Ocean City’s Nick Scarangelli of Embry-Riddle placed 17th out of over 100 runners Saturday in the Sunshine State Conference XC Championships.

Scarangelli ran 25:50.8 over the 8,000-meter course at Holloway Park in Lakeland, Fla., and was the first freshman finisher. He was Embry-Riddle’s 5th finisher, helping the Eagles place 2nd with 45 points, behind only Florida Southern of Lakeland, which had 5 of the first 8 finishers and scored 28 points.

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Embry-Riddle is an aviation- and aerospace-oriented university in Daytona Beach. They’ll compete in the NCAA Division 2 South Region Championships on Nov. 4 at Montevallo Cross Country Course in Montevallo, Ala.

The Eagles are ranked 3rd in the most recent USTFCCCA South Region rankings, behind Lee University of Cleveland, Tenn., and Alabama-Huntsville. They were ranked 28th nationally this week, their first time in the NCAA Division 2 national rankings this year.

Led by senior Matt Hoffman, junior Ethan Buck and sophomore Erik Preisner, the Ocean City boys packed their five scorers in under 18 seconds and became the first school in meet history to pitch a shutout at the Cape Atlantic Championships.

Ocean City averaged 16:23 over the 5,000-meter course at Stockton University in Galloway Township, outscoring 2nd-place Egg Harbor Township by 15-83, with Mainland 3rd at 122. The team title was the 5th in a row for Ocean City.

Hoffman, Buck and Preisner essentially finished together, separated by less than half a second. Hoffman won in 16:18.38, Buck ran 16:18.82 and Preisner 16:18.84. Junior Kal Heyman was 4th in 16:24.47 and junior Zach Hutchinson 5th in 16:35.96.

That’s a gap of 17.58 seconds from 1 to 5.

Nathan Aschmann was Ocean City’s 6th runner and the first freshman across the line, in 11th place in 17:08.12, and sophomore Robert Cesari took 19th in 17:31.80.

Last time Ocean City didn’t win the team title was 2017, when the Red Raiders were second to Mainland Regional.

The 15-point total is the first in meet history. The closest anybody else has come to a 1-2-3-4-5 finish was Hammonton in 1977, with Mark Deloison, Elizer Echevarria, Tom Salvo and Mike Porter finishing 1-2-3-4 (there was no team scoring in 1977).

Also in the top 10 were St. Augustine senior Peter Tampellini, who placed 6th in 16:38.93 [102 seconds faster than he ran last year!], Cedar Creek senior Matthew Winterbottom [7th in 16:40.98], Pleasantville junior Melvin Lewis [8th in 16:54.22], Millville junior Arjun Patel [9th in 16:57.25] and Atlantic City junior Muhammad Khan [10th in 17:03.42].

Kingsway’s remarkable Kylie Anicic made it 16-for-16 in PSAC races Saturday morning with a dominating win at the conference cross country championships.

Anicic, an Edinboro senior and one of the top runners in NCAA Division 2, won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference title course by XX meters, covering the 6,000-meter course on Bloomsburg’s Upper Campus in 21:37.2.

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Just 1,000 meters into the race, Anicic had already built a 50-meter lead at 3:27 and she extended it to 100 meters when she came through 3,000 meters at 10:44. Anicic, cruising unpressed through the second half of the race, was at 18:02 through 5,000 meters and won by 125 meters over Elaina Klinger of Slippery Rock, who was 2nd in 22:07.8.

Anicic won the mile, 3,000 and 5,000 and anchored the winning DMR at the 2022 and 2023 PSAC indoor meets and the 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 at the 2022 and 2023 outdoor meets and has now won both her PSAC cross country races.

Next for Anicic is the NCAA Division 2 Atlantic Region Championships Nov. 4 at the West Branch Course in Lock Haven. Anicic won regionals last year in Mansfield, Pa., earning an auto bid to nationals at Chambers Bay Golf Club in University Place, Wash., outside Tacoma, where she earned 2nd-team All-America honors with a 31st-place finish. This year’s NCAA Division 2 championship is back at Chambers Bay on Dec. 3.

