{"id":23658,"date":"2014-10-25T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T13:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23658"},"modified":"2014-10-25T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T13:56:34","slug":"unionville-girls-take-2nd-in-x-country-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23658","title":{"rendered":"Unionville girls take 2nd in X-Country Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

For boys: Contestoga wins, WC Henderson 2nd, Downingtown West 5th<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>,\u00a0Staff Writer, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Unionville’s Oliva Young finished second in the District One AAA Cross Country meet at Lehigh, Friday, as the Indians took second overall and will advance to the PIAA meet next week in Hershey.<\/p><\/div>\n

LOWER SAUCON — You\u2019d have to look all the way back to 2009 to find a year when neither of the team trophies (champion and runner-up) at the District 1 Girls Class AAA Cross Country Championships found their way back to a display case at a Ches-Mont League school. In 2009, North Penn won both the girls\u2019 meet and the boys\u2019 meet.<\/p>\n

For the last four years — even though there are more than 50 teams in the race — the trophies have been captured by either Unionville or Pennsbury. The Indians were second in 2011 and then beat the Falcons in 2012 and 2013. At Friday\u2019s meet<\/strong>\u00a0at Lehigh University\u2019s Goodman Campus, Pennsbury regained the top spot.<\/p>\n

Pennsbury snagged the team championship trophy with 64 points. Unionville was second at 95, followed by Great Valley in third at 206, Conestoga fourth at 259 and Central Bucks East fifth with 261. All five squads qualified as teams for next weekend\u2019s PIAA Championships in Hershey.<\/p>\n

Setting the pace for Unionville was Olivia Young, who crossed second with a time of 17:41. Young was sandwiched between Pennridge\u2019s Marissa Sheva, who won the gold medal with a clocking of 17:28, and Pennsbury\u2019s Olivia Sargent, who claimed the bronze medal with a time of 17:51.<\/p>\n

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Unionville’s Kacie Breeding finished just behind Downingtown West\u2019s Aislinn Devlin, who was fifth.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe first 400 was pretty hard because it funnels in,\u201d said Young, a senior. \u201cBy the 600 (meter mark), I was a little behind the front pack. By the mile, I was right with a couple Pennsbury girls (Hannah Molloy, Meridith Twomey and Sargent) and a C.B. West girl (Maddie Villalba).<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the mile, Marissa and Olivia started breaking off and I went with them and stayed with Marissa for awhile. Around the mile-and-a-half, I fell back a little and Olivia was with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second half of the race, Marissa opened it up and I tried to go with her. I was behind her looking at her ponytail and trying to close the gap. I tried to pick it up in the last 800 but she stayed strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unionville\u2019s other finishers were Kacie Breeding (sixth, 18:25), Gretchen Mills (21st<\/sup>, 19:03), Anna Juul (22nd<\/sup>, 19:04), Jillian Brislin (44th<\/sup>, 19:33), Leah Talley (68th<\/sup>, 19:59) and Elizabeth Edwards (94th<\/sup>, 20:18).<\/p>\n

Great Valley secured its trip to the state meet with these runners on Friday — Elise Calffey (12TH<\/sup>, 18:46), Anna Willig (37th<\/sup>, 19:24), Tabitha Wismer (42nd<\/sup>, 19:31), Emily Meehan (57th<\/sup>, 19:44), Sarah Hipwell (58TH<\/sup>, 19:47), Kayla Beck (88th<\/sup>, 20:15) and Kari Lownes (227th<\/sup>, 21:43).<\/p>\n

The Ches-Mont placed two other runners in the Top 10 — Coatesville\u2019s Brooke Hutton, who finished fourth at 18:20, and Downingtown West\u2019s Aislinn Devlin, who was fifth at 18:25.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was nervous about running districts for the first time,\u201d said Hutton, a Red Raider freshman. \u201cBut, I was also excited. I wanted to see how I\u2019d compare to great runners like Marissa Sheva.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got out pretty good. I was up in front but I was being careful that I didn\u2019t go out too fast. I was somewhere between fifth and seventh at the mile. The second mile felt hard and long.<\/p>\n

