NJISSA Prep Cross Country Championship
October 31, 2007-Blairstown, NJ – Blair Academy was the site of this years NJ State Prep Cross Country Championships. Under beautiful Halloween skies seventeen schools competed on the new flatter Blair course. The favorites from both boys and girls divisions did not disappoint as they placed as expected. The best race of the day was the sprint to the finish for third place in the Division A boys event when Jorge Marques, St. Benedict’s, 17:45.5. just edged Jarrett Kunze, Peddie, 17:45.8 at the line.
BOYS A DIVISION
TEAMS: 1-St. Benedict’s Prep 29. 2-Peddie 58. 3-Blair 62. 4-Lawrenceville 72. 5-Hun 148.
INDIVIDUALS: 1-Brandon Jarrett, St. Benedict’s, 15:42.9. 2-Ryan Dormann, Peddie, 17:38.6. 3-Jorge Marques, St. Benedict’s, 17:45.5. 4-Jarrett Kunze, Peddie, 17:45.8. 5-Scott Chambertlin, Blair, 17:54.9. 6-Kevin Branco, St. Benedict’s, 18:01.3. 7-Bob Boyle, Blair, 18:02.3. 8-Matthew Jensen, St. Benedict’s, 18:09.6. 9-Brian Hayes, Peddie, 18:22.4. 10-Harry Murphy, Lawrenceville, 18:32.1.
B DIVISION
TEAMS: 1-Pingry 34. 2-Newark Academy 79. 3-Princeton Day 102. 4-Gill St. Bernard’s 125. 5-Oratory Prep 140. 6-Rutgers Prep 171. 7-Morristown-Beard 196. 8-Ranney 206. 9-Montclair Kimberley 212. 10-Pennington 252. 11-Solomon Schechter 272. 12-Saddle River Day 300.
INDIVIDUALS: 1-Doug Smith, Gill St. Bernard’s, 15:35.3. 2-Phil Wood, Pennington, 16:23.5. 3-Matthew LaForgia, Pingry, 17:11.7. 4-Daniel Schuchinsky, Pingry, 17:32.5. 5-Benjamin Press, Newark Academy, 17:57.6. 6-Craig Limoli, Pingry, 18:01.4. 7-Erik Lefebvre, Princeton Day, 18:11.4. 8-John Soo Hoo, Pingry, 18:14.5. 9-Matt Kennedy, Newark Academy, 18:20.3. 10-Phil Haynes, Morristown-Beard, 18:29.8.
GIRLS A DIVISION
TEAMS: 1-Pingry 76. 2-Lawrenceville 86. 3-Villa Walsh 105. 4-Mount St. Mary 112. 5-Peddie 114. 6-Blair 129. 7-Oak Knoll 144. 8-Kent Place 243. 9-St. Elizabeth 245. 10-Newark Academy 278. 11-Montclair Kimberley 286. 12-Princeton Day 289.
INDIVIDUALS: 1-Katie McCafferty, Oak Knoll, 18:27.0. 2-Liz Campbell, Mount St. Mary, 19:09.1. 3-Emily Naranjo, Montclair Kimberley, 20:00.8. 4-Olivia Tarantino, Pingry, 20:06.0. 5-Olivia Delia, Pingry, 20:15.0. 6-Katherine Warren, Peddie, 20:16.6. 7-Caroline Williams, Mount St. Mary, 20:20.9. 8-Liz Connor, Blair, 20:28.7. 9-Emily Liggett, Lawrenceville, 20:35.6. 10-Melissa Provost, Peddie, 20:54.2.
B DIVISION
TEAMS: 1-Pennington 44. 2-Gill St. Bernard’s 46. 3-Ranney 71. 4-Rutgers Prep 87. 5-Stuart Country Day 93. 6-Solomon Schechter 169.
INDIVIDUALS: 1-Ariel Quintana, Gill St. Bernard’s, 21:43.1. 2-Abbey Wallach, Saddle River Day, 22:19.4. 3-Katie Galli, Gill St. Bernard’s, 22:30.1. 4-Rachel Filo, Pennington, 22:33.4. 5-Monica Kane, Rutgers Prep, 22:37.3. 6-Lauren Hoffman, Ranney, 22:38.9. 7-Alex Passano, Stuart Country Day, 22:47.0. 8-Kelsey Richardson, Pennington, 22:08.6. 9-Laura Shinn, Pennington, 23:14.0. 10-Shannon Gelson, Ranney, 23:41.2.
