Mainland Regional sophomores Emma Preissman and Madison Taylor, junior Sofia Day and senior Gillian Lovett won the distance medley Sunday at the state Group 3 Relays with the 2nd-fastest time in Atlantic County history and the 2nd-fastest time in New Jerey this year.

Mainland beat the field by 150 meters – nearly a full track length at the Bubble in Toms River – with a winning time of 12:26.51. West Windsor-Plainsboro North was 2nd in 12:56.53.

Mainland’s time is No. 2 in New Jersey this year, behind only Union Catholic’s 12:17.16 at the Parochial A state relays at the Bubble on Wednesday, and No. 2 in Atlantic County history, behind only Egg Harbor Township’s 12;11.47 at 2000 Easterns at the Armory.

The Mustangs’ time is No. 5 nationally, according to the MileSplit data base.

Mainland was already No. 2 in South Jersey with its previous school-record 12:36.80 at Ocean Breeze two weeks ago, behind only Paul VI’s 12:31.11 at Ocean Breeze in late December.

Outdoors, Mainland’s fastest time is a 12:44.26 at the 2017 Rowan University Open in Glassboro, so this was Mainland’s fastest time indoors or out.

Mainland came back to win the 4-by-800 in a New Jersey No. 1 9:40.19 with Preiessman, Lovett, Day and junior Ava McDole. The Mustangs won by 90 meters over Randolph, who was 2nd in 9:58.90.

The Mustangs broke their own Atlantic County indoor record of 9:47.86 that they set earlier this month at Ocean Breeze.

Monmouth junior Ahmad Brock from Egg Harbor Township won the triple jump Saturday at the Penn Select 10 Invitational at Ocean Breezer with an indoor personal best and the No. 6 mark in Monmouth history.

Brock entered the meet with an indoor PR of 47-6 ½ from a meet last January at Ocean Breeze. On Saturday, after a 47-2 ½ on his 1st attempt he recorded a 47-10 on his 2nd. He added a 47-2 ¾ on his 4th before passing his remaining jumps. He’s now No. 4 in the CAA

Outdoors, Brock is No. 5 in Monmouth history with a 48-3 ½ from his win this past spring in the Coastal Athletic Association Conference Championships in Williamsburg, Va. He was also the conference champ indoors in Virginia Beach at 47-0 ¼ .

Brock is also No. 3 in Monmouth history at 100 meters [10.57].

Fairleigh Dickinson freshman Jashad Kersey from Eastern jumped 45-7 on his 2nd attempt and placed 4th in his 3rd collegiate meet and 2nd collegiate triple jump competition. That’s the No. 3 mark so far this year in the Northeastern Conference and best by an FDU freshman since Taeco O’Garro hit 48-9 at the 2019 NEC meet at Ocean Breeze.

Kersey’s overall PR is a 45-11, which he hit twice last winter – once at Ocean Breeze and once at the Armory.

Senior Stella Stolarick, sophomore Riley Austin and junior Audrey Adams were each part of three relay teams that finished in the top three, helping Haddonfield win its ninth state relays title since 2000.

The Haddonfield girls placed in the top three in every event other than the shot put and defeated 2nd-place Point Pleasant Borough, 62-41, with Willingboro 3rd with 40 points in the State Group 2 Relays at the Bubble in Toms River Saturday.

Stolarick and Austin both ran on the winning distance medley and 3,200-meter relay teams and the 3rd-place 1,600-meter relay team. Adams contributed to the 2nd-place high jump relay and 3rd-place sprint medley and shuttle hurdles teams.

Stolarick and Austin were joined by senior Ava Thomas and senior Anna Stolarick on the DMR, which ran 12:51.18, and by Anna Stolarick and junior Tylin Regan on the 4-by-8, which ran 10:00.43.

Adams and junior Maeve Hurly both cleared 4-8 in the high jump – that’s a PR for Hurly in her second lifetime high jump competition – for a winning combined height of 9-4.

Haddonfield also won the pole vault relay with junior Rebecca Hoover tying her PR at 11-6 and senior Mia Bompensa clearing 9-6.

Haddonfield placed 3rd in the 800-meter relay [1:49.59], the shuttle hurdles [34.10], the sprint medley [4:21.36] and the 4-by-4 [4:12.99].

