Latrobe & CV dominate @ Gett.|N. Penn sweeps ind/team titles @ CB East | N. Allegheny upsets in Pgh.

2008 Gettysburg Invitational Photo Gallery by Don Rich & Tim O'Dowd

Natalie Bower and Jordan Jenkins (right in photo) cut through the rain with quick times at Gettysburg.  Michael Pierce runs sub-16 in the soggy conditions.  Greater Latrobe girls and Cumberland Valley boys impress with dominating team wins. In Pittsburgh, there was more blue than red & white for PA ranked teams North Hills boys and Norwin girls as both squads were upset by North Allegheny. At Belmont Plateau in the XXXC 4x2-mile relay, the Henderson boys broke the 2007 course record which had been set by Germantown FriAt Fort Indiantown Gap in the Lebanon Valley Inv, Saint Joseph's Prep won for the 4th straight year.  Hatboro Horsham takes team titles at Abington.  North Penn swept the team and individual titles at the Central Bucks East Invite.  At Big Red at West Middlesex, Sam Havko, Fairview sets a course record. Hot team battles as AA schools start to sort it out. Trinity boys win the day in California, PA.  Twin Valley Relays and Mill Street Run were not held because of Tropical Storm Hannah. Mill Street may be rescheduled.

09/04	Wyalusing Valley Invitational Wyalusing Valley Area By Michael Carpenter   The Wyalusing Gun & Run Invitational was on Thursday, an exciting start to a much anticipated weekend.  Sayre Area SR Shawn Lake won easily in 16:53 and led his team to a 25-35 victory over Northeast Bradford. Canton's Nick Patton and Sullivan's Logan Hatton rounded out the top 3 individual finishers in the boy's race. In the Girl's race, Hannah Robinson, Beth Walker and Rose Velazquez went 1-2-5 and helped Sayre Area to a easy 24-59 win over Canton. Canton's girls squad was led by Annette Donovan who finished third overall. The JV squads ran a 2700m race and Kelby Mullen of Sullivan County took the boy's race, while Joanna McGee of Wyalusing took the girl's race.	Wyalusing, PA Results Posted
09/06	37th California University of PA HS Invitational California University of PA   By Aaron Rich Trinity boys put 5 runners inside the top-12 to win in dominating fashion with 28 points.  Uniontown finished 2nd with 72 points.  Cameron Coffey, Brownsville, won the race with a time of 17:09.  Mike Standish, Trinity, finished 2nd in 17:20, and Eric Porter, Mount Pleasant, finished 3rd in 17:48.  Uniontown girls put 5 runners in the top-10 to beat Brownsville 15 to 48 as the two teams were the only complete teams in the race.  Mansfield soph Susan Learn (In photo with Colleen O'Neil of Unionville - courtesy of California University of PA) won the individual race with a time of 19:50.  Uniontown's Colleen O'Neil finished 2nd in 20:26.	California, PA Results Posted Photo Gallery by California University of PA
09/06	4 x XC Relay   By Aaron Rich   West Chester Henderson won both the boys and girls relays.  For the Henderson boys Achraf Khaffabi, Stash Grub, Austin Stecklair, and Will Kellar teamed up to post a time of 43:07.  Germantown Friends finished 2nd in 43:26. Both times broke the 2007 course record set by Germantown Friends. Junior Will Kellar led Henderson with a 10:30 split, ten seconds faster than former teammate, and 2007 Foot Locker Finalist Chris Aldrich. For the Henderson girls, Manning-Smith, Gehring, Augustyn, and Pavone teamed up to run a time of 53:08.  Upper Dublin finished 2nd in 54:48.	Philadelphia, PA Top 10 Posted with some splits
09/06	41st Annual Mill Street Run Holy Ghost Prep	Bristol, PA Postponed because of Tropical Storm Hannah
09/06	Abington Invitational Abington   Lower Merion senior Ben Furcht won the boys individual race.  Hatboro Horsham won the team title over Haverford 49 to 69.  Katie Gorman, Plymouth Whitemarsh, won the girls race with a time of 19:23.  Kaylee Irwin, Hatboro Horsham, finished 2nd in 19:34.  Hatboro Horsham won the team race with 91 points.  Downingtown East was 2nd with 101 points.  Photo by Jack Kennedy	Abington, PA Results Posted
