09/11 | 20th Big Red Invitational
West Middlesex
Morgan Richards of Hickory ran 19:38 to win the varsity girls red race by just under a minute. Corry won the team title with 74 points to beat Fort Leboeuf by 15. Corry placed three in the top eight to help guide them to victory. In the girls white race, M. Spence of Cranberry ran 19:47 to win the race and become the only girl to break 20 minutes in that field. West Middlesex won the team title with 95 points to win by 26 over Youngsville.
For the boys red race, A. Pondel of Corry ran 16:52 to win the individual title by 21 seconds. Fort Leboeuf won the team title with 95 points to beat Hickory by 30, using a spread of 38 seconds to help led the victory charge. For the varsity white race, N. Tallada of Saegerstown ran 16:37 to win by 17 seconds over teammate H. Johnston. Their 1-2 finish was not enough to hold off West Middlesex, who scored 57 points to win the team title. West Middlesex placed six in the top 19 and had a 37 second spread between their first and sixth runners.
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09/11 | 32nd Annual Centaur Invitational
DeSales University
Holy Ghost Prep Boys won their second invitational in a row, scoring 69 points to beat Hatboro Horsham by 21 on the hilly Desales University layout. Brett Kelly of Boyertown took the individual title with an impressive time of 15:48.9 to win by 32 seconds over 8:50 3000 meter runner Zach Greth of Exeter. Sam Hibbs of the runner up Hatboro Horsham finished 3rd in 16:22.7.
For the girls, T-PA#8 Downingtown East was victorious with 62 points, placing their scoring five in the top 24 overall. Liberty was 2nd with 94 points and Boyertown was 3rd with 97 points. Victoria Gerlach of Pennridge (18:38.9) held off former state champion Jess Cygan of Liberty (18:43.5) to win the individual crown. Paige Stoner of Pottsville was the only other girl to break 19 minutes, finishing 3rd in 18:58.9. |
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09/11 | 42nd Annual Mill Street Run
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
Council Rock South beat rivals Council Rock North 42-51 to win the girls team title. Kate Scott of Council Rock North ran 17:09 for the 2.9 mile layout to win the individual title.
Lower Moreland took 2nd through 4th places in the 2.9 mile race behind the 15:36 of Dan Gelman, to capture boys' Division II team honors with 32 points. Bensalem's Brad Rivera won the race in 15:32, leading his team to the Division I title by ten points over Council Rock North. |
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09/11 | 8th Annual Red, White & Blue Classic
Baldwin
PA#2 North Allegheny boys had a strong season debut with a big victory at the very large Red White and Blue Classic. North Allegheny needed only a 45 second spread to place all seven in the top 23 of the Varsity A race and score 62 points. The
host PA#3 Baldwin was 2nd with 96 points. PA#6 North Hills finished 9th, but had a 1-3-6 finish from champion Zach Hebda (15:16), Joe Kush (15:23), and Juris Silenieks (15:41). 2nd place went to Morgantown's Cody Pelliccioni in 15:22. In Varsity B, AA T-PA#2 Quaker Valley went 2-3-5-6-7 to win easily with 23 points. The top five Quaker Valley finishers were separated by 16 seconds! Ryan Kennedy of Kiski Area was the winner with his time of 16:23. For the girls, PA#2 North Allegheny used a phenomenal 23 second spread to defeat North Hills 75-93, despite a virtual first place tie from sisters Margo and Shannon (18:32) and an 8th place finish from younger sister Mary (19:12). PA#7 Norwin finished 4th behind 3rd place Pine Richland by 10 points. In Varsit B, AA PA#5 Quaker Valley had five in the top eleven to win by 51 points over Laurel Highlands. Nicole Hilton of South Fayette returned to her winning ways with a 21 second victory. Her final time was 18:42. |
Pittsburgh, PA RESULTS POSTED ONSITE COVERAGE
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09/11 | Abington
Top PA girls squad Pennsbury and Sara Sargent had a sharp performance for the second straight week. Sargent went 2-for-2 in weekend invitational victories with her performance of 18:01, 33 seconds better than Methacton's freshman leader Kara Steinke (18:34). AAA 1600 meter medalist Hannah Grossman of Strath Haven was 3rd in 18:54. Sargent's team ran well behind her, placing five in the top 13 and scoring 38 points. Haverford HS was 2nd with 95 points.