Junior Nicolette Pinkerton, junior Molly Minor, senior Ava Peifer and senior Chloe Kamp ran the 4-by-2, Adams, Pinkerton, Hoover and Hurly the shuttle hurdles, Thomas, Peifer, Adams and Camp the sprint medley and Stella Stolarick, Austin, Minor and junior Penny Davis the 4-by-4.

Haddonfield also won Group 1 state relays titles in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014 and 2016 and Group 2 in 2017, 2020 and 2022. Haddonfield’s nine titles are 4th-most ever behind Willingboro [11], Columbia [10] and Hopewell Valley [10].

For Willingboro, freshman Maya Bolden, sophomore Kaila Speight, sophomore Jaden Murry and junior Nester Wea won the 800-meter relay in 1:45.44 and the 4-by-4 in 4:06.11 and junior Chanel Swain [38-2] and senior Aniya Jolla [29-7 ¼] teamed up to win the shot put. Junior Sunny Oyibo, senior Naa’rah Andrews, Murry and Wea placed 2nd in the shuttle hurdles in 33.47.

Haddonfield graduate Seth Clevenger, a sophomore at Iowa State, ran a big mile PR of 4:07.62 Saturday in a meet at the University of Iowa.

Clevenger placed 4th in the Hawkeye Invitational at the Iowa Recreation Building in Iowa City. His previous PR was a 4:09.15 in a meet last month at his home track at the Leid Recreation Center in Ames, Iowa.

His time is No. 7 in the Big 12 Conference

Clevenger ran 4:09.34 for 1,600 meters outdoors at Haddonfield, equivalent of a 4:10.79 full mile.

It appears Clevenger’s 4:07.62 is fastest by a Haddonfield alumni. Greg Pelose ran 4:10.14 at Boston University as a freshman at B.U. in 2017, Jonathan Vitez ran 4:11.03 in 2012 at Harvard’s Gordon Track Center in Cambridge, Mass., as a sophomore at Princeton, and Ben Potts of Cornell ran 4:11.18 at 2013 IC4As at Boston University as a sophomore.

Winslow graduate Tionna Tobias ran the 5th-fastest 60-meter hurdles time in NCAA Division 1 Saturday at the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City.

Tobias, a senior, entered the meet with a PR of 8.39 from last year’s Larry Wieczorek Invitational on the same track at the Iowa Recreation Building. She lowered that to 8.35 when she led al qualifiers into the final and then ran an eye-popping 8.19 in the final.

Her time is 2nd-fastest in Iowa history, behind an 8.07 by current Hawkeye junior Paige Magee, who ran 8.07 last month in a meet on the same track.

Tobias, the Big Ten Conference heptathlon champion last spring, is among the top U.S. women with this performance, but the World Athletics site has been missing marks all season. It currently shows 8.19 ranking 6th but there are several marks missing – including Magee’s.

Tobias also won the long jump with a 20-0 1/2 on her 3rd attempt.

It looks like Tobias’s mark is No. 2 all-time by a South Jersey woman and No. 7 on the all-time New Jersey alumni list.

7.80 … Nia Ali [Pleasantville], 2014, Albuquerque
7.95 … Dawn Bowles [Neptune], 1997, Atlanta
8.10 … Charmaine Walker [Plainfield], Fayetteville, Ark., 2000
8.16 … Amber Williams [Roxbury], Boston, 2008
8.16 … Racquel Vassell [East Orange], University Park, 2011
8.17 … Sydney McLaughlin [Union Catholic], New York, 2015
8.18 … Tionna Tobias [Winslow Twp.], Iowa City, 2024
8.19 … Shameka Marshall [Oakcrest], Boston, 2005
8.25 … Ste’yce McNeil [Winslow Twp.], New York, 2015
8.27 … Jailya Ash [Eastern], Storrs, Conn., 2024

Tobias also has PRs of 13.11 in the 100-meter hurdles, 5-7 ¼ in the high jump, 23.97 in the 200, 20-2 ½ in the long jump 3,674 points in the pentathlon, 5,640 points in the heptathlon and 2:19.61 in the 800.

Seniors Darryl Wayman and Christian Berry were part of a 1st-place team, a 2nd-place team and a 3rd-place team and Deptford rolling to its 3rd straight State Group 2 Relays team title at the Bubble.

Deptford outscored Willingboro 44-32 to win its 4th title in five years. The Spartans joined Willingboro (2000-03, 2017-20), Woodbury (1976-79) and Oakcrest (2011-2013) as the 4th South Jersey school to win four straight state relays titles since the meet’s inception in 1966.

