From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank

St. Augustine senior Julian Onesti lowered the Atlantic County 100-meter dash record and posted the 7^th-fastest wind-legal time in South Jersey history Friday in the state Parochial A meet in Galloway Township.

Onesti ran 10.56 with a legal 0.8 tailwind, breaking the wind-legal county record of 10.59 set by Oakcrest’s Fabian Santiago at the 2012 Meet of Champions at Old Bridge.

Onesti had run 10.58 at the Atlantic County Championshisps last month at Egg Harbor but there was no wind gauge at that meet. His previous wind-legal PR? Good question. This was Onesti’s first race this year with a wind gauge, and it looks like he didn’t have one last year either. Unreal. Fortunately, Stockton University had a wind gauge set up and the wind was legal, and Onesti now has an official 100 time to his credit.

Athletic directors: HAVE WIND GAUGES SET UP FOR EVERY MAJOR EVENT YOU HOST – ONE FOR THE TRACK AND ONE FOR THE HORIZONTAL JUMPS. DO THIS.

Onesti will be the No. 3 seed in the 100 Wednesday at the Meet of Champions at Pennsauken. The top three seeds are all out of the Parochial A race, and the top six seeds are from one of the two Parochial races. The top public school seed is Burlington Township junior Quayd Hendryx at 10.71 (also with legal wind).

10.28 … Malachi James [Burlington City], 2024 [+0.3]
10.32 … Ajani Dwyer [Washington Twp.], 2024 [-1.4]
10.41 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2010 [+0.1]
10.45 … James Townsend [Holy Cross], 2003 [+1.2]
10.47 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983 [+0.0]
10.55 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2002 [-2.7]
10.56 … Julian Onesti [St. Augustine], 2025 [+0.8]
10.57 … Jamil Benjamin [Cumberland Regional], 2006 [+1.4]
10.57 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024 [+0.9]
10.58 … James Burrus [Moorestown], 2022 [-2.5]
10.58 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003 [+1.4]
10.59 … Fabian Santiago [Oakcrest] 2012 [+1.2]

10.18 … Malachi James [Burlington City], 2024
10.21 … Ajani Dwyer [Washington Twp.], 2024
10.35 … Jamar Ervin [Camden], 2000
10.36 … Damiere Byrd [Timber Creek], 2010
10.45 … James Townsend [Holy Cross], 2003
10.47 … Dennis Mitchell [Edgewood], 1983
10.47 … James Brown [Glassboro], 2009
10.49 … Jonathan Taylor [Salem], 2017
10.53 … Todd Dutch [Washington Twp.], 2001
10.54 … Fabian Santiago [Oakrest], 2010
10.55 … Evan Corcoran [Kingsway], 2022
10.56 … Julian Onesti [St. Augustine], 2025
10.56 … Yashahya Brown [Washington Twp.], 2024 [+0.9]
10.57 … Jamil Benjamin [Cumberland Regional], 2006
10.57 … Geof Navaro [Absegami], 2008
10.58 … Anthony Miles [Winslow Twp.], 2003
10.58 … James Burrus [Moorestown], 2022
10.59 … Lloyd Shambry [Gateway], 2024

Ocean City sophomore Carly Godfrey blazed one of the fastest 800s in South Jersey history Friday at the state Group 3 meet at Somerset.

Godfrey placed 3^rd in a very fast race in 2:11.25, 15^th-fastest in South Jersey and fastest by a South Jersey sophomore in 21 years, since another Ocean City runner – Renee Tomlin – ran 2:10.44 at the 2004 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield. Tomlin went on to run 2:05.06 for 800 meters, 4:08.09 for 1,500 meters, 4:34.39 for the mile after graduating from Princeton.

Godfrey ran 2:23.02 indoors as a freshman and then got down to 2:18.50 last spring. She ran 2:15.05 indoors and then PR’d in her last two races – 2:14.43 at South Jersey Group 3 sectionals and then a more than three-second PR Friday with the 2:11.25.