Anicic began her collegiate career playing soccer at Temple before embarking on a track and XC career at Towson. She’s been at Edinboro since the spring of 2021 and has competed for the Fighting Scots since the 2022 indoor season.

Woodbury’s Brady Shute, a Cornell junior, ran a 5,000 all-course PR Friday and placed 5th in the John Reif Memorial Run at Cornell’s Moakley Course in Ithaca, N.Y.

Shute ran 15:15.7 and finished 2nd among current collegians, behind only Syracuse sophomore Gabriel Planty, who ran 15:06.7. Noah Carey, a former Penn runner, was the overall winner in 14:44.8.

Shute’s previous all-course 5K PR was 15:41.1 over the same course in the same meet in 2021. There aren’t a lot of 5Ks in college XC.

Shute last spring ran on Cornell’s 4-by-8 team that won the Ivy League Championships in 7:24.80. He ran 1:49.87 in the open 800.

This was Shute’s last race before Cornell races at the Ivy League Championships – the Heps – at noon Oct. 28 at Franklin Park in Boston.

Audubon senior Aiden Williams led four runners under 16 minutes at the Colonial Conference All-Star Meet Thursday.

Williams ran a lifetime all-course best 15:24.48 for 5,000 meters at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield and now has wins this year at the Six Flags Wild Safari, South Jersey Open and Colonial Conference meet to go with a 2nd-place at Shore Coaches.

Williams’ time is 6th-fastest in course history and only 16 seconds off the course-record 15:08 set by Sterling’s Sean McPherson at the 2014 Colonial Conference All-Star Meet.

He’s Audubon’s first Colonial Conference winner since at least 1987. Earlier results are not available.

Collingswood senior Elijah Forrest ran 15:40 for 2nd place, followed by five Haddonfield runners – junior Bennett Wright [3rd in 15:49], sophomore Ryan Gibson [4th in 16:00 (15:59.26)], sophomore Benjamin Andrus [5th in 16:04], sophomore Luke Andressen [6th in 16:18] and senior Reid Gervasi [7th in 16:32].

There is no team scoring at this meet, but if there were Haddonfield would have scored 25, Haddon Heights 74 and Haddon Township 85.

Also in the top 10 were Haddon Heights junior Reggie Hernandez [8th in 16:41], Haddonfield junior Linus Kucer [9th in 16:48] and Haddon Heights senior Jayden Gonzalez [10th in 16:52].

Also under 17 minutes were Haddonfield senior Matthew Sullivan [11th in 16:54] and sophomore Brandon Stoner [12th in 16:55].

Junior Sofia Day became the first South Jersey girl in 10 years to run sub-17 on any course and Mainland packed its five scorers in the top 10 to win the Cape-Atlantic Conference Championship Thursday.

Day ran 16:59.37 over Stockton University’s 5,000-meter course in Galloway Township, fastest by a South Jersey girl since Briana Gess of Haddonfield ran 16:57 in 2013 at the Colonial Conference meet at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield.

She broke the course record of 17:29.56, set at the 2021 Osprey Invitational by Red Bank Catholic’s Cate DeSousa, who was a Nike Cross Nationals qualifier and Meet of Champions 3,200 winner at 10:16.20 – 4th-fastest in New Jersey history – and is now at Virginia.

Day’s previous PR on any 5K course was a 17:38.96 on the same course at the same meet in 2021. Day didn’t race last year at the CAL Championships.

Day finished about 125 meters ahead of 2nd-place Ocean City junior Maeve Smith, who ran an all-course PR of her own with 17:27.80. Smith pushed the pace for most of the race, pushing Day to a historic time and finishing with a blazing time of her own.

Smith’s previous-fastest time over 5,000 meters was 17:58.87 last week when she won the Cape May County Championships at Cap May Park in Middle Township.

