The question wasn’t whether Willingboro would win the sectional title this weekend. It was by how much.

The answer: Would you believe 120 points?

The Willingboro boys scored the second-most points in Central Jersey Group 1 history and roared to their 17th sectional title this weekend at Howell.

State-wide, the only schools with more sectional titles are Metuchen, which has won 26, including 22 of 26 from 1991 and 2016 in Central Jersey Group 1, and New Providence in North 2, which won its 20th this weekend.

Talk about balance: The Chimeras scored 41 points in the sprints, 36 in the hurdles, 20 in the relays, 57 in the jumps and 19 in the throws.

It was an incredible performance by the program with the greatest track tradition in New Jersey.

Willingboro finished with a 173-53 margin of victory over second-place Middlesex. The 173 points are second-most in CJ-1 history only to Metuchen’s 180 in the 2004 meet at Hillsborough.

Willingboro’s 120-point margin of victory is the largest in meet history. The previous record was 113, when Metuchen beat Spotswood 176-63 to win the 1999 Central Jersey Group 1 title at Monmouth Regional in Tinton Falls.

Of Willingboro’s 20 sectional titles, this is only the third in Central Jersey. The Chimeras won the 2003 and 2004 Group 3 titles, also at Monmouth Regional.

Willingboro won South Jersey Group 2 last year, and this is actually only the third time since 1981 the Chimeras have won sectional championships in consecutive years. They won South Jersey Group 4 in 1990 and 1991 with those legendary Gerard Reynolds / Lamont Smith teams and also CJ-3 in 2003 and 2004.

Below is a list of every sectional title the Willingboro boys have won.

And here’s an event-by-event breakdown of Willingboro’s record-setting weekend:

100-METER DASH: Junior Zaire Clements took second in 11.16 and freshman Jaylen Young took sixth in 11.36. 9 points

200-METER DASH: Senior Elijah Valme and Clements ran 1-2 in 22.77 and 22.95. 18 points.

400-METER DASH: Valme (51.11), senior Jayire King (51.48) and Young (52.37) went 2-4-5. 14 points.

110-METER HURDLES: King and seniors Kevin Peterson and Joshua Dorvilus went 1-2-4 in 15.13, 15.56 and 15.75, with only Riverside senior Alex Stockton breaking up a Willingboro sweep. 22 points.

400-METER HURDLES: King won in 57.03 and senior Dinonn Capp was fourth in 1:00.21. 14 points.

400-METER RELAY: Juniors Sheraton Gbeen and Jamaho Kingsley, senior Kevin Peterson and Clements ran 44.27, edging Middlesex by 13-100ths of a second. 10 points

1,600-METER RELAY: The Chimeras won in 44.27, with the team of Capp, King, Valme and Young. 10 points

HIGH JUMP: Juniors Kameron Smith and Nate Robertson both cleared 6-2 for first and second, and freshman Anaias Hughes took fifth with a 5-6. 20 points.

LONG JUMP: Smith went 19-9 1/2 for third place. 6 points

TRIPLE JUMP: Robertson jumped 43-10 for the win, and junior Dontavis Wilson placed sixth with a 40-2 1/4. 11 points.

POLE VAULT: Juniors Wilson and Jason Dingle went 1-2, Wilson clearing 12-6 and Dingle 11-6, and senior Glenn Ferguson took fifth at 11-0. 20 points.

DISCUS: Emmanuel Lewis III, a senior, popped a 151-4 for the win. 10 points.

SHOT PUT: Sophomore Deonte Allen threw 45-8 for second place, and Lewis was sixth with a 43-3 1/4. 9 points.

Here’s a look at all of Willingboro’s sectional titles. Has any other school won a sectional championship in all four groups?

1977 – South Jersey Group 4
1978 – South Jersey Group 4
1979 – South Jersey Group 4
1980 – South Jersey Group 4
1982 – South Jersey Group 4
1986 – South Jersey Group 3
1988 – South Jersey Group 3
1990 – South Jersey Group 4
1991 – South Jersey Group 4
1993 – South Jersey Group 4
2000 – South Jersey Group 3
2003 – South Jersey Group 3
2004 – Central Jersey Group 3
2005 – Central Jersey Group 3
2012 – South Jersey Group 2*
2018 – South Jersey Group 2
2019 – Central Jersey Group 1

There were a lot of standouts for the Egg Harbor boys this weekend in their triumph in the tough South Jersey Group 4 meet.

