National Capital Championships

Glebe Collegiate and Colonel By shared the 2008 Overall (32 points)** and Girls Aggregate Titles (22 points), while Glebe claimed the Boys Aggregate (17 points) edging Nepean by a single point. **(NC rules state that for the Overall Aggregate, the best 4 finishes are totaled to obtain the overall aggregate as opposed to all 6 in an attempt to make it possible for schools with smaller programs to have a shot at the title).

Midget Girls
Kayla Jones (Nepean), Emma Galbraith (Franco Ouest) and Sheinz Eryuzlu (All Saints) pushed the pace early in the race and the three girls opened up and early lead on the rest of the field. They maintained close contact with each other until the final 400m in which Jones took control and ran to victory, but was later disqualified due to failing to meet the minimum practice requirement. Eryulzu who over took Emma Galbraith down the final stretch ended up claiming the Gold, Galbraith the silver and Louis Riel's Stephanie Gould the bronze.

West Conference bronze medallists Glebe placed all four scorers within a minute of each other, led by Holly McCulloch (7th) for 63 points to edge out Earl of March (68), led by Allison Penner who was 5th for the team title.

Midget Boys
Midget Boys Champion Adam Palamar (Merivale) was not the only athlete to finish his race with only one shoe on, but he was the only one to win! Palamar lost his shoe in the "PIT" at the 2K mark but appeared unphased as a large pack of 7 boys stayed together for most of the first half of the race. Palamar held off the charge of Colonel By's Sebastien Saville for a 2 second victory. Devan Elijah-Henry (Woodroffe) outkicked Yannick Plate (Beatrice Desolges) for the bronze.

Colonel By (55) and Beatrice Desolges (69) repeated their one- two finish of a week ago at the East Conference Meet to secure OFSAA births, while West Champs Nepean (84) took the bronze.

Junior Girls
Kathryn Tuck (Colonel By), Isabelle Kanz (Garneau) and Rachelle Beanlands (Colonel By) led the Junior Girls race from start to finish. Tuck pulled away coming up the toboggan hill and ran to a comfortable 9 second victory over Kanz, with Beanlands holding on to third.

Colonel By's Junior Girls had the most dominant victory of the day, totalling a paltry 40 points, led by the 1-3 finish of Tuck and Beanlands. West Champs Nepean was given a scare by Glebe , who once again packed all four scorers inside one minute, but managed to hang on to a four point spread 96-100 for the second OFSAA qualifying spot.

Junior Boys
Louis' Riel's Mohamed Souleiman hammered from the gun to run away with the Junior Boys race, posting a 50 second victory over runner up Ian Holstead (Colonel By). Gabriel Urquhart tried to stay with Holstead and looked comfortable in third, but had to work hard to hold off a late charge from Jake Rupert (South Carleton) to secure the final OFSAA individual qualifying spot.

The absence of West Champ Cameron Duffin hurt Nepean's junior boys as West runner up Glebe stepped up to steal the title, once again placing all four scoring runners within 1:04, led by Chris Long (10th). Glebe posted a 15 point victory (70-85) over Nepean, with East Champs (Louis Riel), who was also missing one of their top runners, third (110).

Senior Girls
Joanna Brown let the pack stay close until about the 1K mark, after which she used the cover of the forest to open up a sizeable lead on the field. Lisa Giles (Merivale), Heather Slinn (Hillcrest) and Lindsay Anderson (Colonel By) made up the chase pack which hung together until the hill, after which Giles pulled away slowly, while Slinn held on to third.

The Senior Girls team competition was the tightest contest with only 9 points separating 1st and 3rd. Colonel By held the slimest of margins (a one point lead over Glebe) at the half way point, but Merviale's 2nd through 4th runners all gained valuable spots over the final K to secure victory with 72 points. Colonel By managed to hang on to second (76) while Glebe finished 3rd (81).

Senior Boys
Ian Donald (Nepean) ran a strong race from the gun to post a 27 second victory over runner-up Tim Huebsch (Gloucester). Tyson Loney (Earl of March) played it patient and moved through the field to finish 3rd, 15 seconds back of Huebsch.

Merivale made it 2 for 2 in the Senior races, as several runner on the apparent team champions from Nepean were disqualified for not meeting the minimum practice requirement. An early fall to #1 Kevin Berry, who finshed almost completely covered in mud, cost them valuable points and Nepean had appeared to eeked out a one point victory (53-54) before learning of the DQ. East Champs, Hillcrest, were then bumped up to second with and Glebe claimed the bronze.

Full results available here!