According to MileSplit’s database, Day and Smith now own the two-fastest times by New Jersey girls on any course. Emma Zawatski of Freehold Township, the Meet of Champions indoor 1,600 champ last winter, ran 17:29.48 Thursday at the Shore Conference meet at Ocean County Park in Lakewood.

Mainland, ranked 7th in the state, averaged 18:58.42 at Stockton, with senior Gillian Lovett 3rd in 18:12.46, junior Ava McDole 6th in 19:35.71, freshman Cecilia Foreman 7th in 19:52.46 and senior Sophie Goldstein 10th in 20:12.10.

Mainland outscored Ocean City 27-45, with Egg Harbor 3rd with 65 points. Mainland, Ocean City and Egg Harbor accounted for 17 of the first 20 finishers.

Ocean City had all seven runners finish in the top 20, with junior Chloe Care 5th in 18:58, senior Frankie Ritzel [11th in 20:29], junior Zoe Zammit [13th in 20:35]

Also in the top 10 were Egg Harbor Townsip senior Michaela Schlemo [4th in 18:53], EHT sophomore Paige Pacquing [8th in 20:08] and Vineland senior Nicolette Guiliana placed 9th in 20:11.84

Liliah Gordon became the first girl – in any division – to win three consecutive BCSL cross country titles when she won her 3rd straight Liberty Division race Wednesday at New Egypt High in Plumsted Township, Ocean County.

Gordon, a junior at Northern, won the 2021 race as a freshman in 18:03.38 and set a course record of 17:56.10 last year before winning this year in 18:22.1.

The results are a complete disaster – this is sadly becoming the norm with track and XC results in South Jersey and New Jersey – but unofficially it looks like Northern went 1-3-5-9-13 to win the Liberty Division team title 31-60 over Cinnaminson.

It’s also Northern’s third consecutive team title.

Juniors Zoe Chou and Kayla Leonhardt also placed in the top 10 for Northern, Chou in 3rd with a 20:28 and Leonhardt in 5th with a 20:35. Northern’s other scorers were senior Abigail Duffy [12th in 21:52] and junior Sofia Dileo [20th in 22:45].

Our best attempt at the rest of the top 10 based on a mess of results: Cinnaminson senior Anna Marino [2nd in 19:48], Delran sophomore Ashley Doyle [4th in 20:34], Cinnaminson junior Oliwia Moyer [6th in 20:53], Cinnaminson junior Abigial Flannery [7th in 21:33], Bordentown sophomore Katherine Kovac [8th in 21:37] and Westampton Tech junior Janelle Sanabria [10th in 21:57].

Junior Caleb Widerholt was the overall winner, junior Colin Brennan placed 3rd and sophomore Jimmy Cataline 7th, and Northern Burlington raced to the team title Wednesday in the Liberty Division race at the Burlington County Scholastic League Championships.

Widerholt ran 16:53 and finished eight meters ahead of sophomore Jacob Wickersham of Cinnaminson, who was 2nd in 16:58, with Brennan a close 3rd in 16:59.

Northern outscored Medford Tech 43-59 to win the team title, with Cinnaminson 3rd with 66 points.

The team title is Northern’s first since 2018, when the Greyhounds beat Rancocas Valley 33-41 in the Liberty Division race on the same 5,000-meter course at New Egypt High School in Plumsted Township, Ocean County.

Widerholt is Northern’s first individual winner since Beepul Bharti won the 2014 Liberty Division race at New Egypt in 16:01.

Last time Northern won both the team title and had an individual winner was 2013, when Harrison Scott and Chris Martin went 1-2 in 15:32 and 15:34 and Northern outscored Moorestown 23-44 in the Liberty Division competition.

Cataline ran 17:22 for 7th place and NBC’s other scorers were junior Noah Taylor in 12th place in 17:36 and sophomore J.P. West, who placed 21st in 18:30.

Others in the top 10: Medford Tech junior Luke Damato [4th in 17:04], Palmyra senior Colin Broadbelt [5th in 17:15], Maple Shade senior Aidan Cloke [6th in 17:19], Medford Tech junior Cole Malinowski [8th in 17:33], Cinnaminson junior Brandon Smith [9th in 17:34] and Delran sophomore Chase Dubuque [10th in 17:35].

