3A: Locals improve at state meet
Sunday, November 14, 1999By PATRICK O'NEILL, Chapel Hill News Correspondent
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CHAPEL HILL -- The cross-country teams of Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill high schools all turned in strong performances Saturday in the state championships run at McAlpine Greenway. Led by the third-place individual finish of junior Creighton Irons, the East boys finished second in the 3-A championship team battle with 83 points. Monroe's Sun Valley repeated as state champions with 65 points. Irons was clocked in 16:11.6. Packed together were Ben Parker (16th in 16:47.9), William Hodge (17th in 16:48.4) and Mike Clarke-Pearson (18th in 16:48.9), giving the Wildcats a solid showing. The East boys improved on their fifth-place team finish in 1998. The Chapel Hill High boys finished third in a four-team battle with 111 points. Sophomore Kevin Timp led the Tigers with an 11th-place finish in a time of 16:08.6. Jonathan Renner (28th in 16:40.4), Seth Berkowitz (30th in 16:41.5), Bill Bernath (33rd in 16:44.0), Jason Tomkins (45th in 16:53.8) and Mike Boyer (61st 17:05.4) rounded out the Tiger scoring. As expected, perennial powerhouse Watauga ran strong winning with 64 points over North Mecklenburg (71 points). Chapel Hill's third-place finish bettered last year's fifth-place team finish. For the Chapel Hill girls, junior Rachel Kitson (19:40.1) and senior Alta Capel (19:40.6) finished 19th and 20th, respectively, in leading the Tiger girls to a seventh-place team finish, one spot ahead of last year's eighth-place team finish over the 5,000-meter (3.1-mile course). Rachel Blasiak (37th in 20:01.1), Beniko Capel (91st in 21:38.8), (Catie Myers-Wood (93rd in 21:41.4), Janine Heiser (94th in 21:42.1) and Aimee Gaunt (114th in 22:44.7) rounded out the Tiger scoring. Southeast Raleigh defeated Watauga 95-129 to win the 4-A girls crown. The Tigers finished with 203 points. CHHS improved one spot over last year's eighth-place team finish in the state meet. Freshman Caitlin Collins finished 13th in a time of 20:20.0 to lead the Wildcat girls to a sixth-place team finish with 191 points. No other East girls results were available at press time. Asheville T.C. Roberson won the 3-A team title with 53 points. The Wildcats, who finished third as a team in the 1998 state 3-A meet, were the top team among squads from the Triangle. |
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