RIDGWAY, Pa. (D9Sports) — Elk County Catholic and Punxsutawney took home District 9 boys’ cross country teams titles, while Smethport’s Christian Tanner and DuBois’ McKellen Jamarillo won individual titles Saturday at Ridgway.
(Clarion boys’ cross country PIAA qualifiers Nathaniel Lerch flanked by Noah and Nick Schill. Photo by Matt Lerch)
Class 1A Results • Class 2A Results
ECC took home its fourth consecutive champions in Class 1A with a score of 54 just two points ahead of second-place finisher Cranberry. Both of those teams advance to the PIAA Championships.
Punxsutawney won the Class 2A title with 29 points well ahead of second-place Bradford, who scored 62 points in the five-team race. The Chucks are the lone D9 Class 2A team to move onto the PIAA Championships.
Tanner took home the Class 1A individual title in a time of 17:59 ahead of teammate and second-place finisher Darion Gregory (18:15).
Jamarillo won the Class 2A individual title in a time of 19:16. He was 10 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Corbin Heitzenrater of Punxsutawney.
Rounding of the Top 10 in Class 1A were Clarion’s Nathaniel Lerch (3rd; 18:19), ECC’s Ben Hoffman (4th; 18:21), Jacob Carnovale (6th; 18:32), Isaac Wortman (8th; 18:35) and Joe Wolfe (10th; 19:03), Cranberry’s Matt Woolcock (5th; 18:25) and Daniel Fisher (7th; 18:34) and Brookville’s Ethan Brentham (9th; 18:53).
Those 10 as well as the remainder of the ECC and Cranberry squads and Brookville’s Bryce Baughman (11th; 19:06), Smethport’s Jordan Pavlock (12th; 19:19), Keystone’s Conrad Lloyd (15th; 19:32), Clarion’s Noah Schill (16th; 19:37) and Nick Schill (18th; 19:47) and Kane’s Hayden Barr (19th; 19:50) qualify for the PIAA Championships in Class 1A.
The additional members of the ECC team were Alex Miller (26th; 20:20), Tom Dippold (49th; 21:36) and Luke Jansen (77th; 24:07) with the additional Cranberry team members being Christian Miller (13th; 19:30), Logan Johnson (14th; 19:31), Hunter O’Neil (17th; 19:42), River Perry (23rdl 20:03) and Joey Fox (34th; 20:38).
The entire Punxsutawney team qualified for the PIAA Class 2A Championship and also included Aiden McLaughlin (4th; 19:33), Ethan May (5th; 19:33), Owen Bartlebaugh (7th; 19:53), Levin Ingros (11th; 20:33), Eric Surkala (12th; 20:35) and Samuel Rodgers (21st; 21:13).
Joining those runners and Jamarillo in heading to the Class 2A PIAA Championship are Clearfield’s Isaac Swanson (3rd; 19:31) and Jeremiah Vezza (8th; 19:55) and Bradford’s Ryan Cottillion (6th; 19:45) and Tyler Kraft (9th; 20:14).
