Seniors Aaron Kolosowsky and Daniel Torres and junior Hunter Bostwick packed within 11 seconds in 4th, 5th an 6th place to lead Washington Township to the team title Friday in the Osprey Open Initational at Stockton University in Galloway Townshp.

Kolosowsky ran 16:17.0 for 4th, Torres 16:17.5 for 5th and Bostwick 16:27.3 for 6th and the Minutemen outscored 2nd-place Egg Harbor Township 42-86 to win the team title. Eastern was 3rd with 130 points.

Senior Patrick Lant [11th in 16:58.8] and senior Evan Bongard [17th in 17:25.4] were also in Township’s top-5 and 6th and 7th runners junior Joshua Baseshore and senior Daniel Mumbower ran 17:36.3 and 17:40.9 to place 24th and 26th.

Other South Jersey runners in the top 10 included Egg Harbor junior Cam Koryga [16:45.8 for 9th place] and Eastern junior Ryan Haefele [10th in 16:53.0].

Brick Memorial senior Jared Voorhees won the race in 15:50.3.

Egg Harbor swept the JV race, outscoring Jackson 15-91. Freshmen Stephen Slusarski and Ben Gettings led the 1-2-3-4-5 Eagles sweep, Slusarenski in 18:27, Gettings in 18:30.

Kerry O’Day ran the 3rd-fastest time of the day and Megan Niglio was 7th-fastest and Cherokee placed 2nd out of 29 teams in the Battle of Ocean County Park Friday in Lakewood.

There is no official team scoring, but Cherokee scored 118 points in MileSplit’s unofficial merge, behind only Middletown South at 90. Cherry Hill East was 5th with 220 points.

O’Day ran 18:28 over 5,000 meters and placed 2nd in the Senior Race, and Niglio ran 19:04 and took 3rd in the Junior Race.

Grace Wojciechowski, Alaina Bromley and Madison Van Haren made up the rest of Cherokee’s top-5, with Wojciechowski 10th in the Junior Race in 20:52, Bromley 10th in the Senior Race in 20:58 and Van Haren 23rd in the Senior Race in 21:37.

Cherry Hill East was led by Cate Feudtner [20:35, 6th in Junior Race], Ella Davidson [20:56, 13th in sophomore race] and Shaelea Conway [20:59, 14th in sophomore race]. Sophia Szlarski [21:57, 28th in sophomore race] and Keira Conway [22:06, 30th in sophomore race] rounded out East’s top five.

The two-mile freshman race isn’t included in the team merge, but Cherry Hill East also had two freshmen in the top 10: Ryleigh Budsock was 8th in 13:36 and Katherine Grottini was 10th in 13:49.

Other South Jersey girls under 22:00:

Kaylee Russen [Washington Twp.], 5th in Junior Race [20:32]
Ava Millner [Winslow Twp.], 11th in Junior Race [20:56]
Alex Butcher [Seneca], 12th in Senior Race [21:01]
Rachael Wilson [Washington Twp.], 15th in Junior Race [21:13]
Bea Faigal [Rancocas Valley], 17th in Senior Race [21:16]
Catie Andrews [Seneca], 19th in Senior Race [21:24]
Maya Kumar [Cherokee], 25th in Sophomore Race [21:40]

Camden Catholic graduate Kevin McDonnell ran a big personal-best 1:04.53 and placed 14th out of more than 2,400 runners Sunday morning in the Philadelphia Distance Run half marathon.

McDonnell, a Moorestown native now living in Cherry Hill, finished just four minutes behind winner Panuel Mkungo, a Delaware-based Kenyan who ran a 2:10.20 marathon earlier this year in Duluth.

McDonnell averaged 4:57 per mile for 13.1 miles. He came through 5K in 15:03, 10K in 30:45 and 10 miles in 49:31.

The race starts and finishes at Eakins Oval near the Art Museum in Fairmount and the course is mainly an out-and-back along Martin Luther King Boulevard to the Falls Bridge

McDonnell’s previous half marathon PR was a 1:07.26 in last year’s Philadelphia Distance Run, so he shaved more than 2 ½ minutes off that performance.

At St. Joe’s, McDonnell set track PRs of 14:03.52 for 5,000 meters and 29:16.01 for 10,000 meters, which remains a school record.

Also, Sterling graduate Jimmy Daniels, who also ran at St. Joe’s, placed 25th in 1:07.42, Shawnee grad Eric Reitinger was 42nd and 5th in the men’s 35-39 age group in 1:11.30, Brett Milden of Mullica Hill ran 1:12.23 for 50th with Haddonfield’s Joseph Norton one spot back in 51st in 1:12.17 and 6th in the men’s 35-39 age group.