She’s the third Ocean City girl under 2:12, following Tomlin’s 2:09.50 at Greensboro Nationals in 2005 and Rachel Stremme’s 2:09.84 at the 2014 Meet of Champions at South Plainfield. She’s also one of an astonishing 32 New Jersey girls under 2:15 this year

Godfrey also anchored Ocean City’s winning 4-by-8 at states with a 2:11.52 split. Chloe Care led off in 2:18.88, senior Maeve Smith split 2:17.80 and freshman Riley Tolson ran 2:26.02 for the Red Raiders, whose 9:14.20 is 8^th-fastest in South Jersey history and a Cape May County record and makes them the No. 1 seed at the Meet of Champions.

Godfrey also PR’d at sectionals in the 1,600 with a 5:04.33 but focused only on the 800 and 3,200-meter relay at states.

Smith, meanwhile, is the No. 5 seed in the 3,200 after a 10:44.48 and 3^rd-place finish. She ran 10:39.76 at Cherokee in April, No. 19 in South Jersey history. She’s No. 13 seed in the 1,600 at 5:01.21.

All-Time South Jersey 800 List
2:07.33 … Marielle Hall [Haddonfield], 2009
2:08.87 … Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
2:09.2h … Katrina Sye [Buena], 1999
2:09.50 … Renee Tomlin [Ocean City], 2005
2:09.84 … Rachel Stremme [Ocean City], 2014
2:10.1h … Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1982
2:10.44 … Kadence Dumas [Eastern], 2023
2:10.49 … Natalie Dumas [Eastern], 2025
2:10.55 … Shelby Whetstone [Lenape], 2019
2:10.57 … Nijgia Snapp [Oakcrest], 2009
2:10.79 … Krista Ferrara [Vineland], 1991
2:10.9h … Ruth Lockbaum [Glassboro], 1985
2:11.07 … Miya Johnson [Lenape], 2007
2:11.12 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
2:11.25 … Carly Godfrey [Ocean City], 2025
2:11.45 … Sydney Coppolino [Sterling], 2017
2:11.56 … Mary Bohi [Seneca], 2009
2:11.80 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2016
2:11.80 … Kelsey Niglio [Cherokee], 2022
2:11.88 … Kayla Martin [Seneca], 2015
2:11.94 … Bridget Flynn [Ocean City], 2014

All-Time South Jersey 3,200-Meter Relay List
9:00.51 … Haddonfield, 2021
9:05.62 … Lenape, 2012
9:05.83 … Lenape, 2008
9:06.30 … Haddonfield, 2008
9:10.32 … Haddonfield, 2000
9:12.30 … Haddonfield, 2019
9:13.67 … Cherokee, 2025
9:14.20 … Ocean City, 2025
9:14.25 … Cherokee, 2023
9:15.61 … Ocean City, 2014
9:15.19 … Lenape, 2007
9:15.51 … Ocean City, 2024
9:15.92 … Haddonfield, 2015
9:16.57 … Seneca, 2017
9:16.79 … Haddonfield, 1999
9:17.50 … Winslow Twp., 2025
9:17.77 … Cherokee, 2022
9:18.22 … Kingsway, 2016
9:18.37 … Haddonfield, 2019
9:18.57 … Seneca, 2018
9:18.71 … Lenape, 2011
9:18.93 … Haddonfield, 2018
9:18.94 … Lenape, 2006
9:19.15 … Wilson, 2002
9:19.68 … Kingsway, 2017

All-Time South Jersey 3,200-Meter List
10:12.8h ….. Michelle Rowen [Washington Twp.], 1983
10:18.93 … Shaelan McNally [Paul VI], 2024
10:19.31 … Chelsea Ley [Kingsway], 2009
10:22.02 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], 2012
10:22.20 … Liliah Gordon [Northern Burlington], 2024
10:27.44 … Alyssa Aldridge [Mainland Reg.], 2017
10:28.6h….. Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 2001
10:29.28 … Rachel Vick [Kingsway], 2017
10:30.57 … Dina Iacone [Washington Twp.], 2012
10:32.4h….. Mindy Rowand [Sterling], 1985
10:33.22 … Holly Bischof [Bishop Eustace], 2012
10:33.25 … Megan Venables [Highland], 2011
10:33.85 … Sarah Naticchia [Haddonfield], 2021
10:34.79 … Theresa Cattuna [Cherry Hill East], 2007
10:35.59 … Amanda Goetschius [Delsea], 2007
10:37.47 … Meghan McGlinchey [West Depford], 2009
10:37.53 … Vanessa Wright [Haddonfield], 2005
10:39.15 … Devon Grisbaum [Ocean City], 2015
10:39.76 … Maeve Smith [Ocean City], 2025
10:40.24 … Katie Van Horn [Triton], 2005
10:40.95 … Erika Kemp [Rancocas Valley], 2013
10:42.22 … Jenn Rawls [Highland], 2009
10:43.3h….. Deanna Germano [Shawnee], 1985
10:43.50 … Alyssa Condell [Timber Creek], 2017
10:43.86 … Ava Thomas [Haddonfield], 2023
10:44.23 … Brittany Sedberry [Ocean City], 2004
10:45.12 … Briana Gess [Haddonfield], 2014
10:45.24 … Nicole Clifford [Cherokee], 2022
10:45.40 … Julianna Catania [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2016
10:45.73 … Meghan Hughes [Moorestown], 2002
10:46.38 … Madison Coppolino [Sterling], 2018
10:48.87 … Sarah Naticchia [Haddonfield], 2019

