Photo by Mark Hall
For the first time in the meet's three year history, Team Virginia swept both of the team titles at the Battle of the Potomac on Saturday at Smokey Glen Farm in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In the post-season event pitting runners from Virginia and Maryland against each other, Virginia had been swept in the inaugural event in 2006 and split wins in 2007 with the Virginia girls winning.
Photo by Mark Hall
Virginia was led by the individual race winners in both seeded races with Leoule Degfae of Thomas Edison pulling just ahead of DeMatha Catholic's Cory Puffett in the downhill finish for a 16:27 victory in the seeded boys race, while the top 2 girls finishers and only runners breaking 20 minutes were both from Virginia as two transfers this year in Kaitlin Davis of Mountain Virginia (originally from North Carolina) and Erica Howes of W.T. Woodson (originally from New York) were first and second with Davis at 19:49 and Howes at 19:57.
Photo by Mark Hall
The first 10 finishers from each state comprised the team scoring with the boys scores at 79 points for Virginia and 131 for Maryland, while the girls scores were 82 points for Virginia and 128 for Maryland.
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