Track: Highlights from the Big North Championships

It was the Big North's turn to have their league meets last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after the NJIC had its four divisional meets at Emerson last Monday and Tuesday. Here's a look at the highlights.

Ramsey girls break River Dell streak but Golden Hawks keep rolling in Patriot boys competition

The Ramsey girls have finished second to River Dell in each of the last 10 times the two squads have met since the Big North Patriot division was created in 2011. The only time Ramsey wasn't second to the Golden Hawks in the division was in 2019 when the Rams spent a year in the American division after the National was briefly discontinued. That year Demarest beat River Dell for the Patriot title and Ramsey won the American.

But despite a pre-meet scare Wednesday when junior star Kate Marie Monaco tripped and cut her head while getting ready for the meet, rendering her out for the day, the Rams broke that streak in what was essentially a dual meet beating the Golden Hawks, 184-168 at River Dell's home track.

"They are so good and have beaten us so many times in this meet,'' said an elated coach Matt Wynne after the victory was official. "We have a great corps of 20 girls who come through in every meet and after Kate Marie got hurt, the 19 left cane through again. She'll be fine for the counties next week but our kids did such a good job in her absence.''

The Rams led from the outset with junior Caeli O'Hara edging River Dell freshman Samiya Bovell in the 400 hurdles. River Dell won the next two races but Anna Lynch and Alexa Friedland went 3-4 for Ramsey, and then the Rams went 3-4-5 in the 100 hurdles behind Maura Alden of Pascack Hills and Brooke Wichmann of Westwood and 2-3 in the shot put behind Callia Nickels to grab the lead to stay.

It looked like it might even be a blow out but in the next-to-last event, River Dell went 1-2-3 in a tight discus competition forcing the Rams break up River Dell's strong triple jumpers to clinch the meet. With versatile senior Kathryn Kriz adding a second in the triple jump to go with a fifth in the hurdles and third in the long jump, the Rams held on.

"It's hard to single out anyone,'' said Wynne, whose girls took just four individual events to seven for River Dell. In addition to O'Hara, Julia Costa won the 400, Adrianna Graziano a fourth straight pole vault crown and Makayla Newman won the 200.

The River Dell boys won six events and placed in every event to their fourth straight crown, 182 1/2-116 over Pascack Hills. Liam Schwabik's 400-800 double led the Golden Hawk boys.

Allen won the 800 and 1,600 runs, while Wichmann took the hurdles and high jump and Grace McQueeney of River Dell won the long and triple jumps in the girls meet, while Zander Graham of Indian Hills (100/200) and Maximus Daniels of Indian Hills (400 hurdles/high jump) were the only other doublers in the boys meet.

Monaco's huge quad win leads Dumont to its third American girls win in four years while Dwight Morrow wins first boys league meet since 1997

Former Wayne Valley star Kenton Hughes spent a year as an assistant at Dumont before he took over as the head coach as the head coach this year. So he was familiar with the multiple talents of sophomore Jenna Monaco, who won three events last year and took second in a fourth as the Huskies won a three-way battle for the American meet title a year ago. Dumont edged Fort Lee and Cliffside Park, 98-94 1/2-87 1/2 a year ago as the meet went down to the final event.

Not this time, with Monaco repeating in the 100, 100 hurdles and pole vault and replacing her second place finish in the 200 with a win and a new school record in the long jump and junior Katelyn Reuter winning the 800, 1,600 and 3,200, Dumont scored a 115-84 win over Cliffside Park. The meet was also held at River Dell Wednesday.

"The kids really brought the Dumont magic,'' said Hughes who also got wins from sophomores Keiry Nunez in the 400 and Klaudia Kielek in the high jump, the latter in her first season in the sport. "We got great performances from so many of our girls and they really crushed it.''

Monaco, who leaped 18-3 1/4, in just her third major long jump competition, breaking a 41-year-old mark of 17-8 1/2, has also mastered the three step approach in the high hurdles and Hughes says she's still got plenty in the tank as the meets get bigger. "When you have two kids that combine for seven wins things can start to happen.''

Seniors Sophia Mandalakis (discus/shot), Riley Graham (javelin) and Ciara Horgan (javelin) combined for a second, two thirds and a fourth in the throws.

