Results needed for EverhartWhat a weekend for cross country racing in Pennsylvania. The weather ranged from misty and cool to humid and hot, and all the competition was fierce. At the first ever pre-States Inaugural Hershey XC Invitational Carly Seymour and Mark Dennin took home victories and the fastest times of the day, 18:17 and 16:05 respectively. Central Cambria girls won the entire meet by a commanding margin, and the North Allegheny boys squeaked out a 1 point win in the boys combined scoring. At the Sharpsville Invite Laren Zarger (18:06.0) and Andrew Geist (15:54.2) posted impressive wins. Kacey Gibson runs 18:43 for 2nd in OH at the Malone College Invite. Emmaus girls were 4th at the Bowdoin Classic in New York, site of the November 24th Nike Team Nationals qualifer. Emmaus was missing Brianna Faust, who had an appendectomy a little over a week ago.North Allegheny swept the Gold Races at the 1st Pre-States.
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The Sherando boys, gearing up for another state podium run in AA, seem to be well on their way to repeating the same feat in 2007 as they won their second consecutive invitational in as many weeks at the first annual Juniata College Invite in Altoona, Pennsylvania. While a tough 5K course beat up on the runners with only the race winner breaking 17 minutes, Sherando gave a similar beat down to the Pennyslvania and Western Virginia teams present as they finished 74 points ahead of the next team in the 21 team field. Another tight pack for their top five, which was a key to success last week in a win against Region II rival Potomac Falls at the Judges Classic, was found again for Sherando with a mere 20 seconds separting their top five in Scott Guichard (5th, 17:48), Danny Stiefvater (6th, 17:51), David Sperry (8th, 18:00), Colby Witt (13th, 18:17), and Sean Whitson (14th, 18:18). The Sherando girls also faired well as a team with two freshmen leading them up front in Krista DeCault (4th, 20:54) and Rachel Tripp (5th, 21:02) to take runner-up honors with 61 points.