PA Coverage of the Manhattan College Invitational
| 10/09 | 1st Annual West Middlesex XC Relays
West Middlesex
The host West Middlesex boys had the first two three man relays teams cross the finish line to win the team title of the inagural event. The winning team ran a total time of 15:56.31 featuring Chasel Whelan, Rich Klumph, and Jason Devlin. They were 4 seconds better than their 2nd team of Trey Powell, John Sochor, and Lee Bochert. Their female teammates accomplished the same feat as the boys, taking the first two places to win the team title. The winning team ran 19:08.33 and it featured Brittany Rufo, Shelby Pontera, and Kelsey Murran. They won by nearly 40 seconds over their 2nd team.
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West Middlesex, PA RESULTS POSTED |
| 10/09 | Albright Invitational
Albright College
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Reading, PA RESULTS POSTED COLLEGIATE |
| 10/09 | 55th Annual William Tennent Invitational
William Tennent
The girls race featured two big time performances that have been mostly under the radar this season. First, PA#3 Downingtown East had a very strong performance, placing four in the top nine overall to cruise to victory with a low score of 42 points, with formerly ranked Central Bucks West a distant 2nd. At full strength, Downingtown East has yet to be beaten this season. The other big performance came from freshman Kara Steinke of Methacton. On this day she went up against Penridge junior Tori Gerlach and rose to the occassion and came away with a win. Steinke ran 18:23 for the win while Gerlach ran 18:44 for 2nd place. As of this point in the season, Steink has 3 wins and a runner up finish behind Sara Sargent.
For the boys, Great Valley placed their scoring five in the top 25 overall and a 1-5 spread of 45 seconds to come away with the team trophy with 76 points, almost doubling up runner up Cheltenham. Individual honors went to Springfield Montco's John Trueman (16:15) who held off William Tennent's Alex Cichitti (16:18) by 3 seconds.
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Warminster, PA RESULTS POSTED |
| 10/09 | Cardinal Classic 5K
Pine Grove Area
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Pine Grove, PA |
| 10/09 | Carnegie Mellon Invitational
Carnegie Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, PA RESULTS POSTED COLLEGIATE |
| 10/09 | DeSales University Invitational
DeSales University
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Center Valley, PA RESULTS POSTED COLLEGIATE |
| 10/09 |  Harbor Creek Dirty Dawg Invitational
Harbor Creek
Grove City Boys placed their scoring five in the top fifteen overall led by another strong performance by individual winner Jacob Kildoo (16:29.38) to cruise to the team title with a score of 35 points. Cathedral Prep was a close 2nd with 50 points.
For the girls, Mercyhurst Prep had four in the top eleven to win the team title with 51 points, 48 points better than runner up McDowell. The individual gold medal went to Fort Leboeuf's Jenny Jones with a time of 20:30.15.
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Harborcreek, PA RESULTS POSTED ONSITE COVERAGE
Photo Gallery by Doug Michaels
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| 10/09 | Laurel HS Tri-County Invitational
Laurel
With just 28 points, Riverside (Ellwood City), captured the boys title by sweeping the top three and placing five in the top 15 behind the 1st place finish of Bill Evans in 16:55.6. Laurel took 2nd with 65. Evans' teammates, Adam Snowden (17:52.5) and Critian George (17:55.2), were 2nd and 3rd, respectively. Neshannock's Lizzie Manickas won the individual title in 21:04.2. But Riverside tallied just 30 points to Laurel's 2nd place 63 to take home team honors. Molly Duffy led Riverside with her 2nd place 21:23.2. Her four scoring teammates were in the top 14. |
Ellwood City, PA RESULTS POSTED |
| 10/09 |
Manhattan College Invitational Bishop Loughlin
Lasalle's Tom Trainer was the top PA finisher in the boys Eastern States race, finishing 20th in 13:14.93. AA PA#5 Germantown Friends was the top PA team in the race with 354 points led by David Waterman's 41st place finish in 13:31.08 and a 49 second spread from 1-5. GFS finished 8 points better than PA#8 Lasalle.
In the Varsity Boys B race, Abington finished 6th with 216 points led by a 23rd place finish from John Hartsough in 14:17.67. In Varsity F, Taylor Alderdice finished 12th with a score of 330 points. Ean DiSilvio had a strong race to lead his team, finishing 15th with a time of 13:38.61.