Sprinter Trey Henry won one event, placed in another and ran on a second-place relay team. Ahmad Brock picked up four medals. Fifth-seeded Gobi Thurairajah won the 1,600 and medaled in two other events. Anthony Vasquez won the high hurdles with a big PR and medaled on two relay teams.

Mubeen Monodu had a first in the high jump and a second with a huge PR in the triple jump, Josh Cohen a first in the pole vault and Luis Rivera-Turell ran on two scoring relay teams.

But as I kept studying the South Jersey Group 4 results, I kept coming back to EHT junior William Spence.

Guys like Spence are why track and field is the greatest sport in the world.

According to the MileSplit database, Spence didn’t compete much as a freshman in 2017 – he ran 12.01 and 24.38 in the 100 and 200. He ran briefly indoors in 2018 and this past indoor season he ran the 55, placing 16th at sectionals with a 6.94.

This spring, his focus changed to the intermediates, and he raced in four major meets — the Jim Camburn Relays, Bridgeton, the Atlantic County meet and the Cape Atlantic Championships — all with times ranging from that 1:01.06 to 1:01.65.

So he went into sectionals with a personal-best of 1:01.06 in the 400-meter intermediates, a time he ran at the Bridgeton Relays back in April. That made him the No. 18 seed Friday.

Think about that.

If you’re the No. 18 seed and everybody runs average, you have to jump 12 guys just to medal.

Spence did even better than that.

In what will probably go unnoticed but may be unprecedented in this year’s sectionals, Spence placed fourth in the intermediates in 57.33, a nearly four-second PR in an event where PRs generally come in small doses.

Racing by himself in the third of five sections, he finished only 37-100ths of a second out of second place.

Those four points weren’t the difference between Egg Harbor winning the sectional title and not winning it, but it’s an inspirational performance that speaks volumes about the Egg Harbor coaches and about Spence himself.

Spence also PR’d in the 400 with a 51.55 and ran on Egg Harbor’s third-place 1,600-meter relay team, which ran 3:26.03 (and was the No. 7 seed).

Egg Harbor won its third sectional title this weekend at Washington Township, outscoring Jackson 95-89, with Rancocas Valley third with 85 points in a tremendous three-way team battle.

EHT also won South Jersey Group 4 on its home track in 2013 and 2017. South Jersey Group 4 is generally the most competitive public school section in the state, which helps explain why 11 different schools have won the title in the last 15 years and nobody has repeated in SJ-4 since Winslow in 2003 and 2004.

Let’s take a more detailed look at some of EHT’s big guns over the weekend:

TREY HENRY: In his first season of outdoor track, the senior former baseball player won the 100 in 11.00, placed fifth in the 200 in 22.56 and ran on the second-place 4-by-1 team, which ran 43.02.

GOBI THURAIRAJAH: Surprise winner in the 1,600 with a big PR of 4:20.44 — he had only broken 4:30 once, and that was a 4:26.93 at the Atlantic County Meet. The senior also took third in the 3,200 in 9:40.21 and ran on the fourth-place 3,200-meter relay team, which ran 8:11.17.

MUBEEN MOMODU: Huge day for Momodu, who won the high jump at 6-2 and went 47-9 for second in one of the greatest triple jump competitions in South Jersey history. You can read more about that competition here.

JOSHUA COHEN: The senior followed his indoor sectional pole vault title with an outdoor title at 13-6.

ANTHONY VAZQUEZ: Big weekend for the junior, who PR’d with a 14.54 for the win in the highs and ran on the 4-by-1 and 4-by-4.

AHMAD BROCK: A sophomore, Brock jumped 43-10 3/4 for fourth in the triple jump and ran 11.27 for sixth in the 100 and ran on both the 4-by-1 team and the third-place 4-by-4.

LUIS RIVERA-TURELL: The senior ran key legs on both the second-place 4-by-1 and third-place 4-by-4.

MICHAEL CARFAGNO: The junior took fifth in the discus with a throw of 141-10, a nine-foot PR and a 14-foot season-best.

LUKE BARNES, MICHAEL MIRVILLE AND AIDAN WINKLER: Barnes, a senior, and Mirville and Winkler, sophomores, joined Thurairajah on the fourth-place 4-by-800 team.

 

The Sharpe triplets scored 52 points and had a hand in 20 others, Anyia Brown added 16 points with medals in four events and Amaya Reed-Clark won both weight throws as the Paulsboro girls won their first sectional title in 15 years over the weekend.