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Downingtown West\u2019s Emma Planck took 10th overall.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIn the third mile, I was just trying to keep my pace and making sure no girls passed me. I was sixth at the two mile. I moved up one place and then, in the final 100 meters, I passed one more girl — Aislinn Devlin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devlin, who led the Whippets to a seventh-place finish in the team standings, said, \u201cI got boxed in at the start and had to struggle to get to the front. Olivia (Young) and Marissa (Shevea) took off so I just tried to hang with the front group behind them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a little disappointed with my race. I should have gone up the hills harder. But, I recently missed to-and-a-half weeks of training with tendinitis in my foot so I\u2019m just getting back in shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Ches-Mont runners who qualified as individuals for the state meet were Downingtown West\u2019s Emma Planck (10th<\/sup>, 18:41), West Chester Henderson\u2019s Maddie Bixler (15th<\/sup>, 18:50), Oxford\u2019s Elaine Estes (24th<\/sup>, 19:05) and West Chester Rustin\u2019s Jess Delviscio (30th<\/sup>, 19:09).<\/p>\n

In the Girls\u2019 Class AA district meet, Octorara\u2019s Caroline Stickley finished seventh at 20:11 to help the Braves finish 11th<\/sup>\u00a0in the team standings. Lower Moreland (74) edged Gwynedd-Mercy Academy (76) for the district crown.<\/p>\n

In the Boys\u2019 Class AAA meet, Conestoga claimed the top spot with 152 points followed by West Chester Henderson at 160, Central Bucks West with 169 points, Council Rock North with 208 and Downingtown West at 227. The top five teams qualify for next weekend\u2019s PIAA Class AAA Championships in Hershey.<\/p>\n

Central Bucks East\u2019s Jake Brophy crossed first with a time of 15:11. Conestoga\u2019s Andrew Marston was second at 15:18 followed by Hatboro Horsham\u2019s Casey Comber at 15:19, Pennsbury\u2019s Sam Webb at 15:26 and Spring-Ford\u2019s Paul Power at 15:31. West Chester Henderson Knapp was sixth with a time of 16:46.<\/p>\n

Downingtown West was led by Henry Sappey at the big meet at Lehigh University\u2019s Goodman Campus just south of Bethlehem. The Whippet junior took seventh place with a clocking of 15:48.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone went out hard,\u201d said Sappey. \u201cThere was a lot of wind on the first straightaway so that bumped up the effort level. I got up close to the front early in the race. By the mile-and-a-half, I was close to the top 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second mile was all right but there was still a lot of wind. I just tried to keep my pace up. The second mile I ran mostly with my Knapp. The other five were way out in a pack in front of everybody else.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, in the last 800, Knapp got the better of me. He passed me with about 200 meters left in the race. Still, I\u2019m happy with seventh place — absolutely. There\u2019s no district like District 1 in terms of talent. It was a dogfight for the top 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

West\u2019s other finishers were Ryan Barton (42nd<\/sup>, 16:32), Shaun Bullock (55th<\/sup>, 16:41), Ben Ryherd (58th<\/sup>, 16:44), Charlie Barton (65th<\/sup>, 16:48), Jake O\u2019Neil (68th<\/sup>, 16:49) and Patrick Blair (80th<\/sup>, 16:54).<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, the Ches-Mont League accounted for many of the individual qualifiers for the PIAA meet — West Chester East\u2019s Eric Diestelow (eighth, 15:54), West Chester Rustin\u2019s Jack Carmody (12th<\/sup>, 16:02), Kennett\u2019s Austin Maxwell (25th<\/sup>, 16:21), Downingtown East\u2019s Keelan O\u2019Reilly (26th<\/sup>, 16:21) and Avon Grove\u2019s Josh Smith (33rd<\/sup>, 16:27).<\/p>\n

In the Boys\u2019 Class AA district meet, Seamus Breslin (fourth, 16:52) led Bishop Shanahan (82) to a third-place finish behind Pottsgrove (29) and Holy Ghost Prep (64).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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