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Wellsboro girls take 1st, boys 9th at NTL Coaches Meet

Wellsboro girls take 1st, boys 9th at NTL Coaches Meet

By: Ed Weaver  /  October 13, 2013

The Wellsboro Varsity girls cross country team surprised NTL champion Mansfield by coming home with a 1st place finish in the NTL Coaches Meet on Saturday.

The Lady Hornets and Mansfield each finished with 52 team points, but Wellsboro won the tie-breaker thanks to a better finish out of the sixth place runner.

Mansfield's Violet Learn won the race Saturday with a time of 19:43. Sophomore Jada Jackson was the top finisher for the Lady Hornets, coming home 4th in a time of 20:39. Fellow Sophomores Jordyn Coffee, Camryn Keane, and Samantha Bailey finshed behind Jackson. Coffee finished 10th (21:42), Keane was 13th (21:57), and Bailey was 14th (22:02).

Rounding out the rest of the Lady Hornet runners were Senior Charlotte Worthington in 19th (22:46), Junior Annie Sweeney in 20th (22:47), Junior Caitlynn Butler in 25th (23:08), Freshman Janessa Davis in 39th (24:06), and Senior Baylee Mann in 57th (25:58).

In the boys race, the Hornets finished 9th with 198 team points. Senior Joey Doganiero was the top finisher for the Hornets in 11th at 17:37 followed by Freshman Joey Messmer in 40th (19:48), Junior Dalton Messmer in 45th (20:13), Sophomore David Zavetsky in 54th (20:44), and Freshman Alden Weiner in 55th (20:44).

In the Middle School races, both Wellsboro teams finished third on the day. The boys scored 71 team points and the girls scored 59.

 

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Ed Weaver is the owner of Circle W Sports in Wellsboro, PA, is the Sports Director for The Home Page Network and the creator of WellsboroAthletics.com and WellsboroFootball.com. You can follow him on Twitter or friend him on Facebook.

 
 
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