25 days to OCC Championships...

The New Albany Cross Country team competed in two events this past week. On Wednesday 9/16, the Junior Varsity team competed against 4 other schools at the Northridge Invitational. Placing 2nd overall and leading the Eagles to a team victory was Drew Rose in a time of 18:04.

On Saturday 9/19, the Varsity and Reserve Teams competed at the Central Ohio Invitational hosted by Bishop Hartley. Some highlights of this past weekend are as follows:

• Boy's Varsity - 5th out of 11 teams. 37 points out of first (Westerville Central 62 pts.) and only 17 points out of 2nd. Team Average of 17:08.
  
• Boy's Reserve - 1st out 13 teams. Team Average of 18:27 (better than last year's varsity!)
• Congratulations to 2 of our freshman. Drew Rose won the Reserve race in 17:33, while Austin Bach (4th for varsity in 17:30) was named Most Outstanding Freshman.
  
• Competing against two league teams, the score versus Big Walnut as a dual would have been New Albany - 24 pts., Big Walnut - 37 pts. Against Olentangy Orange, the score would have been New Albany - 15 pts., Olentangy Orange - 50 pts.
  

This week the boy's and girl's cross country teams will be competing at the Pickerington Central Tiger Invitational. The schedule will go as follows:

• Report to school: 9:00 a.m.
• Bus Leaves: 9:15 a.m.
• Reserve Warm-Up: 10:10
• Reserve Race: 11:00
• Varsity Warm-Up: 11:30
• Varsity Race: 12:20
• Leave Pickerington: approximately 1:15
• Return to NAHS: 2:00 p.m.

The following runners will be running Varsity this weekend:
1. Blake Taneff
2. Sebastian Matt
3. Alex Stanislav
4. Austin Bach
5. Kraig Manion
6. Drew Rose
7. Kyle Manion

Any runner not on the Varsity Roster will be competing in the Reserve Race at 11:00 a.m.