West Deptford’s Jacob Cobb helped MIT win its 27th straight NEWMAC Conference title Saturday with a 10th-place finish in Attleboro, Mass.

The NEWMAC is the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference.

Cobb, a senior, ran 25:53.8 over 8.000 meters at the Coogan Cross Country Course and was MIT’s 7th finisher. The Engineers won the team title 20-60 over Worcester (Mass.) Polytech Institute.

MIT is ranked 11th in NCAA Division 3 and 2nd behind only Tufts of Medford and Somerville, Mass., in the East Region.

The Engineers race on Nov. 15 at the Division 3 East Regionals in Hopkinton, N.Y. MIT edged Tufts 56-67 to win last year’s regional meet.

Cobb is one of the top steeplechasers in Division 3. He ran 8:53.62 in a meet last May in Williamstown, Mass., which ranked 11th in Division 3, and he went on to compete in the NCAA Division 3 Championships in Geneva,Ohio.

Maddie Dischert, a junior from Brigantine and Atlantic City High School, and Matt McCarron, a sophomore from Cinnaminson, where Rider’s leading runners Saturday at the MAAC Championships in Montgomery, N.Y.

Dischert ran an all-course best 21:35.3 over 6,000 meters at Twin Ponds on the Farm and placed 14th in the Metro-Atlantic Athletic Conference race. Her previous 6K best on any course was a 21:38.4 two weeks ago on Princeton’s Meadows course in West Windsor. Dischert ran 48 seconds faster than last year, when she placed 43rd in this meet on the same course between Manhattan and Albany.

McCarron, a sophomore, was Rider’s top finisher in 17th place with an all-course PR of 24:53.4 over 8,000 meters. He also set his previous best two weeks ago in West Windsor.

Three girls named Riley ran sub-20 at sectionals Saturday and all three are sectional champs.

Audubon’s Riley Fayer ran 18:18.40 at DREAM Park in Logan Township and won South Jersey Group 1, Riley Austin of Haddonfield ran 18:16.93 and won Group 2 and Ocean City sophomore Riley Tolson ran 18:29.18 and won Group 3.

Two other Rileys raced Saturday and both did well. Sterling sophomore Riley Sharpe ran 20:34.52 and placed 14th in Group 2, so she’s also on her way to Holmdel for states along with the entire Sterling team, who placed 3rd. And Paul VI Riley Sheppard placed 14th in the parochial race in 21:34.19. Sharpe just missed her lifetime best for any 5K course by one second and Sheppard ran a 5K PR by over half a minute.

So three of the seven-fastest times recorded in the five races at DREAM Park were turned in by Riley and all five Rileys that competed placed either 1st or 14th. Pretty clear that if you want to improve your XC team, find yourself a few Rileys!

Here’s our list of every girl that broke 20 minutes on the 5,000-meter course at DREAM Park!

