Glassboro sophomore Sunsarai Moore extended her New Jersey No. 1 mark five feet Saturday with a 130-4 throw on her final attempt at the 50th annual Woodbury Relays.

Sunsairai won the event by 12 feet over Grace O’Neill of Schalick, who threw 118-2.

Sunsairai’s previous PR was a 125-6 last weekend at the Spartan Relays at Deptford. She threw 118-8 as a freshman.

Her throw is best by a Gloucester County sophomore in 19 years, since Delsea’s Jen Frank threw 130-11 at the state Group 3 championships at Egg Harbor Township.

Moore opened with a 121-4, 126-7 and 119-2 in the trials before finishing with a 120-4 and a foul and then hitting the 130-footer on her final attempt.

All-Time Gloucester County Girls Discus List
172-2 … Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
161-1 … Jamine Moton [Delsea], 1997
149-3 … Tara Daniels [Kingsway], 2013
140-6 … Typhanie Bates [Williamstown], 1995
139-7 … Victoria Imbesi [Our Lady of Mercy], 2009
139-5 … Taylor Johnson [Kingsway], 2011
138-11 … Jen Frank [Delsea], 2006
138-3 … Ciara Demarest [Williamstown], 2022
136-7 … Gianni Johnson-Slater [Delsea], 2022
131-5 … Chelsea Cioffi [Pitman], 2010
130-4 … Sunsarai Moore [Glassboro], 2024
130-3 … Maylisa Bluford [Clayton], 2023
130-1 … Catriona Galvin [Pitman], 2022

All-Time South Jersey Girls Discus List
172-2 … Jocelyn White [Delsea], 2004
168-10 … Jessica Woodard [Cherokee], 2013
161-1 … Jamine Moton [Delsea], 1997
153-6 … Tisha Kerrin [Eastern], 1989
153-2 … Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 2004
149-3 … Tara Daniels [Kingsway], 2013
146-5 … Kim Warren [Atlantic City], 2006
143-3 … Mercedes Hicks [Atlantic City], 2006
143-2 … Najeaya Singleton [Vineland], 2017
140-6 … Typhanie Bates [Williamstown], 1995
140-1 … Melinda Boykin[Bridgeton], 1997
140-0 … Geri Riley [Millville], 1987
139-8 … Tomara Carmichael [Palmyra], 2016
139-7 … Victoria Imbesi [Our Lady of Mercy], 2009
139-5 … Taylor Johnson [Kingsway], 2011
139-1 … Erica Davis [Northern Burlington], 2003
138-11 … Jen Frank [Delsea], 2006
138-3 … Ciara Demarest [Williamstown], 2022
137-1 … Melinda Boykin [Bridgeton], 1996
137-0 … Brook-lynn Roberts [Winslow Twp.], 2023
136-11 … Betsy Kennedy [Delran], 2000
136-7 … Gabriel Harris-Davis [Timber Creek], 2016
136-7 … Gianni Johnson-Slater [Delsea], 2022
136-3 … Ashleigh Weems [Millville], 2012
136-3 … Cydney Thomas [Haddon Heights], 2019
136-0 … Cindy Wilks [Bridgeton], 2000
135-4 … Veronica Myricks [Willingboro], 2005
134-11 … Nacole Moore [Bridgeton], 1998
134-10 … Stacy Hinson [Lenape], 1987
134-3 … Katherine Johnson [Haddonfield], 2012
134-0 … Lillian Rivera [Pemberton], 1984
133-4 … Cheyenne Lutek [Schalick], 2012
132-3 … Sylvia Galarza [Millville], 2004
132-2 … Sherreta Butler [Camden], 1996
132-1 … Superia Ryan [Schalick], 2015
131-5 … Chelsea Cioffi [Pitman], 2010
131-4 … Jordan Wallace [Sterling], 2016
130-9 … Michaela Pomatto [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2021
130-6 … Ravin Hood [Rancocas Valley], 2019
130-3 … Prisca Blamon [Cinnaminson], 2017
130-3 … Maylisa Bluford [Clayton], 2023
130-1 …Veronica Myricks [Willingboro], 2005
130-1 … Catriona Galvin [Pitman], 2022

Timber Creek senior Naylah Jones, junior Ryan Jennings, junior Billie Frazier and sophomore Samiyah Puckett ran the 6th-fastest 800-meter relay in South Jersey history Saturday morning at the 50th annual Woodbury Relays.