Fort Lee won the overall boys title for the sixth time in seven years, but Dwight Morrow earned its first league meet championship since winning the 1997 BCSL American title, 96-86, over the Bridgemen, with Dumont a close third with 83 points.

"We lost three dual meets so we knew we weren't going to be able to win the overall title, but it's a big thing for us to win the league meet,'' said longtime head coach Lisa Oden. "We won the indoor league a few years ago and one of the members of that team (outstanding triple jumper Phil Dowell) was at practice the other day and gace us some encouragement.''

Juniors Maurice Williams and Saundrae Palmer Jr. did some encouraging of their own, combining for four wins and a second and running two of the four legs on the meet-clinching 4-x-400 relay.

Palmer had outdoor personal bests in all three of his wins, 100 (11.11), 200 (22.75) and long jump (21-6), while Williams won the 400 and took second to Palmer in the 200. Damani WIlliams (no relation) added a second and a fourth individually and Aaron Tinsley took second in the 800 before the quartet combined to win the 4-x-400 relay by 50 meters.

The Maroon Raiders also got a key second place finish in the shot from Stan Davis and the Maxwell twins, Edward and Sakai added a win, a second and a third in the jumps. Only Tinsley and Davis are seniors.

"We ran really well at Penn Relays and I think that gave them the confidence that they could do well in this meet,'' said Oden.

Ridgewood boys keep rolling; Ramapo ties Ridgewood to earn girls Freedom crown

When Josh Saladino talks to his Ridgewood team each season, he has laid out the same goals: win Bergen County Relays, the league, the county group meet and the state sectionals.

SInce the Big North Freedom was established in 2011, here's what has done Ridgewood has done: 13 seasons (excluding the cancelled 2020 campaign), 10 Bergen Relays (including this year), 11 league titles, seven Bergen group titles, nine sectional titles.

The Maroons are halfway to an fifth four for four since 2011 after a surprisingly easy 122-91 win over Hackensack in Thursday's Freedom division meet at Demarest.

"It really was a lot closer than that because Hackensack is a very good team and kept us under pressure the whole meet,'' said Saladino. "We were only up three before the 3,200 and pole vault and they beat us handily in the relay.''

But the Maroons did enough in the previous events to break the meet open with perhaps their two strongest events. Jett Lincoln, Luke Pash, and Chris Brady went 1-2-3 in the 3,200 and Marcus Hochegger and Ray Stellmach took the first two places in the pole vault to outscore the Comets, 32-2 in those two events and overcome a sensational 100-200-400-4-x-400 relay quadruple by sophomore Seven Garcia, who had personal bests in all three individual wins. The Comets outscored Ridgewood 39-5 in the three sprints and 21-7 in the three jumps to keep the meet close.

Ridgewood answered with a trio of wins in the throws by Matt Schwindt (discus and javelin) and Jack Fitzgerald in the shot and a win in the 110 highs and a second in the 400 hurdles in the long awaited return of Victor Souza, who got injured while hurdling in early January and had been sidelined ever since.

"Having Victor back and healthy is great for our team, where we missed his leadership as well as his points,'' said Saladino. "But this team is learning how to compete and that will help us the rest of the season.''

Ramapo just needed to beat Northern Highlands to assure its first girls Freedom title since 2014. But the Raiders went one better and won the 4-x-400 relay to tie Ridgewood at 102 points for the championship meet title as well with Highlands a distant third with 65 points.

Ramapo won six events, with Bridget Cannon taking the 800, Sandra Vitolo the 100 hurdles and long jump, Brianna Potaki the 3,200, Grace Gilbert the shot and the 4-x-400 relay finishing off the meet with a 10 meter win over Ridgewood to secure the tie.

"We scored in every event but the javelin and almost everyone we entered ended up with a medal,'' said Ramapo coach Bill Manzo. "And we had some surprises in some of the events where we had multiple scorers.''

Ramapo went 4-5 in the 200, 2-3 in the 400, 3-5 in the 1,600, 1-3 in the 3,200 , 1-5 in the 100 hurdles, 1-4 in the long jump and 1-3-5 in the shot, and just 11 of their points were scored by seniors.