17:47.60 … Julia Flanagan [Holy Cross], Parochial [1st]
18:02.36 … **Addison Weiss [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [1st]
18:16.93 … Riley Austin [Haddonfield], Group 2 [1st]
18:18.40 … Riley Fayer [Audubon], Group 1 [1st]
18:21.71 … Alyssa Suriano [Cherokee], Group 4 [1st]
18:22.42 … *Grace Gutowski [Paul VI], Parochial [2nd]
18:29.18 … Riley Tolson [Ocean City], Group 3 [1st]
18:33.29 … *Aubrey Bishop [Kingsway[, Group 4 [3rd]
18:34.25 … Giovanna Mantuano [Paul VI], Parochial [3rd]
18:39.21 … Laura Sallade [Wilberforce School], Parochial [4th]
18:45.10 … *Stella Blanchard [Wilberforce School], Parochial [5th]
18:45.19 … *Ryleigh Budsock [Cherry Hill East[, Group 4 [4th]
18:49.76 … Sophia Aldridge [Williamstown], Group 4 [5th]
18:52.66 … **Payton Monaghan [Toms River North], Group 4 [6th]
18:56.03 … *Lillian Flora [Ocean City], Group 3 [2nd]
18:58.96 … **Erin Healy [Cherokee], Group 4 [7th]
19:04.68 … *Carly Godfrey [Ocean City], Group 3 [3rd]
19:04.94 … **Nora Eberle [Toms River North], Group 4 [8th]
19:05.69 … **Angelina Colavita [Barnegat], Group 2 [2nd]
19:06.69 … Maya Kumar [Cherokee], Group 4 [9th]
19:08.01 … Macy Huber [Paul VI], Parochial [6th]
19:09.94 … Sofia Recinto [Cherokee], Group 4 [10th]
19:12.75 … Madeline Meder [Cherokee], Group 4 [11th]
19:17.27 … *Sophia DiFiore [Moorestown], Group 3 [4th]
19:19.37 … *Catherine Hipple [Moorestown], Group 3 [5th]
19:20.74 … **Morgan Kuzma [Paul VI], Parochial [7th]
19:20.85 … **Emmie Wang [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [12th]
19:23.79 … Lyana Gutierrez [Highland], Group 3 [6th]
19:25.28 … **Makayla Zell [Moorestown], Group 3 [7th]
19:26.37 … Kayla Romanoski [West Deptford], Group 2 [3rd]
19:28.37 … *Katherine Grottini [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [13th]
19:28.87 … *Devon Gervasi [Haddonfield], Group 2 [4th]
19:30.00 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], Group 4 [14th]
19:31.51 … *Caroline Eubanks [Toms River North], Group 4 [15th]
19:36.68 … *Madison Kelsey [Haddonfield], Group 2 [5th]
19:39.53 … *Peighton Clemens [Ocean City], Group 3 [8th]
19:40.65 … ***Bella Cera [Ocean City], Group 3 [9th]
19:44.80 … **Abby Marino [Woodstown], Group 1 [2nd]
19:44.83 … **Emma Baker [Southern Reg.], Group 4 [16th]
19:46.02 … **Lenna Driscoll [Ocean City], Group 3 [10th]
19:46.98 … *Gabriella Pizzo [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [17th]
19:47.49 … ***Isabella Suarez [Paul VI], Parochial [8th]
19:48.04 … *Meghan Johnson [Egg Harbor Twp.], Group 4 [18th]
19:48.78 … ***Montana Knoeller [Toms River North], Group 4 [19th]
19:49.02 … *Toni-Loren Powell [Highland], Group 3 [11th]
19:51.60 … Adriana Zitzner [Southern Reg.], Group 4 [20th]
19:53.28 … ***Dylan Hosty [Haddonfield], Group 2 [6th]
19:53.65 … Gabrielle Henry [Ocean City], Group 3 [12th]
19:54.01 … *Julianne Roes [Clearview], Group 3 [13th]
19:54.74 … **Molly Rooney [Egg Harbor Twp.], Group 4 [21st]
19:55.69 … **Peyton Blake [Paul VI], Parochial [9th]
19:56.14 … Ella Davidson [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [22nd]
19:56.22 … *Rebecca Tibbetts [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [23rd]
19:57.99 … *Cecilia Foreman [Mainland Reg.], Group 3 [14th]
19:58.23 … *Benjamin Harper [Haddonfield], Group 2 [7th]
19:59.97 … Olivia Orton [Middle Twp.], Group 2 [8th]

Here’s a look at the 50-fastest boys who raced Saturday at DREAM Park in Logan Township.

Course record holder Jack Tindall with his 15:20.92 at the Olympic Conference meet last month was fastest again Saturday with his second consecutive Group 4 sectional win in 15:29.73 and also the fastest sophomore. Cherokee’s Benjamin Realley was fastest junior at 15:48.14 and Cherry Hill East’s Braeden Sherlock was fastest freshman at 16:50.21.

The biggest jump on the all-time list was made by Haddonfield’s Peter Simpson, who moved up to 28th with his 15:39.10, his winning time in the Group 2 race. His previous DREAM Park best was 16:10.02, which he ran as a Moorestown freshman at Group 3 sectionals. He ran slightly slower the next year as a sophomore [16:11.51] and didn’t run sectionals last year as a Haddonfield junior. Haddonfield doesn’t compete in any meets other than sectionals at DREAM Park.

As always, errors and omissions? Lemme know!

