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The Raritan High School girls varsity track and field team, Hazlet, rounded out a season of relay championships last weekend at the Monmouth County Relay Championships.

The lady Rockets won the meet with 91 points and were followed by Manasquan High School, who earned 79 points.

The team took first place in the 3-by-400-intermediate-hurdle relay with a time of 3 minutes, 32.8 seconds. Kaylee Bythell, Hadeer Hanafy and Lauren Starek won the race against the Manasquan relay team.

The Rockets also took several second and third places on the track that contributed to the successful day.

Rockets Erin Byrne, Allie Alfonso, Danielle Haines and Bythell maintained a steady 4x800 race and pulled ahead of the Shore Regional team to attain second place with a time of 10:29.38.

The Raritan relay team battled the Neptune High School relay team during the shuttle hurdles, which is a 4x100 hurdle event. Amanda Evans, Hanafy, Starek and Val Carney finished the race in 1:10.9, just two seconds behind Neptune, for second place.

After a rough start during the 4x100, Raritan picked up the pace to achieve third place. Fran Maglione, Nicole Dougherty, Michelle Aurigemma and Lauren Thomson ran the 56.1-second race.

It was Raritan’s strong field victories that solidified its championship win.

Michelle Garrett, Christine Borkowski and Angela Newman took first place in the shot put with throws totaling 93 feet, 7 inches. Borkowski and Newman also won the discus with a combined total of 242’3”.

Rockets Jackie Anderson, Nicole Collins and Carney achieved a 290’3” total length for their win in the javelin. Lexi Scelia and Carney also won the triple jump.

“We had a strong relay season and it was a great way to finish that part of the year. Now the girls can get ready for the individual championships,” Raritan head coach Pete Toscano said.

The remaining results of the competition are as follows:
4x100 – Neptune, 51.68.
4x200 – Neptune, 1:47.55.
4x400 – Rumson Fair Haven, 4:14.22.
4x800 – Rumson Fair Haven, 10:10.41.
Distance medley – Rumson Fair Haven, 12:59.36.
Sprint medley – Rumson Fair Haven, 4:13.14.
Shuttle hurdles – Neptune, 1:08.08.
High jump – Middletown North.

Any names, events or scores not appearing were not provided to The Courier.