Ocean City Dominates Cape May County Champs

Oct 18, 2019

For the fifth straight year Ocean City has swept the Cape May County Championships and this year they almost collected two perfect scores while doing it. Both individual Ocean City champions also defended their titles from last year making it a clean sweep of all four county titles.

The boys swept the top six finishers and their seventh runner finished eighth overall. With their 15 points the team won the meet by 49 over second place Lower Cape May Regional. Even more amazing was the top five compression which only took four seconds and an average of 16:37.

They were led by Anthony Conte at 16:35, who made it two straight individual titles. This was his first win of the season and fourth top ten finish.

Boys Top Ten Finishers

1	Anthony Conte	12	Ocean City HS	16:35.93
2	Max Kelly	12	Ocean City HS	16:36.46
3	Luke Kramer	12	Ocean City HS	16:37.16
4	Owen Ritti	10	Ocean City HS	16:37.69
5	Cameron DiTroia	12	Ocean City HS	16:40.76
6	Frank Fabi	12	Ocean City HS	16:42.83
7	Zeb Hinker	10	Lower Cape May Regional HS	17:09.19
8	Mike Kelly	12	Ocean City HS	17:43.86
9	Elijah Jackson	10	Lower Cape May Regional HS	18:10.60
10	John Hargest	12	Middle Township HS	18:14.84

On the girls side Ocean City was just one point off a perfect score with 16 points. Casey McLees led the way with a 19:02 performance defending her 2018 title run, her third top ten finish on the season. The team also won their tenth straight school title at this Championship, the last non-Ocean City winner being Wildwood Catholic all the way back in 2009.

The athlete that broke up the perfect score in the girls race? Middle Township's freshman standout Sofia Jurusz in fifth at 20:26. She was fourth this last Saturday in the Division 1 race at the South Jersey Open. Her squad finished second overall with 69 points.

For Ocean City this all comes just a week after the team's trip to run in the Disney Cross Country Classic was almost lost to misfortune before an act of kindness allowed them to travel down to Florida and compete. A special season so far for this school.

Girls Top Ten Finishers

1	Casey McLees	12	Ocean City HS	19:02.65
2	Alexa Palmieri	11	Ocean City HS	19:29.32
3	Rebecca Millar	12	Ocean City HS	20:16.51
4	Emma Sardy	12	Ocean City HS	20:22.68
5	Sofia Jurusz	9	Middle Township HS	20:26.77
6	Erin Hanlon	11	Ocean City HS	20:34.83
7	Lindsay Robbins	11	Cape May County Tech	20:49.38
8	Isabella Padula	11	Ocean City HS	21:16.27
9	Reghan Handley	12	Ocean City HS	21:19.32
10	Jayne Seitz	12	Cape May County Tech	21:26.63

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