Cross-Country Teams Claim Regional and Conference Titles

Houlton/GHCA won its second straight Penobscot Valley Conference boys cross-country title with 36 points, while its girls finished fifth. At Virginia’s Class 5 and 6 Region A meet, Kellam won the Class 5 girls title, Ocean Lakes the boys title, and Princess Anne’s Penelope Channell and Kellam’s Finnegan Manny took individual victories; Grassfield won a Class 6 team title, and teammate Grace Casey won the girls individual race, while Western Branch’s Gabriel Everett finished second in the boys race. In Connecticut, Ledyard won a boys team title, Griswold senior Tycen LaBelle took the individual crown, and Haddam-Killingworth won its second consecutive team championship behind individual winner Evan Berardino. At a tune-up before the Inter-A championships, Penn Charter beat Germantown Academy in boys’ team scoring despite GA’s Tyler Benson winning the race; Springside Chestnut Hill fielded a young, small squad. At the Fairfield-Choteau Invitational in Montana, Hobson/Moore’s four boys finished among the top 12, while its girls placed 18th, 19th and 22nd; Denton’s Tenley Williams also competed ahead of the state meet. A New York preview focused on Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake’s bid to extend its strong Class B postseason record and a wide-open Class A sectional contest.