Jones, Jennings, Frazier and Puckett ran 1:40.10 to win the Group 4 race at Woodbury. They broke the Group 4 meet record of 1:41.97 set in 2002 by Rancocas Valley and came within half a second of the overall meet record of 1:39.59 set by Winslow Township in 2012.

The time is No. 19 in state history.

The only faster time by a New Jersey school this year is a 1:37.75 by Union Catholic earlier this month in Arcadia, Calif.

Winslow was 2nd in 1:42.11 with senior Dominique Clement, sophomore Olivia Okaro, freshman Cinniya Robinson and freshman Skyhe Seamon. That’s No. 3 in the state this year behind Union Catholic and Timber Creek.

All-Time South Jersey 800-Meter Relay
1:38.43 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:39.21 … Eastern, 2003
1:39.59 … Winslow Twp., 2012
1:39.67 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:39.67 … Timber Creek, 2023
1:40.10 … Timber Creek, 2024
1:40.25 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
1:40.30 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:40.46 … Eastern, 2019
1:40.62 … Winslow Twp., 2003
1:40.72 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
1:40.5h … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:40.91 … Winslow Twp., 2004

All-Time New Jersey 800-Meter Relay
1:37.53 … Union Catholic, 2017
1:37.75 … Union Catholic, 2024
1:37.77 … Franklin Twp., 2003
1:37.89 … Union Catholic, 2023
1:38.11 … Union Catholic, 2019
1:38.42 … Franklin Twp., 2001
1:38.43 … Winslow Twp., 2018
1:38.98 … Union Catholic, 2022
1:39.04h … Montclair, 1980
1:39.21 … Eastern, 2003
1:39.54h … Montclair, 1981
1:39.59 … Winslow Twp., 2012
1:39.67 … Winslow Twp., 2019
1:39.67 … Timber Creek, 2023
1:39.76 … Neptune, 2015
1:39.79 … Columbia, 2010
1:39.86 … Summit, 2017
1:39.94 … Piscataway, 2011
1:40.10 … Timber Creek, 2024
1:40.23 … Union Catholic, 2018
1:40.25 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
1:40.30 … Winslow Twp., 2017
1:40.41 … Union, 2012
1:40.43 … Montclair, 1996
1:40.46 … Eastern, 2019
1:40.50 … Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 2022
1:40.3 … Irvington, 1981
1:40.4 … Montclair, 1979
1:40.4 … Montclair, 1998
1:40.62 … Columbia, 2009
1:40.65 … Piscataway, 2018
1:40.72 … Egg Harbor Twp., 2018
1:40.5 … Columbia, 1982
1:40.5 … Woodrow Wilson, 2006
1:40.5 … East Orange, 2007
1:40.80 … Union Catholic, 2015
1:40.6 … Plainfield, 1982
1:40.6 … Trenton, 1984
1:40.6 … Teaneck, 1989
1:40.62 … Winslow Twp., 2003
1:40.7 … Clifford Scott, 1988
1:40.8 … Plainfield, 1980
1:40.8 … Neptune, 1988
1:40.8 … Montclair, 1997
1:40.9 … Lincoln, 1981
1:40.9 … Lincoln, 1982
1:40.91 … Winslow Twp., 2004
1:40.91 … Piscataway, 2019
1:40.99 … Union Catholic, 2014

Eastern senior Zoe Goldberg bombed the No. 8 javelin throw in South Jersey history Saturday morning at the 50th annual Woodbury Relays.

