Brentwood, Assumption win at Great American

By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor

(Updates throughout the weekend)

Results are coming in across the country from huge meets all over the place. 

At Cary, N.C., home of the Great American Cross Country Festival, the Assumption (Kentucky) girls came out on top, with Blacksburg (Virginia) second. Meanwhile, the Brentwood (Tennesee) boys went 2-3-5 in the championship race to take the team title. 

Hannah Long of Eureka (Missouri) ran 17:38.0 to win the girls race. She was almost 20 seconds up on Madisyn Peeples of Bowling Green (Kentucky), who was second in 17:57.6.

Assumption edged Blacksburg by a single point, 95-96, thanks to slightly better results and fourth and fifth spots. Green Hope (North Carolina) was third and Saratoga Springs (New York) was fourth.

Ben Huffman from Providence Day (N.C.) kicked to the boys win in 14:59.4. It was a tight finish. Taylor Caldwell of Brentwood ran 15:00.1 and teammate Alec Thomas was right with him at 15:00.2. Brentwood's third was Aaron Thomas, fifth overall, in 15:07.4.

Brentwood scored 99 points (77 for the team's fifth) and was easily ahead of St. Xavier (Kentucky), which has 170, and Tatnall (Delaware), which had 185.

Also in North Carolina, the Wendy's Invitational saw some huge performances. In the open race, Aaron Templeton of Hardin Valley Academy (Tennessee) ran 14:52 to back up his US#8 ranking. Right behind him was Patrick Sheehan of Lake Norman (N.C.).

Allie Klimkiewicz from Oakton (Virginia) ran 17:34 to win the girls individual crown and was eight second ahead of Kayla Montgomery of Mount Tabor (N.C.). Myers Park of North Carolina scored 87 to win the team title. Oakton was next with 121.

In the top boys race, Apex (N.C.) scored 135 points for the win, with Mount Tabor next with 175. Ian Milder of Mount Tabor, however, was the individual winner in 15:23.

--- TEXAS ---

At The Woodlands, it was the College Park (Texas) boys and the hometown girls who won team titles at the Nike South Invitational. 

College Park scored 105 to win a tight team competition that included The Woodlands (123), Keller (130), Great Oak of California (136) and Southlake Carroll (138). 

Austen Dalquist of Keller was the overall winner in 15:50, eight seconds up on runner-up Jacob Pickle of Southlake Carroll (15:58.9).

The Woodlands girls scored a huge win with 93 points, overtaking Great Oak (98) and Southlake Carroll (110) for the win. 

Individually, Paige Hofstad of New Braunfels ran 18:04.8 to win the race, while Destiny Collins of Great Oak was second in 18:29.1.

--- NEW JERSEY ---

The Shore Coaches Invitational was a massive affair with 183 teams involved on New Jersey's revered Holmdel Park course. 

Northport (N.Y.) won the championship boys title by scoring 48 points, led by Mike Brannigan, who won it in 15:45 and Tim McGowan, who was third in 16:04. Haddonfield Memorial (N.J.) was secondew with 128 points.

Freshman Briana Gess of Haddonfield Memorial ran 18:36 to win the championship girls race, while Red Bank Catholic (N.J.) took the team title with 100 points. 

Gess' time was faster than Josette Norris' winning time in the Varsity A race (18:47), but Norris (of Tenafly, NJ) won her race by 50 seconds. 

Liam Mullett of Pingry (N.J.) won the Varsity E race in 15:50. 

--- PENNSYLVANIA ---

With temperatures in the mid-80s, the high school races at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University have been canceled, according to a Milesplit report.

--- Maine ---

At Belfast, Josef Holt-Andrews of Telstar ran 15:07 for 5,000 meters to smash the course record by 20 seconds in the Maine Festival of Champions. 

The Lewiston boys and Mt. Desert Island girls won team titles. 

--- OREGON ---

Camas (Washington) junior Alexa Efraimson ran a stunning time of 16:35 on a 5K course to win the women's collegiate race at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in Eugene. The college teams in the field included reigning NCAA champion Oregon and a Washington Huskies team with recent Dyestat elites Amy-Eloise Neale, Katie Knight and Maddie Meyers. Plus, Stephanie Jenks from Iowa finished seventh in 16:57. Jenks has been running independently of her high school team. (And Mary Cain made an appearance as part of a recruiting visit to Oregon).

The woman that Efraimson, 16, tracked down at the end, Emma Bates of Boise State, was third in the NCAA 10,000 meters last spring and seventh in the 5,000. 

--- MICHIGAN ---

At the Portage Invitational, Lauren Brasure of Rockford came up with a big win and upset St. Ursula Academy star Annie Heffernan. Brasure won it in 17:36, with Heffernan second in 17:49.2. 

Brasure's teammates were inspired too. Rockford knocked off Michigan's top team, Saline, 62-84. 

Meanwhile, Grant Fisher of Grand Blanc ran off the boys win in 15:10.8.

--- WASHINGTON ---

At Yakima, in the Sunfair Invitational, Kamiakin (Washington) won the boys championship with 12 points (a combination of seven flighted races), while Central Catholic (Oregon) was second with 20.

Drew Schreiber of Eisenhower ran the fastest three-mile time of the day, 14:55.9. 

On the girls side, Alexis Fuller of Union (Camas, Wash.) ran 17:58.7.

--- NEW YORK CITY ---

The five boroughs gathered for the Mayor's Cup at Van Cortlandt Park as the city's school's pushed through the paces on a 2.5 mile course.

Marco Pompilj of Collegiate led his team to the victory with a fastest-time-of-the-day 12:42.

Denise Branch of Benjamin Cardozo was pressed in a close race but came away with the victory in 15:13. Curtis scored 87 points to win the girls title.

--- ILLINOIS ---

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--- CALIFORNIA ---

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