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Maryland State Championships
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Hardy, Wildcats don't mind silver

By ANDREW MASON

11:39 p.m. EST, November 12, 2011
PARKTON, Md. — Every second counts in the sport of cross country, and Saturday was a big day of seconds for Washington County boys at the Maryland state championships at Hereford High School — in more ways than one.

Senior Evan Hardy placed second in the Class 2A race, leading Williamsport to a second-place team finish, while Smithsburg junior Luke Daigneault finished second in Class 1A. Read More

North's Ward turns final run into foot race despite throwing shoe

By ANDREW MASON

11:14 p.m. EST, November 12, 2011
PARKTON, Md. — Emily Ward looked like she’d been through the ringer when she crossed the finish line at the Maryland State Cross Country Championships at Hereford High School on Saturday.

The North Hagerstown sophomore was exhausted from the hilly 3-mile race, covered with mud from a late fall and, to top it off, she was missing a shoe. Read More

Hawks' Mulhern, Lancers' Bruning win state titles

By Bill Cauley

PARKTON -- For Linganore's Braden Bruning, it was the end of a stellar career; for Urbana's Emily Mulhern, it's most likely the beginning.
Both athletes won individual titles Saturday at the MPSSAA cross country championships at Hereford High School.

Bruning, a senior who battled back from an ankle injury early in the season to become one of the premier boys runners in the area, won the individual state Class 3A boys crown, crossing the finish line in 16 minutes, 20.8 seconds, holding off Thomas Johnson's Hassan Omar, who got second (16:22.7).

Mulhern a freshman and a highly-rated age-group runner, won the state 3A girls race in 19:53.3, five seconds better than Hereford's Sara Carter, who crossed the line at 19:58.6.

"It was a great way to go out," Bruning said.Read More

Linganore, Urbana runners win state titles
Despite individual success, Lancers, Hawks unable to unseat Hereford for the team championships
by Kyle Russell, Special to The Gazette

A pair of Frederick County high school runners claimed individual titles in the state cross country championship meet Saturday at Hereford High School in Parkton.

In the 3A' boys race, Linganore's Braden Bruning edged Hassan Omar of Gov. Thomas Johnson in a rematch of the Frederick County championship. Bruning's 1.9-second margin of victory was the smallest of the day between the top two finishers.Read More

Walter Johnson boys, B-CC girls win state titles
Montgomery County runs away with 4A competition, winning both team and individual championships

by Kyle Russell, Special to The Gazette

When Walter Johnson High School senior Scott Sheehan passed the mile marker in Saturday's 4A boys' cross country state meet at Hereford High School, he said he already knew that he had a chance to be among the top finishers in the race.

"I was in about 70th at the mile last year, and I finished in 24th," Sheehan said. "This is the kind of race that if you go out too fast, you are going to die off, so I just stayed in a spot where I could move up to the front. I was in about 20th at the mile, then five of us broke away from the pack." Read More

Even with a lost shoe, Hereford pulls off another state championship sweep
Winters Mill's Oneda breaks state and course record

By Jeff Seidel, Special to The Baltimore Sun

There was a little bit of everything in Saturday's cross country state championship meet at Hereford.

Hannah Oneda of Winters Mill won her race in record time. The Winters Mill boys captured a third straight state championship. Century's girls edged South Carroll by one point to take the Class 2A title.

And Hereford's Kevin Collins helped punctuate a second straight 3A sweep by the Bulls' boys and girls — despite running most of his race with only one shoe. Read More

Miners’ Andresson takes third
From Staff Reports

PARKTON — Mountain Ridge’s Hlynur Andresson finished third overall and led three Miners among the top 13 in the Class 1A?high school cross country state championships Saturday at Hereford.
Andresson toured the hilly, challenging Hereford course in 17:44.6, just 1.2 seconds behind the runner-up and nearly 10 seconds ahead of the fourth-place finisher.
In the girls meet, the top area finisher was Mountain Ridge’s Alexis DeVault, who was fourth in 20:57.6 Read More

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Walter Johnson’s Scott Sheehan pulls off surprising victory

By Carl Little

PARKTON, Md. — Scott Sheehan muscled his way to the first state title of his career Saturday at the Maryland 4A cross-country championships, scoring a victory that was both a head-scratcher and a hair-raiser.

In four years on the team, the Walter Johnson senior had never won a major race. But after hanging with the favorites much of the way Saturday, Sheehan gritted his teeth and blasted into the lead before winning in 16 minutes 28 seconds on the difficult three-mile course at Hereford High.

Quince Orchard senior Evan Laratta was runner-up in 16:35.

“I was not expecting this,” Sheehan said of his thrilling victory, in which he pulled away from three other runners during the final half-mile.

Walter Johnson looked all season like it had taken a step back after graduating two All-Mets from last year’s team, but the Bethesda school captured its fourth straight team title ahead of Severna Park and Churchill. Behind Sheehan and senior teammate Josh Ellis, the Wildcats became the third boys’ team in history to win four straight state titles. Read More

Bo Manor sweeps 1A XC state titles; Perryville's Dodson, Eagles' Pfarr, R.S.'s McGinley win individual crowns

The wait is over. Cecil County history belongs solely to the Bohemia Manor girls' cross country team. Behind four Top-15 finishes, the Eagles bested second-place Boonsboro 53-69 at the 1A State Championships at Hereford High in Parkton to become the first county program to claim four straight team titles at the state level.

Bo Manor junior Diana Curtis placed third in a time of 20 minutes, 57.1 seconds, followed by seniors Emily Krakowski (21:30.4) in sixth, Jenna Krakowski (21:45.4) in 10th and Emily Cornieles (22:07.3) in 13th. Sophomore Jessica Lilly (22:52) garnered 23rd for the Eagles.