Woodstown junior Josh Crawford became the first Woodstown runner ever to win an outdoor state title on Friday and continued closing in on the Salem County 800 record.

Crawford PR’d for the 2^nd meet in a row, winning the state Group 1 title in Somerset with a 1:53.44, finishing about a meter in front of Metuchen senior Eric Schleif, who was 2^nd in 1:53.60.

Crawford had lowered his PR from 1:56.97 to 1:53.59 when he won the South Jersey Group 1 title. He never broke two minutes until he won the indoor state Group 1 title at the Bubble with a 1:59.01 I February. He PR’d at 1:57.65 at indoor Meet of Champs at Ocean Breeze, then dropped to 1:56.97 at Haddonfield Distance Night earlier this month before his back-to-back sub-1:54s.

So he’s dropped more than four seconds in less than a month – since May 5, to be exact.

Crawford’s time is less than half a second off the Salem County record of 1:52.97 set by Jaymes Dennison of Penns Grove at the 2013 Meet of Champions in South Plainfield.

Woodstown’s only other individual state champ in school history is Brandon Bedilion, who won the javelin in 2015 with a throw of 178-8 at Egg Harbor.

Senior teammate Cole Lucas placed 3^rd in the state Group 1 race 1:55.01, just off his PR of 1:54.87 from sectionals. That’s No. 11 on the all-time South Jersey Group 1 list.

Crawford is seeded 3^rd at the Meet of Champions Wednesday at Pennsauken, behind Union Catholic’s Keandre Kelly [1:52.18] and Bernards’ Brody Watt [1:52.72]. Lucas is seeded 14^th.

Woodstown won the 4-by-8 at states last year with Karson Chew, Joshua Crawford, Jacob Marino and Cole Lucas running 8:11.67 and again this year in 7:59.15 with a listed lineup that doesn’t include either Crawford or Lucas. I highly doubt they ran sub-8 without their two-fastest half-milers, but the official results show junior Karson Chew (who PR’d at 1:58.34 at states), sophomore David Farrell, sophomore Pacey Hutton and junior Jacob Marino. If anyone has the correct lineup please let me know in the comment section!

In any case, that 7:59.15 broke the meet record of 7:59.88 set in 2017 by Shore Regional at Egg Harbor and looks like the fastest by a South Jersey Group 1 school since Rich Caton and Woodbury ran 7:51.1 in 1977, which converts to 7:48.3 for the 4-by-8.

Woodstown’s 4×8 is seeded 5^th Wednesday.

1:49.72 … Rich Caton [Woodbury], 1979
1:49.74 … Fred Sharpe [Paulsboro], 1997
1:49.84 … Rob Novak [Bordentown], 2005
1:52.05 … Peyton Shute [Woodbury], 2024
1:52.94 … Keith Griffin [Florence], 2009
1:52.97 … Jaymes Dennison [Penns Grove], 2013
1:53.40 … Daveigh Brooks [Burlington City], 2016
1:53.44 … Joshua Crawford [Woodstown], 2025
1:54.58 … Brady Shute [Pitman], 2021
1:53.78 … Luke Petela [Haddon Twp.], 2015
1:54.87 … Cole Lucas [Woodstwon], 2025
1:54.88 … Thoams Morley [Haddon Twp.], 2002
1:54.89 … Jake Dinerman [Haddon Twp.], 2016

What a remarkable performance over the weekend by the uniquely talented Pleasantville freshman Isabella Alvarez in her first outdoor state meet.