Goldberg PR’d at 136-7 at the West Deptford Relays in 2022 and came within inches of that mark last spring when she placed 3rd at the Meet of Champions in Somerset with a 136-3 throw.

At Woodbury, she opened with a 121-10 and then surpassed 130 feet on five consecutive throws, hitting 131-4, 131-0 and then another near-PR 136-3 before hitting 144-6 on her 5th attempt. She finished with a 134-3.

She averaged 132-8 on her six throws, and her average throw was good enough to win the event by 10 feet.

The meet web site incorrectly lists Maria Jimenez’s 153-6 in 2012 as the meet record. That’s actually been surpassed twice – by Millville’s Leah Howard with a 163-1 last year and Oakcrest’s Brielle Smith with a 168-6 in 2019.

Sterling senior Laurel Conway placed 2nd with a PR 122-8 on her 2nd throw, and Goldberg’s teammate, Eastern senior Aniyah Smith, was 3rd at 122-4.

All-Time Woodbury Relays 140-Foot Club
168-6 … Brielle Smith [Oakcrest], 2019
163-1 … Leah Howard [Millville], 2023
153-6 … Maria Jimenez (Vineland), 2012:
150-7 …… Smith, 2018
146-7 … Victoria Imbesi (Our Lady of Mercy Academy), 2009
142-4 … Erin Donohue (Haddonfield), 142-4, 2001
142-6 … Lynlee Phillips (Shawnee), 1999 [old javelin]
144-1 … Helen Labosky (Shawnee), 1997 [old javelin]

All-Time South Jersey 140-Foot Javelin List
168-6 … Brielle Smith [Oakcrest], 2019
163-1 … Leah Howard [Millville], 2022
160-8 … Maria Jimenez [Vineland], 2012
152-9 … Kate Johnston [Haddonfield], 2012
152-4 … Jill Shaner [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2009
148-8 … Caitlin Cielo [Eastern], 2002
146-7 … Victoria Imbesi [Our Lady of Mercy], 2008
144-6 … Zoe Goldberg [Eastern], 2024
143-11 … Ayana Culhane [Absegami], 2016
142-6 … Kaela Schrier [Cherokee], 2016
142-1 … Alexa Gardner [Hammonton], 2018
141-6 … Lindsay Minch [Pennsville], 2009
141-5 … Kelly Yanucil [Bordentown], 2013
141-1 … Tumelo Nwanma [Vineland], 2016
141-0 … Jocelyn McRae [Millville], 2006
140-8 … Julianne Foering [Rancocas Valley], 2017
140-0 … Melissa Lake [Cherokee], 2011

140-foot throws with old javelin [used through 2001]
154-8 … Lynlee Phillips [Shawnee], 1999
152-7 … Emma Painter [Clayton], 1980
149-5 … Carla Brown [Overbrook], 1986
147-7 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2000
147-1 … Janet Morris [Kingsway], 1991
146-6 … Liz Pellerin [Holy Cross], 1982
145-0 … Lillian Rivera [Pemberton], 1983
144-1 … Helen Labosky [Shawnee], 1997

Cherokee’s Robert Poplau ran the 2nd-fastest mile in New Jersey this year and fastest by a Burlington County runner in 11 years Saturday morning at the Blue Devil Classic in Westfield.

Poplau beat a stellar field in 4:15.12, edging indoor Meet of Champions runner-up Avery Keith of Westfield, who ran 4:16.20. Keith ran 4:13.54 for a full mile last month in Boston.

Poplau’s time converts to 4:13.64 for 1,600 meters, which is No. 5 in Burlington County history and fastest since 2013, when Cherokee’s Shawn Wilson ran 4:11.69 in a meet at Holmdel.

