Thousand Islands SS of Brockville dominated the 2008 Gryphon Open winning 4 of 6 team titles and capturing the Boys, Girls and Overall aggregates, with 28, 21 and 49 points respectively. Renfrew CI took 2nd in the Girls Aggregate (14) and was 3rd in the Boys (12), to place 2nd in the overall (26), while the host Gryphons placed 3rd overall (20), claiming 2nd in the Boys Aggregate (16). Merivale took 3rd in the Girls Aggregate (12).For complete team aggregates, click here.
Elementary Races
In the elementary races, the 2007 champions from Glashan repeated as Boys Champs based on the strength of a strong 1-2 finish by Julian Nappest and Isaac Freda. In the Girls Race, Beatrice Desloges defended the title they won in 2007 placing all 4 scorers in the top 7, lead by individual champion Olivia Sidock.
Midget Girls
Only one course record managed to fall in the 2008 Open, as Lindsay Kary (St. Matthew) had a strong final kilometre to pull away from runner-up Emma Galbraith (Frano-Ouest) for a 39 second victory, winning in a time of 12:02.3. Both girls bettered the previous course record of 12:43 set in 2007 by Colonel By's Katheryn Tuck.
Thousand Islands placed all 4 scorers in the next 5 spots, led by bronze medallist Shelby Kent to score a meager 19 points, well ahead of 2nd place Fellows (Petawawa) with 79.
Midget Boys
The Midget Boys delivered the closest team competition and the most exciting finish of the day as Adam Palamar (Merivale) and Thomas Kellar (Renfrew) ran stride for stride over the final kilometre before Palamar pulled away over the final few strides for a 4/10 of a second victory. Thousand Islands captured the team title with 43 points, while only 14 points separated 2nd through 5th with Beatrice Desloges (73) taking second over Franco Cite (82), 3rd.
Junior Girls
2007 Midget Girls Champion Kathryn Tuck (Colonel By) won her second Gryphon Open title capturing the Junior Girls race followed by Julia Francki (Sir Wil) and Rachelle Beanlands (Colonel By).
Thousand Islands won thier third consecutive race with 53 points, while Colonel By (67) held off Renfrew (69) for second.
Junior Boys
Louis Riel's Mohammed Souleiman led the junior boys race from the gun for a 27 second victory over Robbie Deeks of Thousand Islands. Francis Pecoskie (Bishop Smith, Petawawa) placed third. Glebe packed 4 runners within 35 seconds to capture the team title with 54 points, 16 ahead of runner up Thousand Islands (80). Bishop Smith was third with 87 points.
Senior Girls
Twins Rebekah and Rachel Folkema finished 1-2 in the Senior Girls race but it wasn't enough to secure a victory for Renfrew as bronze medallist Lisa Giles lead her Merivale (50) teammates to victory, edging Renfrew (56) by 6 points. Hillcrest, lead by 4th place finisher Heather Slinn, finished 3rd with 108 points.
Senior Boys
Thousand Islands demonstrated what years of hard work and dedication can do for a senior team (with a dash of talent thrown in for good measure) by sweeping the medals in the Senior Boys race. Jacob Smith, Will McFall and Nick Thomas finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively, with fourth scorer John Wynands placing 7th . Renfrew placed 2nd with 54, while Hillcrest took third with 75.
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