Capital Challenge

Glebe were the big winners at the Capital Challenge capturing all four of the team races.  Ridgemont made the Glebe Senior Boys work hard for their money, trailing the Gryphons by the slightest of margins (only 2 points) at the half way point of the race, but Glebe pulled through and widened the gap over the second half to win 19-25 (the Capital Classic does not count individual runners as displacers). 

And a Midget Shall Lead Them

Cara MacDonald (Glebe) despite only being in grade 9 led the way from early in the race to run to a comfortable 16 second victory in the Junior Girls race in 15:44.  She was followed to the line by teammate Ivy Bialowas (16:01) with another Midget Girl, Isabelle Honnegar (AY Jackson) finishing third (16:15) ahead of the front duo from Nepean (Gruson and Lawson).  Glebe captured the team title with their third and fourth (Heffernan-Wilker and Gardiner) in 7th and 8th place respectively.

The Junior Boys race saw a repeat showdown from the Gryphon Open with Luke Allan (Ashbury) and Lief Buxton (Renfrew) opening up a comfortable lead early.  Allan made a strong move coming off the beach and opened up a big gap quickly but Buxton kept him closer than he did at Gryphon, with Allan running to an 8 second victory (13:38 to 13:46).  Fillion (Louis Riel) used a strong finishing kick to over take Pensom (Glebe) to earn the final podium spot.  Newman, Mason and Cino finished 7th, 9th and 11th to secure the team title for the Gryphons

Rosalyn Barrett (Glebe), Skye Pellerin (St. FX) and Teagan Shapansky (Glebe) gapped the field quite early and very little changed over the second half of the race, although the gaps got a little bigger, as Barrett covered the 6k course in 24:10, 26 seconds up on Pellerin.  A following trio of Gryphons Lyons, Macintosh and Moore finished 7-8-9 to wrap up the team title for Glebe.

Glebe's Adam Sanger pushed the pace early to open up a sizeable lead and run to the largest victory of the day, 40 seconds, over runner up Joe Fast (Ridgemont) with a time of 20:12.  Kevin Robertson (Bell) used a strong final K to break away from the chase group to secure third.

Full results can be found at Sportstats.ca