For the boys, PA#4 Council Rock North was upset by unranked Wissahickon 109-128. Rock North's Chris Campbell won the race in 15:55, but Wissahickon had three in front of their number two and four in the top 23. Ben Ravetz led Wissahickon with a runner up finish in 16:23.
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09/11 | Brunswick Invitational
Brunswick High School
Delone Catholic girls tied for 3rd in the small school race with 96 points, led by a 3rd place finish by Emily Rescinite in 20:19, while the boys finished 2nd with 78 points led by Chris Sauvageau's 16:42, good enough for 4th place. Fairfield girls finished 5th with a 120 points with Kaitlyn Beckham running 21:38 to finish 15th.
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09/11 | Bunnys Run - Benefit 5K/1M Walk
Baldwin
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09/11 | Central Bucks East Invitational
Central Bucks East
Megan McGovern of North Penn (18:30) won the individual title over state runner up Katie Kinkead and sophomore Veronica Eder by 12 seconds. However, McGovern's performance was not enough as PA#4 Central Bucks East defended their home course and defeated PA#6 North Penn 40-45. CB East accomplished the feat with their #2 runner Jenny Guidera, who was 4th at the Sharp Invite last week.
For the boys, Alex Izewski won his 2nd straight invitational, running 15:58 for the victory. Teammate Alex Kane was 2nd in 16:18. Pennridge won the team title with 56 points with a 34 second spread and five in the top 18 overall. North Penn was 2nd with 66 points and Central Bucks East was 3rd with 70 points. |
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09/11 | Chestnut Hill Academy Invitational
Chestnut Hill Academy
Dustin Wilson of Chestnut Hill Academy cruised to victory on his home course, winning the race in 15:23. His winning performance helped his team earned 2nd place behind Masterman's 40 points thanks to a 4-6-7-10 finish from their front four.
For the girls, Kristen Greenwood of Episcopal Academy won the individual title with her winning performance of 19:43. Her victory led her team to victory 47-70 over Masterman. Episcopal had three in the top ten overall. |
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09/11 | East Palestine Rotary Invitational
East Palestine
Strong Vincent Boys finished 5th in the boys varsity race with 157 points. The squad was led by a 19th place finish by Brandon Jurkiewicz, who ran 18:33.5. The girls were 12th with 323 points led by Maria Dunsworth, who ran 24:40 to finish 57th.
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09/11 | Forest Hills Invitational
Forest Hills
Leah Anne Wirfel of Forst Hills defended her home turf to earn her 2nd invitational victory of the season, running 18:25 to beat out Kendall Seymour of Central Cambria by 27 seconds. Kendall's runner up performance led her three time defending state championship team to a narrow 79-97 victory over Wirfel's Forest Hills squad. Alyssa Brandeis's 5th place finish also contributed to the Central Cambria win.
For the boys, Westmont Hilltop were the only team to place three in the top 20 overall and took home the team title over Bishop McCourt 92-127. United's Ray Ofman edged out Justin Huey by 6 seconds with his winning time of 16:49. |
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09/11 | Gettysburg XC Invitational
Gettysburg Area High School
Hempfield boys won the team title with 153 points, placing three in the top 25 overall to win by 48 points. Tom Gruschow of Trinity won the individual title with a time of 16:05, 6 seconds better than runner up Connor Strynkowski of Palmyra.
For the girls, T-PA#8 Central Bucks West placed five in the top 31 to score 90 points and win by 50. Mackenzie Nolan of Hempfield (19:21) held off Kaylee Kubisak of New Oxford by two seconds to win the individual title. |
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09/11 | Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational
Penn State University
Reece Ayers of Tunkhannock Area ran 15:38.1 to enjoy a 25 second victory over the field in Happy Valley. Vince Fadale of Selinsgrove Area (16:03.5) held off Ryan Smathers of North East (16:04.9) for 2nd. Bayport Blue Point of New York crashed the PA party and won the team title with 56 points, placing five in the top 16 in a 30 second span. PA's top team was runner up State College with 99 points with a 38 second spread.