Ridgewood battled, with a double win from senior Charlotte Papin in the triple jump and javelin, and 1-2-3 sweep from juniors Emai Hanada, Emerson Wiatrak and Charlie McKay in the pole vault, the highlights. The distance team also placed multiple runners in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 and freshman Katherine Keating joining her mom, Stephanie, as a league champion. Stephanie, whose maiden name was Stephanie Doyle, won consectutive 1,600 titles in the NNJIL Atlantic in 1995 and 1996.

"I'm very proud of the way we competed and especially our freshmen and sophomores have made a successful transition to varsity,'' said Ridgewood coach Steve Opremcak.

Hackensack's Ayanna Chape continued her return from an injury-plagued winter by easily winning the 200 and 400.

Demarest rules National roost, both teams lead North Jersey

Over the years, Demarest has had tremendously successful programs in both boys and girls track, contending for state titles in both genders before the Norsemen won the 2023 group 2 title.

But they never were the top ranked team in North Jersey at the same time before last week when both the boys and girls achieved that status. Both teams showed their power at their home site Wednesday by sweeping the National titles, with the boys beating Old Tappan, 194-125 1/2 and the girls battling the 2022 state group 2 champion Golden Knights right to the final event before prevailing, 180 1/2-175.

"We were actually behind by 10 1/2 points going to the 4-x-400, with the high jump and triple jump still going on,'' said girls head coach Mike Ippolito.

Abby Dennis had won both hurdles and both sprints and Layla Giordano all three throws for the Golden Knights, but Ippolito knew where his team's strength lay.

"We have very strong depth and that's why we beat them in the dual meet, 72-63,'' said Ippolito. "And even though we held Kailey Attali out of the triple jump, we knew we had enough to replace her without losing too much.''

Or anything.

The quartet of Gabrielle Rothstein, Erika Gangano, Lauren Conti and Sophee Estrems, who had combined for 55 points and two wins (Rothstein in the 400 and Estrems in the 800) in their other events, easily won the relay with Old Tappan third.

Then seniors Taylor Miller and Netta Saban went 2-3 behind Old Tappan freshman star Caroline Ognibene in the high jump, but Old Tappan still held an 8 1/2 point lead with the triple jump concluding.

Gargano, the Norsewoman's #4 triple jumper on the depth chart, had an eight PR to win the event with a leap of 33-8 1/4. Olivia Rothstein took second and Conti fifth to wrap up the victory.

The boys win had little drama.

Demarest won six events and scored multiple athletes in every event but the three throws. Liam Paneque won three events, the 100 hurdles, high and long jump but suffered his first loss to a North Jersey athlete in the triple jump in nearly a year when sophomore Adam Shaw of Pascack Valley leaped a school record 46-2 1/2 for the title. Enrico Parrella had a North Jersey leading 4:23.53 performance in the 1,600, Adam Kaufman won the 100 and 400 and took second in the 200, one of Demarest's 10 second place finishes.

"This team has a chance to be better than last year's team,'' said veteran head coach Mike Theuerkauf. "We approach the league meet as the first championship meet of the year and in a one day meet like this one, there are nuances that we try that are different than the two day county group, state sectional and state group meets.''

Don Bosco wins in unusual finish; IHA takes fourth straight United girls final

An official's abbreviation mistake led to an unusual finish to the Big North United boys championship meet at Demarest Thursday.

Don Bosco senior Ryan Locicero was a late addition to the 800 field after winning the 1,600 when Ironmen coach Dalton Friend realized that top-seed Corey Sanders Jr. of Paramus Catholic was not entered into the race.

"I was going to run Ryan in the 3,200 when I saw Corey wasn't entered so I shifted him to the 800 and the official just wrote "Ryan Loc" on the card,'' said Friend.

The runners were lined up and when there was no Ryan Loc on the overall meet lineup, Locicero the reigning Bergen A champ in the event was pulled off the track and the race went off without him.

"Since my plan was to run him in the 800 and then on the 4-x-400 relay and he couldn't do the 3,200, I immediately appealed the decision to take him out of the 800.''

Meet director Brian Rodak investigated the incident and found out it was an official's error that could be corrected. "According to the rules, to correct the error, that the best place for the 800 was the end of the meet,'' he said.

So after the 4-x-400 relays were over, Locicero went out on the track alone to run a time trial. The senior, who will run at Providence next fall, needed to break 2:07 to get enough points for Don Bosco to edge Bergen Catholic and Friend was confident.