For the girls, Pennsbury's Sara Sargent was the top PA finisher with a 6th place finish in a time of 14:47.54. Despite not having three of their varsity runners because of the SATs, PA#1 Pennsbury was still the top PA team in the race, finishing 9th with a score of 248 points.  In Varsity A, PA#4 West Chester Henderson (Team average 16:09) was victorious with a score of 60 points with five in the top 23 overall. Janie Augustyn was 3rd (15:36.00) and teammate Amanda Eisman was 5th (15:48.23) to lead the team to victory.Photos by Geoffrey Decker for PennTrackXC.com
 PA#6 North Penn (team average 16:15) also left New York with 1st place hardware and they also scored 60 points and they had five in the top 24, with Meghan McGovern winning an individual race for the 2nd straight year at this meet. Her winning time of 14:54.19 was 21 seconds better than the field. Hannah Molloy, a 7th grader in the Pennsbury School District at Charles Boehm Middle School, was 2nd in the Girls Intermediate 1.25 mile race in 7:36.64. (Photo by Tim Fulton, ArmoryTrack.com)Flash Results courtesy of Geoff Decker
FLASH RESULTS: North Penn's Meghan McGovern won her 2nd consecutive race at Van Courtland Park, winning the Varsity E race in 14:51. Pennsbury's Sara Sargent places 6th in the Eastern States race, running in the 14:40s range for the 4000 meter layout. Pennsbury finished 9th overall without three of their top five runners who stayed behind to take the SATs. Aisling Cuffe of Cornwall, NY wins the race in 13:57 but misses Central Cambria alum Carly Seymour's meet and course record of 13:55 that she set in 2007 Lasalle's Tom Trainer was 20th in the boys Eastern States race in 13:14. Germantown Friends finished 14th for top PA team honors. |
New York, NY RESULTS POSTED ONSITE COVERAGE
PA Stories from Manhattan:
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| 10/09 |  Ridgway Invitational
Ridgway
Freshman Kennedy Weisner continues to impress in her first season, taking the individual title with a time of 19:42.76, ten seconds better than Punxsutawney's Milea Schall. Schall's performance was good enough to help her team come away with the team title by five points over Elk County Catholic 45-50.
For the boys, Harley Thompson of Elk County Catholic won the race
with a time of 17:17 and led his team to the team title over Northern Potter 63-82. |
Ridgway, PA RESULTS POSTED |
| 10/09 |  Southern Tier Classic XC Invitational
Allegany-Limestone
McDowell boys were the winners of the Large School Varsity race with a score of 46 points with six scoring in the top twenty overall, including individual winner Caleb Cordell, who won the race in 16:56.9. In the small school race, Eisenhower finished 3rd with a score of 78 points. Anthony Amroski led the way for his team with a 2nd place finish in a time of 18:05.9. No full teams scored on the girls side, but the best performance of the day for PA came from Eisenhower's Lacey Stanko. She finished in 10th place in the small school race with a time of 22:58.3
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St. Bonaventure, NY RESULTS POSTED |
| 10/09 | State College Invitational
State College Area High School
Emma Cousins led State College to the team title by pacing five of her teammates in top eight finishes. Her 2nd place 20:22 was behind only St. Mary's Adair Jennocro, who ran 20:-01. State College tallied 20 points, with Altoona finishing 2nd with 65.
In the boys race, Altoona's Wade Endress and Tyler Lidwell sat out, but the results were similar to most earlier meets this season. Their 29 points outdistanced 2nd place State College by 11. Korey Replogle led Altoona with his first place 16:49, pacing the scoring five in the top ten. State College's Paul Crowe also cracked 17 minutes, going 16:55. |
State College, PA PARTIAL RESULTS POSTED
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| 10/09 |  Stock/Conwicke Invitational
Union Endicott
The Wallenpaupack girls placed four in the top 13 to take 2nd place by just five points behind Vestal NY's 57. Leading the PA team were Stevie Lis with a 4th place 21:06, Taylor Maxson, 8th in 21:19, and her sister Erika, just five seconds back. Marley Miller was the 4th scorer in 21:44. The Wallenpaupack boys captured 3rd with 105 points behind a 4th place 17:47 by Josh Rank and 10th place 18:06 by Tom Ruppel.
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Endicott, NY RESULTS POSTED |
| 10/09 | The Saint Francis Father Bede XC Invitational
Saint Francis University
Central Cambria girls returned to the course and came away with a solid performance with a 21-54 victory over Penns Manor. Alyssa Brandeis of Central Cambria had little difficulty winning the race, as she won in a time of 20:22.
For the boys, Central Cambria completed the team title sweep with a score of 19 points to over take Philipsburg Osceola. Individual honors went to Central Cambria's Arjun Vyas in 17:48.
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Loretto, PA RESULTS POSTED COLLEGIATE AND HIGH SCHOOL |
| 10/11 |
Philadelphia Catholic League Division Championships Lasalle had a 63 second spread led by Tom Trainer's victory in 16:46 to win the Boys North Division race with 21 points. St. Joe's Prep placed 1-2-3 led by Owen Glatt's win in 17:07 to win the South Division race without some varsity runners. Cardinal O'Hara boys did not run their varsity.
For the girls, Cardinal O'Hara took seven of the top eight places led by winner Nicole Delgrosso in 21:12 to win the South Division. Archbishop Wood were led by Kasey Brown's first place finish in 20:09 and also placed seven in the top eight to win the North Division. |
Philadelphia, PA RESULTS POSTED |
