Following their head-to-head meeting on Sept. 30, the Jamesville-DeWitt and East Syracuse-Minoa cross country teams resumed separate paths in the OHSL Freedom division.
In Wednesday’s action, the Red Rams stayed unbeaten on both sides of the league ledger against Cortland, dominating the Purple Tigers in a pair of 15-50 meets.
This was a chance, on the girls side, for some new runners to enter the spotlight. Hannah Redmond won the individual title, as her time of 26:03 beat the field by a comfortable margin.
Val Hughes, in 26:48, edged past Giselle Haynes (26:49) and Evie Davis (26:51) for second place. Holly Deng was fifth, in 27:28. Shelby Rohadfox (27:50), Hannah Fagut (28:23), Kaitlin Murphy (28:54), Lily Rizzo (29:31) and Sara Griffiths (31:21) rounded out the top-10 sweep.
The stars did run on the boys end, though, as Bumkoth Jiak posted a time of 18 minutes, 22 seconds that beat Dan Frank by two seconds, with Dan Driscoll (18:33) in third place.
Austin Davis (19:19) and Eamon Kissane (19:47) insured the top-five sweep, but it didn’t stop there. Tyler Petersen (20:05) held off Jacob Gorke (20:07) for sixth place as Jack Healy (20:18) and Alex Wilmot (20:45) also ran well.
A day earlier, ESM competed at Pine Grove Junior High School against Chittenango and gained a split, with the Spartans winning 20-39 on the boys side, but falling to the Bears 23-32 on the girls end.
In the boys race, the Spartans’ Craig Andrianos finished second, in 17 minutes, 44 seconds, behind Chittenango’s Josiah Durfee (17:16).
Taking charge, ESM took every spot from Andrianos down to seventh place. Dylan Courbat, in third place (17:54), led the chase in third as Pete Ferstler took fourth (17:58), Andrew Troast finished fifth (18:11), Matt Lyons was sixth and Paul Schneible got to seventh place, each in a time of 18:16.
The exact opposite took place in the girls race, where Meghan Visser covered the flat Pine Grove course in 20 minutes, 57 seconds, beating Chittenango’s Becca Sager (21:45) by nearly a minute.
Still, the Bears responded by sweeping the rest of the top five before Alyssa Bassett fit her way into sixth place at 22:52. Marissa Kite was seventh (22:55), with Mallory Martino eighth (22:55) and Nicole Verrone 10th in 23:55.