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Tri State Maryland club hopes to repeat as national champs
Pugsley, Kartalia lead area contingent to Lexington
By Kevin Spradlin
TriStateRunnur.com
LEXINGTON, Kent. -- Four of the top six runners from the men's masters title-winning team at the USA Cross Country Championships in February return to action this weekend at Masterston Station Park.
More than 40 clubs and 1,000 athletes are expected to compete in the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships. Among them is Raymond Pugsley, of Potomac Falls, Virginia, who will lead the Carroll County-based Baltimore/Washington Athletic Club on Saturday in Lexington in the men's masters 10,000-meter race Read More
Tri State Fenton, Stick ring in New Year with victories
Stick wraps up a decade of wins with record time
Results Photos
By Kevin Spradlin
TriStateRunnur.com
WINFIELD, Md., Jan. 1 -- Century High School junior Ryan Fenton and former Salisbury State University standout Sherry Stick (nee Esposito) posted wins on New Year's Day after crossing the finish line of the annual Winfield Mile in southern Carroll County.
Fenton led a pack of six, including Stick, through the halfway mark but pulled away from Taylor Smith, Victor Cretella and Jimmy Filomena in the second half-mile of the straight, asphalt course that parallels state Route 26.
Fenton finished with a time of 4 minutes and 48 seconds. Smith was second in 4:42 while Frederick resident Victor Cretella, 39, edged 16-year-old Filomena for third (4:54 to 4:56). Cretella won the 2008 event Read More
Tri State Woolfitt: 'Usually the best runners show up at the last minute'
Pre-registration on record pace for fifth annual Run 2 Read Half Marathon
2009 winners: Jaron Hawkins, Frostburg (1:12:15.9); Heather Parks, Bruceton Mills (1:28:19.9)
Allegany County-area pregistered runners include Rhonda Johns, Mike Wagus and Joe McQuade and Shauna McQuade, all of Cumberland; and Tina Mowery and Todd Mowery, both of Ellerslie.Read More
Tri State The art of the exchange zone
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HAGERSTOWN, Md., Jan. 4 -- According to y-coach.com, the passing of the baton is a rather simple affair.
"As the outgoing runner reaches the middle of the exchange zone, he or she places their arm back almost parallel to the ground, with the palm of the hand facing up. The incoming runner makes a downward pass across the palm of the outstretched hand. The outgoing runner then takes the baton away from the incoming runner."
Sounds easy, right?
But a good exchange within the allowable 20-meter space on a 200-meter oval at Hagerstown Community College is more art than science. And just as a proper brushstroke takes time to master, so, too, does it take practice for relay runners to become masters of the baton Read More
Future of tri-county MVAL uncertain
Grim: 'at this point, right now, we're kind of in limbo'
By Kevin Spradlin
TriStateRunnur.com
HAGERSTOWN, Md., Jan. 9 -- The rivalry between Frederick County high schools Linganore and Gov. Thomas Johnson is rich, storied and fierce in each of the sports offered.
But on at least one issue, the indoor track coaches for the Lancers and Patriots stand ready to defend the same thing. At stake is the future of the Monocacy Valley Athletic League. It appears to be moving toward an uncertain future - and might not exist at all in the very near future Read More