Girls Track Takes Second at Sectional Championship

The girls track tram placed second at the Group 2 Sectional championship Saturday, narrowly missing the team title to Bernards.

Aleixa Diaz was the big contributor for the team winning golds in the 110 and 400 meter hurdles and earning points in the 200 and 400 meter runs. Katie Watson placed first in the 800 meter race and team mate Isabella Yozzi placed third with a breakout time of 2:18.98. In a very competitive 1,600 meter run, both Watson (5:00.48) and Yozzi (5:03.76) raced exceptionally well surpassing the previous Meet record time of 5:06.65 to place second and fourth.

The 4 x 400 relay team of Katie Watson, Rebecca Cummings, Isabella Yozzi and Kirsty Gargiulo won the silver, racing neck-and-neck against fierce competition.  Daria Chadwick added to the Hilltoppers' excellent championship showing by placing second in the 100 meter hurdles and scoring points in the 100 and 200 meter races. Additional point scorers included Lauren Ng (100 meters) and Gillian McIlroy (3,200 meters).

The boys squad placed fourth overall led by Mark Jones and Thomas Chin.  Jones repeated his Conference meet performance from the previous week winning golds in the 110 meter hurdles, the high jump and the long jump and scored additional team points in the triple jump. Chin placed second in his 800 meter race with a time of 1:58.79 and third in the 1,600 meter race running 4:27.43.

Both teams advance to the Group championship Friday at 4 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. in South Plainfield.