XC followers,

This Saturday the Beaver Area Cross Country team competed in the biggest high school competitions in Western Pennsylvania with over 2000 runners in (9) races.

Our Boys team placed 6th  out of 26 schools in the AA race.  Eli Bechdel, 11th in a time of (16:35) and Tyler Biss 24th (17:17) both were awards winners by placing in the top 25.    Just missing getting into the award category by 6 seconds, was JR.  Connor Young in 30th.  The rest of our varsity of Dom Bumblis(55th), Eli Priest(66th), Isaac Burtt(72nd), Cannon Hoback(75th) and Sam Mateer(84th) were 19:00 or better.

Our Lady Cats left no doubt in anyone’s mind that they were there to compete for the championship and they did come out on top.  They took 1st place with 65 points.  In doing this they defeated last years PIAA runner up, Central Cambria by 2 points.  Our first award winner was Ella Andrew, placing 4th with an amazing time of 19:33.  Beaver also had three more girls in the awards bracket: Rylie Teapole 20:09(10th), Alli Tate 20:16(11th) and Danica Purtell 20:32(15th).  Finishing out our top 5 was Esa Tate in 21:25(31st) place.  An injured Isabella Meadows managed to gut out a 22:35 for a 55th place finish.

Tomorrow these girls will face last years PIAA state champions, Montour in their first Section meet with Hopewell at their course.