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The Winslow girls outdueled rival Timber Creek to win their sixth straight title, Delsea's remarkably balanced attack sparked the Crusaders to the boys championship, and the Mainland girls and Winslow boys burned red hot times at the NJSIAA Group 3 Relays on Sunday at the Bennett Center in Toms River.
In the girls competition, Winslow racked up 52 points to defeat runner-up Timber Creek by 10 points to extend its remarkable winning streak and raise its relay championship total to nine overall.
Winslow's six straight titles in Group 3 is the third longest girls streak in meet history. Only Hopewell Valley, nine straight from 2022-2010, and Union Catholic, who won its ninth straight Non-Public A championship last Wednesday, have won more consecutive titles than Winslow.
And with nine state relay titles overall, Winslow is now tied for the fourth most titles by a girls program. Willingboro has won 11, Hopewell Valley and Columbia have 10 each, and Winslow, Haddonfield, and Union Catholic are next with nine each.
Winslow placed third or better in seven of the nine events with its most impressive performance coming when it won the shuttle hurdles in a NJ No. 2/US No. 2 time of 31.76!!
Sophomore Ma'Syiah Brawner had a big day for Winslow. She ran on the shuttles and cleared a meet best 5-4 to lead Winslow to a third-place finish in the high jump.
Winslow also placed second in the 4x200 (1:43.83), second in the SMR (4:21.31), third in the 4x800 (9:59.19), and second in the 4x400 (4:00.86).
In a meet filed with blazing times, Timber Creek and Mainland let a lot of smoke on the track.
Timber Creek won the 4x200 in a NJ No. 3 1:42.69, and the 4x400 (3:57.96), and Mainland dropped a NJ No. 1 9:40.19 in the 4x800 and a NJ No. 2/ US No. 4 DMR time of 12:26.31!!!
For the Mainland girls, their DMR splits were 3:54.4 for Gillian Lovett, 63.2 for Madison Taylor, 2:27.7 for Emma Preissman, and 5:01.0 for Sofia Day. In the 4x800, Preissman went 2:26.8, Ava McDole ran 2:31.5, Lovett split 2:26.0, and Day anchored in 2:15.0..
DELSEA WINS 5TH BOYS TITLE, WINSLOW WINS SIZZLING SMR
The boys competition also featured several eye-popping results.
Let's start out with Delsea, who scored 26 points in the field and 24 on the track on the way to an impressive 50-31 victory over runner-up and Morris County relay champ Morris Knolls.
This is Delsea's first title ever in Group 3 and its fourth overall. The Crusaders captured Group 2 championships in 2010, 2011, and 2020.
In the field, Delsea won the shot put and pole vault, and placed second in the high jump. In the shot, junior Jonathan Harris threw 55-5.50 and senior Greg Masso unloaded a 50-3.50 for a winning total of 105-9, while sophomore Mason Murray (13-0) and senior Carlos Reyes (12-6) finished first at 25-6. Wayne Adair made 5-10 and Quincy Matthews cleared a PR of 5-8.50 in the high jump for a runner-up total of 11-6.50.
On the track, Christian Langston, Xavier Wyatt, Dante McGrenehan and Julian Conigliaro won the 4x200 for Delsea in 1:31.38. Delsea also placed third in the SMR (3:40.40) and third in the 4x400 (3:30.46).
One of the best races of the day went down in the boys SMR when Winslow burned a NJ No. 1 3:39.03 to edge Morris Knolls, second with a NJ No. 4 time of 3:39.81!