The Metuchen High School boys track team earned a medal in the 4×400 at the Penn Relays with a fifth-place finish.

It took 25 years, but consider it topped. The Bulldogs’ girls distance medley placed second in Thursday’s Championship of America, posting an epic effort in one of the Penn Relays’ marquee events.

Caroline Schleif, Nelagh Matthews, Sara Lignell and Molly Malague clocked , breaking the Middlesex County record and finishing behind only New York juggernaut Saratoga Springs ().

Schleif set the tone with a monster lead leg, covering 1200 meters in 3:34 to hand off in first place. Matthews (1:01.9 400) and Lignell (2:24 800) held the fort before Malague took it home with a 4:56 anchor 1600.

“Very exciting atmosphere, energetic,” Schleif said. “It’s an atmosphere where you run your fastest time, and that’s what we came out to do today.”

Although it happened before they were born, these Bulldogs were well aware of the legend of 1997. Lees verder →