For the girls, PA#10 State College were narrowly upset by Governor Mifflin 56-63. Governor Mifflin countered State College's five in the top 18 performance by placing four in the top 10. Individual honors went to Wilson's Maggie Lawrence, who ran 18:34.2 for the 17 second victory. |
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09/11 | Hurricane Invitational
Schuylkill Haven Area
Tamaqua girls scored a low 22 points to cruise to the team title, while Jim Thorpe boys clung onto a two point team win over North Schuylkill 64-66. Brendan Shearn of North Schuylkill took home the boys individual title with a huge victory in
16:42, winning by almost two minutes. Amber Carroll of Tamaqua won the girls individual crown with a time of 19:57, winning by over a minute and led all five scoring girls inside the top 8. |
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09/11 | Lake Forest High School
Garnet Valley tied for 5th in the boys varsity A race with 199 points, led by a 19th place finish by Anthony Smart, who ran 17:33 to crack the top 20.
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09/11 | Lebanon Valley Invitational
Annville-Cleona
Central York HS girls used a 1-2-3-4-7 finish from Kelsey Ibarra (19:49), Allison Jacobs (20:50), Katie Crum (21:06), Megan Lundy (21:17), and Emily Loeffelholz (21:39) to score 17 points and win the 5 team invitational.
For the boys, St Joe's Prep used a 1-2-3 finish from winner Owen Glatts (16:46), Brian Wolff (17:03), and Paul Gennaro (17:07) to hold off Annville Cleona 22-38. All five St Joe's Prep runners finished in the top 9. |
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09/11 | Meteor Invitational
Montrose
Northeast Bradford won the boys title 43-57 over Corning, NY thanks to a 3-4-5-8 performance up front with the four of them being separated by 16 seconds. Individual honors went to Cal Michaels of Vestal, who ran 17:05 to win the race by 11 seconds. Vestal, NY went 1-2-8 on their way to bringing a PA trophy over the state border, winning the meet over Wallenpaupack 38-44. Mary Katherine Kulp completed the individual title sweep for Vestal, winning the girls rance in 21:15, five seconds better than teammate Alicia Sutphin. |
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09/11 | By CORY MULL
Special to PennTrackXC.com Girls’ Race Summaries Believe it or not, as a freshman at Cornwall High during the fall of 2007, Aisling Cuffe, the current US #1 in the girls’ 5,000 meters, sat on a soccer bench and played the part of spectator. ![]() Photo by Don Rich
Perhaps Cuffe, now a senior, used it as mental motivation -- no one was going to take her away from what she does best: compete. So from the first instant her cross country and track coaches, Brian Creeden and Dave Feuer, saw her tiny body move so ferociously, they’ve been blown away ever since. “You could see, she went from sort of a follower in the beginning of the (spring track) season to being a leader by the end of the season,” Creeden said of Cuffe’s 2007 spring, when she ditched her soccer cleats for running flats. “She realized she was good at it and had some potential. She just caught the bug and from there on she’s been at it.” She qualified for nationals (4:57.59) as a freshman in the mile, and then in the ensuing fall, registered a remarkable campaign that allowed her to compete at Foot Locker Nationals in San Diego, Ca. -- where she ran an 18:03. She repeated another fine performance her junior year, getting back to Foot Locker, but she left wanting more, having finished fourth in that race with a 17:21. So far, so good. ![]() Photo by Doug Michaels