"He's run 2:04 by himself before and I knew he could do it again,'' said Friend.

Locicero delivered a 2:00.41, just .06 off of his personal best and the victory and Bosco had a 116-110 win over Bergen Catholic. The two teams shared the league title since BC won the dual meet.

Buffalo-bound football star Bobby Mays had an impressive jumps triple to join Locicero as Bosco standouts. Mays, won the high jump at 6-2, jumped a personal best 22-10 to win the long jump, and the defending state champion went 46-10 1/2 to win the triple jump.

Bergen Catholic's Benji Shue remained undefeated for the season in both the shot and discus, throwing a near PR 63-11 1/4 in the shot and 194-10 in the discus.

IHA outscored the other three teams in the United division en route to its fourth straight title.

Holy Angels got its usual spectacular triple from junior Gina Certo in 100, 200, 400, in 12.32/24.76/56.40, respectiively, Brianna Burrell won the 100 hurdles and high jump for Paramus Catholic and the Blue Eagles won the other 11 events.

Marcelle Seckin (800/1,600), Emily Wunsch (3,200), Liz Burgess (400 IH), Abby Romero (long and triple jump), Evelyn Roman (pole vault and javelin), Julia Sobilo (shot and discus) and the 4-x-400 relay were IHA's winners and coach Matt Joyce is hoping its a prelude to success in the Bergen Meet of Champions and State group championships.

"We're trying to see how we compare to other teams in the county and we still have improvement in each of our events,'' said Joyce. "I think we'll do well the rest of the season.''

Wayne Hills girls and West Milford boys complete undefeated seasons in the Independence Division

Wayne Hills finished second to Lakeland in the Independence division winter track meet in January. But the Patriots knew their chances of turning the tables in the spring rested on greater depth, and the extension of the meet adding discus, javelin and long jump, all events that Wayne Hills had great strength.

Add in a balanced league with Wayne Hills having perhaps the two biggest stars and the combination gave Wayne Hills a comfortable 144-95 win over Lakeland, with West Milford (92), Wayne Valley (82) and Passaic Valley (67) following.

"This team was focused all season and it showed,'' said girls coach Christina Caamano. "We talked the day before the league meet after we completed an undefeated regular season by beating West Milford and Passaic Valley in a double dual. We told them that we had a really good chance to win the league meet and that we had to go out and earn it. They're all great competitors and they did what they had to do.''

Kara Langbaum, as she has the last four seasons, won the 800 and 1,600 on the track and added a third place in the 3,200, while senior Elizabeth Dankwa set a pair of school records in the shot and discus, with her huge 126-9 throw breaking a 44 year old school record by more than 12 feet and making her the sixth best performer in Passaic County history.

"They both were great, and Elizabeth was crushed that she didn't make the State Meet of Champions and she has spent all season proving things to herself. She shattered the school record in the discus and I think she can do even more,'' said Caamano. "Kara knew she was going to do the triple and after she won the two events, she got us six more points in a race she really doesn't like.''

Mckenzie Moore picked up the long jump this season and won the event in the meet Friday at Passaic Valley H.S. She repeated her victory in the 100 hurdles, running more than a second and a half off her 2023 winning time and subbed in for Langbaum on the 4-x-400 relay. Ava Mileski got a surprise second in the 400, (and the Patriots placed three in the event) while Payton Dubanowitz added 14 points in the distance races. Alyssa Chan won the 100, and led three scorers with a second in the 200, freshman Ashley White PR'd for second in the javelin and Olivia Galambos scored in both the shot and discus.

Next up, Wayne Hills shoots for its first Passaic County title since 2017. "We know Passaic Tech is a force to be reckoned with,'' said Caamano. "But our kids won't give up.''

West Milford last won the boys title in 2011. But Noah Traverso and Colin Menier made sure the 12 year drought would not become 13. The two senior stars performed like the veterans they are, combining for six wins and a second place finish to lead the Highlanders to a 131 1/3-112 1/3 win over Passaic Valley.

Traverso swept the 100, 200 and 400 and took second in perhaps his best event, the triple jump, while Menier won the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 all comfortably. Sophomore high jumper Julian Pierre was the other winner for West Milford. Dan Marquez, Tyler Meier and Carlos Banks all placed in three events for the Highlanders.

