XC followers,   Yesterday at WPIAL Cross Country Finals Ella Andrew and Constantina led the Lady Bobcats to a 2nd place finish thus qualifying our girls for the state finals next weekend. In beautiful weather conditions Ella placed 11th with a time 20:13. Close behind her was Danica Purtell in 14th. Finishing out our top 5 were Rylie Teapole-20th, Alli Tate-24th and Constantina-29th.  Our freshmen girls, Esa Tate and Camdyn Jeffers were 40th & 81st.   The boys team placed 10th out of 37 teams and were very close to qualifying 2 individual runners. Connor Young and Tyler Biss placed 34th & 35th in the same time of 17:54.  Just missing being in the top 20 individuals by 2 and 3 places by 4 seconds.

XC follower, Yesterday the Black n Gold from Montour proved too powerful to beat at the MAC conference meet. Both squads won.  But our Bobcat girls were a close 2nd to the Spartans, their 42 to Beaver’s 58. The Beaver girls were led by Ella Andrew with a 6th place finish in 20:23 on very hilly course at Settler Cabin Park. The Boys also fell victim to the Spartans, among others and place 5th overall out of 23 schools.  Our guys were led by sophomore Tyler Biss in 15th place with a time of 18:17. The Middle School closed out their season with a very impressive 3rd place Girls finish.  The team of only five girls out ran much larger squads from over twenty school. Peyton Teapole was 3rd overall for the Lady Cats! The Boys came in 10th and were led by 7th grader AJ Cienkowski.

XC followers, Yesterday, our Cross Country team finished their regular season.  While our Boys defeated New Castle 26 to 29, but loss to Chartiers Valley 34 to 22.  On the other hand our Girls continued their winning streak by defeating New Castle 15 to 49 and Chartiers Valley 25 to 31. Our Boys are 5-3 in the Section while the Girls finish 7-1. It was also the final home meet for our senior runners. Congratulations!

XC followers, This past Saturday, just before the storms hit the Beaver Girls Cross Country team were awarded their 1st place plaque.  Yes, our girls won the Grove City Invite. Competing against 22 other school.  With (2) runners in the top ten and (5) in the top thirty made it hard on their completion.  Ella was 6th with a 19:31 finish time.  Close behind were Sophomore superstars Rylie Teapole(9th) and Danica Purtell(12th).  The Tate girls, Alli & Esa were next in (24th) & (28th) places.  Camdyn Jeffers continues to improve and broke 24:00 for the first time.  The girls defeated last years WPIAL runner-up, Chartiers Valley by 36points.  They will face them and New Castle again tomorrow at their last Section meet of the season. The Boys placed 7th as a team against some stiff completion as well. Among the schools in the boys race were returning PIAA state champions, Grove City and last years WPIAL champions, Hampton. Our guys were led by Eli Priest with a time of 17:30, good enough to put him in the awards arena with 24th place.  Just outside the awards was another Sophomore superstar Tyler Biss in 27th place.  Finishing out our top five were (3) Juniors: Dom Bumblis(34th), Connor Young(38th) and Cannon Hoback(51st). So far our Girls are 5-1 and Boys 4-2 in the Section.  

XC followers, Ella Andrew was victorious in a hard fought battle against WA’s freshman standout Grace Fritzman. Behind those two our female Bobcats, packed it in taking the next 5 places.  That charge was led by sophomore Danica and Rylie in 3rd and 4th.  Sisters, Alli and Esa Tate were next in 5th and 6th.  Constantina was 7th and Camdyn 11th. Girls won 19-42 over WA and 15-49 over Ambridge Our boys were also dual winners yesterday.  Connor Young was the winner of the boys race in 17:44.  The boys shutout both squads by taking the top five spots. Second thru fifth were Tyler Biss, Dom Bumblis, Eli Priest and Eli Bechdel.  Finishing out our top seven were Cannon Hoback-7th and Isaac Burtt-11th. Boys were 15-46 over WA and 15-50 over Ambridge Their current records are: Girls 7-1 and Boys 6-2

XC followers, This past weekend Ella Andrew proved that she’s one of the top runners from western Pennsylvania. At the Pre-State meet she placed 8th in the AA race with a time of 20:00.  She led our Lady Cats to a 3rd place finish overall.  There were 50 schools in the AA race with over 250 runners at the start.  The rest of our girls were in close chase behind Ella and fought all the way to the finish.  They were Rylie Teapole-23rd, Alli Tate-32nd, Danica Purtell-33rd, Esa Tate-74th, Constantina Krzeczowski-89th and freshman new comer Camdyn Jeffers-182. Our boys fought as hard in their race.  They placed 8th against 48 teams.  They were led by Eli Bechdel in a time of 17:38 and 35th place. Behind him was Tyler Biss-56th, Connor Young-75th, Eli Priest-84th, Dom Bumblis-100th, Cannon Hoback-165th and Noah Lytle-195th. Their next meet will be Tuesday against Ambridge and West Allegheny @ WA.

XC followers, Although our girls were out numbered by both schools they managed to take it out hard and finish strong.  Beaver girls: Ella, Alli, Rylie, Danica and Esa took the top 5 places against both schools.  Finishing out our top 7 were Constantina in 7th and Camdyn with 12th.  Ella Andrew’s time was 21:05. Beaver(15) vs Central Valley(50) Beaver(15) vs Blackhawk(44) Our boys weren’t as successful. They split the competitors defeating CV (15)-(50) and losing to last years state qualifiers, Blackhawk (37)-(21). The Bobcats top finishers were: Eli Bechdel-2nd with a time of 17:23,  5 seconds off first. Connor Young-5th Tyler Biss-8th Eli Priest-10th Dom Bumblis-12th

XC followers, Yesterday our boys and girls cross country teams beat Hopewell (boys 22-37) and (girls 16-43).  However Montour continued to prove that the state champions from last year were no fluke.  Both girls and boys fell victim to a much larger and stronger squad, (girls 35-20) and (boys 31-25).  The odds were not in our favor even before the meet started due to some of our top runners being to ill to compete.  That did not deter Ella from trying to breakup through Montour’s top five.  She placed 3rd (19:59) and in hot pursuit was Rylie in 5th (20:37). Our front runners on the boys side were Eli Bechdel (17:23) also in 3rd and Connor Young 5th (17:44).  

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.