15:29.73 … **Jack Tindall [Cherokee], Group 4 [1st]
15:33.01 … Erik Preisner [Ocean City], Group 3 [1st]
15:39.10 … Peter Simpson [Haddonfield], Group 2 [1st]
15:44.96 … Alvin Lin [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [2nd]
15:48.14 … *Benjamin Realley [Cherokee], Group 4 [3rd]
15:48.59 … *Nathan Aschmann [Ocean City], Group 3 [2nd]
15:51.84 … **Joe Saicic [Glassboro], Group 1 [1st]
15:52.57 … *Cian Sherlock [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [4th]
15:57.36 … *Jack O’Leary [Toms River South], Group 3 [3rd]
16:00.12 … *Keenan Neuman [Ocean City], Group 3 [4th]
16:01.12 … Dominic Burgio [Williamstown], Group 4 [5th]
16:01.46 … Vincent Perriu [Winslow Twp.], Group 3 [5th]
16:02.24 … *Sean Sooy [Cherokee], Group 4 [6th]
16:02.89 … *Timothy Shack [Eastern], Group 4 [7th]
16:02.95 … Mio Poerner [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [8th]
16:04.15 … *Tahj Wilson [Toms River North], Group 4 [9th]
16:05.00 … Jimmy Clauson [Haddon Twp.], Group 1 [2nd]
16:06.26 … *Jack Denn McLennan [Southern Reg.], Group 4 [10th]
16:07.92 … Jaeden Wesley [Glassboro], Group 1 [3rd]
16:08.14 … Matthew Reed [Egg Harbor Twp.], Group 4 [11th]
16:12.25 … **Trevor Szilier [Washington Twp.], Group 4 [12th]
16:13.17 … Shaun Maloney [Haddon Twp.], Group 1 [4th]
16:13.38 … Logan Pavelik [Williamstown], Group 4 [13th]
16:14.58 … Sean Martino [Cedar Creek], Group 2 [2nd]
16:14.94 … *Maximo Harada [Cherokee], Group 4 [14th]
16:15.84 … Brandon Stoner [Haddonfield], Group 2 [3rd]
16:17.05 … **Michael Beaver [Kingsway], Group 4 [15th]
16:17.22 … Matthew Littlehales [Delsea], Group 3 [6th]
16:18.41 … Andrew Dopkin [Highland], Group 3 [7th]
16:19.15 … **Nevin Millstein [Ocean City], Group 3 [8th]
16:19.62 … Rex Takakjy [Cherry Hill West], Group 3 [9th]
16:24.09 … *Aaron David Wyrsch [Southern Reg.], Group 4 [16th]
16:26.92 … *Payton Veilleux [Kingsway], Group 4 [17th]
16:27.20 … *Leo Vyvyan [Cherokee], Group 4 [18th]
16:27.86 … *Liam Murphy [Highland], Group 3 [11th]
16:29.05 … Zacchaeus Harrigan [Glassboro], Group 1 [5th]
16:29.81 … *Andrew Blum [Haddonfield], Group 2 [4th]
16:33.38 … *Gavin Danielewicz [Cherokee], Group 4 [19th]
16:34.37 … *Aneesh Rajagopal [Cherry Hill East], Group 4 [20th]
16:34.76 … Jamar Mack [Middle Twp.], Group 2 [5th]
16:35.08 … Matthew McDevitt [Egg Harbor Twp.], Group 4 [21st]
16:35.16 … **Benjamin McCarthy [Ocean City], Group 3 [12th]
16:37.35 … Curtis Stokes [Woodbury], Group 2 [6th]
16:37.53 … *Chris Monaghan [Paul VI], Parochial [2nd]
16:38.18 … *Jason Smith [Paul VI], Parochial [1st]
16:38.80 … Ryan McCann [Cedar Creek], Group 2 [7th]
16:38.80 … Vincenzo Vecchio [Cedar Creek], Group 2 [8th]
16:39.67 … **Zander Kane [Moorestown], Group 3 [13th]
16:39.55 … Alvarado Robles [Southern Reg.], Group 4 [22nd]
16:39.81 … Jacob Marino [Woodstown], Group 1 [6th]

Senior Ashley Doyle became the first Delran girl in 43 years to qualify for states in consecutive years when she placed 7th at the Central Jersey Group 2 meet Saturday in Jamesburg.

Doyle, 8th last year, moved up to 7th this year, covering 5,000 meters at Thompson Park in 20:15.05.

It’s the best finish by a Delran girl since Madelyn Tattory placed 4th at the 2014 South Jersey Group 2 race in 19:38.0 at Delsea.

Doyle is the first Delran girl to qualify for states in consecutive seasons since Karen Pupo in 1981 and 1982. Pupo was 6th at South Jersey Group 2 at Pennsauken in 1981 and 6th at the state meet, also at Pennsauken. She placed 3rd at 1982 sectionals in Blackwood and qualified again for states, but there’s no sign of her in the results, although the best available results don’t go very deep.