The only faster time in New Jersey this year belongs to Union Catholic’s Jimmy Wischusen, who ran 4:13.65 full mile at the Arcadia [Calif.] Invitational earlier this month [he came through the 1,600 in 4:12.12]. Wischusen placed 7th at Nike Cross Nationals in Portland, Ore., this past fall and was the Meet of Champions indoor 3,200 winner as a junior. His father, Bob Wischusen, is the radio voice of the New York Jets.

Cherokee senior Nick Kuenkel ran 4:18.11 for 3rd place, converting to 4:16.61, an outdoor PR. He ran 4:15.26 indoors in February at Ocean Breeze.

And Cherokee freshman Benjamin Really ran 4:27.45 and placed 11th. That is equal to a 4:25.90 for 1,600 meters and breaks the Burlington County freshman record of 4:27.58 set by Cinnaminson’s Jon Anderson at the 2001 County Open at Maple Shade when he placed 2nd to Cherokee’s Josh Joseph.

All-Time South Jersey outdoor list
4:07.07y … Brett Johnson [Ocean City], 2009
4:07.23y … Seth Clevenger [Haddonfield], 2022
4:08.58 … Kyle Rakitis [Kingsway], 2021
4:08.7y ….. Mike Elder [Haddon Twp.], 1973
4:09.19y … John Richardson [Ocean City], 2003
4:09.30 … Colin Baker [Haddonfield], 2009
4:10.24y ….. Mike Mantini [Gateway], 1979
4:10.97 … George Andrus [Haddonfield], 2022
4:11.07 … Xavier Fraction [Washington Twp.], 2009
4:11.15 … Ryan Garvin [Lenape], 2009
4:11.46 … Miles Schoedler [Ocean City], 2010
4:11.49 … Jim Wyner [Mainland Reg.], 2004
4:11.69 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
4:11.78 … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
4:11.84 … Tom Cooke [Kingsway], 2012
4:11.86y … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
4:12.05y … Murad Campbell [Overbrook], 1999
4:10.67y … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2023
4:12.08 … Bill Dolan [Clearview], 2014
4:12.1y ….. Al Harden [Millville], 1978
4:12.3y ….. Ed Blakeley [Haddon Twp.], 1975
4:12.5y ….. Dick Caton [Woodbury], 1978
4:13.23 … Justin Branco [Delsea], 2015
4:13.1y … Ricky Jacques [Burlington Twp.], 1968
4:13.26y … Greg Pelose [Haddonfield], 2015
4:13.46 … Stone Caraccio [Kingsway], 2019
4:13.64 … Robert Poplau [Cherokee], 2024
4:13.4y … Greg Stremmel [Gateway[, 1973
4:13.4h, y … Jason DiJoseph [Paul VI], 1988
4:13.71 … Dominick Munson [Timber Creek], 2015
4:13.83 … Carmen Cavella [Washington Twp.], 2003
4:13.85 … Jacob Clark [Pleasantville], 2013

All-Time Burlington County 1,600 List
4:11.15 … Ryan Garvin [Lenape], 2009
4:11.69 … Shawn Wilson [Cherokee], 2013
4:11.86y … Marc Pelerin [Cherokee], 2002
4:13.1y … Ricky Jacques [Burlington Twp.], 1968
4:13.64y … Robert Poplau [Cherokee], 2024
4:14.60 … Matt Poskus [Cinnaminson], 2007
4:14.8y … Vance Watson [Willingboro], 1982
4:15.26 … Patrick Ditmars [Cherokee], 2022
4:15.26i … Nick Kuenkel [Cherokee], 2024
4:15.28 … Jon Anderson [Cinnaminson], 2004
4:15.44 … Brian Tetreault [Cinnaminson], 2007
4:15.49 … Steve Burkholder [Cherokee], 2010
4:15.52 … Ethan Wechsler [Cherokee], 2019

Michaela Pomatto, an Egg Harbor Township graduate, smashed a 19-year-old Stockton University discus record Friday.

Pomatto, a Stockton junior, won the event at the Paul Donahue Invitational at Widener University in Chester, Pa., with a throw of 149-3, breaking the school record of 147-5 set by Audra Schappell at a meet in 2005 that I still haven’t been able to identify and isn’t listed on Stockton’s web site.

