{"id":174303,"date":"2026-04-23T22:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:36:07","slug":"upper-darby-girls-4x4-wins-central-earns-philly-area-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174303\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby girls 4&#215;4 wins Central, earns Philly Area spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Darby\u2019s 4 x 400 relay remains a force, adding a Suburban Central title at Penn Relays on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The team of Ovviya Lauderdale, Tajai Powell, Laila Fofana and Kadi Golembiewski clocked in at 3:55.27 at Franklin Field to win the race and qualify for Friday\u2019s Philadelphia Area 4 x 400. Golembiewski moved them from third to first with a 55.53 anchor leg that was the second-fastest in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Second was Ridley in 3:56.41 with the squad of Anaiya Gregory, Maya Bethrant, Paula Onyewuchi and Joy Onyewuchi. The Green Raiders end up as the first alternate in the 12-team Philly area race. Lower Merion was third, and Springfield was the fourth team to break four minutes in 3:59.33 in the Central race.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals\u2019 time was 45th out of the more than 550 teams competing and eighth among Pennsylvania schools. Ridley was 50th overall and 11th among Pa. squads.<\/p>\n<p>Episcopal Academy finished third in the Philadelphia Academic 4\u00d7400 relay at 3:58.62 with the team of Ryann Newcomb, Ava Cavanaugh, Jenille Goring and Olivia Melson. The race was won by Penn Charter in 3:54.41.<\/p>\n<p>EA\u2019s time was 70th overall and 16th among PA squads.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Carroll finished third in the Catholic League 4 x 400, with Bonner &amp; Prendergast sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Penncrest\u2019s 4 x 100 relay finished 38th in prelims in 48.96 with the team of Molly Quinn, Daphne Calliagas, Regina Zizivily and Maddux Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Springfield finished 16th overall in the 4 x 800 prelims, the squad of Bridget Dawson, Darsana Bhatta, Lizzie Angelopoulos and Makayla Corcoran going 9:21.93. Only three Pennsylvania teams were quicker. Penncrest was 44th, Ridley 49th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upper Darby\u2019s 4 x 400 relay remains a force, adding a Suburban Central title at Penn Relays on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,305,725,28,726,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-174303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upper-darby","8":"tag-delaware-county","9":"tag-high-school-sports","10":"tag-pa-prep-live","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-top-stories-dtd","14":"tag-upper-darby","15":"tag-upper-darby-headlines","16":"tag-upper-darby-news","17":"tag-upper-darby-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}