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The Glenelg Country School
girls cross country team secured an undefeated dual meet season with
victories yesterday against Severn and Park Schools.
Running off the front and away from the rest of the field, Maeve Ricaurte led
all finishers in 19:30
over the three-mile course at Anne
Arundel Community
College.
She was
followed by her teammates in the next two places, Katie O�??Dunne and Samantha Matthews.
Finishing fourth for the Dragons and 10th overall was Camille Hackney. Maya
Munoz rounded out the top five for the team.
This dual meet victory caps
a seven-day stretch of intense racing for the girls. After defeating their
closest competitor of the year, a previously unbeaten Institute of Notre Dame
squad, last Tuesday at home, the Lady Dragons raced in the Meade Autumn
Classic at Fort
Meade on Friday.
Their sixth-place finish at
Meade placed them just behind five of the top ten teams in the state and just
ahead of four more top twenty ranked teams. It was an impressive race for GCS, especially as it was the first time the team
had competed at the event.
The race was run on a
former landfill within the bounds of Fort Meade.
The course was relatively flat and the competition was fast. The top three GCS finishers placed among the top 25 overall,
with Ricaurte placing 7th (18:49),
Matthews 14th (19:30)
and O�??Dunne 21st (19:48).
Rounding out the top five were Emily Peterman (52nd, 20:51) and Kelsey Haist (110th,
22:39).
Next up for the team is the
Georgetown Prep Invitational on Saturday, October 20. It is one of the area�??s
most prestigious races and will challenge the girls to follow up on their
strong performances from both the Meade and Mercersburg Invitationals. They
will race the seeded section at 2:15. --Mike Buchanan
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