Paulsboro outscored second-place Schalick 108-92 1/4, with Audubon just behind at 84 1/4 in the South Jersey Group 1 meet at Washington Township.

The sectional title is the 10th for Paulsboro but the first since 2004, also in South Jersey Group 1. The Red Raiders won seven South Jersey Group 1 championships during the 11-year period from 1987 through 1997, then added two more in 2003 and 2004.

The Sharpe sisters, sophomores Ariel, Arianna and Amirah, are the daughters of legendary Fred Sharpe, who in 1997 put on a show at the Meet of Champions in South Plainfield that has never been rivaled. In the span of a little over two hours, he won the 400-meter intermediates in a then-meet-record 51.62 (still #5 in meet history), won the 800 in 1:51.62 and placed third in the 1,600 in 4:15.73, finishing four seconds behind winner Matt Elmuccio of Westfield (4:11.25), who now coaches a few miles away from Paulsboro in Pitman.

Let’s take a look at how Paulsboro scored 108 points with only seven athletes scoring:

—> Brown had a busy couple days, winning the 100 in a personal-best 12.47, taking third in the 200 in 26.51 and running legs on both the winning 400-meter relay team (50.53) and the winning 1,600-meter relay team (4:03.33). Brown’s 12.47 was second-fastest of the four Group 1 meets this weekend.

—> Amirah Sharpe won the 800 in 2:16.56, placed second in the 400 in 58.36, took second in the intermediates in 1:04.06 and ran a leg on the 4-by-4 team.

–> Arianna Sharpe won the 200 in 25.73, placed third in the 400 in 58.92 and ran on the 4-by-4 team.

—> Ariel Sharpe ran third in the 100 (12.84) and fourth in the 200 (26.55) and ran on both winning relay teams.

–> Reed-Clark swept the weights, winning the shot at 38-5 1/2 and the discus with a 110-11 throw.

—> Freshmen Aaliyyah Bateman and Kya Robinson both ran legs on the winning 400-meter relay team.

Paulsboro entered only nine girls in the meet in a total of 19 events, and they scored in 13 of those 19 events.

The Paulsboro girls won their only state title in 2004, led by thrower Angela Pollino, sprinter Shardae Anderson and hurdler Deanna Poland, who combined for all 58 of their points.

Senior Kenady Wilson became Willingboro’s first triple winner in nine years, and the Chimera girls amassed 140 points on their way to their first sectional title in 15 years.

Willingboro outscored second-place Shore Regional 140-86.

Wilson won the high jump clearning 5-6, the long jump with a 17-4 and the triple jump at 34-6 1/4 for the Chimeras, whose last sectional title came in Central Jersey Group 3 in 2004.

Boro’s last triple winner at sectionals was Vanessa Ariently in 2000 with wins in the intermediate hurdles (1:02.24), high hurdles (14.95) and long jump (16-10 1/4).

Willingboro also had a big day from junior Mikell Dolo, who led a 1-2-3 sweep in the high hurdles with a 16.09 win and also placed third in the 100 (12.83) and 200 (26.42), and junior Tamia Welch Smith, who won the intermediates in 1:06.47, took second in the highs in 16.17 and was third in the 400 in 1:00.74.

Sophomore Balkis Lyiola won the 100 in 12.58 and was second in the 200 in 26.14 for 18 more big points.

Janea Williams took third in the 3,200 (12:31.79) and sixth in the 1,600 (5:53.10), freshman Aleshia Mendex ran 1:01.70 and 2:25.32 for fifth in the 400 and fourth in the 800, sophomore Gloria Hughes took third in the highs at 16.69, and sophomore Shamaryah Sykes  was sixth in the discus with a throw of 87-4.

Willingboro also won the 4-by-100 in 51.40 and 4-by-400 in 4:06.15 and placed third in the 3,200-meter relay. Names are not available yet for the 4-by-1 and 4-by-4. Freshman Aleshia Mendez, junior Syedah Younis, Williams and Smith ran on the 4-by-8 team, which ran 10:57.57.

In addition to Wilson and Ariently, other Willingboro triple winners at sectionals since 1985 are:

–> Kim Hargrove in SJ-4 in 1996 (11.8 in 100, 24.5 in 200, 5-4 in high jump).
–> Shakira Rutherford in SJ-3 in 1999 (25.2 in 200, 57.3 in 400, 1:03.6 in 400IH).
–> Okechi Ogbuokiri in SJ-3 in 2003 (24.4 in 200, 55.0 in 400, 2:15.9 in 800),
–> Brittnee Bynoe in CJ-3 in 2004 (2:15.15 in 800, 5:04.51 in 800, 1:04.10 in 400IH).

