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Week 1 – SFU Red Flash Invitational (9/7/19)

Complete Results at the bottom

(Special thanks to Saint Francis University XC/TF head coach Doug Hoover for the summary provided below)

342 student-athletes from 17 schools competed 

Varsity Boys

  • 126 individual finishers with 13 scoring teams.
  • Mifflin County prevailed over Hollidaysburg for the team title via the 6th man tiebreaker rule, as both teams scored 61 points.  Both teams put 4 individuals in the top-20, and all 5 scorers in the top-30.  This was Mifflin County’s first time competing in the Red Flash Invitational and their first team title.
  • Westmont Hilltop senior Nick Fetzer won the meet with a course record time of 17:01, breaking the previous record of 17:26 set by Bedford’s Van May last year.

  • Mifflin County junior Brayden Harris, finished second and also broke the previous course record with his time of 17:08.
  • Bedford junior Van May, the two-time defending meet champion and former course record holder, finished third with a time of 17:39.
Varsity boys mid-race

Varsity Girls

  • 99 individual finishers with 11 scoring teams.
  • Westmont Hilltop prevailed over Bedford for the team title by a score 40-51.  Both teams put 4 individuals in the top-20, and all 5 scorers in the top-30.  This was Westmont Hilltop’s third time competing in the Red Flash Invitational and their first team title.
  • Mifflin County sophomore Kylee Cubbison won the race and established a new course record of 20:32, breaking the previous record set by Westmont Hilltop’s Ellie Dorian last year.

  • Westmont Hilltop junior Bridget Barbato finished in second place with a time of 20:36, also eclipsing the previous course record.
  • Bedford freshman Savanna Nesbitt took third with a time of 20:47, also surpassing the previous course record.
  • Westmont Hilltop junior Ellie Dorian finished fourth with a time of 21:10, also improving upon her previous course record.

 

Varsity girls mid-race

Middle School Boys

  • 60 individual finishers with 5 scoring teams.
  • Bedford prevailed over Central Cambria for the team title by a score 31-49.  This was Bedford’s first team title.
  • Windber’s Joseph McKelvey captured the individual title with a course record time of 9:56 for the 2.84k (1.76 mile) course.  He broke the previous record of 10:44 set by Central Cambria’s Eli Wandle in 2017.
  • Windber’s Garrett Page finished second with a time of 10:39 that also beat the previous course record.
  • West Branch’s Sage Carr took third with a time of 10:41, also surpassing the previous course record. 

 

Middle School Grils

  • 57 individual finishers with 6 scoring teams.
  • Central Cambria won their third consecutive team title with 43 points.  Bedford also scored 43 points, and was awarded the second place team finished based on the tie-breaker rule.
  • Mifflin County’s Addie Parson captured the individual title with a time of 11:19 for the 2.84k (1.76 mile) course.
  • Marion Center’s Lydia Miller took second with a time of 11:55.
  • Central Cambria’s Morgan Brandis took third with a time of 12:03.

Start of MS race:

Complete Results: