The handoff from Kayla Carter to Valencia Gosser wasn’t pretty. Fortunately, there are no style points considered as part of the scoring for the 4×100-meter relay. The bottom line is simple: outrace everybody else to the finish.
“I don’t know what happened on our handoff. I just got the baton and focused on catching the girl in front of me,” said Gosser, who not only caught the Jackson Memorial speedster in lane 4, but with just 10 meters left, passed her to give the Barnegat 4×100 relay its…
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