Passaic Tech boys and girls go for 200+ points each and continue control of Liberty division

The Passaic Tech boys and girls won their fifth straight Liberty division titles, each scoring 210 points. That's a boys record but remarkably for the girls the lowest total since 2019.

The boys won nine events, had four seconds and eight thirds and missed scoring only in the 100 and 200. No boy won more than one event except for Eastside's Jayden McKenzie who tripled the 100, 200 and 400.

The girls won eight events, had eight seconds and six thirds, and missed scoring only in the 1,600 and 3,200. Jahzara Mclean Abdullah won the 200 and 100 high hurdles and Calyse Villaneuva took the long and triple jumps.

Girls Top Performances

TEAM SCORES

AMERICAN: Dumont (DUM) 115, Cliffside Park (CP) 84, Fort Lee (FTL) 54, Ridgefield Park (RP) 53, Dwight Morrow (DM) 28.

PATRIOT: Ramsey (RAM) 184, River Dell (RD) 168, Westwood (W) 51 1/2, Mahwah (MAH) 51, Pascack Hills (PH) 24, Indian Hills (IH) 10 1/2.

FREEDOM: Ridgewood (RW) and Ramapo (RPO) 102, Northern Highlands (NH) 65, Hackensack (H) 34, Paramus (P) 30.

NATIONAL: Demarest (DEM) 180 1/2, Old Tappan (OT) 175, Tenafly (TEN) 69 1/2, Teaneck (TEA) 35, Pascack Valley (PASCV) 22, Bergenfield (B) 13.

UNITED: IHA 136 1/2, Paramus Catholic (PC) 63, Holy Angels (HA) 47 1/2, DePaul (DEP) 3.

INDEPENDENCE: Wayne Hills (WH) 144, Lakeland (LAKE) 95, West Milford (WM) 92, Wayne Valley (WV) 82, Passaic Valley (PV) 67, Fair Lawn (FRLN) 15.

LIBERTY: Passaic Tech (PCT) 210, Bergen Tech (BT) 138, Clifton (CLI) 88, Passaic (PASS) 28, Eastside (E) 14, Kennedy (K) 12.

100: 1. Abby Dennis (OT), 12.20; 2. Gina Certo (HA), 12.32; 3. Piper Portacio (IHA), 12.46; 4. Morgan Levine (RD) 12.53; 5. Jordan Myers (PAR), 12.63. Other winners: Jenna Monaco (DUM) 12.70; Hailey Mieses (PCT), 12.96; Alyssa Chan (WH), 13.24.

200: 1. Certo, 24.76; 2. Dennis, 24.87; 3. Portacio, 25.35; 4. Sydney Dungey (PC), 25.52; 5. Ayanna Chape (H), 25.68. Other winners: Makayla Newman (RAM) 25.75; De Zyiah Carswell (PV), 26.74; Jahzara Mclean Abdullah (PCT), 26.83; Trystin Mack (DM), 27.23.

400: 1. Certo, 56.40; 2. Chape, 57.36; 3. Julia Costa (RAM), 58.96; 4. Julia Mattioli (RPO), 59.18; 5. Gabrielle Rothstein (DEM), 59.34. Other winners: Alexa Goll (LAKE), 60.35; Mikayla Vigilanti (BT), 61.49; Keiry Nunez (DUM), 63.58.

800: 1. Bridget Cannon (RPO), 2:19.84; 2. Maeve Schoeler (RW), 2:20.70; 3. Cellina Rabolli (RW), 2:20.76; 4. Christina Allen (RD), 2:24.17; 5. Allie Courtney (NH), 2:25.27. Other winners: Sophee Estrems (DEM), 2:25.58; Mia DeVita (CLI), 2:26.65; Kara Langbaum (WH), 2:27.56; Marcelle Seckin, IHA, 2:29.09; Katelyn Reuter (DUM), 2:35.28.

1,600: 1. Katherine Keating (RW), 5:12.24; 2. Courtney, 5:17.83; 3. Amelia Keogh (RPO), 5:18.46; 4. Langbaum, 5:19.12; 5. Allen, 5:19.46. Other winners: Jasmine Storr (TEN), 5:25.40; Isabella Marinaccio (BT), 5:33.69; Reuter, 5:35.54; Seckin, 5:41.07.

3,200: 1. Brianna Potaki (RPO), 11:37.94; 2. Ayla Cooke (RW), 11:40.04; 3. Keogh, 11:44.89; 4. Autumn Ritter (NH), 11:46.55; 5. Ciara Clinton (WM), 11:50.00. Other winners: Isabella Gabay (RD), 12:18.95; Storr, 12:24.30; Jasmin Silva Vargas (PASS) 12:36.07; Reuter, 12:44.59; Emily Wunsch (IHA), 13:18.02.

100 HH: 1. Dennis, 14.35; 2. Sandra Vitolo (RPO), 15.24; 3. Monaco, 15.44; 4. Brooke Wichmann (W), 15.63; 5. Maura Alden (PH), 15.72. Other winners: Brianna Burrell (PC), 16.31; Abdullah, 16.34; McKenzie Moore (WH), 16.55.

400 IH: 1. Dennis, 63.24; 2. Kennedy Lubkemann (RW), 64.00; 3. Anna Bryan-Jones (NH), 64.30; 4.Kelsey Bennett (NH), 65.97; 5. Vitolo, 65.98. Other winners; AVa Maher (WV), 66.02; Casey Noonan (PCT), 66.1; Caeli O'Hara (RAM), 67.87; Elizabeth Burgess (IHA), 67.97; Sarah Zekri Khanfri (CP), 70.93.

Shot put: 1. Layla Giordano (OT), 45-0 1/2; 2. Afua Anyadike (BT), 40-1; 3. Grace Gilbert (RPO), 38-5; 4. Elizabeth Dankwa (WH), 36-10 1/2; 5. Isabella Andriulli (LAKE), 36-8 3/4. Other winners: Julia Sobilo (IHA), 34-9; Callia Nickels (MAH), 34-2; Maddison Aquino (CP), 31-0 1/4.

Discus: 1. L. Giordano, 154-10; 2. Dankwa, 126-9; 3. Julia Sobilo (IHA), 117-4; 4. Maya Mikay (DEM), 117-2; 5. Mia Hachadourian (PASCV), 112-8. Other winners: Bree Cooney (RP) and Anyadike, 103-2; Petrow, 102-0; Lucy Hacker (RD), 99-3.

Javelin: 1. Clarissa Guerrero (W), 115-5; 2. Charlotte Pepin (RW), 111-1; 3. Julia DiDomenico (P), 110-2; 4. Alissa Martin (TEA), 107-10; 5. Peyton Lowenstein (WM), 105-6. Other winners: Freja Jepsen (BT); 104-5; Evelyn Roman (IHA), 102-9; Rachael Agular Magalhaes (RP), 89-6.

High jump: 1. Wichmann, and Caroline Ognibene (OT) and Taylor Miller (DEM), 5-2; 4. Burrell, Grace McQueeney (RD), and Netta Saban (DEM), 5-0. Other winners: Milodia Hilaire (PCT) and Mackenzie Beazley (PV), 4-10; Klaudia Kielek (DUM) and Delia van der Heide (NH), 4-8.

Long jump: 1. Jenna Monaco (DUM), 18-3 1/4; 2. Abby Romero (IHA), 17-8 3/4; 3. McQueeney, 17-5 1/2; 4. Kaitlyn Shelley (CP), 17-3 1/4; 5. Brianna Burrell (PC), 17-1; Other winners: Kailey Attali (DEM), 16-8; Calyse Villaneuva (PCT), 16-7; and Vitolo, 16-0 1/4; Moore, 15-4.

Triple jump: 1. Villaneuva, 35-11; 2. Romero, 35-9 1/2; 3. Molly McQueen (IHA), 34-6 1/2; 4. McQueeney, 34-2 3/4; 5. Papin, 33-11 1/2. Other winners: Erika Gargano (DEM), 33-8 1/4; Athena Giotis (WV) and Sasha Zaoutine (FTL), 33-3.

Pole vault: 1. Allie Tuite (OT), 11-3; 2. Monaco, 11-0; 3. Isabella Formoso (BT) and Emai Hanada (RW), 10-6; three tied at 10-0. Other winners: Adrianna Graziano (RAM), 8-6; Roman and Meghan Tomback (WV), 8-0.