Doyle this year won the BCSL Liberty Division race and was 5th at the County Open behind Julia Flanagan and three Cherokee girls.

She placed 20th at states last year with a 20:16 at Holmdel County Park, where this year’s state meet will be held on Saturday.The fastest time by a Delran girl at Holmdel is Tattory’s 20:09 at the 2014 state Group 2 meet.

Long Island University’s Kaysie Luna from Sterling was the top freshman in the Northeast Conference Championships Saturday.

In her 5th college race, Luna ran 23:32.6 and placed 11th over 6,000 meters at B&D Acres, which is located in Warriors Mark Township, Huntingdon County, Pa., although it has a mailing address of Tyrone, Pa., which is in neighboring Blair County.

She finished nine seconds ahead of Isabella Galusha of Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass., for top freshman honors in the conference.

Luna was top finisher for LIU, which placed 6th in team scoring. Central Connecticut won the team title.

The Timber Creek boys are headed to states after a remarkable performance at the South Jersey Group 3 meet.

What made it remarkable is that Timber Creek didn’t have a single runner in the top 16 in the race but packed its five scorers in just 18.40 seconds, all in the top 30. It was the smallest gap of any team in any of the South Jersey sectional races.

Fantastic pack running earned Timber Creek 3rd place with 116 points, behind only Ocean City’s 25 and Highland’s 84. The top five schools in each race advance to states Saturday at Holmdel County Park.

Senior Matthew Chambers led Timber Creek in 17th place in 17:04.80, senior Blair Duckrey-Furbert was 19th in 17:07.06, junior Michael Zechman 21st in 17:08.00, senior Ryan Pancoast 29th in 17:22.70 and junior Leandro Santiago 30th in 17:23.20.

This will be Timber Creek’s first trip to states since 2019, when they placed 5th in South Jersey Group 3. They placed 4th in South Jersey Group 3 in 2020 but the state meet wasn’t held that year because of COVID.

Other South Jersey schools with a 1-through-5 gap under a minute Saturday: Gloucester County Tech [36.77 seconds], Ocean City [54.61], Cherokee [57.47] and Highland [58.96]. In the parochial race, Paul VI had an 18.41-second gap.

Reaching states has to be especially sweet for Duckrey, Poancoast and Chambers, who were all in the lineup two years ago when Timber Creek placed 6th in the 2023 Group 3 race and missed advancing to states by one point.

Freshman Juliana Sieminski of Delsea, junior Allyson Wernik of Washington Township and senior Gianna Burgio of Williamstown helped Rowan win its second consecutive NJAC championship and 8th overall Saturday in Galloway Township.

Sieminski placed 12th in 23:27.3 over 6,000 meters at Stockton University, Wernik ran 23:32.0 for 14th and Burgio 24:46.6 for 25th as Rowan edged TCNJ 41-46. Stockton was 3rd with 67 points.

Senior Gabriella Pagano from Pope John XXIII was the overall winner in 21:56.4. She’s Rowan’s first conference XC champ since Dianne Ferraro of South Plainfield in 2019.

TCNJ’s 5th runner was senior Savannah Hodgens from Mainland Regional, who placed 15th overall in 23:35.9

Top freshman in the race was TCNJ’s Teagan Walker, who ran 7th in 23:20.4. Her father, Mike, was a two-time Burlington County Open 1,600 champ for Rancocas Valley and is now a track and XC coach at TCNJ.

Stockton, 3rd with 67 points, was led by four-time NCAA Division 3 800 All-America Kayla Kass of Bayonne in 6th in 23:11.7 and Shawnee’s Madelyn Valasek in 9th in 23:22.2.

Other South Jersey runners in the top 30: Rowan senior Gianna Burgio [25th in 24:46.6], Stockton freshman Madison Pratt from Absegami [6th in 24:48.8], Stockton junior Sarah Rutledge [29th in 25:01.4]

The TCNJ men went 1-3-5-6-7-(8-10) to win the team title 22-47 over Rowan. Senior Anthony Guarino from Delran placed 14th for TCNJ in 26:20.1.

Senior Matthew Conway from Haddon Township and junior Colin Patterson from Haddon Heights finished 2nd and 4th, Conway in 25:04.7 and Patterson in 25:15.5.

