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POSTED: Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

PREP BOYS' CROSS COUNTRY: Burlington-Edison, Sehome, Squalicum advance to 2A State Championships

In the Class 2A Northwest District Meet on Saturday, Oct. 31, three Northwest Conference boys' cross country teams - Burlington-Edison, Sehome and Squalicum - advanced to the 2A State Championships next week in Pasco.

Fourteen teams competed on the muddy course at South Whidbey High School, but only the top four teams advance to state. Burlington-Edison led the pack with 38 points, Sehome and Squalicum followed with 70 and 76 points, respectively, and Lakewood rounded out the top four with 114 points.

Individually, the top 20 runners advance to state, despite if their team made the top four team slots. Sehome's Scott Carlyle finished first as the district champion with a time of 16 minutes and 25.04 seconds, and led a strong NWC group of individuals who also qualified for state.

Joining Carlyle were Sehome teammates, Eric Schneider , who finished in seventh (16:44.90) and Kyle Szegedi , who finished in 15th (17:05.93).

"Scott ran a really patient race," Sehome coach Kevin Ryan said in a phone interview. "He's getting better each week and ran tough but smart."

Ryan said along with Carlyle, his seniors have really led the strong Sehome squad to state this season.

"We have three seniors, Nate Wilson, Eric Schneider and Galen O'Moore - its come to their attention this last couple of weeks that its their last season," Ryan said. "They really stepped up and listened all week and came out today with smart game plan, went out and executed."

Top team Burlington-Edison had five of its seven varsity runners qualify for state, including second place Tyler Williams, who was edged out of first by Carlyle in the last 100 meters and finished in 16:28.24. Joining Williams was Connor Whan, Antonio Morales, Nathan Power and Alan DenAdel; all Burlington-Edison qualifiers crossed the finish line under 17:10.

Other NWC individual state qualifiers were Blaine's Tom Bradley (17:04.9l); Bellingham's Nick Lobb (17:00.53) and Andrew Ryder (17:07.57); Squalicum's Danny Gibson (16:41.28), Kole DeGolier (16:55.26) and Patrick Gibson (17:06.35) and Mount Baker's Connor Williams (17:06.79) and Dillon Quintana (17:10.40).

In the next week, Sehome is planning to get more rested and continue its tempo runs to prepare for Pasco.

"We are going to get rested in the next seven days, but still do a decent amount of work to prepare," Ryan said. "We were happy with the second place finish, but we're hoping to do better next week."

CLASS 2A NORTHWEST DISTRICT MEET

At South Whidbey High School

5,000 meters

Team scores: 1. Burlington-Edison 38, 2. Sehome 70, 3. Squalicum 76, 4. Lakewood 114, 5. Bellingham 129, 6. Archbishop Murphy 139, 7. Mount Baker 176, 8. Cedarcrest 262, 9. Blaine 274, 10. Anacortes 285, 11. Granite Falls 294, 12. Lynden 314, 13. South Whidbey 361, 14. Sultan 407.

Top 20 individual finishers: 1. Scott Carlyle (Sehome) 16:25.04; 2. Tyler Williams(Burlington-Edison) 16:28.24; 3.Connor Whan (Burlington-Edison) 16:35.62; 4.Taylor Guske (Lakewood) 16:38.34; 5.Danny Gibson (Squalicum) 16:41.28; 6. Antonio Morales (Burlington-Edison) 16:42.79; 7. Eric Schneider (Sehome) 16:44.90; 8. Conner Ballew (Archbishop Murphy) 16:46.38; 9. Nathan Power (Burlington-Edison) 16:49.72; 10. Kole DeGolier (Squalicum) 16:55.26; 11. Corey Rosson (Anacortes) 16:58.09; 12. Nick Lobb (Bellingham) 17:00.53; 13. Tom Bradley (Blaine) 17:04.91; 14. Chad Skiles (Lakewood) 17:05.35; 15. Kyle Szegedi (Sehome) 17:05.93; 16. Patrick Gibson (Squalicum) 17:06.35; 17. Connor Williams (Mount Baker) 17:06.79; 18. Alan DenAdel (Burlington-Edison) 17:07.08; 19. Andrew Ryder (Bellingham) 17:07.57; 20. Dillon Quintana (Mount Baker) 17:10.40.

Bellingham: 12. Nick Lobb 17:00.53; 19. Andrew Ryder 17:07.57; 28. Nick Rousseau 17:30.79; 30. Xion Knickrehm 17:35.03; 40. Grant Bennett 17:55.66; 50. Donovan Brogan 18:08.20; 60. Terry McClement 18:38.70.

Blaine: 13. Tom Bradley 17:04.9; 53. Perry Olason 18:09.55; 56. Eddie Fontes 18:21.72; 69. Andrew Montgomery 19:13.03; 83. A. J. Pieczynski 19:47.11; 88. Brad Whitley 20:19.42; 89. Aaron Ballard 20:34.69.

Lynden: 44. David Grambo 18:02.89; 47. Dusty Duncan 18:06.65; 67. Paulin Fleishman 19:09.87; 77. Thomas Miller 19:34.31; 79. Josh Doerksen 19:38.58; 85. Taylor Jones 19:55.44; 92. Tanner Lingbloom 20:48.05; 96. Chris Jones 22:56.80.

Mount Baker: 17. Connor Williams 17:06.79; 20. Dillon Quintana 17:10.40; 32. Wes Finger 17:38.07; 49. Matt Dunford 18:07.53; 58. Jimmy Calhoun 18:27.09; 65. Jonathan Carlson 18:47.98; 84. Billy Miles 19:49.32.

Sehome: 1. Scott Carlyle 16:25.04; 7. Eric Schneider 16:44.90; 15. Kyle Szegedi 17:05.93; 21. Calvin Collander 17:11.70; 26. Nate Wilson 17:22.90; 34. Chase Mauro 17:46.25; 35. Galen O'Moore 17:47.89.

Squalicum: 5. Danny Gibson 16:41.28; 10. Kole DeGolier 16:55.26; 16 Patrick Gibson 17:06.35; 22. Jesse Runestrand 17:15.78; 23. Ian Palmgren 17:17.88; 36. Kyler Reed 17:51.31; 39. Hunter Bennett 17:54.95.