The Willingboro girls have won eight sectional titles in all – 1980 and 1981 in South Jersey Group 4, 1984 and 1985 in South Jersey Group 3, 1992 back in Group 4, then 1999 in Group 3. Their last title was Central Jersey Group 3 in 2004.

Millville and Rancocas Valley, two of the top girls track programs in the state, locked up in an epic battle this weekend at Washington Township, and Millville emerged with a one-point win in the South Jersey Group 4 sectionals.

Millville scored 38 points in the throws and 21 in the jumps on the way to a 92-91 win over Rancocas Valley.

It’s the first sectional title ever for the Millville girls.

Freshman Bryanna Craig led the way for the Thunderbolts with wins in the 400, high jump and long jump, and junior Fatimah Owens won both weight throws with PRs in both.

Let’s take a look at how Millville did it!

100-METER DASH: Senior Malea Broome placed fourth in 12.30. 4 points.
400-METER DASH: Craig ran 56.85 for third place. 6 points.
800-METER RUN: Senior Raelynne Miller ran 2:20.33 for sixth place. 1 point.
100-METER HURDLES: Seniors Malea Broome and Brionah Patterson placed third and fifth, Broome in 14.58 and Patterson in 15.12. 8 points.
400-METER RELAY: The team of Patterson, Broome, junior Ciera Bowman and junior Zaniah Bowman ran 48.07 for second to Eastern. 8 points.
1600-METER RELAY: Millville ran 3:58.13 with the team of Patterson, Miller, Ciera Bowman and Broome for third place behind R.V. (3:53.72) and Southern Regional (3:57.08). 6 points.
HIGH JUMP: Craig cleared a personal-best 5-5 for the win, and junior Kenny’a Dunns was fifth at 5-2. 12 points.
LONG JUMP: Craig jumped 17-9 1/2 for second, and freshman Leah Ellis went 16-10 1/4 for sixth. 9 Points.
SHOT PUT: Owens and Teresa Parker went 1-2, with Owens hitting 40-3 1/2 and Parker 38-3. It was more than a two-foot PR for Owens. 18 points.
DISCUS: Owens and Parker went 1-5, Owens throwing 122-4 – more than a 10-foot PR – and Parker 107-1. 12 points.
JAVELIN: Junior Kira Parsons placed second with a throw of 125-3. Eight points.

It was a near-perfect weekend for the Haddonfield girls distance team, which scored 68 out of a possible 72 points in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 on its way to the South Jersey Group 2 title at Delsea.

As we wrote about earlier, Haddonfield swept the 1,600 on Friday, with sophomores Sarah Naticchia, Payton Weiner and Allison Colflesh all setting PRs of 5:03.26, 5:03.53 and 5:07.01.

On Saturday, Naticchia and Weiner went 1-2 in the 3,200 in 11:20.39 and 11:23.01, and junior Lilly Sirover placed third in 11:29.24 for another 24 points.

Haddonfield ran great in the 800 as well, with all three sophomore half-milers breaking 2:18. Colflesh won the 800 in a personal-best 2:15.91, Lindsay Colflesh was third in 2:17.53, and sophomore Olivia Stoner took fourth in 2:17.86.

Kudos to Pemberton senior Ariana Harrell, who was the only girl in South Jersey Group 2 to break up the Haddonfield dominance. Harrell placed second in the 800 in 2:16.46, a three-second PR and school record for the Hornets senior.

Junior Evie Andrewes, Allison Colflesh, Stoner and Sirover all ran on the winning 3,200-meter relay team, which ran 9:43.95.

Haddonfield won the South Jersey Group 2 team title 117-76 over Delsea, with exactly two-thirds of their points (78 of 117) coming in the 800, 1,600, 3,200 and 3,200-meter relay.

But the Lady Bulldogs’ distance team certainly had plenty of help!

Junior Grace Kegler (15.81) and senior Jennifer Scott (16.20) went 3-6 in the high hurdles, junior Julia Mora-Coffey took fifth in the intermediates (1:09.46), sophomore Robin Rosen and junior Rachel Bonnet tied for fourth in the high jump at 4-10, Scott (10-6) and Rosen (9-6) went 2-3 in the pole vault and sophomore Yelena Talley placed third in the long jump (16-10 1/4).

