Lake Placid's Leila Fey competes within the Part VII cross nation championships at Cobble Hill Golf Course in Elizabethtown on Friday. (Enterprise Picture — Parker O'Brien)
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Lake Placid women cross nation workforce introduced residence one other piece of hardware in its already dominant season, capturing the Part VII, Class D crown on Friday.
After profitable the Champlain Valley Athletic Convention title final weekend, the Blue Bomber women cruised to a different workforce title at Cobble Hill Golf Course within the Part VII state qualifying meet after putting all seven runners within the high 11 within the Class D race. Lake Placid completed with a workforce rating of 15 factors, outscoring the Ticonderoga Sentinels with 44.
In the meantime, Lake Placid's Aidan Fay captured the Part VII Class D boys particular person title for the second yr in a row. Nevertheless, the boys workforce needed to accept second place after falling to the Sentinels. Ticonderoga gained by 25 factors whereas the Blue Bombers mixed for 35 factors.
Seventh-grader Leila Fey of Lake Placid gained the Class D women race Friday with a time of 19 minutes, 10.three seconds. She additionally completed fourth total within the Part VII women race and stated she was happy along with her time.
Fey was adopted by teammates Kai McKinnon (19:21.four) in second, Norah Francis (19:35.four) in third, Maya Garrison (19:51.three) in fourth and Jenna Fay (21:21.7) in fifth for to solidify the sectional crown.
“All of us needed to do our greatest, truthfully,” Garrison stated. “And we run our personal race and deal with ourselves.”
The highest runner for the Sentinels was Aubrey Hayes (22:09.5) sixth in Class D. Hayes' teammate Haley Sutphen (22:17.zero) was seventh.
Lake Placid was rounded out by Holly Erenstone (22:29.four) in eighth and Rose Wenzler (24:24.7) in 11th. All seven runners will compete on the NYSPHSAA Cross Nation Championships at Queensbury Excessive Faculty on Saturday.
“We're actually excited to go to states and hopefully crush it,” McKinnon stated.
The women' season was completely dominant. This yr, together with the Part VII, class title and CVAC crown, the workforce gained the Division I Burnt Hills Invitational on Oct. 12 and the Division 2 McQuaid Invitational on Sept. 28, each in opposition to a few of the high. groups within the state.
“We're actually targeted on states and we're actually excited that this implies we are able to go now as a result of we're presently ranked second within the state.” Erenstone stated.
The final time the workforce gained each the CVAC and respective sectional titles in 2021, the workforce completed fourth total nationally.
Whereas the Blue Bomber boys didn’t win their sectional championship, the workforce will ship a trio of runners in Aidan Fay, Colin Francis and Connor Mannion to the state meet.
Fay took residence the Class D particular person title in 15:37.7, beating Seton Catholic's Colby Chase (15:58.2), who positioned second total. Lake Placid's Colin Francis (16:30.eight) was third.
The Sentinels had six runners cross the end line after the highest three to win the part title. Lake Placid's Connor Mannion (18:06.5) positioned 10th.
Whereas Fay was blissful to earn each a state qualifying berth and the Class D particular person title, he hoped to win the Part VII total title — one thing a Lake Placid boys runner has by no means performed earlier than but. His plan was to both stick with the highest group of runners or be barely behind them.
“Then, proper after the descent, attempt to keep away from them and kick all of them the best way.” he stated.
Nevertheless, Fay couldn't contact Saranac Lake's Jake Kollmer (15:19.2), who gained the general title for the second yr in a row. Beekmantown's Nolan Laidman (15:24.three) was second and Sean Dormann (15:28.5) was third.
“I handed one of many guys — Jon Slick from Beekmantown — and I simply didn't must catch the others,” Fay stated. “We half-executed the plan.”
Fay has handled lots of sickness and varied adversity this season, which doubtless didn't assistance on Friday.
“Simply that final half mile I couldn't punish and on the finish I couldn't catch these guys like I wished to right now.” he stated.
Lake Placid's different two finishers, Jim Guglielmi (18:36.1) in 13th and Graham Scull (18:42.9) in 14th, simply missed a state qualifying spot.
The workforce was rounded out by Jesse Carlson (18:45.three) in 15th; Nicholas O'Brien (20:37.eight) 19th; Robert Bowen (20:44.three) 20th; and Calvin Branchaud (22:29.zero) in 24th.
The NYSPHSAA Class D Cross Nation Championships boys race will start at 11:30 a.m., whereas the women race is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.