Alvarez won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.56 and the shot put at 38-10 ¾ with an outdoor PR 17-11 ¾, finished in a three-way tie for 2^nd in the high jump at 5-4 and took 4^th in the long jump at 17-6 ¼.

That’s 30 points for Alvarez, enough to place 3^rd in Group 2 team scoring by herself.

Alvarez is the 8^th South Jersey girl to win two individual state titles as a freshman, the first from Atlantic County and certainly the first in state history to ever double the hurdles and shot put.

She goes into the Meet of Champions tied for the No. 3 seed in the high jump, No. 5 seed in the hurdles, No. 12 in the shot put, No. 14 in the shot put. She’s the top freshman in New Jersey in the shot [39-8] and in the high jump [5-6], No. 2 behind Winslow’s Jasmine Jackson in the wind-legal hurdles [14.55] and No. 2 in the long jump among legal marks [17-11 ¾].

I don’t have all-time freshman lists. I probably should work on that one day. But it looks like her 14.55 is actually 2^nd-fastest all-time among South Jersey freshmen – behind Jackson’s 13.94 in the state Group 4 meet Saturday – and her 39-8 is somewhere around 7^th or 8^th. Still working on that. She’s somewhere in the top five in the high jump an top 10 in the long jump. Alvarez owns Atlantic County freshman records in all four events.

Alvarez is the first Pleasantville girl to win a state title in any event since Olympian Nia Ali, inducted into the South Jersey Track Hall of Fame in February, won the Group 2 hurdles in 2006 in 13.95. She’s the first Pleasantville girl to double at states since 1996, when Shereese Price won the 100 in 12.22 and the hurdles in 14.66.

Jackson had a pretty great weekend as well, winning the highs and taking 2nd in the 200 and intermediates as Winslow won Group 4. She’s No. 2 seed at Meet of Champions in the hurdles, No. 4 in the intermediates and No. 15 in the 200.

Here’s a look at the South Jersey girls who’ve doubled at states as freshmen:

Isabella Alvarez [Pleasantville], Group 2 2025 [100HH, SP]
Sianni Wynn [Pennsauken], Group 4 2023 [100, 400]
Brianna Gess [Haddonfield], Group 2 2014 [1,600, 3,200]
English Gardner [Eastern], Group 4 2007 [100, 200]
Krystal Cantey [Winslow Twp.], Group 4 2003 [400, 400IH]
Shameka Speed [Bridgeton], Group 2 2000 [200, 400, LJ]
Erin Donohue [Haddonfield], 1998 Group 1 [800, 1,600, 3,200]
Dawn Harris [Paul VI], 1987 Parochial A [100, LJ]

It’s too often you get the opportunity to break a 55-year-old record. But that’s exactly what Millville senior Jamal Wallace did in Somerset on Saturday.

Wallace, who had a discus PR of 156-3 just three weeks ago, bombed a 182-5 to win the state Group 4 title and break a school record set in 1970.

At the 1970 Meet of Champions at Highland Park, Millville’s Jim Stites won the discus with a throw of 178-0, at the time a South Jersey record. That held up as Millville’s school record until Wallace smashed it on Saturday.

Wallace first took up the discus just 14 months ago and debuted last April at the Deptford Spartan Relays with a throw of 81-2. He threw 147-8 by the Cumberland County meet at Bridgeton last May and that remained his PR until a 156-3 at Delsea this past March. He improved to 159-3 at Woodbury and then surpassed 160 and 170 feet for the first time with a 176-3 to win the Cape-Atlantic Championships at Buena on May 10.

He won Group 4 sectionals at 171-9 and then on Saturday became Millville’s first state champion since Azim Smith won the Group 4 400-meter hurdles in 52.22 in 2001. The last Millville thrower to win states was Stites in Group 4 in 1970 with a 168-0. He also won the javelin that year with a 209-7.

Stites’ 182-5 makes him the No. 1 seed for Wednesday’s Meet of Champions at Pennsauken, and it’s the No. 2 throw all-time in Cumberland County, behind Braheme Days Jr.’s historic 216-11 to win the 1996 Golden West Invitational in Sacramento, Calif.

