OCEAN CITY – The Avalon Beach Patrol continued its winning ways Tuesday evening, taking the title at the 2024 Ocean City Beach Patrol Women’s Invitational.
That follows a win at the Longport Women’s Invitational and the Cape May County Lifeguard Championships.
The OCBP, which won two of the five events, finished second with 13 points to Avalon’s 15 and the Longport Beach Patrol was third with 8 points. Cape May was fourth with 7 points and Margate City fifth with 6. Margate won a tie-breaker with Sea Isle City and Sea Girt based on a better finish in the surf dash.
Avalon won three events, the open row-swim, and followed it with a win in the box-swim relay. Ventnor was second in the row-swim followed by Cape May, Brigantine and Atlantic City.
Longport was second in the swim relay followed by Ocean City, Sea Isle City and Cape May.
Ocean City won the box-paddle relay. Sea Girt was second, Brigantine third, Margate fourth and Cape May fifth.
Avalon won its third event of the evening in the run-swim relay. Longport was second, Sea Isle City third, Cape May fourth and Upper Township fifth.
In the final event, the OCBP took the surf dash relay with Claudia Booth, Chloe Care, Morgan Decosta and Lexi Sander. Ocean City’s surf dash team has done well so far this season, winning the event at the Longport Women’s races and finishing second at the county championships.
Margate, which was in the lane next to Ocean City, finished second, Wildwood Crest was third, Sea Girt fourth and Sea Isle City fifth.
Editor’s note: A more detailed story will be filed later.
– PHOTOS by DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff