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October 31, 2009

Beekmantown boys, Saranac Lake girls make it a CVAC sweep

Anonymous The Press Republican Sun Nov 01, 2009, 01:16 AM EDT

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POINT AU ROCHE — Andy Hastings runs out of superlatives when he gets to talking about his Beekmantown boys' cross-country team.

"I can't say enough about them and what they've done the last two years," the Beekmantown coach acknowledged Saturday, after his Eagles won a second straight Champlain Valley Athletic Conference championship meet.

"It's a great group of kids; they're 35-1 over the last two years. They come to practice every day ready to work and always have a great attitude. They've been great representatives of the school and the area.

"Gary (Assistant Coach Phillips) and I were saying 'teams like this don't come along that often, maybe never."

The Eagles, who ran through the regular season unbeaten, turned in another sterling performance Saturday over their home course at Point au Roche State Park.

"We've run five meets there this year; they know the course," Hastings added.

Beekmantown finished with 30 points, 11 up on second-place Seton Catholic with no other team within 70 points.

Seton Catholic's Michael Champagne, who set the course record just last Tuesday, won with relative ease, although his time of 14 minutes, 52 seconds for the 3 miles was well off the mark.

Beekmantown's Brendan Courneene was second in 15:27 while teammate Adam Shearer came in third in 15:39.

Zach Ziemer, running a huge race for Seton Catholic, took fourth in 16:10 while Saranac's rising star Josh Wade was fifth in 16:18.

Beekmantown put two more runners in the top 10 (Josh Turner and Justin Collier) with Nick Tallon, 11th.

It was quite a showing by Beekmantown, which was without senior captain Ethan Waite, who has been sidelined with an ankle injury.

"He (Waite) was really disappointed. He's only run three times since he hurt his ankle and he had some problems with an achilles tendon afterward," Hastings related. "He could have run today, but we held him out; our focus is on next week (the Section VII championships). We really need him then."

A strong wind and a wet course offered CVAC runners more of a challenge Saturday.

"You look at the times they were slower than expected, but that's the nature of the sport, contending with the wind and rain," Hastings continued.

"We had some standing water at the starting line and that's something we've never had. A couple of places on the course were wetter than I've seen it."

Saranac Lake girls win
The Saranac Lake girls, also coming off a perfect dual-meet campaign, won the CVAC meet with 50 points, nine up on Seton Catholic. Saranac was third with 73

"We knew that Saranac had been running very well, but we almost overlooked Seton," admitted Saranac Lake girls' coach David Tyldesley.

"Saranac didn't run quite as strong as last Tuesday (in the season finale) with Saranac Lake), but we know they'll be extremely tough next weekend in the sectionals."

The Red Storm were without No. 5 runner Geanette Orton, who missed the meet with a strep throat.

But they still put four runners in the top 10.

Anna Rabideau of Seton Catholic was a convincing winner in 19:04 to cap off an undefeated season in the CVAC.

Beekmantown's Bailey Weightman was a strong second in 19:38, followed by Saranac Lake's Kendra Leonidas (19:46), Julia Bowler (19:47) and Elena Beideck (19:55).

"Elena Beideck, in her first year on the varsity, did a superb job coming in fifth and Julie Bowler has been running really well and was close (one second) to Kendra (Leonidas), today," Tyldesley added.

The Section VII championships will be held Friday at Plattsburgh State over the same course to be used for the state meet in two weeks.

Champlain Valley

Athletic Conference

Meet

Saturday

at point Au Roche

Boys

Team standings

1Beekmantown30

2Seton Catholic41

3Peru111

4Ticonderoga112

5Saranac118

6PHS140

7NCCS171

8AuSable Valley199

Individuals

1Michael ChampagneSC14:52

2Brendan CourneeneBtn15:27

3Adam ShearerBtn15:39

4Zack ZiemerSC16:10

5Josh WadeSar16:18

6Josh TurnerBtn16:22

7Jay BerubeTi16:27

8Justin CollierBtn16:29

9Jacob DewittSC16:31

10Joshua CookTi16:39

11Nicholas TallonBtn16:41

12Austin Waid-JonesPeru16:50

13Mitch RyanSC16:51

14Barret WalingSC17:02

15Doug OsbornePeru17:03

16Justin BresetteSC17:29

17John CordesPeru17:33

18Julian BreyetteSC17:35

19Casey JacksonSar17:36

20Tyler GrantSC17:38

21Jeff DonlanPHS17:45

22Dan DohmanAV17:53

23Joey KwartaBtn17:53

24Matt SaulpaughLP17:53

25Tejinder GillPHS17:54

26Josh HerronSar17:55

27Will PellerinSC17:57

28Neil MillerNCCS18:05

29James DownsSC18:10

30Paul LaughlinPHS18:13

31Chad PicheNCCS18:14

32Kevin DensmoreTi18:16

33Jay CampionAV18:36

34Dylan Arvisais-AnahaltPHS18:39

35Josh RomanowiczPeru18:41

36Nicky DormannSar18:42

37Michael BarberTi18:43

38Ben KarkoskiTi18:47

39James BishopBtn18:50

40Brandon BusheyPeru18:52

41Michael DooreySC18:54

42Landon GosselinNCCS18:59

43Austin MedeirosSar19:02

44Tim SnyderSar19:05

45Matt FinlaysonSL19:08

46Dylan CareyNCCS19:13

47Alistair RussellPHS19:15

48Eric StutlerNCCS19:39

49Logan FraserSar19:51

50Etienne BeguinPHS19:53

Girls

Team standings

1Saranac Lake50

2Seton Catholic59

3Saranac73

4Beekmantown103

5PHS114

6NCCS115

7Ticonderoga165

Individuals

1Anna RabideauSC19:04

2Bailey WeightmanBtn19:38

3Kendra LeonidasSL19:46

4Julia BowlerSL19:47

5Elena BeideckPHS19:55

6Maile SappBtn19:55

7Sophie DeshaiesPHS20:07

8Kaitlyn FacteauSar20:16

9Hillary PondSL20:29

10Elizabeth FisherSC20:36

11Monique Arvisais-AnhaltPHS20:46

12Tracy RushSar21:12

13Justine RabideauNCCS21:18

14Maxine RockSar21:19

15Kathryn Van HerpSC21:19

16Mary GlynnSC21:23

17Sarah WillettSC21:34

18Clare HipkoNCCS21:35

19Emily CrawfordSar21:36

20Morgan KellySar21:44

21Melissa WhymanSar21:46

22Laura BechardNCCS22:06

23Katie KarkoskiTi22:18

24Caitlyn FurniaSar22:32

25Samantha WeaverBtn22:42

26Brittany MauldingPeru22:57

27Molly DefayettePHS22:58

28Megan BoumilNCCS23:00

29Emily ManchesterPHS23:23

30Hayley BodmerSL23:26

31Andrea NyeSL23:34

32Dana ChapmanSC23:38

33Jordana GreenTi23:39

34Hannah HerbstTi23:46

35Hannah ConstantyBtn23:50

36Lacie HogleNCCS23:54

37Maureen PellerinSar23:57

38Sarah LandryBtn24:04

39Shannon PassnoBtn24:15

40Elise MellorLP24:27

41Trista HozleyAV24:37

42Markie teRieleTi24:40

43Becky BarberTi24:46

44Charlotte HackettSar24:53

45Meg TubridySL25:02

46Brittany HoltTi25:09

47Dakota ReedPeru25:15

48Kaileigh WoodruffSL25:30

49Emma Schneider-FerrariPHS25:33

50Camryn LiebSL25:39