By the way, field series information is not available in the official results because the NJSIAA still thinks it’s 1987.

Wallace is the first South Jersey thrower to win the Group 4 discus since Egg Harbor Township’s James Plummer threw 188-4 in Group 2 in 2013.

His throw is No. 17 in South Jersey history and best by a South Jersey Group 4 thrower since 2013, when Days threw 199-6 when he won the Meet of Champions in South Plainfield and Plummer hit 197-0 when he won Greensboro Nationals.

All-Time South Jersey Discus list
216-11 … Ron Dayne [Overbrook], 1996
199-6 … Braheme Days Jr. [Bridgeton], 2013
197-0 … James Plummer [Egg Harbor Twp.], 2013
192-5 … Josh Awotunde [Delsea], 2013
191-11 … Franklin Simms [St. Augustine], 2022
189-7 … Ray Wilks [Bridgeton], 1995
185-11 … John Mooers [Middle Twp.], 2015
185-10 … Russ Willett [Penns Grove], 1985
185-7 … Matt Huckabee [Timber Creek], 2010
185-6 … Kamron Kobolak [Cinnaminson], 2018
185-5 … Ken Manahan [Deptford], 1976
184-8 … Damere Lassiter [Glassboro], 2023
184-4 … Adam Hunt [Collingswood], 2017
183-9 … Jason Nwosu [Delsea], 2022
183-4 … Janier Armstead [Penns Grove], 2023
183-2 … Anthony Liakhnovich [Hammonton], 2025
182-5 … Jamal Wallace [Millville], 2025
181-10 … Jason Winrow [Cumberland Reg.], 1989
181-10 … Shawn Brady [Bishop Eustace], 2024
180-3 … Howard Clark [Pennsauken], 1998

Aliya Garozzo is off to the NCAA Championships in the 400-meter hurdles after qualifying at the NCAA East Prelims in Jacksonille.

Garozzo, a Duke grad student from Paul VI via Penn, ran 56.46 in the quarterfinals at Hodges Stadium at the University of North Florida to advance to the semifinals at Hayward Field in Eugene later this month.

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Garozzo ran two of her three-fastest times ever in Jacksonville, with a 56.16 in the first round and the 56.46 in the second round. She PR’d at 55.77 in April in Durham, N.C.

This is her first time getting out of regional prelims to the NCAA Championships.Garozzo is ranked 39^th in the world and 14^th among U.S. women.

Garozzo will race in the NCAA semifinals at 6:14 p.m. June 12. The final is scheduled for 7:27 p.m. on June 14.

Garozzo is ranked 11^th of the qualifiers heading for Eugene from both the East Prelims in Jacksonville and West Prelims in College Station, Texas.

Duke’s 1,600-meter relay team also qualified for NCAAs after running 3:27.87, the 2nd-fastest time in school history. Garozzo led off in 53.25.

Pennsville graduate Arianni Smith, a senior at Howard, ran 57.20 and missed advancing to Eugene by 4-100ths of a second.

Junior Ma’Syiah Brawner, freshman Jasmine Jackson, sophomore Cinniya Robinson and junior Olivia Okaro combined for 91 points and the Winslow girls made a compelling case for themselves as the best team in South Jersey history and perhaps the best public school team ever assembled in New Jersey.

Winslow scored 129 points in the state Group 3 meet in Somerset Friday and Saturday, breaking the Group 3 meet record of 115, set by the 2013 Winslow team.The Eagles won their 10^th state title, tied for 3^rd-most in state history and most ever by a South Jersey team.

No other New Jersey public school has won 10 state titles.

Winslow also won state titles in Group 4 in 2004, Group 3 each year from 2013 through 2019 (tying with Northern Highlands in 2015) as well as 2024. There was no meet in 2020, so Winslow has won Group 3 nine times the last 12 years it was contested.

Only parochial schools Notre Dame and Pope John XXIII have won more state titles than Winslow. Union Catholic has also won 10. Next-most among public schools is Haddonfield’s nine.

Winslow more than tripled 2^nd-place Ocean City, who score 40 points. Ramapo was 3^rd, but Absegami [30], Moorestown [28], Northern Burlington [22] and Timber Creek [20] placed 4^th through 7^th.

