Glebe wins Turkey Trot

The Glebe Gryphons put on a strong performance at the 7th edition of the Turkey Trot winning 5 of 6 races, every race except the Midget Boys, taking both the team titles and individual honours (and the Turkey) in each race.  Glebe's Junior Boys and Junior Girls put up the most impressive numbers, with Teagan Harris, Finn Perreault, Pierre Grall and Evan Kealey finishing 1 - 3 - 4 - 5 for a meager 13 points, while Keili Shepherd won the Junior Girls race with her teammates taking places 4th - 8th (Grimes, Millar, Larkin, C. Wright and E. Wright) with only 12 seconds separating the group of 5 chasing Gryphons.  Nepean won the Midget Boys race, giving NC schools a clean sweep of the events.

Results are available on the Glebe XC page.

Pirates Invitational

The Nepean Knights placed fourth overall at the Pirates Invitational in Brockville on Friday, Oct 3rd.  The Knights had strong runs from their Midget teams as the Midget Boys won and the Midget girls captured silver, while their Junior Boys team placed 4th.

Louis Riel's Jonathan Rioux had the top individual finish for NC athletes, placing second in the Midget Boys.  The Day family had a pair of 4th place finishes with Natalie placing 4th in the Midget Girls race while her brother Owen, the defending OFSAA Junior Boys XC Champion, was 4th in the Senior Boys race.

Expect many more NC schools in action this week as Louis Riel hosts their annual Invite on the East Conference Course at the Hornet's Nest on Tuesday, while St. Michael's (Kemptville) host the Turkey Trot on Thursday.  Information about these events is available on the Glebe XC page.

Pirates results are available on the Pirates XC website

Gryphons place fourth at Roy Griak

The  Gryphon Girls placed 4th at the Roy Griak Invitational at the University of Minnesota on the weekend.  The Gryphons got strong runs from Mei Mei Weston (who was the top freshman in the race finishing 6th), Alexa Livingstone (19th) and Katherine Marshall (29th), to score 204 points, just 32 points shy of a podium finish.  The race was won by the 3rd ranked team in the United States, Saugus, from California with 75 points.

The Gryphon Men only had four finishers in the race, as the  conditions claimed several runners, (30 C with 98% humidity at race time) led by Teagan Harris, who placed 53rd.

Results are available on the University of Minnesota XC website.

Gryphons make it Two in a Row

The Glebe Gryphons made it two for two winning their home meet the Gryphon Open.  Glebe teams won the Midget Girls and Junior Girls race, placing second in the Senior Girls, Senior Boys and Junior Boys races as well.

Defending OFSAA champion Shona McCulloch (Longfields-Davidson) opened her season with an impressive win, taking the Junior Girls 4.2K race in convincing fashion almost a mintue ahead of her closest pursuer.  It was not the largest margin of victory of the day however as Senior Boy John Pettigrew (Renfrew) posted a 1:07 win over his teammate, Sam Agnew.

Results are available on the Glebe XC page.

Glebe wins Trinity Invitational

The defending OFSAA Overall Girls Champions got the 2014 Harrier season off to a good start winning all three girls races at the prestigious Trinity Invitational in Port Hope, leading the Gryphons to the Overall team title 13 points ahead of Thousand Islands (Brockville) and last years OFSAA Overall Boy's Champs, St. Michael's College (Toronto).

The most dominant performance of the day came in the Junior Girls race as Glebe placed 6 runners in the top 10, behind individual champ Keili Shepherd, and 8 in the top 24, taking both first and second spots in the team competition.   Teagan Harris (Glebe) was the only other individual champion from the NC Region, winning the Junior Boys race.

RESULTS

2014 Cross Country

The 2014 Cross Country Season is just around the corner! Unfortunately, our old results hosting site is no longer available, but I have archived most of the results and will look to find a new place to host them.

The 2014 season is just rounding into shape with a few meets on the calendar and more to come.  If you are participating in a meet, or hosting a meet and you notice missing (or erroneous) information posted here, please send an e-mail to me at kirk.dillabaugh@ocdsb.ca

2014 Schedule

Visit the Glebe XC page for  more information, or click the meet name for direct links to meet websites.

Trinity Invitational - Wed., Sept. 17th - Port Hope
Louis Riel XCookie Run - Thurs., Sept. 18th (TBD) - Hornet's Nest
pre-EOSSAA - Tues., Sept 23rd - Petawawa, ON
Gryphon Open - Wed., Sept 24th - Mooney's Bay - site of 2014 NCSSAA Championships
Pirates Invitiational - Fri., Oct 3rd. - Brockville, ON
Louis Riel XC Invitational - Tues., Oct 7th - Hornet's Nest
pre-OFSAA - Thurs., Oct 9th - Waterloo, ON
Turkey Trot - Thurs., Oct 9th - St. Michael's, Kemptville, ON
East Conference Championships - Wed., Oct 15th - Hornet's Nest
West Conference Championships - Thurs. Oct 16th - Walter Baker (Kanata)
NCSSAA Championships - Thurs., Oct 23rd - Mooney's Bay
OFSAA XC Championships - Sat., Nov 1st - Waterloo, ON

OFSAA 2013 - Sudbury

National Capital athletes turned in some outstanding performances at the 2013 OFSAA Cross Country Championships in Sudbury.  Holy Trinity’s Owen Day (Junior Boys) and Longfields-Davidson’s Shona McCulloch (Midget Girls) won gold and Glebe’s Claire Smith earned silver in the Senior Girls event.  The Glebe Midget Girls and Junior Boys also placed second in their repective races, while the Glebe Junior Girls and Senior Girls both placed fourth in their races, helping Glebe defend their Overall Girl's Team Championship.  Canterbury picked up the bronze medal in the Senior Girls race. The Glebe Boys placed third in the Overall rankings.