Michael Iannotta from Cherokee and ran 1:13.00 for 57th overall and 4th in the 20-24 age group, and Shawnee grad Jack Ennis was 65th in 1:13.43 and 6th in the 20-24 division.

 

Rancocas Valley graduate Erika Kemp won the women’s division at the Philadelphia Distance Run Sunday.

Kemp, a six-time All-America at North Carolina State now based in Providence, ran 1:10.32 and edged Kenyan Catherine Syokau and Fiona O’keeffe to win the women’s race. Syokau ran 1:11.08 and O’keeffe 1:11.11. O’Keeffe is No. 7 in U.S. history with a 1:07:42 last year in Houston.

Kemp, 28, ran only 18 seconds off her half marathon PR of 1:10.14, which she ran in January in Houston. She finished 34th overall in a field of more than 2,400 runners.

She came through 5K in 16:10, 10K in 33:09 and 10 miles in 53:42. She averaged 5:22 and ran her last mile in 5:06.

The Philly Half course starts and finishes at Eakins Oval in Fairmount and is mainly an out-and-back along Martin Luther King Drive to the Falls Bridge.

Kemp ranks 9th among U,S. women this year in the half marathon with her 1:10.14 in Houston. That’s also 40th-fastest in U.S. history.

Senior Alyssa Boucher broke 20 minutes for the first time and won Senior Race at the South Jersey Shootout Saturday, leading Williamstown to the team title.

Boucher ran 19:19 on the 5,000-meter course at DREAM Park in Logan Township. She ran 20:04 on Tuesday in a Tri-County Conference batch meet at Cumberland Regional in what appears to be her first cross country race.

Boucher, Camden Catholic Nilaa Ponnappan and Schalick Jordan Hadfield all ran sub-19:30. Ponnappan was 2nd in 19:22 and Hadfield ran 19:27 for 3rd.

Sterling junior Jonalee Adames and Clearview senior Allison Roes also broke 20 minutes, Adames placing 4th in 19:36 and Roes 5th in 19:51.

Williamstown defeated Sterling 41-68 to win the team title, with Delsea [78], Clearview [79] and Haddon Township [92] also under 100 points.

Sophomore Sophia Aldridge took 6th for Williamstown in 20:05, and junior Delaney Harbison, freshman Julia Burgio and senior Paige Franklin packed in 23rd, 24th and 25th to complete Williamstown’s scoring pack [1-4-11-12-13 in team places].

Also in the top 10 were Holy Cross senior Sara Sherlock [7th in 20:13], Haddon Township senior Genevieve Gentlesk [8th in 20:39], West Deptford senior Isabella Mackey [9th in 20:44] and Sterling junior Isabella Patruno [10th in 20:48].

Nick Kuenkel ran the fastest time of the day, and Cherokee edged St.Peter’s Prep by one point in the team merge at Friday’s Battle at Ocean County Park in Lakewood.

Kuenkel won the Senior Race in 15:22 over 5,000 meters, finishing seven seconds ahead of 2nd-place Elijah Forrest of Collingswood, whose 15:29 was the 2nd-fastest time of the day.

Senior Robert Poplau ran 15:50 and was 4th in the Senior Race and 5th-fastest overall, Liam Tindall ran 16:11 for 6th in the junior race and 15th-fastest overall, Logan Bromley won the sophomore race in 16:13 and was 16th-fastest overall and Benjamin Weiner was 10th in the junior race and 29th overall in 16:26.

Additionally, Benjamin Realley placed 2nd in the freshman race in 10:53 over two miles. The freshman race didn’t figure into team scoring.

Cherokee edged St. Peter’s Prep of Jersey City 65-66 to win the team merge. Cherry Hill East placed 5th with 169 points and Washington Township was 8th with 351. Some 45 schools ran full teams.

Other South Jersey boys under 17 minutes: Washington Township’s Daniel Torres [12th in Senior Race in 16:13], Washington Township’s Aaron Kolosowsky [14th in Senior Race in 16:16], Cherry Hill East’s Raine Guidarelli [15th in Senior Race in 16:18], Cherry Hill East’s Brody Bogos [8th in Junior Race in 16:18], Timber Creek’s Robert Wakefield [19th in Senior Race in 16:30], Cherry Hill East’s Nikhil Raman [11th in Junior Race in 16:38], Cherokee’s Enzo Corona [12th in Junior Race in 16:40], Rancocas Valley’s Christopher Gray [14th in Junior Race in 16:41], Cherry Hill East’s Brandon Lyons [16th in Junior Race in 16:45], Cherry Hill East’s Colin Moore [6th in Sophomore Race in 16:48], Cherry Hill East’s Alvin Lin [7th in Sophomore Race in 16:50] and Cherry Hill East’s Cole Pizzo [20th in Junior Race in 16:51].

