TOBAGO
- Delilah DiCrescenzo (New
York, N.Y.) and Max King
(Bend, Ore.) each won the individual open
women's and men's titles to lead Team USA to
the respective open team titles Saturday at
the sixth annual North America, Central
America and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC)
Cross Country Championships at the Mt. Irvine
Resort in Tobago.
The
NACAC Championships contested races for the
open men's 8 km, open women's 6 km, junior
men's 6 km and junior women's 4 km.
King
took charge early to win the open men's 8 km
in 23 minutes, 49 seconds, leading the U.S.
squad to a perfect score of 10 points. Michael
Spence
(Ogden, Utah) finished 17 seconds behind King
for the runner-up position while Bobby
Mack
(Raleigh, N.C.) and Thomas
Kloos
(San Francisco, Calif.) rounded out the
scoring places for Team USA, running 24:26 and
24:34 for third and fourth-place respectively.
Stephen Furst (Raleigh, N.C.) ran 24:46 for
sixth-place overall. Mexico took the
runner-up team position with 34 points.
In
the open women's 6 km DiCrescenzo and Emily
Brown
(Minneapolis, Minn.), took control early and
ran together until DiCrescenzo moved into the
lead at 5 km, cruising to the win in 20:50. Emily
Harrison
(Flagstaff, Ariz.) moved up to take the
runner-up position in 21:02 and Alissa
McKaig
(Blowing Rock, N.C.) took fourth in 21:35 and Erin
Nehus
(Indianapolis, Ind.) completed the score for
the U.S. in 21:51. Brown faded to
seventh in 22:10. The U.S. women scored
12 points to take the team title, 14 points
ahead of team Mexico.
The
day's racing began with the junior women's 4
km which saw Genevieve Lalonde of Canada take
the overall win in 13:50, while Madeline
Morgan
(Birmingham, Ala.) took second in 13:53.
Kayla
Hale
(Indialantic, Fla.), took fifth in 14:07 as Lindsay
Flanagan
(Seattle, Wash.), took sixth in 14:08 and Kyle
Blakeslee
(Cannon Falls, Minn.) rounded out the team
score with an 11th-place finish in
14:45. Audrey Huth
(Shelby Township, Mich.), finished 12th
in 14:48. Canada finished with a team score of
16, while Team USA scored 24 points to take
second.
The
men's junior 6 km was dominated by Jamaica's
Kemoy Campbell, who cruised to the overall
title in 18:00 for a 21 second win over
Mohammed Ahmed of Canada. Erik
Olson
(Novato, Calif.), led the U.S., finishing
third in 18:38 as Walter
Schafer
(Centennial, Colo.), Jonathan
Nelson
(Provo, Utah), Taylor Monaghan
(Tulsa, Okla.) finished fourth, fifth and 16th
in 18:46, 19:01, 20:01 respectively. Jeffery
Arnier
(Arlington, Texas) finished 22nd in
20:42. Canada won the team race with 23
points and Team USA finished second with 28.
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