LEWIS LEADS ATHENS BOYS TO SECOND PLACE AT NTL JUNIOR HIGH CROSS COUNTRY MEET; BRONSON WINS GIRLS RACE
By: Tim Birney / October 24, 2020 / Photo: Matt Patton
ATHENS — Carter Lewis won the boys race to lead Athens to a second-place
finish, and Sara Bronson finished second in the girls race here
Saturday morning in the NTL Junior High Cross Country Championships.
Northeast Bradford won the team titles in the boys and girls championships.
BOYS
Lewis
finished first and teammate Ethan Hicks was third but NEB runners
finished second (Creed Dewing) and fourth (Ryan Jones), and all five
scoring runners placed in the top 17 to lift the Panthers to the win.
NEB
tallied 35 placement points, while Athens was second with 55 points,
Towanda was third with 75, Sullivan County was fourth with 79, and Troy
was fifth with 89 points.
Lewis clocked in at 8:56.8, while Hicks
crossed the finish line in 9:00.2. Dewing was second in 8:58.3, and
Jones was fourth in 9:07.6, while Troy’s Hart Houseknecht placed fifth
in 9:07.9.
Peter Jones placed 14th for the Wildcats in a time of
9:49.1, while Pierce Oldroyd was 25th in 10:43.3, and Charan Venkatswamy
(11:06.1), Aiden Oldroyd (11:13.7), and Ryan Gorman (11:15.2) finished
28th through 30th, respectively.
Jack Cheresnowsky was 34th in 11:40.9, while Ty Lezak was 38th in 12:34.8, and Ethan Talada was 43rd in 27.19.7.
GIRLS
Bronson
and Addyson Wheeler finished second and ninth to lead the Lady Wildcats
to a fourth-place finish, well behind NEB, which saw its five scoring
runners all finish in the Top 11.
Bronson clocked in at 9:46.7 —
three seconds off the pace of race-winner Gracelynn Laudermilch of NEB,
while Troy;s Alyssa Parks was third in 9:55.5, NEB’s Lillian Hughes was
fourth in 10:21.9, and NEB’s Anaiah Kolsea was fifth in 10:23.4.
Mackenna
Patton (12:34.6), Olivia Cheresnowsky (12:34.9), and Victoria Gao
(12:35.3) finished 23rd through 25th, respectively, for the junior Lady
Wildcats.
Sayre’s lone runs ‚ Rose Shikanga finished 26th in a time of 12:43.1.
About the Author
Tim Birney
Tim Birney is the founder / owner of River Road Media Group. He was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Waverly High School in 1984.
Birney earned an Associate's Degree in Journalism from SUNY Morrisville in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism / Public Relations from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1988. He began his newspaper career at The Daily Review in Towanda in 1989, before moving on to The Evening Times in 1995. He spent more than 10 years at the Times, the last four as Managing Editor.
River Road Media Group includes five sites in "The Sports Reports" family that cover 24 school districts in five counties: Valley Sports Report (launched Aug. 10, 2009), Tioga County (NY) Sports Report (Aug. 13, 2018), and Northern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 31, 2020); Northern Tier West Sports Report (March 15, 2021) Southern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 16, 2021).