Ryan Duffy shattered the DREAM Park freshman record by half a minute Saturday morning at the South Jersey Shootout.

[Word from DREAM Park is that a cart leading the runners made a wrong turn, cutting the course by an unknown amount. If we get any more information on that and adjusted times or a more accurate distance run, we’ll post something. Too bad, but Duffy will get another crack at the course record at sectionals.]

Duffy, a Kingsway freshman, won the Gold Championship Race on the 5,000-meter speedway in Logan Township in 15:40, edging Moorestown soph Peter Simpson [2nd in 15:46.4] and Williamstown junior Dylan Saber [3rd in 15:47.3].

Simpson set the previous freshman record of 16:10.1 this past October when he placed 9th at the South Jersey Group 3 sectionals.

This was Duffy’s first major high school race. He ran 16:25 to win a Tri-County Conference batch meet at Cumberland Regional on Tuesday.

Duffy ran 2:03.88 and 4:31.43 full mile as an 8th-grader and won USATF National Youth Outdoor Championships in both events. He also long jumped 19-1 ½.

The only faster Kingsway runner at DREAM Park is Kyle Rakitis, who ran 15:15.64 when he won 2021 Group 4 sectionals in 2021.

Simpson broke his own school record on the DREAM Park course. That was that 16:10 from last year’s sectionals. Saber became Williamstown’s fastest runner at DREAM Park by a fraction of a section. Nicholas Krol ran 15:47.44 at Group 3 sectionals last year.

Other South Jersey runners in the top 10 were Williamstown sophomore Dominic Burgio [5th in 16:00.8] and Shawnee sophomore Yanni Ekatomatis [8th in 16:16.0] and Shawnee junior Noah Stapleton [9th in 16:18.1].

Paul VI’s Colton Johnson, Pitman’s Sebastien Reed and Delsea’s Noah Deckert all finished in the top 10 Friday at the John “Paddy” Doyle Iona Meet of Champions at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronz.

Johnson, a St. Joe’s junior, took 4th in 25:22.1, Reed, a Monmouth junior, placed 6th in 25:38.9 over five miles and Deckert, a St. Joe’s senior from Delsea, was 7th in 25:42.0.

Also in the top 20 were Army’s Andrew Littlehales, a sophomore from Delsea, and Matthew Coffey, a St. Joe’s senior from Camden Catholic. Littlehales ran 25:59.6 for 14th and Coffey was 17th in 26:04.2.

Army won the team title by 42-64 over St. Joe’s, with Johns Hopkins 3rd with 71 and Monmouth 4th with 87 points.

Kingsway’s Kylie Anicic opened her cross country season with a win at the Tiffelberg Cross Country Meet in Tiffin, Ohio.

Anicic, now a senior at Edinboro, ran a fast 17:26.4 over 5,000 meters .

It was her first 5,000-meter XC race for Edinboro. Her previous 5,000 PR was a 19:06.4 in September of 2019 as a freshman at Towson in a race at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Anicic’s 6,000-meter XC PR of 21:07.5 is 17:36 pace for 5,000 meters. She has a track PR of 16:25.97 from indoor NCAAs in March in Virginia Beach.

Anicic led Edinboro to a big team win over Tiffin, 22-55. Edinboro went 1-2-4-5-10 and had all five scorers across the line before any of the eight other schools in the field got their second runner across.

Edinboro’s team average of 19:17 would have placed 5th in the race.

Anicic won by nearly 400 meters over Tiffin’s Ines Macadam, who was 2nd in 18:47.8 running unattatched. Kate Szep, an Edinboro junior, was the 2nd scoring finisher in 18:51.4.

Anicic won the NCAA Division 2 Atlantic Region XC Championship last November in Mansfield, Pa.

Edinboro is ranked No. 5 in the NCAA Division 2 Atlantic Region by the USTFCCCA.

Pleasantville’s Nia Ali and Florence’s Curtis Thompson will be competing this weekend in the Diamond League Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.

Ali, the U.S. champion and World No. 2 this year at 12.30, is one of nine entrants in the 100-meter hurdles. World record holder Tobi Amusan of Nigeria (12.12) and World No. 1 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico are also among the entries.

Thompson, who won his third U.S. javelin title this year in Eugene, is the No. 1 American this year with his 265-5 to win nationals. He’s all-time U.S. No. 3 with his 287-8 last July in East Stroudsburg, Pa. Thompson is one of six javelin entrants, including World No. 1 Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic [293-8] and 2021 Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra of India [295-0].

The men’s javelin is scheduled for 3:20 p.m. EST on Saturda, and the women’s 100-meter hurdles – a one-race final – is slated for 5:05 p.m. EST on Sunday.