The day started off with a bang for NC athletes as McCulloch quickly surged to the front of the wet muddy course.  A small group of 5, with all the pre-race favorites remained tightly bunched for the first half of the race, but up the “Wall” McCulloch and Kylee Raftis of Bishop Strachan began to pull away. The two stayed stride for stride over the second half, with McCulloch pulling away in the final metres for a stride and half victory.  Both girls were timed in 10:24.  Keili Shepherd led the Glebe girls with a 9^th place finish, while her teammates, Cassidy Grimes (29^th), Kendall Saravanamuttoo (36^th) and Anna Larkin (75^th) combined for 149 points, 20 points shy of Toronto’s Lawrence Park.

The Junior Girl’s race was marred by the largest pile up of the day as over 30 girls went down in the first 30m of the race, including three Glebe athletes (Pouw, Millar and Greene).  Glebe’s Katherine Marshall managed to hurdle the mess and although fell back a bit early was able to work her way through the field to finish 6^th overall.  Behind her, Ali Pouw managed to pick herself up and work her way up to 57^th  and along with Erika Rupar (95^th) and Kate Millar (126^th) were able to scored 278 points, just seven points shy of third.

In the Junior Boys race, Day ran with last year’s Midget Boys champion Edward Hayfron (Birchmount Park) and Riley Tell (Father Leo Austin) through the first 4K when Tell fell off the second time up the “Wall.”  Day made his final move with one kilometre left to go, just before the second major hill on the 3 kilometre loop, affectionately known as the “Beast.”  By the top of the “Beast” Day had opened up a 40m lead and he continued to widen the gap over the final 600m to win by a comfortable 20 second margin.  Glebe’s Darion Dillabaugh started conservatively and was 60^th at the 1K mark but worked his way through the field to place 20^th overall.  His teammates did the same, all picking up valuable spots over the second half of the race as Teagan Harris finished 37^th, Jake Weston 40^th and Andrew Burney 100^th to capture the silver medal, 13 points shy of champions Father Redmond. 

In the Senior Girls race Claire Smith and Charlotte Prouse (London Central) ran together with a punishing pace that separated them from the field by the first trip up the “Wall.”  Prouse made her move on the second loop up the same hill to open up a small lead, but  Smith closed the gap on the flats and caught up with Prouse by the base of the “Beast.”  Prouse pulled away again up the “Beast” and strode to a nine second victory.  Olivia Robertson (Brookfield) followed in the second chase pack and moved into fourth with just over 500m to go, but was caught again in the homestretch to finish fifth.  Alex McGowan led the Canterbury girls’ with a 23^rd place finish and was followed by Erinn Stenman-Fahey (53^rd), Lia Codrington (74^th) and Sydney Currier (103^rd)  to capture the bronze medal only six points out of  second and another six points up on Glebe.  Glebe’s Smith was followed by Alexa Livingstone (67^th), Emma Barrett 86^th and August Sibthorpe 104^th as Glebe placed fourth, one point up on Centre Wellington (Guelph).  

Results, video, and post race interviews can be found on www.runnerspace.com

Top NC finishers were:

Midget Girls

Shona McCulloch (Longfields-Davidson)  – 1^st

Keili Sheppard (Glebe)  – 9^th

Samantha Dickson (Earl of March) – 14^th

Glebe Collegiate - 2^nd (149)

Midget Boys

Reilly McCann (Franco-Cite) – 20^th

Joshua Nowlan (Glebe) – 75^th

Simon Gaudert (Colonel By) – 83^rd

Glebe Collegiate – 14^th (472)

Junior Girls

Katherine Marshall (Glebe) – 6^th

Sophie Rodenburg (Earl of March) – 10^th

Talia Brennan (Franco Ouest) – 55^th

Glebe Collegiate – 4^th (278)

Junior Boys

Owen Day (Holy Trinity) – 1^st

Darion Dillabaugh (Glebe) – 20^th

Tom Saville (Carine Wilson) – 22^nd

Glebe Collegiate – 2^nd (197)

Senior Girls

Claire Smith (Glebe) – 2^nd

Olivia Robertson (Brookfield) – 5^th

Alex McGowan (Canterbury) – 23^rd  

Canterbury – 3^rd (253)

Senior Boys

Farah Abdulkarim (Gloucester) – 6^th

Alex Bernst (Glebe) – 23^rd  

Brendon Howard – 73^rd

Glebe Collegiate – 11^th (433)

Results can be found at www.chiptimeresults.com