P.E.I. School Athletic Association Cross-Country Championships

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P.E.I. School Athletic Association Cross-Country Championships
Glen Stewart, Stonepark, Hernewood double winners

	Novice girls crowd a path at Mill River Provincial Park during the provincial cross-country championships recently. Eric McCarthy/Journal Pioneer

The Journal Pioneer

MILL RIVER -- The 2008 P.E.I. School Athletic Association Source for Sports provincial cross-country championships attracted 703 runners and approximately 2,000 spectators to Mill River Provincial Park recently.
The Westisle family of schools hosted the event for pre-novice to midget-aged runners.
Midget and juvenile runners competed for individual and team titles at Charlottetown Rural High School in Charlottetown on Thursday. While the weather was clear but a little cool for spectators at Mill River, it was ideal for the runners, and some very close finishes were recorded.
"We had a great bunch of responsible students from the Callaghan Intermediate leadership program," reported meet manager Paul Goguen. "These students along with many adult volunteers ran the competition with jobs from finish line officials, scorers, course marshals to parking cars. They all did a fantastic job."
A large time clock borrowed from the P.E.I. Roadrunners' Club helped spectators and runners track finish times.
PEISAA executive director Paul Steele indicated he was impressed with the runners for conquering the challenging course.
Glenn Stewart Elementary won two of the four team titles for elementary-aged runners. Hernewood (bantam and midget girls) and Stonepark (bantam and midget boys) split the four-team titles for students from intermediate schools.
Tignish Elementary won the pre-novice boys' team title and Elm Street Elementary won novice girls.
Pre-novice runners tackled a 1.5-kilometre course and Kelsey MacKinnon from Miscouche and Ryan Boswell from Eliot River had first-place times of 7:32 and 6:51, respectively.
Lydia Schurman from Elm Street's first-place team and Niall Burnett from West Kent were the first girl and boy to complete the novice runners' 2.5-kilometre course in times of 11:00 and 10:36 respectively.
The bantams ran a 3.0-kilometre course, with Maggee Fraser from Hernewood's winning girls' team and Alex Cyr from Evangeline having first-place times of 11:44 and 10:04.
Melissa Richardson from East Wiltshire was the first girl to complete the midgets' 3.5-kilometre course in a time of 15:20 while Kyle Gillis from Stonepark's championship team was the first boy to finish, in a time of 13:32.