The tireless Brawner won the triple jump with a season-best 40-3 and the high jump at 5-4 and placed 4^th in the long jump with a 17-6 ½ and the hurdles at 14.78. She’s now a five-time state champion, including indoor and outdoor meets.

Jackson piled up 26 points in her first outdoor state meet with a win in the hurdles with a wind-legal 13.94 and 2^nd-place finishes in the 400 hurdles [1:01.08] and 200 [25.07].

Robinson doubled the intermediates in 1:01.01 and the 400 in 56.98, and Okaro ran 2^nd in the 100 [12.18], 3^rd in the 400 [57.80] and tied for 4^th in the 200 [25.30].

Winslow also scored 28 points in the relays, winning the two sprint relays and taking 2^nd in the 4-by-8.

Freshman Amariah Arango, sophomore Skyhe Seamon, junior Chantina Walker and junior Leeya Joseph won the 400-meter relay in 47.89, with Ocean City taking 2^nd with a fast 48.81 with freshman Julianne Goodman, sophomore Ella Miller, sophomore Alana Clevenger and senior Naomi Nnewihe.

Arango, sophomore Tristan Hughes, Okaro and senior Ava Millner ran 3:53.16 to win the 4-by-4, and freshman Adaiah Arango, Amariah Arango, Hughes and Millner ran 9:19.84 to take 2^nd behind Ocean City in the 4-by-8.

Senior Brook-lynn Roberts threw the discus 134-5 for 2^nd place and junior Leeya Joseph long jumped 17-5 ½ for 5^th place.

Ocean City won the 4-by-8, with senior Chloe Care, senior Maeve Smith, freshman Riley Tolson and sophomore Carly Godfrey running 9:14.20, with Godfrey anchoring in 2:11.52. Moorestown ran 9:23.31 for a 1-2-3 South Jersey sweep with senior Sarah Brown, sophomore Sophia DeFiore and freshmen Payton Derer and Hope Edwards.

Godfrey was also 3^rd in the 800 in 2:11.25 – 4^th-fastest in South Jersey history – with Edwards 5^th in that rae in 2:13.65.

Timber Creek senior Ryan Jennings had another speedy double, winning the 100 in 11.45 and the 200 in 23.93. She broke the Group 3 meet record of 11.61 set by Lakewood’s Shavon Greaves at the 2007 meet at South Plainfield.

Northern Burlington senior Liliah Gordon won the 1,600 in 4:59.99 and the 3,200 in 10:35.67 to become the first Northern girl ever to double at states. Ocean City’s Smith [5:01.21] and Moorestown’s Derer [5:02.45] made the 1,600 a 1-2-3 South Jersey sweep.

Delsea junior Hannah Nuhfer PR’d with a 161-4 bomb to win the discus. That’s the No. 7 throw in state history and No. 3 in South Jersey history.

Absegami had two individual winners, with Jaidah Garrett winning the long jump at 18-10 ½, which makes her the top seed at the Meet of Champions, and senior Josephine Buxton PR”ing at 138-8 in the javelin.

And Moorestown senior Hannah Byrd-Leitner joined Hannah Nuhfer as the second South Jersey Hannah to win a state title this weekend. She cleared 12-8, breaking her own Group 3 meet record of 12-7 set last year.

\Junior Jaiden Steele raced to three 1^st-place finishes and a 2^nd to lead Camden to its 11^th state championship but first in 20 years.

Camden edged Hasbrouck Heights 46-45 to win the state Group 1 meet in Somerset. It was the first Group 1 state meet decided by one or fewer points since 2007, when Metuchen edged Woodbury 45-44 at South Plainfield. Glassboro was 3^rd with 38 ½ points, with Woodstown 4^th with 38 and Clayton 6^th with 32.

This is the Panthers’ 11^th state championship but first since 2005, when they defeated Colts Neck 55-42 to win Group 3.

Camden also won state titles in Group 4 in 1975, 1995, 1996 and 1997 and Group 3 in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2004.

Only five schools have won more state titles: Christian Brothers [28], Montclair [21], Glen Ridge [15], Willingboro [14] and Woodbury [13]. Palmyra and Plainfield have also won 11.