Her throw is No. 7 in NCAA Division 3 this year and No. 1 in the NJAC by 27 feet.

It’s the best throw by any NJAC woman as far back as TFRRS performance lists are available, which is through 2013. The overall conference record is 159-10 set by Rowan’s Kathy Darling of Milford, Del., in 2001, before she transferred to Johns Hopkins.

Pomatto opened with a 130-9 throw before PR’ing at 140-9 on her 2^nd attempt. She bombed the 149-5 on her 3^rd try before going 137-0, 130-0 and 137-2 in the finals.

Pomatto  averaged 137-6 on her six throws – only 11 inches below her previous PR.

Kingsway grad Kyle Rakitis ran the 7th-fastest 1,500 in Rutgers history Friday afternoon at the Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville.

Rakitis, a Scarlet Knight freshman, ran 3:47.35, the equivalent of a 4:05.54 full mile. His previous 1,500 PR was a 3:50.64 just last weekend at Princeton. Before that it was 3:52.82 from May of his junior year at Kingsway at a meet at Icahn Stadium in Manhattan. His mile PR is 4:10.09 from Eugene Nationals in the spring of 2021.

Rakitis was out in 43.63 for the first 300, came through 700 in 1:45.00 and then closed in 2:02.35 and 59.80.

Rakitis’s time is 5th-fastest by a Rutgers runner since 1983, with four-faster times all coming in the last two years. He’s the fastest Rutgers freshman since the TFRRS began tracking results in 2010, which means – if the Rutgers all-time performance list is correct – he’s Rutgers’ fastest freshman since at least 1980.

Rakitis was racing on his former home track in Charlottesville, where he began his career as a student at the University of Virginia before transferring to Rutgers. He did not race for the Cavaliers.

Rakitis’s high school teammate, Monmouth junior Stone Caraccio, ran 3:53.32 in the same race (different section), closing in 2:01.79 and 59.74. He’s coming off a lifetime-best 1:50.37 for 800 last month at Villanova.

Leah Clear continued her remarkable breakthrough season at Delaware with another PR at 1,500 meters.

Clear, a freshman from Cherry Hill and Camden Catholic, ran 4:35.73 for 1,500 meters Friday afternoon at the Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville, Va.

That converts to a 4:57.79 full mile (or 4:56.05 for the high school 1,600), which is about 17 seconds faster than Clear ever ran in high school.

Clear closed in 2:25.14 and 70..71.

Clear never even ran the 1,600 or mile until her senior year at Cherry Hill, and she only ran it twice – a 5:13.85 at the Cherokee Final Countdown Last Chance last May and then a 5:13.56 at the state Parochial A meet in Somerset. She did run as fast as 2:17.40 for 800 meters at the Olympic Conference Championships at Rancocas Valley.

This past winter, Clear ran 5:12.46 and 5:10.53 in her first two mile races before a huge breakthrough 4:58.49 in February in a meet at Ocean Breeze. So her PR dropped from 5:13.56 to the equivalent of 4:56.05 in the span of just over three months.

Her previous 1,500 PR was a 4:36.57 late last month in Raleigh, N.C. She PR’d in the 800 at 2:16.56 in her last race, last weekend at Princeton.

Clear’s 1,500 time is No. 13 in the CAA and 5th-fastest among freshmen. She’s not quite on the all-time Delaware top-10, but she’s only about a second and a half off, and her time is 4th-fastest ever by a Blue Hen freshman.

Clear is a biomedical engineering major.

Bryanna Craig leads the heptathlon after Day 1 at the Jim Green Invitational at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Craig, a Purdue sophomore from Millville, opened with a 14.46 in the hurdles, fastest time in the event and good for 914 points. She cleared 5-5 ¼ in the high jump for 806 points and then threw the shot 35-4 for 580 points. She finished the first day of competition with a 25.27 in the 200 for 862 points.

