On Saturday, the Bay State League held it's XC championship meet at Norwood. The timing was fortunate; a few hours later, Massachusetts was in the midst of a Nor'easter that brought rain and heavy wet snow to the whole East Coast. By Sunday morning, there were several inches of snow on the ground hundreds of thousands had lost power. That storm cancelled many weekend events, including several road races, but Saturday's league meet was already in the books by then.
At Norwood, the Brookline boys and Weymouth girls left no doubt that they were the top teams in the league.
In the boys race, Brookline's Chernet Sisay (15:59) held off Walpole's Zach Ganshirt (16:03) for the win, and the Warriors placed five runners in the top ten to run away with the team title. Walpole (93 points) earned the runner-up spot ahead of Newton North (105) and Weymouth (110).
(Point totals might not be accurate, as I understand there was at least one mistake in the results.)
In the girls race, Wellesley's Priyanka Fouda followed her runner-up finish from last year with a win in 2011, taking the race in 19:10, half a minute in front of Weymouth's Ashley Betts and Julie Tevenen. The Wildcats would go on to place four runners in the top eight and win easily, with Needham second and Brookline third. Newton North's Evie Heffernan was fourth overall, leading the Tigers to a fifth-place team finish.
This was the first year that the Bay State league meet included not only a JV race, but a race for freshmen. Newton North's Isabella Reilly won the 2500m girls race in 10:25, while Brookline's Ethan Goroff won the boy's race in 8:55. Brookline boys also took the top six places in the JV race and had the top finisher in the 2500m mixed co-ed run to make a clean sweep of the awards.
Results can be found on Cool Running here:
Bay State XC Championships - Individual and Team results
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Actually had the freshaman race last year as well. This was the first year for the coed JV 2500 however.
Very fortunate we got the meet in when we did.
Several corrections to the final results reshuffled the order of the boys teams. Here's the new order of team finish for Boys Varsity:
1 Brookline 31
2 Wellesley 99
3 Walpole 99
4 Weymouth 110
5 Needham 117
6 Newton North 121
7 Natick 150
8 Framingham 190
9 Milton 267
10 Braintree 276
11 Norwood 314
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