4-x-400 relay: 1. Ramapo, 4:00.90; 2. Ridgewood, 4:02.66; 3. Northern Highlands, 4:02.90; 4. IHA, 4:03.89; 5. Demarest, 4:08.77. Other winners: Ramsey, 4:09.03; Wayne Valley, 4:13.54; Passaic Tech, 4:19.51; Dwight Morrow, 4:30.85

Boys Top Performances

TEAM SCORES

AMERICAN: Dwight Morrow (DM) 96, Fort Lee (FTL) 86, Dumont (DUM) 83, Ridgefield Park (RP) 46, Cliffside Park (CP) 24.

PATRIOT: River Dell (RD) 182 1/2, Pascack Hills (PH) 116, Indian Hills (IH) 101 1/2, Mahwah (MAH) 50, Ramsey (RAM) 33, Westwood (W) 10.

FREEDOM: Ridgewood (RW) 122, Hackensack (H) 91, Northern Highlands (NH) 48, Ramapo (RPO) 38, Paramus (P) 35.

NATIONAL: Demarest (DEM) 194, Old Tappan (OT) 125 1/2, Bergenfield (BER) 56 1/2, Teaneck (TEA) 50, Pascack Valley (PASCV) 48, Tenafly (TEN) 21.

UNITED: Don Bosco (DB) 116, Bergen Catholic (BC) 111, Paramus Catholic (PC) 92, DePaul (DEP) 12.

LIBERTY: Passaic Tech (PCT) 210, Bergen Tech (BT) 83, Eastside (E) 67, Clifton (CLI) 58, Passaic (PASS) 52, Kennedy (K) 26.

INDEPENDENCE: West Milford (WM) 131 1/3. Passaic Valley (PV) 112 1/3, Lakeland (LAKE) 84, Wayne Valley (W) 68 1/3, Fair Lawn (FRLN) 63, Wayne Hills (WH) 37.

100: 1. Andrew Jeremiah Boakye (BC), 10.96; 2. Saundrae Palmer Jr (DM) 11.11; 3. Marco Feliciano (RP) 11.17; 4. Nicholas Shortridge (BC), 11.21; 5. Adam Kaufman (DEM), 11.23. Other winners: Seven Garcia (H), 11.38; Zander Graham (IH), 11.40; Jayden Mckenzie (E), 11.41; Noah Traverso (WM), 11.60.

200: 1. Boakye, 22.02; 2. Garcia, 22.35; 3. Antonio Colon (PC), 22.42; 4. Adrian Laing (PC), 22.54; 5. Michael Miceli (OT), 22.60. Other winners: McKenzie, 22.68; Palmer, 22.75. Graham, 23.13; Traverso, 23.42.

400: 1. Corey Sanders Jr. (PC), 49.08; 2. Kaufman, 49.17; 3. Traverso, 49.45; 4. Garcia, 49.81; 5. Julian Batista (BER), 50.24. Other winners: Williams, 50.46; Mckenzie, 50.74; Liam Schwabik (RD), 51.00.

800: 1. Michael Forde (TEN), 1:55.84; 2. Luke Davis (DEM), 1:57.35; 3. Ivan Timochko (DEM), 1:57.41. 4. Ryan Welch (RPO), 1:58.04; 5. Raynier Galvez (PCT), 1:59.01. Other winners: Ryan Locicero (DB), 2:00.41; Colin Menier (WM), 2:02.90; Colin Graham (DUM), 2:05.73; Schwabik, 2:05.74.

1,600: 1. Enrico Parrella (DEM), 4:23.53; 2. Joshua Tejada (TEA), 4:25.64; 3. Luke Pash (RW), 4:26.45; 4. Marcus Koshy (PASCV), 4:29.29; 5. DJ Murphy (RW), 4:29.78. Other winners: Menier, 4:32.42; John Swaney (PCT), 4:34.01; Locicero, 4:35.85; Dylan Cholewka (DUM), 4:40.24; Aidan Grivas (RD), 4:47.30.

3,200: 1. Jett Lincoln (RW), 9:49.99; 2. Pash, 9:50.03; 3. Matthias Fontao (DB), 9:51.68; 4. Preston Neal (BC), 9:56.90; 5. Chris Brady (RW), 10:01.79. Other winners: Menier, 10:05.37; Lamarr Olive (CLI), 10:10.38; Jimmy Hernandez (BER), 10:13.52; Karl Andre (DUM), 10:36.69; Dylan Barrett (PH), 10:42.42.

