Louis Riel Invite and Turkey Trot

National Capital runners were busy at the Hornet's Nest, site of the 2015 Championships, and down in Kemptville for St. Michael's annual Turkey Trot.  Unfortunately this year, no NC runners were able to win dinner, with Hollyann Shields (All Saints) and Nico Pederson (Merivale) coming the closest, placing 2nd and 3rd in the Midget Girls and Junior Boys races.

Glebe Collegiate had strong performances to win the Overall Title at the Louis Riel Invitational, winning the Junior Girls, Senior Girls, Midget Boys and Senior Boys titles and placing 2nd in the Midget Girls to Thousand Islands.

Results are available on the Glebe XC page.

McCulloch wins McQuaid

Shona McCulloch (Longfields-Davidson) won the Varsity Girls AAA race at the McQuaid Invitational in Rochester on Saturday.  McCulloch pulled slightly ahead of Abbey Wheeler (Elmira, NY) with 200m to go and maintained the gap all the way down the final stretch to hold on to a four-tenths of a second victory.

Photos Courtesy of Colin Harris

A large lead pack pushed through the first mile in 5:35, but that pack had been whittled down to 3 by the 2 mile mark.  Wheeler and McCulloch started to pull away with 800m to go, trading leads as they pushed each other over the final stretch.  McCulloch covered the final mile in 5:20 to win the 3 mile race in 16:35.7, lowering the previous course record by just under 8 seconds.

In the AA Varsity Girls race the Glebe Gryphons placed 2nd overall, lead by Mei Mei Weston's 2nd place finish, with teammate Keili Shepherd placing 6th.

Full results are available on the McQuaid Wesbite

Pirates Invitational

Louis Riel captured the Senior Boys race at the Pirates Invitational, hosted by Thousand Islands Secondary in Brockville on Friday.  The Rebelles had all 4 scorers in the top 14 lead by Junior Jonathan Rioux in 4th place followed closely by Felix Robillard in 6th.  Moricz (12th) and Adeya (14th) rounded out the scoring for the Rebelles (36 points) who almost doubled up on runner-up host Thousand Islands (67).  The Rebelles will now get prepared to host the NC on their home course at the Hornet's Nest this coming Thursday, Oct 8th - the final meet prior to Conference week and the first chance for athletes to test themselves on this year's NC Championship course.

Results are available on the Pirates website.

Gryphon Open

The Nepean Knights won the 2015 edition of the Gryphon Open at Mooney's Bay Park on a cool, windy afternoon.  The Knights captured the Midget Girls, Junior Girls and Junior Boys races, placing 4th in the Midget Boys and 6th in the Senior Girls to claim the title from the host Gryphons.  The Gryphons won the Midget Boys and both the Senior Girls and Senior Boys races.

Franco Ouest turned in an impressive 1-2-3 finish in the Senior Boys race (Roberts, Bouma, Splinter), but were without a fourth scoring runner.

Results can be found on the Glebe XC page.

Limestone Invitational

The John McCrae Bulldogs were the lone NC school to compete at the 2015 Limestone Invitational in Kingston. Bulldog runners ran well taking second place in the Junior Girls team competition and their boys followed suit, placing second in the Junior Boys, lead by Will Driscoll's silver medal finish.

Results

Trinity Invitational

The Glebe Gryphons kicked off their season on a winning note, defending their Trinity Invitational title – capturing the cutest Trophy in all of sport.  The defending OFSAA Champions captured both the Midget Girls and Senior Girls races, while their boys placed 2^nd in Midget Boys and Senior Boys.

Shona McCulloch (Longfields-Davidson) kept her perfect High School record alive, opening with a comfortable (12 second) victory over last year’s Midgets Girls bronze medalist Mei Mei Weston (Glebe) who lead a strong group of Gryphons that placed 5 runners in the top 11.  McCulloch went to the front early and ran mostly unchallenged over the new, lengthened Trinity College course that hopes to host the OFSAA Championships in 2016.  Glebe’s depth was apparent in the results as Glebe’s 5^th – 8^th runners captured 3^rd place in the race – which uses multiple, dynamic team scoring.

Jack Pensom (Glebe) was the class of the Midget Boys field, running comfortably with a large pack through the first 3K.  Attrition slowly took its toll on the lead group and Pensom found himself hounded by only a single St. Michael’s runner by the base of Mount Trinity.  Pensom slowly pulled away up the hill and onto the flats and was able to hold off a late charge to seal the win.

Last years NC Midget Boys Champions, Ashbury, ran a solid team race to claim second place in the Junior Boys race.

Full results are available on the Trinity XC page.

Conference Entry Procedures

Entry packages are now available for the East and West Conference XC Championships.

Entry files (.xls) can be found on both the Louis Riel XC site and the Glebe XC page.

Registration is as easy as 1 - 2 - 3.
1. Download the excel file.
2.  Fill out the "yellow" fields on the excel file (School, athletes names, DoB)
3.  Save the file using your school name (eg. 15ncssaaxc - glebe) and send the East entries to Seb Lalonde, the West entries to Kirk Dillabaugh.