Upper Darby took home a gold medal and a meet record from the Delaware Valley Girls Track Coaches Association Meet of Champions on Friday night at Penn.
The Royals’ 4 x 200 quartet of Ovviya Lauderdale, Tajai Powell, Marziah Jones and Kadi Golembiewski won in 1:42.39. That downs the meet record set way back in 2010 by West Catholic at 1:42.69. UD was 1.61 seconds up on runner-up Pennridge.
Powell finished third in the 200 meters in 25.35. Golembiewski was seventh in the 400. The Royals also netted a silver medal from Janaye Haye, whose leap of 37 feet, ¾ inches came within 2.5 inches of winning the triple jump.
Upper Darby’s record highlighted the sprint depth from Delco. Chester’s Damira Allen won the 60-meter hurdles in 8.50 seconds. That lowers her Ott Center record by a tenth and brushes within 0.07 of the meet record. Allen finished sixth in the 200 meters in 25.49.
Second to Allen in the hurdles was Garnet Valley’s Felicia Grimmelbein in 8.66 seconds. The senior led a GV 1-2 in the 60-meter dash, Grimmelbein setting the program record at 7.53 seconds and edging her teammate Avery McCrimon’s 7.73. Those two joined Brigid Sullivan and Kara Sullivan to finish third in the 4 x 200 relay in 1:44.18.
Ridley finished second in the girls 4 x 400 relay in 4:01.82, just under a second behind Central Bucks East’s winning time. Joy Onyewuchi led the way, having finished fourth in the 400 in 57.98. She joined Paula Onyewuchi, Maya Bathrant and Ericka Chiles.
Penncrest finished in the top five in two relays. The 4 x 800 placed third in 9:43.04. Cassidy Jones, Bailey McDonald and Maddy Ruday were on both that squad and the fifth-place 4 x 400. Jones was eighth in the mile.
Agnes Irwin won a pair of medals, with Lauriel Morrison’s time of 2:16.76 securing second place in the 800. Emma Watson was third in the mile.
Strath Haven finished fourth in the 4 x 800 and fourth in the distance medley relay.
Chester Charter Scholars Academy’s Angel White finished fifth in the 60-meter dash. Marple Newtown’s Justin Rimple finished fourth in the long jump, as did Afriyie Owusu-Twum of Ridley in the shot put and Penncrest’s Sydney Farnan in the pole vault.