09/06	Big Red Invitational West Middlesex By Aaron Rich Boys Red Sam Havko, Fairview, continues to run solid early season times as he set a new course record at the Big Red Invitational, running a time of 15:57.6.  North East’s Dylan Klein finished 2nd with a time of 16:06.6.  John Yankello, Quaker Valley, finished 3rd in 16:21.5.  Quaker Valley won a close battle with North East for the team title with a score of 41 to 44.  Boys White Adam Shrawder, West Middlesex, raced to a first place finish with a time of 16:33.4.  Evin Miller, Laurel, finished 2nd with a time of 16:41.9.  Mike Ryan, West Middlesex, finished 3rd with a time of 16:49.6.  West Middlesex won the team title with a score of 53 to 80 over Union City. Girls Red Katie Perkins, North East, won the girls red division with a time of 19:23.8, which was the fastest girls time of the day.  Morgan Richards, Hickory, finished 2nd in 19:31.9, followed by North East’s Ann Haibach in 3rd, 19:36.9.  Fort Leboeuf packed their runners in behind the two North East frontrunners to earn the win by a score of 63 to North East’s 85.  Girls White Union City ruled this race, with a team score win of 27 points and taking the top-4 individual places.  West Middlesex was 2nd in the team race with 54 points.  Hannah Day won the race with a time of 19:57.3, Becca Reichbaum was 2nd in 20:08.9, Vicky Bem was 3rd in 20:12.2, and Lori Neumaker was 4th in 20:35.9.	West Middlesex, PA Results Posted
09/06	Boathouse Red, White & Blue Classic Baldwin By Michael Carpenter You can guarantee it's a weekend to celebrate for the North Allegheny Cross Country team after unbelievable performances from both the boy's and and girl's squads.  First came the upset in the boy's race, as preseason honorable menton North Allegheny knocked off PA#4 North Hills 56-76, led by a 6th place finish by SR Chase Broussard in 16:08. Gateway SR Daniel Krystek was known as one the top returners for the '08 season, but he really made an impact on Saturday, beating out a tough field.  Eight men were under 16:10 in a close finish, but Daniel pulled away, a sub-16 solo effort.  His 15:53 was followed by Rad Gunzenhauser in 16:00.  The JR from Mt. Lebanon took second after holding off a young SO from Morgantown in Cody Pellicone, who rounded out the top 3 finishers.  The rest of the top 10 was very tight, all within 10 seconds, featuring three men from North Hills, three from North Allegheny, and Baldwin SR TJ Hobart who finished 9th. And you never would've guessed the Lady Knight's from Norwin were going to have any problem taking the team title in the girl's race after SR Leslie Kovach and SO Jenna Gigliotti went 1-3 in 18:31 and 18:40 respectively.  But when FR Lizzie Appleton, and sophomores Ali Greco and Kelley Harrington finised 13-15-16 in a seven-second spread for North Allegheny, the upset had begun.  The preseason honorable mentioned North Allegheny girl's squad beat the PA#9 Norwin ladies 111-153.  And the Norwin girls almost settled for 3rd, as Mt Lebanon was only 4pts back in 157. The top five girls were under 19 minutes, and the top 20 were all sub 20 minutes. Note: One of Norwin's top 5 did not compete.   Coverage from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Cross Country: Gateway's Krystek bags Red, White & Blue win Norwin's Kovach wins girls' half of cross country meet	Pittsburgh, PA Results Posted   PG East: Norwin's Kovach runs away with Classic title - from the Pgh. Post- Gazette