Glassboro’s Elijah Whitaker ran 25:56.6 for 11th place and was the 2nd freshman in the race, one place behind TCNJ’s Josh Santiago from Old Bridge. He was Rowan’s 3rd finisher.

Also in the top 30: Junior Jacob Dinerman of Rutgers Camden and Haddon Township [12th in 26:06.6], Rowan senior Sean Hice of Washington Township [13th in 26:19.4], Rowan junior Aidan Brad from Williamstown [20th in 26:33.5], Rowan senior Anthony Faust from Bishop Eustace [21st in 26:35.5] and Rowan freshman Dylan Saber from Williamstown [22nd in 26:46.1].

Also: Stockton freshman Muhammad Khan from Atlantic City [23rd in 26:48.2], Rowan sophomore Reid Gervasi from Haddonfield [25th in 26:57.8], TCNJ freshman Simon Bernhardt from Shawnee [27th in 27:01.6], TCNJ senior Nate Kidwell from Washington Township [28th in 27:10.8] and TCNJ sophomore Silas Matteson from Cherokee [29th in 27:20.5].

Holy Cross senior Julia Flanagan continued her string of sub-18 races with a near course-record win in the Kiessling Invite Saturday morning in Logan Township.

Flanagan ran 17:47.60 at DREAM Park, less than a second off the course record of 17:46.86 set at the Olympic Conference meet last month by Cherry Hill East sophomore Addison Weiss. She in turn broke Flanagan’s record of 17:53.44 from the South Jersey Open.

She’s the first Holy Cross girl to win the Kiessling race in 27 years, since Kathleen Porter ran 18:55.4 at Egg Harbor and won by more than a minute over teammate Deanna Kloss as the Lancers edged Bishop Eustace by one point for the team title.

Paul VI packed seven finishers in the top 10 to win its 3rd straight team title. More on them below.

Flanagan has also run sub-18 this year at the Battle of Ocean Park in Lakewood, Six Flags Wild Safari in Jackson, Burlington County Open at Crystal Lake Park in Medford, the BCSL Liberty Division meet at Palmyra Cove.

She’ll compete in the state Parochial B race on Saturday at Holmdel County Park bidding to become only Holy Cross’s second XC state champion. Kari Vigerstol won in 1993 and 1994. Vigerstol won the Meet of Champions 1,600 outdoors in 1993, edging Shawnee’s Liz Moore.

For PVI, junior Grace Gutowski and senior Giovanni Mantuano placed 2nd and 3rd, both well under 19 minutes. Gutowski was 2nd in 18:22.42 and Mantuano 3rd in 18:34.25.

Paul VI runners then placed 6th through 10th, with senior Macy Huber 6th in 19:08.01, sophomore Morgan Kuzma 7th in 19:20.74, freshman Isabella Suarez 8th in 19:47.49, sophomore Peyton Blake 9th in 19:55.69 and junior Kara Salamone 10th in 20:52.66.

Also running sub-22 were Camden Catholic sophomore Erin Callahan [11th in 21:11.69, Camden Catholic junior Maddy O’Neil [13th in 21:24.96], Paul VI freshman Riley Sheppard [14th in 21:34.19], Bishop Eustace freshman Charlotte Clinthorne [15th in 21:35.68] and Paul VI sophomore Francesca Cianfrani [16th in 21:53.57].

Paul VI finished with a 21-62 margin of victory over the Wilberforce School of Princeton, with Camden Catholic 3rd at 75.

Wilberforce senior Laura Sallade placed 4th in 18:39.21. Her father Chris ran for Shawnee and was the state Group 4 champ at 1,600 meters in 1990.

Elizabethtown junior Will Inglis from Moorestown placed 7th Saturday in the Landmark Conference Championships in Clark.

Inglis ran an all-course lifetime-best 25:08.7 over 8,000 meters at Oak Ridge Park. His previous 8K best was 25:42.9 when he placed 9th at last year’s conference meet at Union Canal Tunnel Park in South Lebanon, Pa.

Inglis, a conference champ outdoors in the 1,500 and indoors in the mile, was E-town’s 2nd finisher. The Blue Jays placed 3rd with 90 points, behind Moravian [30] and Catholic of Washington, D.C. [79].

In the women’s race, Susquehanna junior Sophia Bostwick from Washington Township placed 13th in 23:17.91 over 6,000 meters. She was the first finisher for 5th-place Susquehanna.

The versatile Bostwick was runner-up in the Landmark Conference pole vault last winter.