Maclay School freshman Stefanie Kurgatt outran her teammate, Jana Stolting, 17:48 to 17:54, to win the varsity girls 5K race at the Panhandle Cross Country Championships in Marianna, Florida on Saturday, 24 October 2009. It was Stolting's first loss of the 2009 cross-country season. Although Maclay took the top two spots in the race, Chiles runners Lily Williams (18:09), Carly Thomas (18:22), and Kendall Andrews (19:04) took the next three places plus twelfth and eighteenth to win the team competition with a low score of 42 points, just ahead of runners-up Fort Walton Beach at 50 points. Maclay took third with 62 points.
In the varsity boys 5K race, defending FHSAA-1A state champion and Maclay senior ran a winning time of 15:51, finishing nearly 90 meters ahead of his closest challenger, Gabriel Holguin of Bay. Holguin's time was 16:07. The next three places, though, went to Pensacola Washington runners Ian Bordelon (16:13), Jacob Kotick (16:15), and Thomas Arnold (16:15), leading a charge that gave Washington the team title with 45 points. Second place in the team standings went to Fort Walton Beach, again a bridesmaid with 78 points.After the Panhandle Championships, less than two weeks of the cross-country season remain before the first District meet in the FHSAA state championship series.
Links:
- Results at FLRunners.com
http://fl.milesplit.us/meets/54463 - Kurgatt & Swain Victorious at 2009 Cougar Challenge
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2009/09/cougar-challenge-opens-cross-country.html
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