09/06	Central Bucks East Invitational Central Bucks East By Aaron Rich   Brad Miles led a dominating performance by North Penn, winning the individual race with a time of 16:19.  Jordan Dawson, CB East, finished 2nd in 16:31.  North Penn's Brian Kuntzman finished 3rd in 16:38.  North Penn put 5 runners in the top-8 to win with 24 points.  Central Bucks East finished 2nd with 56 points.  North Penn girls continued the dominance with a 31 point winning total in the team race over Central Bucks East, 58 points.  Christy Cohick, North Penn, won the race with a time of 19:19.  Teammate Heather Selheimer finished 2nd in 19:52.  Central Bucks East's Jenny Guidera finished 3rd in 20:00.	Doylestown, PA Results Posted
09/06	Gettysburg Invitational Gettysburg Area High School    By Aaron Rich   Natalie Bower, Greater Latrobe, and Jordan Jenkins, New Oxford, put on quite a show in the rain at the Gettysburg Invite.  Natalie won the Varsity Group 1 race with a time of 18:41.61 over Leigha Anderson, Cumberland Valley, 19:12.43.  Abby Hewitt, Latrobe, finished 3rd in 19:23.59.  Jordan Jenkins won the Varsity Group 2 race with the fastest time of the day, 18:38.52.  Virginia frosh Natalie Young finished 2nd in 19:23.89.  Allison Hall, Blue Ridge, won the Varsity Group 3 race with a time of 20:16.57. In the girls team competition Greater Latrobe passed their early season test by placing 5 runners inside the top-20 for a 38 to 57 win over Cumberland Valley.  Cumberland Valley also looked good, placing 5 runners in the top-21.  Holy Ghost Prep senior Michael Pierce ran 15:58.29 on the slippery battlefield course to take the Varsity Group 1 win over Kevin Hull, Hempfield, 16:10.37.  Joe Beveridge, Bishop McDevitt, took 3rd with a time of 16:14.57.  In the Varsity Group 2 race Conrad Weiser senior Clint Keller won with a time of 16:38.23.  Steven Welsh, Kutztown, won the Varsity Group 3 race with a time of 16:43.32.  In the boys team competition Cumberland Valley gave a clinic on pack running, with the scoring 5 finishing in places 7, 10, 11, 16, and 17.  They were separated by a mere 16 seconds and won with a score of 54 points.  Holy Ghost Prep was 2nd with 69 points.  Carlisle was a distant 3rd with 115 points, but with their top-3 finishing in 4-6 places and being within 8 seconds of each other, it will be up to the 4th and 5th runners to close the gap as the season marches on.	Gettysburg, PA Onsite Coverage Results Posted 2008 Gettysburg Invitational Photo Gallery by Don Rich & Tim O'Dowd
09/06	Husky Invitational College XC Race Bloomsburg University	Bloomsburg, PA
09/06	Lebanon Valley Invitational Annville-Cleona   By Aaron Rich   St. Joe's Prep won for the 4th straight year with a dominating score of 24 to 61 over Central York.  Chris O'Sullivan led the charge for Prep with the win in 16:51.46.  Teammate John Pickhaver finished 2nd in 16:53.88.  The Prep boys placed their scoring 5 in the top 8 places.  Ben Myers, Central York, finished 3rd in 17:20.19. Central York won a close race over Cedar Crest, 32 to 42, with both teams runners bunched at the front of the pack.  Rose Mascoli, Lebanon Catholic, won the race in 20:52.16.  Meghan Harvey, Oxford, finished 2nd in 21:30.77.	Fort Indiantown Gap, PA Results Posted
09/06	Twin Valley Raider Relays Twin Valley	Elverson, PA Canceled because of Tropical Storm Hannah

US 20K (and Half Marathon) Road Champ James Carney will be a special guest of the Gettysburg Invitational.

Three top 10 boys teams and two top 10 girls teams in the PennTrackXC.com Coaches Poll will face off at the annual battle at Gettysburg. It'll be #5 Coatesville, #7 Carlisle, and #9 Holy Ghost Prep, joined by pre-season mention Altoona, who knocked off Coatesville last Saturday at Big Valley. For the girls, #2 Latrobe will get their first test, facing #4 Cumberland Valley and pre-season mention Northern York. Of the AA ranked teams, PA#4 Elk Lake boys and the pre-season mentioned Trinity girls will compete. The other big meet in PA is the Boathouse Red, White & Blue Classic in Pittsburgh.