East Northumberland Blue Dragons won the COSSA Cross Country Overall Championship for the 9th straight year in Peterborough yesterday. This is the qualifying meet for OFSAA and only the top two schools and top 3 individuals who are not on a team move on to OFSAA, to be held next weekend at Boyd Conservation Area in Woodbridge.
On the strength of team championships in Midget Boys and Senior Girls, along with a strong second place finish from their Junior Girls, ENSS accumulated a team total of 38 points to win the title. Cobourg West was second with 32 points and St. Thomas Aquinas of Lindsay was 3rd with 26 points.
The Midget Boys team championship was led by Brennan Thompson's 10th place finish and their tight placement of Chad Quinn(11th), Taylor Hoyle (12th) , Riley Dagg (13th) and Kiefer Davies (14th). Tylor Johnston finished 18th after a fall and Jayden Adams was 20th.
Senior Girls were able to capture their COSSA Championship on the strength of Erin Salmon's 10th place finish, Emma Lafontaine's 11th , Lindsay Roth's 15th, Laura Howard's 16th, Holly Saliga's 18th and Jessica Farnden's 20th place finish.
The Junior Girls team were 2nd to Bayside as they were strengthened by the addition of 3 midget girls due to the loss of one of their team members due to illness. It turned out to be a very good move as Olivia Patton was their second runner in 5th, behind team leader Olivia Dyer, who was 4th. Carlee Collins was 15th, Michaela Dagg was 19th, Taylor Dibbits was 20th. Midget Girl runner Kristen Wierda was 22nd to complete the top 6 runners.
The Junior Boys were a close 3rd. All had strong races with Kyle Tilley their top runner, placing 10th. Pat Earle was 12th, Coulton Grant was 14th and Darrin Morgan was a solid 19th. Curtis Quinn was 20th and Matt Kofler, in his best race of the season was 21st.
The Senior Boys were 4th, led by Joe Lemmermeyer's excellent 5th place finish. It was his last race as a Blue Dragon and he gave everything. He had to be the 4th individual out of COSSA. Luke Rightmyer was 18th, Tyler Jeffery was 29th and Mike Neerhof, completing his first cross country season was 33rd to help the Sr Boys finish 4th and capture valuable team points toward the overall title
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