110 HH: 1. Laing, 14.75; 2. Liam Paneque (DEM), 14.93; 3. Noah Chang (DEM), 15.02; 4. Cicai Jaramillo (PC), 15.10; 5. Goran Saric (OT), 15.14. Other winners: Amadou Traore (FTL), 15.22; Victor Sousa (RW), 15.26; Jordan Lawton (PCT), 15.36; Kyle Keyes (LAKE), 15.41; Dean Marucci (RD), 15.69.

400 IH: 1. Anthony Senatore (BT), 54.95; 2. Maximus Daniels (IH), 55.60; 3. Keyes, 55.72; 4. Saric, 56.31; 5. Teddy Goebbert (NH), 56.50. Other winners: Sanders, 56.85; Will Park Ocampo (DUM), 1:00.59.

Shot put: 1. Benji Shue (BC), 63-11 1/4; 2. Jack Small (OT), 57-10; 3. Marco DeCroce (DEM), 51-1 1/2; 4. Sal Panicucci (PV), 50-4; 5. Brody McCormack (LAKE), 49-9; Other winners: Alexander Riba (DUM), 47-10 3/4; Owen Wescott (PCT), 47-5; Ryan Iacavone (RD), 44-9 1/2; Jack Fitzgerald (RW), 44-7.

Discus: 1. Shue, 194-10; 2. Bradley Weiner (RAMS), 164-6; 3. Lamont Lester (DB), 163-7; 4. Small, 159-10; 5. DeCroce, 158-0. Other winners: McCormack, 147-7; Arthur Rosenberger (DUM), 136-0; Michael Clark (PASS), 130-8; Matt Schwindt (RW), 127-9.

Javelin: 1. Colin Krause (PASCV), 165-5; 2. Aaron Lee (PH), 158-9; 3. Evan Brooks (OT), 158-7; 4. Kyle Syslo (PASCV), 155-3; 5. James Garguilo (DUM), 154-1. Other winners: Jordan Alston (PCT), 153-10; Teddy Hughes (BC), 150-3; Greg Ehrmann (LAKE), 148-0; Schwindt, 131-6.

High jump: 1. Luke Adami (NH) and Bobby Mays (DB), 6-2; 3. Paneque, 6-0 ; three others tied at 6-0. Other winners: Micah Pierce (K) and Edward Maxwell (DM), 5-10; Julian Pierre (WM) and Daniels, 5-8.

Long jump: 1. Paneque, 23-2 1/2; 2. Mays, 22-10; 3. Jason Lessieu (BC), 22-5 1/4; 4. Boakye, 21-8; 5. Palmer, 21-6; Other winners: Victor Echavarria (PCT), 21-4 3/4; Jacob Ceylan (RD), 21-3; Shawn Sowah (H), 21-1 1/2; Brian Pizzaro (PV), 20-0.

Triple jump: 1. Adam Shaw (PASCV), 46-2 1/2; 2. Paneque, 45-5; 3. Kymani Clarke (FTL), 44-0; 4. Joel Perez (PCT), 43-10 3/4; 5. Irasel Sawyers (BER), 42-9. Other winners: Abdulai St. Paul (WH), 42-5 1/2; Bradley Allen (H), 41-8; Mukhammad-Ziyo Imamaliev (IH), 41-5 1/2.

Pole vault: 1. Ben Mandler (PH), 14-0; 2. Allen Villavicencio (TEN), 13-6; 3. Marcus Hochegger (RW), and Ron Rozenthal (DEM), 12-6; three tied at 12-0. Other winners: Eliot Ramos (RP), 11-6; Michael Vargas (PCT) and Marcelo Giglio (PC), 10-6; Matt Burke (WV), 10-0.

4-x-400 relay: 1. Hackensack, 3:25.30; 2. Bergenfield, 3:25.50; 3. Demarest, 3:26.16; 4. Paramus Catholic, 3:26.38; 5. Teaneck, 3:29.09. Other winners: Dwight Morrow, 3:30.93; Passaic Tech, 3:31.70; Passaic Valley, 3:31.89; Pascack Hills, 3:35.55

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: NJ Track: Big North Championships highlights