National Capital Championships

Glebe Collegiate won the Boys, Girls and Overall Aggregates at the NC Cross Country Championships today sweeping all three Girls categories and winning the Junior Boys and Senior Boys races as well.

Midget Girls

Weston (Glebe) took off from the gun and ran unchallenged over the 3000m course, finishing 25 seconds up on her nearest competitor, teammate Rhead.  Glebe packed all four scorers in the top 9, with Kailey Young 6th and Mzia Lee Pottie finishing 9th to capture the team title with a meager 18 points, lowering their team score from 21 at the West Conference Meet.  Gibson (West Carleton) claimed the bronze medal to complete the West Conference sweep.

The battle for the second qualifying spot proved to be very tight, as Nepean edged East Champs Colonel By by 11 points to qualify for OFSAA. Nepean packed their top three in within 4 seconds (Freitag 11th, MacDougall 13th, and Wotherspoon 14th) with their 4th (Shute 23rd) only 25 seconds behind.

Midget Boys

Jonathan Rioux (Louis Riel) also established himself as the front runner very early and ran to a comfortable 45 second victory in the Midget Boys race followed by Graham (Ashbuy) and Fournier (Franco Cite).  Graham's teammates ran very strong behind him as Carere placed 13th and Hillier moved up from 23rd at the East, to place 18th, while Taylor finished 23rd to secure the victory for East Champs Ashbury (56 points).  West Champs Nepean did their thing, led by Walsh (5th) and then a tightly packed trio (Nicole 21st, Gaudet 22nd, and Thebaud 25th) to capture the second OFSAA qualifying spot with 73 points.

Junior Girls

Shona McCulloch did what she does best and simply ran away from the Junior Girls field, running to a 56 second victory, the largest margin of victory for the day.  McCulloch was followed by Glebe's Keili Shepherd, whose teammates place all four scorers in the top 9 (Grimes 7th, Saravanamutto 8th, Millar 9th) to win with 25 points.  East Champs Franco Cite held of a late charge from Colonel By to claim second in a tight battle (79-84).  Sir Wil's Marin Scotten captured the bronze medal.

Junior Boys

In the battle of the Franco's, Cite's McCann (21:00) made a strong move on the second 3K loop to pull away from Ouest's Mather (21:26) to win.  Glebe's Harris placed 3rd and was followed to the line by teammates Perreault (4th), Salvino (7th) and Grall-Johnson (11th) to claim a 25-43 victory over Franco Ouest.

Senior Girls

Glebe had 3 runners in the lead pack of 4 for the first half of the race at which point Glebe's Smith and Livingstone started to pull away.  Smith powered home over the final K, with Livingstone claiming silver and Adams (St. Joseph) breaking up the Gryphon medal sweep as Marshall finished 4th.  Wong finished 9th to give the Gryphon's  the lowest team score of the day of (16) for a 36 point victory over East Champs Canterbury (Stenman-Fahey 5th, Leckie 13th, Codrington 15th and Dolin 19th).

Senior Boys

Glebe's Abdulkarim and Bernst repeated their one-two finish of last week's West Conference Championships (and last year's NC Champs).  Last year's OFSAA Junior Boys Champion Day (Holy Trinity) almost nipped Bernst at the line as he came charging home but simply ran out of real estate.  Glebe won the team title with 21 points as Dillabaugh (5th) and Weston (13th)  rounding out the scoring for the Gryphons.  Lisgar had a slight scare as #4 man Alexander-Cook took a spill, but he managed to make it home in 25th place which was good enough to hold off Louis Riel by a comfortable 14 points (49-63) behind the strong running of their front three (Abanto-Enns 6th, Nussbaum, 8th and East Champ Kinahan 10th).

NC Blogger would like to thank everyone for a great season and wish our NC athletes success as they represent our region at the OFSAA Championships next weekend in Waterloo.

Results are available on the Glebe XC page

(more to come soon - once Parent Teacher Interviews are done)!!