Mountain Valley Conference Championships
The defending AAA state champs, Parkland, look to be positioning themselves for a solid defense after going 1-2-5-16-17 (41) 1:58 spread, to win the Mountain Valley Conference championship. Easton was 10 points back, followed by Liberty with 54 points. Returning to form as the big meets roll around, appears to be defending District 11 champ Paula Giguere, who has been strengthed by the challenge from newly arrived frosh teammate Katie Stepp. Stepp had been winning races all year, but Giguere took this one by 7 seconds in 18:33.8. The Stroudsburg boys, led by John Somer's third place finish, won the league meet with 44 points, 16 better thena Parkland. But the individual championship belonged to Dorian McDonald, Liberty, who blistered the Lehigh course in 15:51.2, 39 seconds better than Parkland #1 Greg Marci.