She recorded a blistering 17:17 in the Varsity A girls’ race, which bested current Pennsbury sophomore Sara Sargent’s 18:10.28 of last year. It was 34 seconds off her best overall track 5K (16:43.58) and 17 seconds shy of her best cross country finish (17:00.10). Afterward, Cuffe was aware of who she beat and what it meant. “It’s pretty cool because I know Sara Sargent held it,“ Cuffe said. “And I know it was one of her early races, so you never know if she was going all out in it, but I was satisfied because she’s a really good runner.” Early on, Cuffe determined the pace of the race, which was just too fast for the competition. The senior, a tactical veteran, zipped out to an approximate 5:30 first mile, which released her competition from the wings. “I want to make sure no one interfered with my expectations,” said Cuffe, who, as a senior is drawing interest from Division I programs Villanova University, Duke and Stanford. “I wanted to run it fast and I wanted to see where I was. I wanted to make sure nothing got in the way of seeing where I was.” The fast start left Cuffe to calculate her internal clock as the race moved forward. Her second mile hovered around the 5:40 range, Creeden said, and her third mile tapered off a little bit from there. “She understood that a course like this is totally different than running in Manhattan (Van Cortlandt Park) because of the hills,” Creeden said of the relatively flat F & M course. “She knew she could run this nice, even, solid, bring on the pain kind of the race with kids that wanted to run with her.” Homer Center junior Angel Piccirillo, fifth in last year’s PIAA Class AA meet, tried to keep up with Cuffe initially, but the pace dictated was a little out of reach. It still didn’t prevent Piccirillo from registering a career best 18:24, which was 34 seconds better than her previous best (18:58) at the District 6 championships last season. “I think overall I did the best that I could and it was an opportunity I tried to use to the best of my ability,” she said. “I’m happy I got a PR out of it and getting to run against her was a once in a lifetime thing.” Piccirillo’s ascension in the cross country ranks has been a quick study since 2009, when she first suited up in the sport. Previously, she was a preferred mid-distance runner. But lately, she’s carved out an impressive resume on Pennsylvania terrain. “I know I’m definitely stronger than I was (when I started),” Piccirillo said. “And when I make a mistake now, I don’t worry about it as much as I know how to correct it.” Photo by Doug Michaels ![]() After Shea, five others clocked times below the 19-minute mark, making it eight overall. Conestoga Valley junior Brianna Heikkinen was fourth at 18:32, West Chester Henderson’s Janie Augustyn was fifth in 18:39 and Saint Anthony’s Gabriella Vezza was sixth in 18:41. Academy of Notre Dame’s Maria Seykora (seventh in 18:48), Saint Basil Academy’s Megan McGarrity (eighth in 18:59), West Chester Henderson’s Amanda Eisen (ninth in 19:01) and Osbourn Park’s Brandy Wybersky (tenth in 19:18) rounded out the top 10 in the Varsity A girls’ race. While West Chester Henderson and Osbourn Park both had two girls’ place within the top 10, it came down to displacement to decide the overall champion. Each team finished with 87 points. In Henderson’s case, their sixth runner, Stephanie Aldrich (31), recorded the team’s most important finish. She was nine places better than Courtney Maimon (40), which as a result gave Henderson the team title. Lower Dauphin, behind two runners in the top 12, finished third, scoring 129 points. Varsity B girls’ Race: ![]() Photo by Don Rich
“When I saw the end of the race and felt that she was right behind me,” Lindsley said of the second-place finisher, Cedar Crest’s Haleigh Echard (19:42), “I just sped up.” William Tennent’s Judy Mabone was third in 20:05. All three runners were aligned in a tight pack through two miles, but Lindsley, who led most of the way, made a move with about three-quarters of a mile left and punched through the finish. It was her second win since Tuesday, when she recorded a dual-meet win by over a minute in a Lancaster-Lebanon league race. “I liked this race, because I knew really tough girls were in the first race,” Lindsley said of the Varsity A group. “I kind of wanted to see how I stacked up to her, but I’m glad I ran here.” East Pennsboro’s Rachel Kreiger was fourth in 20:12, Ephrata’s Emily Blackshire was fifth in 20:35 and Coatesville’s Melanie Holl was sixth in 20:38. Central Dauphin’s Gabrielle Rekully (20:38) and Garden Spot’s Kelsey Gerhart (20:39), Tasha Becker (20:43) and Erin Shirk (20:45) rounded out the top 10. In the team title race, it was a three-way fight for the trophy, but Cedar Crest pulled away behind tight pack-running by Olivia Hess (32) and Katrina Diehm (35), which resulted in 102 points for the Falcons against Garden Spot’s 105 and Osbourn Park’s 107. Junior Varsity Girls’ Race: ![]() Cuffe, an eighth grader, was the only competitor to finish under 21-minutes. Photo by Don Rich
