Boys Varsity Outdoor Track and Field | 4/21/2024 6:54:00 PM

The Union Catholic track and field teams combined to smash four meet records and a county record at Saturday's Blue Devil Classic in Westfield.

The girls 4x100 relay squad of Taylor Aska, Taylor Cox, Leah Gould, and Natalia Thompson broke their own Union County record with a meet record time of 46.07, the third fastest time in NJ history. Cox, Leah Gould, Vonya Gould and Kiara Fleming  won the shuttle hurdles for the Vikings with a state leading time and meet record 59.42, and freshman Sydney Chadwick ran 1:03.65 in the 400 hurdles,and Aska ran 56.39 in the 400, both the fastest times of the day.

The UC boys also broke a pair of meet records, both in the field where the Vikings swept the horizontal jumps.

Kevin Philistin leaped PR's of 44-4 in the triple jump and 19-7 in the long jump, Noah Cooper soared 43-11.50 in the triple jump and 21-8.25 in the long jump, Justice Hicks went 21-6 in the long jump, and Ron Ingleton went 39-11 in the triple jump as the Vikings won those events with combined totals of 128-2.50 in the triple jump and 62-9.25 in the long jump.