Wayman and Berry were joined by sophomore Kareem Brown and senior Abu Jabbie on the winning sprint medley team, which ran 3:43.55. They were joined by juniors Sean Nieves and Neo Clark-Tabb on the 4-by-4, which placed 2nd in 3:32.37. And they teamed up with sophomore Kareem Brown and Kamari Brown on the 4-by-2, which placed 3rd in 1:34.54.

Deptford also placed 2nd in the shuttle hurdles in 31.05 behind Oakcrest’s 30.99. Senior Manny Perdue, junior Ryan Sanchez and sophomores Kamaldeep Singh and Larry Norman ran the shuttles.

Sophomore Mason Henry and Jabbie both cleared 5-8 and picked up eight big points in the high jump relay, and Henry and junior Marcus Hood both PR’d in the pole vault, picking up two points with a 5th-place finish. Hood cleared 12-6 and Henry 11-6.

Deptford’s 4-by-8 also placed 5th, with Nieves, junior Lucius Davis, senior Matthew Schilling and sophomore Anthony Schilling running 8:37.00.

For Oakcrest, Clayton Husta, Armando Velazquez, Kelvin Urena and Asmar Gibbs won the shuttle hurdles.

Willingboro got two wins in the field. In the high jump relay, junior Tra’san Adam cleared a huge PR 6-4 – more on him later – and junior Zaire Wormley 5-8. In the shot, junior Julian Williams threw a PR 52-8 ¾ and senior Derrick Swan PR’d at 48-6.

The Haddonfield boys ran their fastest indoor distance medley since 2019 Saturday morning at the state Group 2 relays at the Bubble.

Luke Andresen ran the 1,200, Connor Williams the 400, Aaron Keith the 800 and Bennett Wright the 1,600 for Haddonfield. Since it’s a Bubble meet, splits are not available.

Haddonfield ran 10:42.26 and edged Bernards by about two meters. It’s their fastest time since the 2019 team with Derek Gess, Martin Riddell, Greg Eisenhower and Zachariah Murray ran 10:34.34 at the 2019 state relays on the same track. Bernards was 2nd in 10:42.62.

The Bulldogs’ time is No. 2 in the state this year and No. 1 among public schools. Christian Brothers Academy ran 10:36.71 on Thursday at the Parochial A state relays.

Freshman Terrence Goffney medaled in three events to help Bishop Eustace place 2nd in the Parochial B State Relays Thursday at the Bubble.

Goffney and junior Christian Berardi ran the 200s, senior Christopher Stinson the 400 and senior Ryan Gaulrapp the 800 on the sprint medley team, which ran 3:54.32 and placed 2nd.

Goffney cleared a personal-best 5-0 in the high jump – the first time he’s high jumped in his high school career – and teamed up with Noah Glenn, who PR’d at 5-10, to take 2nd in the high jump relay.

Berardi, Glenn, Stinson and Goffney placed 4th in the 800-meter relay in 1:38.92.

Eustace also placed 2nd in the 3,200-meter relay in 11:50.07, with junior Desmond Carey, junior Ethan Caprarola, senior Matt Colden and sophomore Alexander Dietz running 9:09.27 and 3rd in the distance medley, with Carey on the 1,200, sophomore Massimo Sergi the 400, Gaulrapp the 800 and Caprarola anchoring with the 1,600 leg.

Senior Shawn Brady threw 51-11 ½ – equalling his lifetime best– and teamed up with senior Luca Zanghi to place 2nd in the shot put relay.

Paul VI placed 2nd in both distance relays Wednesday at the state Parochial A Relays at the Bubble in Toms River.

PVI ran a school-record 9:49.44 in the 4-by-8 and 12:40.18 in the distance medley. PVI has already run 12:31.11 at Ocean Breeze. They now rank No. 2 in New Jersey in the DMR and 5th in the 4-by-8.

Freshman Grace Gutowski, sophomore Macy Huber, sophomore Giovanna Mantuano and senior Shaelan McNally ran on the 4-by-8 team, who finished behind only Oak Knoll Academy, which won the race in 9:42.28.

Mantuano, sophomore Claire Magee, Huber and McNally ran on the DMR, which took 2nd to Union Catholic’s 12:17.16.

