomore Paige Pacquing, senior Taylor Rooney and sophomore Devyn Per placed 11th, 13th and 19th for Egg Harbor Township, Pacquing in 20:09.7, Rooney in 20:27.4 and Per in 20:56.3. Junior Bithania Andemariam clinched the team title for the Eagles with a 36th-place finish in 21:29.2.

Egg Harbor topped Red Bank Catholic 75-86 to win the team title, with Southern [102], Toms River North [125] and Shawnee [131] also in the top five.

Wildwood junior Macie McCracken placed 3rd in 19:15.4, Shawnee junior Paige Cline was 5th in 19:46.7, Eastern freshman Theresa Albertson – in her first varsity invitational over 5,000 meters – ran 19:49.5 for 6th and Washington Township junior Kaylee Russen broke 20 with a 19:59.1 for 8th.

Other South Jersey runners under 21 minutes were Washington Township junior Rachael Wilson [15th in 20:33.6], West Deptford freshman Taylor Sierzega [16th in 20:37.2], Vineland freshman Olivia Masucci [17th in 20:41.7], Vineland senior Nicoletta Guiliani [18th in 20:46.9] and Hammonton junior Natalie Clauhs [20th in 20:56.4].