West Chester Henderson’s Sierra Walker was third (21:04), Saint Anthony’s Kerri-Anne Flynn was fourth (21:13), West Chester Henderson’s Katy Alexander was fifth (21:22) and Cornwall’s Eva McGill was sixth (21:24). Rounding out the top ten were Saint Basil Academy’s Valerie Stangelo (21:34), Lower Dauphin’s Caity Reese (21:38) and Manheim Township’s Halyley Schultz (21:39) and Stella Sergeyev (21:41). West Chester Henderson recorded the team title, securing 58 points against Cornwall’s 63. Middle School Girls’ Race: ![]() McNally, an eighth grader, beat Great Valley’s Anna Willig (10:32) by four seconds. Photo by Don Rich
“I wasn’t expecting to win at all,” McNally said. “I wanted to be in the top 10 or 12 but I didn’t expect to come out and win it.” Manheim Township, which won the team prize, placed four runners in the top 10, including the third and fourth finisher, Erin Mullican (10:33) and Mary Jane Reynolds (10:40). Penn Manor’s Kirsten Gibson was in fifth at 10:41.
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ONSITE COVERAGE RESULTS POSTED
PHOTO GALLERIESPhoto Gallery by Doug Michaels (outer loops & awards)
Photo Gallery by Don Rich (All Starts, 1st Loop & Finishes | Varsity A's 2K)
VIDEO INTERVIEWSVideo interview with Aisling Cuffe
Video Interview with Angel Piccirillo
Video Interview with Wade Endress
Video Interview with Ed Schrom RACE VIDEOSRace Video: Varsity Girls Gold
Race Video: Varsity Girls Blue
Race Video: Junior Varsity Girls
Race Video: Junior Varsity Boys
Race Video: Middle School Girls
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09/11 | Central Bucks South
PA#5 West Chester Henderson boys won their 2nd consecutive relay invitation by sweeping the first two places with their two relays breaking 45 minutes for four two mile legs. The relays finished 30 seconds apart.
For the girls, Delsea beat out Agnes Irwin for the girls relay title. Delsea was the only relay to break 55 minutes and was 44 seconds better than the field. |
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09/11 | Cherokee HS
Evan Caldwell (7th in 9:52) and Tom Waterman (11th in 9:56) of Germantown Friends broke ten minutes in the senior boys race at the 3200 meter invitational. Quinn Devlin of Downingtown West was 2nd in the junior boys race in 9:48.
For the girls, Carlyn Evans of Downingtown West was 4th in the senior girls race in 11:54 and Elyse Wilkinson of Penn Charter was 11th in 12:18. Catie Skinner of Penn Charter finished 2nd in the sophomore girls race in 11:49. Emma Bixler of Downingtown West finished 5th in the same race in 12:06. |
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09/11 | Columbian
Central Tech Boys finished 5th in the Division 3 B race with 174 points. Mark Stankiewicz led the way with a 12th place finish in 18:04. Central Tech girls were 26th in the Division 2 B race, led by Shelby Barger's 58th place performance in 22:03.
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09/11 | Twin Valley
Cardinal O'Hara girls had little difficulty winning their first invitational of the season, using a 38 second spread and having their top seven in the top ten overall with all of them running under 20:45. Rache Carr of Phoenixville ran 20:01 for a 2 second victory over Catholic League cross country champion Nicole Delgrosso.
For the boys, the host school Twin Valley defended their turf and won the team title with 45 points, 9 points better than Oral J Roberts. Connor Harriman of Pennsbury won the team title with a time of 15:53, 17 seconds better than runner up Matt Ahearne of Twin Valley. |
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09/11 | Waynesburg Invitational
Waynesburg College
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