Steele repeatd as state champ in the 100 in 10.86, leading a 1-2-3 South Jersey finish with Burlington City junior Donte Davis [10.91] and Glassboro sophomore Xavier Sabb [10.96]. Steele won Group 2 last year.

He also ran on Camden’s two 1^st-place relay teams. The Panthers won the 400-meter relay in 42.50 with junior Christian Braxton, Steele, junior Chase Robinson and junior Wasi Muhammad and the 4-by-4 in 3:21.59 with Robinson, Muhammad, junior Jeremiah Steeley and Steele.

This is the first time Camden has ever won two relays at the same state meet and the first time they’ve won the 4-by-4 at states since 2004, when Alonzo Brown, Sherron Bullock, *Carl Smith, *Devon Burroughs ran 3:19.75.

Robinson also placed 4^th in the intermediate hurdles in 55.06 and Muhammad was 3^rd in the long jump at 21-4 ¾.

Senior Alexander Osayemi swept the 200 [22.04], 400 [47.81] and intermediates [52.79] to become the first Clayton boy ever to triple at states.

Woodstown junior Josh Crawford won the 800 in 1:53.44, with senior teammate Cole Lucas 3^rd in 1:55.01. Woodstown won the 4-by-8 without either one, if the official results are accurate. Woodstown ran 7:59.15, the fastest South Jersey Group 1 time ever and fastest by any New Jersey Group 1 school since Shore Regional ran 7:57.80 in 2017. Junior Karson Chew, sophomore David Farrell, sophomore Pacey Hutton and junior Jacob Marino are listed as Woodstown’s runners. Woodstown was also 2^nd in the 4-by-4 in 3:23.43 with Chew, sophomore Kyle Reitz, junior Anthony Costello and Crawford.

Crawford is Woodstown’s 1^st state champion since Brandon Bedillion won the javelin in 2015 and first ever on the track.

Other South Jersey winners were Palmyra senior Jaleel Latimore, Salem senior Anthony Parker and Haddon Township senior Jacob George.

Latimore cleared 6-6 and became Palmyra’s 1^st state high jump champion in 31 years, since Marvin Bass cleared 6-9 at the 1994 meet. Parker jumped 22-5 and became Salem’s first state long jump champ since Anthony Gregory’s 21-10 in 2007, finishing six inches ahead of Glassboro freshman Alex Adeleye’s 21-11. And  Jacob George cleared 14-6 to become Haddon Township’s 1^st state pole vault champ since Jason Groff in 2013.

Junior Sianni Wynn won two events, anchored a winning relay and picked up a fast 2nd place, and the Dupree cousins scored nine huge points as the Pennsauken girls won the first state championship in school history.

Pennsauken and Wynn outscored Natalie Dumas and Eastern 47-42 to win the Group 4 state title at Somerset in a meet featuring two of the top girls in state history.

Wynn won the 100-meter dash in 11.53 – only 4-100ths of a second off English Gardner’s 17-year-old meet record – and traded 1-2 finishes with Dumas in the long sprints, topping Dumas in the 200 – 23.57 to 24.46 – with Dumas edging Wynn in the 400 – 53.17 to 54.06 in a battle of the current state record holder and former South Jersey record holder.

The 23.57 is a wind-legal PR for Wynn and No. 6 in state history with legal wind.

Wynn also anchored Pennsauken’s meet-record 400-meter relay, with junior Sanaya Dupree, junior Olivia Dupree, sophomore Abigayle John and Wynn running 47.24 and breaking the Group 4 meet record of 47.45 set in 2018 by Egg Harbor Township.

Wynn had a hand in 38 of Pennsauken’s 47 points, but that wasn’t enough to win the team title. Olivia Dupree placed 2nd in the 100-meter hurdles in 14.75 for eight huge points, and Sanaya Dupree took 6th in the 200 in 25.47 for another point.

Wynn has now won 13 state group titles and nine Meet of Champions titles, and she’s not even finished with her junior year.

As for Dumas, we already wrote about her historic 400IH/800 double on Friday – you can read about that here – and she finished her triple win Saturday with that 53.17 win in the 400.