The sectional title is Haddonfield’s 19th, most by any girls program in the state. The only program to win more is the Metuchen boys, who won 26 from 1970 through 2016 in Central Jersey Group 1 and 2, including 16 straight from 1993 through 2008.

Among girls programs, Columbia and Metuchen both had 17 sectional titles going into this weekend.

Haddonfield won Group 1 in 1983, 1984 (tying with Kingsway), 1989, 1993, 1994, 1998 and 1999 and has won Group in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018 and 2019.

It had been 46 years since Deptford won a sectional title. The Spartans left little doubt that they were going to end that drought this year.

Led by its deep sprint and hurdles team, Deptford piled up 114 points and won the 2019 South Jersey Group 3 sectional title by 47 points over Mainland Regional.

It was Deptford’s first team title since 1973, when the Spartans won Group 4. Their only other titles came in 1970 and 1971 in Group 3.

Let’s take a look how they did it:

Led by junior Donovan Clement and seniors Khion Smith and Donnie Scott, Deptford scored a whopping 46 points in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes and 400-meter relay.

Clement placed second in both the 100 (10.94 after a 10.79 in the trials) and 200 (22.62) and joined Smith, Scott and junior Richeid Fawkes on the winning 400-meter relay team, which clocked 42.83. Smith also placed third in the 100 and 400 (11.03, 49.62) and sixth in the 200 (22.96), and Scott meddled in both sprints along with his relay leg.

Naseem Smith ran a fast 14.17 to win the 110 highs, Marcel Washington cleared 6-4 to win the high jump and James Lynch went over the bar at 14-0 to win the pole vault

Senior Tyrece Brown was busy, taking second in the 400 intermediates (55.28), third in the 110 highs (15.09) and fourth in the 400 (49.98) along with a leg on the second-place 4-by-400 team (3:24.26).

Amadu Jalloh placed third in a deep 800 race in 1:58.03 and ran legs on both the second-place 4-by-4 and the fourth-place 4-by-8 (8:09.48), junior Philip Sedalis took sixth in the 800 (1:59.43) and also ran on both the 4-by-4 and 4-by-8.

Soph Juian Rodriguez placed fifth in the intermediates in 58.71 and ran on the 4-by-8 team, sophomore Stephen Rios contributed a 4-by-4 leg and sophomore Kevin Eli ran a 4-by-8 leg.

Deptford graduate Tyler Garland, a sophomore at Rowan, placed third in the 110-meter high hurdles Saturday at the NCAA Division 3 track championships outside Cleveland.

This is Garland’s first All-Amerca honor and the eighth time in the last nine years a Rowan high or intermediate hurdler has earned All-America status.

Overall, this is the 18th time a Glassboro State or Rowan University high hurdler has earned All-America honors at NCAA Division 3 nationals!

Running into a 0.8 wind, Garland ran 14.40, finishing just 3-100ths of a second behind winner Connor Troyer of Mount Union.

Eddie Mahana of St. John Fisher also ran 14.37, finishing 1-100th of a second behind Troyer (14.366 to 14.367). Troyer and Mahana are both juniors.

Garland’s PR is 14.28 from the All-Atlantic Champions with a 1.0 assisting wind. This was his first outdoor NCAA meet. He was 15th indoors at 60 meters this past winter.

Let’s take a look at the remarkable history of the Glassboro State / Rowan men in the high hurdles at the NCAA Division 3 Championships:

1980: Leon Devero, 1st, 14.42
1980: Clayton Davis, 6th, 14.90
1981: Garry Moore, 1st, 13.96
1981: Leon Devero, 4th, 14.22
1981: Clayton Davis, 5th, 14.40
1982: Garry Moore, 1st, 13.99
1982: Robert Beamon, 2nd, 14.22
1983: Stanley Moore, 1st, 14.01
1983: Anthony Abicca, 3rd, 14.69
1984: Robert (Beamon) Abdullah, 1st, 14.40
1985: Jason Mouring, 3rd, 14.39
1986: Jason Mouring, 6th, 14.68
1987: Jason Mouring, 3rd, 14.54
1996: Linval Lewis, 5th, 14.64
2015: Dave Benjamin, 3rd, 14.00
2017: Dave Benjamin, 2nd, 14.19
2018: Bobby Cooks, 3rd, 14.24
2019: Tyrone Garland, 3rd, 14.40

The Rowan women, seeded seventh going into the final, ran 46.85 and placed fifth in the 400-meter relay Saturday at the NCAA Division 3 Track Championships outside Cleveland.