In the 4-by-8, it looks like this was Paul VI’s first time under 10 minutes. MileSplit lists them with a 9:55.42 in 2022, but that performance doesn’t show up in the official results, and Winslow Township did run exactly 9:55.42 in that race, so it appears likely to be an error.

Paul VI finished 3rd in team scoring with 32 points.

The Eagles also placed 3rd in the 1,600-meter relay in 4:17.99 with Anna Marie Brown, Gutkowski, Cara Doyle and Magee. In the field, senior Giselle Scrivanich and junior Claudia Crabtree won the pole vault relay.

The Timber Creek girls ran the 8th-fastest 4-by-4 in South Jersey history Wednesday night and qualified for the Millrose Games next month.

Timber Creek – and once again names are not available in the results– ran a U.S. No. 2 3:53.66 and placed 2nd in the Millrose Games trials with the 2nd-fastest time in New Jersey this year and fastest by a South Jersey school in seven years.

Senior Chloe Jones led off for the Chargers, followed by junior Billie Frazier, senior Ryan Jennings and senior Nayla Jones, who anchored in 57.4.

If you know who ran for Timber Creek – and we’re guessing it was four from among Billy Frazier, Chloe Jones, Nyla Jones, Ryan Jennings and Naylah Jones – please let us know!

Union Catholic and Timber Creek will represent New Jersey Feb. 9 in the 116th annual Millrose Games at the Armory.

The Winslow girls were 3rd in a U.S. No. 3 3:56.86 and Washington Township 4th in a New Jersey No. 5 4:03.17. We’d love to have names for both those teams as well!

Timber Creek’s time is No. 4 in Camden County history and No. 27 on the all-time New Jersey indoor list. They are fastest by a South Jersey 4-by-4 since Winslow ran 3:51.49 at the 2017 Meet of Champions at the Bubble.

All-Time New Jersey 1,600-Meter Relay List
3:40.28 … Union Catholic, 2016
3:42.03 … Columbia, 2013
3:45.57 … Willingboro, 2003
3:46.42 … Columbia, 2014
3:47.03 … Union Catholic, 2015
3:47.31 … Union Catholic, 2019
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:48.9h … Plainfield, 1980
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:49.50 … East Orange, 2006
3:49.9h … Plainfield, 1981
3:50.82 … Union Catholic, 2017
3:50.89 … Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 2022
3:50.8h … Snyder, 1981
3:51.17 … Columbia, 2015
3:51.37 … Columbia, 2010
3:51.49 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:51.68 … Union Catholic, 2020
3:52.16 … Union Catholic, 2023
3:52.37 … Willingboro, 2000
3:52.2h … Columbia, 1982
3:52.48 … Columbia, 2011
3:52.55 … Wilson, 2006
3:53.46 … Columbia, 1995
3:53.51 … Franklin, 2004
3:53.61 … Willingboro, 1998
3:53.66 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:53.81 … Paul VI, 2020
3:53.82 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:53.6h … Willingboro, 1999
3:53.97 … Rancocas Valley, 2019

All-Time South Jersey 1,600-Meter Relay List
3:45.37 … Willingboro, 2003
3:47.95 … Willingboro, 2002
3:49.07 … Camden, 1995
3:51.49 … Winslow Twp., 2017
3:52.37 … Willingboro, 2000
3:52.55 … Wilson, 2006
3:53.61 … Willingboro, 1998
3:53.66 … Timber Creek, 2024
3:53.81 … Paul VI, 2020
3:53.6h … Willingboro, 1999
3:53.82 … Timber Creek, 2023
3:53.97 … Rancocas Valley, 2019
3:54.38 … Camden, 2009
3:54.4h … Eastern, 2003
3:54.62 … Rancocas Valley, 2020
3:54.69 … Eastern, 2023
3:54.82 … Millville, 2008
3:54.99 … Winslow Twp., 2018
3:55.04 … Millville, 2019
3:55.28 … Rancocas Valley, 2017
3:55.40 … Winslow Twp., 2019
3:55.94 … Winslow Twp., 2020
3:55.8h … Wilson, 2002
3:56.01 … Washington Twp., 1999
3:56.05 … Willingboro, 2005
3:56.52 … Buena, 1999
3:56.52 … Camden, 2008
3:56.54 … Kingsway, 2014
3:56.86 … Winslow Twp., 2024
3:56.92 … Wilson, 2008
3:56.96 … Wilson, 2001