Schalick junior wins 1600 to go along with the 3200 she won Friday; Woodstown’s boys 4×800 relay also brings home gold Saturday
By Riverview Sports News
SOMERSET – Schalick’s Jordan Hadfield became a double winner, Woodstown’s boys won the 4×800 relay and the Salem and Schalick girls finished 4-5 in the team standings to highlight Saturday’s final day of the NJSIAA Group I track championship at Franklin High School.
Hadfield used a strong closing kick for the second day in a row to win the girls 1600 to go with the 3200 she pulled out at the finish on Friday. Her winning time was 5:07.66.
Interestingly, the order of finish in the 1600 was the same as the 3200 the day before: Hadfield, Wallkill Valley’s Delana Einreinhofer and Audubon’s Riley Fayer.running fourth most of the race with Fayer and Einreinhofer running 1-2 and Kinnelon’s Grace Mougalian third.
She had been running fourth most of the race with Fayer and Einreinhofer running 1-2 and Kinnelon’s Grace Mongolian in third, but put on a burst over the final 400 meters, running the leg in 1:11.64. It was the fastest closing leg in the race and second overall only to Fayer’s opening 1:10.86.
Woodstown 4×800 boys relay (Karson Chew, Joshua Crawford, Jacob Marino, Cole Lucas) took the lead from Hasbrouck Heights in Split 5 and kept it the rest of the race. Their winning time of 8:11.67 beat runner-up Woodbury by nearly a second. The Wolverines’ girls 4×8 finished third in their race. They were as far back as 10th early in the race, but made up five spots by the midpoint and were running second after split 7 before being overtaken.
Salem’s girls finished fourth as a team with 40 points. Schalick pulled within one point of the Rams with its fourth-place finish in the 4×400 relay.
Third-place finishes by Salem County athletes Saturday included Salem’s Anna Buzby (400) and Karima Davenport-White (100 hurdles) and Schalick’s Grace O’Neill (discus).
O’Neill missed her goal of setting the school discus record by seven inches, but she is a projected wildcard qualifier for next week’s Meet of Champions.
This story will be updated.
NJSIAA GROUP I CHAMPIONSHIP
SOMERSET – Here are the Saturday Day Two results for Salem County’s qualifiers in the Group I state meet at Franklin HS (Friday’s results have been previously posted). The top 2 finishers in each event qualify for Meet of Champions (plus next 16 best regardless of class); top six finishers in each event score points for their team:
BOYS FINAL TEAM SCORES (Top 10): Woodbury 78, Glassboro 57, Hasbrouck Heights 38, Riverside 38, Audubon 31, Manville 30, Gloucester City 26, Cresskill 20, Burlington City 20, Florence 18. T-18 Salem 10, T-18, Woodstown 10, 26. Schalick 6, 29, Penns Grove 4
4×800: 1. Woodstown (Karson Chew, Joshua Crawford, Jacob Marino, Cole Lucas), 8:11.67; 8. Schalick 8:39.61; 11. Salem 8:45.24.
1600: 12. Matthew Tozer, Schalick, 4:39.22
4×400: 4. Schalick (Reggie Allen, Jacob Carter, David Stewart, Steve Chomo), 3:30.55
Javelin: 7. Cole Campbell, Pennsville, 156-10; 10. Connor Ayars, Pennsville, 150-2
Long jump: 9. Khalim Smith, Penns Grove, 20-4.5
Pole vault: 5. Salvatore Longo, Schalick, 11-6
GIRLS FINAL TEAM SCORES (Top 10): Hasbrouck Heights 70, Audubon 52, Clayton 46.33, Salem 40, Schalick 39, Woodbury 35, Ridgefield Memorial 30, Dayton 24, Wallkill Valley 18.33, Emerson 18. T-17 Pennsville 10, T-19 Woodstown 8.
400: 3. Anna Buzby, Salem, 57.80
4×800: 3. Woodstown (Kayla Ayars, Sarah Seiden, Arie Still, Lillian Norman), 10:05.92; 8. Schalick 10:39.28
100 hurdles: 3. Karima Davenport-White, Salem, 15.85; 5. Brooke Watt, Schalick, 15.87
200: 6. Rhionna Timmons, Salem, 26.75
1600: 1. Jordan Hadfield, Schalick, 5:07.66; 17. Lillian Norman, Woodstown, 5:53.15
4×400: 4. Schalick (Alivia Klancic, Grace O’Neill, Jordan Hadfield, Gia Martellacci), 4:09.94
Discus: 3. Grace O’Neill, Schalick, 132-2
Triple jump: 11. Brooke Watt, Schalick, 33-6.75; 13. Calista Hunt, Woodstown, 33-3.75; 18. Molly Curtis, Woodstown, 32-4
High jump: 5. Kami Casiano, Woodstown, 4-10
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