She’s only the 3rd South Jersey girl ever to win three individual events at a state Group 4 meet. Krystal Cantey of Winslow had a quad win in 2005, with 1sts in the 200, 400, high hurdles and intermediate hurdles, and Pemberton’s Lillian Rivera swept the three throws at the 1984 meet.

Looking ahead to the Meet of Champions Wednesday at Pennsauken – and we’ll see who runs what – but Wynn is the No. 3 seed in the 100, No. 1 in the 200 and No. 3 in the 400, and Pennsauken is the No. 2 seed in the 4-by-1. Dumas is the No. 1 seed in the 400 and intermediates, No. 6 seed in the 200 and No. 7 in the 800.

It was Atlantic County Tech sophomore Brianna Growalt who edged Olivia Dupree to win the 100-meter hurdles as part of a hurdles-long jump double. Growalt ran 14.59 and long jumped 17-7.

She’s the first South Jersey girl to win the long jump and hurdles in the same state meet since Winslow’s Gabrielle Bennett in Group 3 in 2015. She ran 14.27 and jumped 19-1 and also won the high jump at 5-6. Growalt is the first South Jersey girl to record that hurdles-long jump double in Group 4 since Olympian Carol Lewis of Willingboro did it three years in a row from 1978 through 1980.

The Kingsway girls won the 1,600-meter relay with a school-record 3:54.95, with sophomore Norah Brown [59.86], senior Camryn Stanard [1:00.25], senior Jonnelle Lewis [58.71] and freshman Noemi Haller [56.14]. The previous school record was 3:55.34 from the 2013 Penn Relays with Loran Harris, Chrissy Pentz, Jacklyn Heineman and Thaila Cooper.

Senior Dominic Bassey and junior KaRon Ali combined to score 40 points and lead the Winslow Township boys to their first state title in 21 years.

Winslow won its three previous state titles consecutively in Group 4 in 2002, 2003 and 2004. The Eagles finished 30 points ahead of Burlington Township and Colts Neck, who tied for 2^nd with 44 points.

Bassey won the 400-meter hurdles in 53.85 and was 3^rd in the 400 {49.69] and 800 [1:56.26], and Ali won the 400 in 48.48 and was 2^nd to Burlington Township junior Quayd Hendryx in the 200 [21.76].

Ali and Bassey also contributed legs to Winslow’s 1^st-place 1,600-meter relay team, which ran 3:19.53. Junior Prince Owusu-Twum and sophomore Jeremiah Neal also ran on the 4-by-4 for the Eagles, with Clearview 2^nd in 3:22.25.

Senior Kristopher Jackson and senior Artrill Evans both picked up 2^nd-places, Jackson in the javelin and Evans in the triple jump. Jackson threw 177-5 and took 2^nd to Burlington Township senior Dylan Fitzpatrick, who won with a 182-2, with Cumberland Regional junior Richard Pierce [172-9] making it a 1-2-3 South Jersey sweep. And Evans went 46-0 in the triple jump for his 2^nd place.

Winslow’s other individual scorer was junior Elijah Deanley, who placed 5^th in the 400-meter hurdles in 56.46.

Winslow also scored in the 400- and 3,200-meter relays. Ali, freshman Sa’hid Chambers, sophomore Jibril Hammond and junior Nyqir Helton ran 42.25 for 4^th in the 4-by-1, and junior Vincent Perri, Owusu-Twum and seniors Eric Brown and David Duran ran 8:05.92 for 5^th in the 4-by-8.

Burlington Township also won the 400-meter relay in 41.30, smashing the meet record and Burlington County record. I wrote about that on Friday here.

Junior Quayd Hendryx not only anchored that record-setting 4-by-1, he doubled the 100 and 200 with legal wind, running 10.71 [-0.2] and 21.52 [0.0].

Fitzpatrick became Burlington Township’s first state champion ever in the javelin or any throwing event. And Hendryx is Township’s first double winner since Louis Smith won the Group 1 100 and 200 in 1998.

Hammonton senior Anthony Liakhnovich won the shot put at 61-8 ¾, with seniors Jonathan Harris of Delsea [58-2 ¼], Jayson Ross of Timber Creek [57-11] and Christina Medina of Hammonton [55-0 ¾] scoring in a 1-2-3-4 South Jersey sweep.

And Deptford senior Marcus Hood cleared 15-0 on his 1^st attempt to win his first state pole vault title.