EMERSON — Cresskill and Glen Rock swept the Patriot and Colonial meets, respectively, Monday night at the new track and field facility at Emerson High School. But while Cresskill boys coach Rich Miller and Glen Rock girls coach Stacie Gallo could relax a little as their teams won by comfortable margins, their counterparts had no such luxury.
Glen Rock’s boys had to take 1-3-4 in the pole vault and had to finish ahead of Hawthorne to win the Patriot boys meet, 108-105 1/2, over a Bears team that had won the season’s dual by just two points. The Panthers did just that, clinching the victory when Owen Davitt — who finally had beaten his nemesis, Sean Sullivan of Rutherford, in the 800 — anchored Glen Rock to a 10-meter win in the 4-x-400 relay over Hawthorne with a brilliant 50.5 anchor leg under the lights.
Cresskill’s girls also needed 4-x-400 heroics as Park Ridge had used a stunning strength on the track to get within six points of the Cougars before the meet’s last event. And the Owls easily won the relay by nearly 10 seconds.
But Cresskill, with a shift in the lineup by inserting sophomore Carly Wells and moving top 400 runner Anne Karach to the second leg, easily held off the rest of the field for second and held on for its sixth straight title, 129-125, over the Owls.
Meanwhile, the Cresskill boys, scoring an astounding 105 of its 125 points in the field events, easily defeated host Emerson, 125-96 for the Colonial boys title, while the Glen Rock girls, shaking off turmoil that earlier in the season had threatened its success, showed a balanced team that easily defeated Eastern Christian and Hawthorne, 150-101-100, despite four wins by Bears star Kaitlin Salisbury and a terrific performance by the Eastern Christian throwers.
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