Junior Jordan Hadfield became Schalick’s first winner at the Tri-County Showcase in 27 years Tuesday with a big win Tuesday at Cumberland Regional in Upper Deerfield Township.

Hadfield ran 18:50, with Williamstown senior Alyssa Boucher and sophomore Sophia Aldridge finishing 2nd and 3rd to lead the Braves to their first team title in 14 years.

Hadfield ran 5:14.80 and 11:17.17 and was a state Group 1 medalist in both races last spring, but this is her first season of cross country and she’s been consistently up front in every major race.

She placed 3rd in the South Jersey Shootout, 1st in her race at the Six Flags Wild Safari, 6th at Shore Coaches, 1st in the South Jersey Open, 1st in the Salem County Championships and now 1st in the Tri-County meet.

Hadfield has now run sub-19 in her last three races – 18:49.24 at the South Jersey Open at DREAM Park in Logan Township, 18:26 at the Salem County meet on her home course in Pittsgrove Township and her 18:50.24 Tuesday at Cumberland Regional.

She’s Schalick’s first Tri-County Showcase winner since Sandy Ogbin won the 1996 race at Kingsway in 19:17. Williamstown won the team title that year as well.

For this year’s Williamstown team, Boucher and Aldridge both ran 19:20 and change, Boucher edging her teammate for 2nd place by 41-100ths of a second (19:20.44 to 19:20.85).

Junior Delaney Harbison placed 11th in 21:0, freshman Julia Burgio was 15th in 21:25 and senior Paige Franklin 18th in 21:40.

The Braves outscored Clearview 44-54 to win their first title since the 2009 team – led by Kristen Mathis in 4th place – topped Clearview 38-50.

Others in the top 10 were Wildwood junior Macie McCracken [4th in 19:47], Clearview senior Allison Roes [5th in 20:12], Washington Township junior Rachael Wilson [6th in 20:14], Clearview senior Margaret Wisniewski [7th in 20:25], Washington Township junior Kaylee Russell [8th in 20:30], Delsea junior Juliana Sieminski [9th in 20:40] and Highland sophomore Lyana Gutierrez 10th in 20:51].

Sophomore Julia Flanagan on Wednesday  became the first Holy Cross girl to win the BCSL Freedom Division title in six years and also led the Lancers to their first title in six years.

Flanagan became the first Holy Cross girl to win a BCSL title since 2017, when Julia Lloyd ran 21:39 to win the Freedom Division title on the same course.

That’s also the last time Holy Cross won a team title. The Lancers in 2017 outscored 2nd-place New Egypt 19-36 to win the Freedom Division title.

Flanagan finished 150 meters ahead of Maple Shade junior Crystal Benito, who was 2nd in 20:27.

This was Flanagan’s first time under 20 minutes on any course. She ran 20:23 earlier this month at DREAM Park in Logan Township.

The results are a mess – one set of results has no first names, the other set only lists the Liberty Division results with no times  – but it looks like Holy Cross edged Palmyra by a 26-29 score to win the team title.

For the Lancers, junior Anna Fonseca placed 5th in 22:07, junior Molly Frith 9th in 23:12, senior Sara Sherlock 12th in 25:54 and sophomore Hannah Crane 14th in 28:29. Sherlock was a state medalist last spring in track in the 400 hurdles and 800.

It appears from their MileSplit profiles that none of Holy Cross’s five scorers ever ran cross country before this fall. Only Sherlock and Crane have run track.

The rest of the top 10: Palmyra senior Cadence Anderson [3rd in 21:00], Maple Shade senior Yaretzy Rodriguez -Parras [4th in 21:12], Riverside junior Sydney Greenidge [6th in 22:22], New Egypt sophomore Alana Burnett [7th in 22:53], New Egypt senior Jenna Rountree [8th in 22:54] and Maple Shade senior Natalia Diaz [10th in 24:43].