The top-eight finish earns All-America honors for the four Rowan sprinters, including Timber Creek graduate Myiah Sturdivant, a sophomore who anchored the Rowan relay team after carries by sophomore Sidney McLeod-Whitener of Friends Central in Philly, junior Aaniyah Robinson of Passaic County Tech and junior Darielle Cross of Matawan.

Rowan finished behind only Loras (46.30), Rhode Island College (46.33), Emory (46.37) and George Fox (46.61) and just missed the school record of 46.56 set by the 2016 team that also included McMillan and placed third at nationals in Indianapolis.

Rowan was only seeded 14th going into nationals with its 47.64 from the All-Atlantic Championships in Cortland, N.Y., earlier this month. But the Profs 47.22 in the trials setting up

This is the seventh time Rowan has earned All-America honors in the 400-meter relay at NCAA D-3 nationals and fourth in the last seven years.

Here’s a look at all seven with their high school (other than Nasirah Mitchell, whose high school I can’t locate):

1991: 3rd, 48.13 – Marketa Morse [Newark West Side], Rona Henderson [Freehold Boro], Euridee McCormick [Paulsboro], Karen Corsey [Deptford]

1992: 3rd, 47.65 – Nasirah Mitchell, Rona Henderson [Freehold Boro], Marketa Morse [Newark West Side], Karen Corsey [Deptford]

1994: 6th, 48.91 – Marketa Morse [Newark West-Side], Rona Henderson [Freehold Boro], Marcia Baker [Newark West Side], Karen Corsey [Deptford]

2013: 4th, 46.99 – Shailah Williams [Pemberton], Jamie Thompson [South Brunswick], Shantel Beckford [Piscataway], Brianna Crofton [Delsea].

2016: 3rd, 46.56 – Shailah Williams [Pemberton], Aspen McMillan [South Brunswick], Ebonique Jones [William Penn], Lexxus Matos [Camden Catholic]

2018: 7th, 47.28 – Aaniyah Robinson [Passaic County Tech], Aspen McMillan [South Brunswick], Sidney McLeod-Whitener [Friends Central], Darielle Cross [Matawan]

2019: 5th, 46.85 – Sidney McLeod-Whitener [Friends Central], Aaniyah Robinson [Passaic County Tech], Darielle Cross [Matawan], Myiah Sturdivant [Timber Creek]

Juniors Nylah Perry and Janeya Hammond gave Winslow a fast 1-2 finish in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles Friday at the South Jersey Group 3 Championships at Delsea.

Perry edged her teammate, running 1:02.00, with Hammond second in 1:02.27. Nobody else was under 64 seconds.

Perry and Hammond both lowered their PRs over a second, from 1:03.57 for Perry and 1:03.37 for Hammond.

Both times are top-10 in New Jersey this year, No. 5 for Perry and No. 10 for Hammond, even though she’s only 27-100ths of a second back. It’s a crowded field!

They’re No. 1 and No. 4 in South Jersey, separated by Paul VI’s Aliya Rae Garozzo (1:02.15) and RV’s Brianna Snowden (1:02.22), who both also PR’d in their sectional races.

Winslow became the first public school with two girls under 1:02.3 since 2007, when Shana-Gaye Tracey (59.49) and Judith Riley (1:00.35) did it for Manchester Township.

They’re the first South Jersey school to accomplish that rare feat since Winslow in 2006, with Krystal Cantey (1:00.05) and Asia Davy (1:01.66).

Union Catholic did it with Olympian Sydney McLaughlin (55.28) and Alana Herran (1:00.93) in 2015.

Hammond and Perry also finished second and third in that fast 400 behind Dennisha Page’s meet-record 54.41. Hammond ran 57.46, which is a PR, and Perry ran 57.58.

That’s 32 points in one day for Hammond and Perry!

Winslow also got huge points Friday from Tionna Tobias (2nd in 100 in 12.40, 2nd in long jump at 18-7) and Jaia James (3rd in 100, 12.67) and the 3,200-meter relay team of freshmen Victoria Campbell and Charle Dutton and seniors Nicole Hood and Alexandria Morrison, which placed second in a season-best 9:54.72.

Also sophomore Shevell Higgs jumped 17-0 3/4 for fifth in the long jump.

Going into today’s Day 2, Winslow led Wilson 64-38. Winslow has won six straight sectional titles. One more would tie Woodbury’s South Jersey record of seven straight set in Group 1 from 1976 through 1982.