With three events to go on Saturday, Craig leads the competition with 3,162 points, 185 more than 2nd-place Mia Manson, a senior at Michigan.

Craig set her lifetime-best 5,460 last May at the Big 10 Championships in Bloomington, Ind., where she placed 2nd to Iowa’s Tionna Tobias of Winslow.

She needs 2,299 points in the final three events to break her PR. Saturday’s schedule is long jump at 9:30 a.m., javelin at 10:30 a.m. and 800 at 1 p.m.

Craig’s PRs in the three remaining events are 18-7 ¼ in the long jump, 130-4 in the javelin and 2:12.34 in the 800.

Craig scored 5,285 points in her one previous multi this spring two weeks ago in Tucson, Ariz.

Woodstown graduate Molly Lodge, a junior at Rowan, is getting close to the school record in the 400-meter hurdles.

Lodge ran 1:02.26 at the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium over the weekend, the No. 6 time in NCAA Division 3 this year and just a fraction of a second off her PR from last year’s NJAC Championships. Lodge placed 2nd in 1:02.01 last year at Ramapo.

Rowan lists 1:01.49 by Melirah Searcy as the school record. Searcy, an Edison graduate, ran that at the 2015 NJAC Championships at Ramapo. Lodge’s 1:02.01 is fastest by a Rowan runner since then.

What makes all of this so interesting is that Lodge never ran the intermediates or even a flat 400 at Woodstown. She never ran anything longer than the 200 in high school.

Lodge never even ran an intermediates race as a Rowan freshman and it wasn’t until the Danny Curran Invitational in Chester, Pa., a year ago, that she contested it for the first time, running a respectable 1:04.46.

She lowered her PR to 1:04.13 in a home meet and then had that 1:02.01 breakthrough a few weeks later. She even qualified for the NCAA Championships in her first year as an intermediate hurdler.

Rowan competes this weekend at the Widener Invitational in Chester. Lodge is entered in the intermediates at the Penn Relays, with the race scheduled for 5:25 p.m. on Day 1 at Penn, next Thursday.

In his 4th meet throwing the college discus, Cinnaminson’s Malicah Etienne shattered the Georgian Court school record.

Etienne placed 2nd in the discus Wednesday at the Shippensburg University Midweek Invite with a throw of 169-5. East Stroudsburg junior Cole Gorham threw 169-10 to win by five inches.

The previous Georgian Court school record was 162-0 by Joseph Kass of Governor Thomas Johnson High in Frederick, Md., at the 2017 Osprey Open and Multi meet at Stockton University in Galloway Township.

Etienne had a high school PR of 177-4 with the 3.5-pound disc but has improved rapidly with the 4.4-pound international implement, from a 135-4 in his first outdoor meet a month ago to 157-8 in a meet at Monmouth three weeks ago and now a nearly eight-foot school record just four weeks after first throwing the college disc.

Etienne’s 169-5 is best this year in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and No. 22 this spring in NCAA Division 2 and No. 5 among freshmen.

His throw is the best in at least 25 years by a South Jersey college freshman. The last few discus throwers from South Jersey who threw as far as 169-5 in college – Paulsboro’s Jon Kalnas, Mainland’s John Mooers, Collingswood’s Adam Hunt, all at Rutgers – didn’t come anywhere close to 169-5 as college freshmen.

Year-by-year results by other South Jersey throwers – such as Holy Spirit’s Mike Mielke, Kennedy’s Steve Muse or Paulsboro’s Jon Kalnas – are impossible to find.

Etienne threw 53-9 ¼ indoors in the shot, which is No. 3 in school history. His top shot put so far this spring is 49-7 ¾.

On Wednesday, Etienne opened with a 147-6 before hitting the 169-5 on his 2nd attempt. He hit 160-8 on his 3rd throw and then finished with 156-7, 161-5 and 156-1 in the finals.