2012 Oatlands Invitational - Top 10 Girls Teams
1. Osbourn Park - 150 pts (20:52 avg)
2. Bethesda-Chevy Chase (MD) - 164 pts (20:43 avg)
3. Battlefield - 168 pts (20:42 avg)
4. Tuscarora - 226 pts (21:11 avg)
5. Chantilly - 236 pts (20:58 avg)
6. Albemarle - 268 pts (21:16 avg)
7. Washington-Lee - 277 pts (21:19 avg)
8. Cosby - 343 pts (21:28 avg)
9. Winston Churchill - 380 pts (21:35 avg)
10. Atlee - 382 pts (21:39 avg)
2012 Oatlands Invitational - Top 25 Girls Individuals
1. Jennifer Flack (Thomas Edison) 18:53
2. Bailey Kolonich (Robert E. Lee) 19:24
3. Nicole Carter (Battlefield) 19:27
4. Kendall Cowne (Chantilly) 19:44
5. Molly Breidenbaugh (Trinity) 19:47
6. Emily Mulhern (Urbana, MD) 19:49
7. Caroline Beakes (Bethesda-Chevy Chase, MD) 19:56
8. Elizabeth Hutton (Manchester) 19:57
9. Amber Hawkins (James Wood) 19:57
10. Emma Gillies (Woodgrove) 20:00
11. Becca Howe (Battlefield) 20:08
12. Emma Nowak (Osbourn) 20:09
13. Devin Nihill (Bishop O'Connell) 20:12
14. Nora McUmber (Bethesda-Chevy Chase, MD) 20:14
15. Jackie Deffer (Briar Woods) 20:14
16. Allison Huschke (Albemarle) 20:15
17. Ashleigh Martin (Hampshire, WV) 20:17
18. Gillian Saul (Cosby) 20:19
19. Maria Carberry (Urbana, MD) 20:19
20. Lucy Srour (Winston Churchill, MD) 20:23
21. Kayla Gibbons (Warren County) 20:25
22. Laura Nakasaka (Bethesda-Chevy Chase, MD) 20:29
23. Jessica Gray (Osbourn Park) 20:31
24. Nora Raher (Chantilly) 20:32
25. Isabelle Latour (Quince Orchard, MD) 20:35
2012 Oatlands Invitational - Top 10 Boys Teams
1. Chantilly - 80 pts (16:32 avg)
2. Battlefield - 194 pts (17:10 avg)
3. Osbourn Park - 271 pts (17:26 avg)
4. Brentsville District - 299 pts (17:29 avg)
5. Riverbend - 299 pts (17:30 avg)
6. Stone Bridge - 299 pts (17:26 avg)
7. Jefferson (WV) - 310 pts (17:18 avg)
8. Thomas S. Wootton - 389 pts (17:33 avg)
9. Gov. Thomas Johnson - 451 pts (17:45 avg)
10. Georgetown Day (DC) - 491 pts (17:52 avg)
2012 Oatlands Invitational - Top 25 Boys Individuals
1. Sean McGorty (Chantilly) 15:26
2. Louis Colson (Thomas Edison) 15:51
3. Thomas Madden (Skyline) 16:04
4. David Dorsey (Catoctin, MD) 16:06
5. Ryan Graf (Jefferson, WV) 16:09
6. Joshua Trzeciak (Thomas S. Wootton, MD) 16:12
7. Ian Macleod (Stafford) 16:16
8. Collin Crilly (Good Counsel, MD) 16:18
9. Nathaniel Hall (Atlee) 16:23
10. Patrick Joseph (Loudoun County) 16:27
11. David Cedillo (Brookville) 16:30
12. Ben Freed (Gov. Thomas Johnson< MD) 16:32
13. Peter Horton (Bethesda-Chevy Chase) 16:33
14. Andrew Milliorn (Jefferson, WV) 16:35
15. Patrick Duboyce (Linganore, MD) 16:37
16. Anteneh Girma (T.C. Williams) 16:38
17. Logan Miller (Chantilly) 16:41
18. Faris Sakallah (Chantilly) 16:41
19. Tanner Cook (Abingdon) 16:45
20. David Fitzgerald (Winston Churchill, MD) 16:48
21. Corey Tooke (Brentsville) 16:49
22. Kevin Dorsey (Catoctin, MD) 16:50
23. Peter Malander (Chantilly) 16:50
24. John Dooney (Tuscarora) 16:51
25. Nick Bussian (Patriot) 16:52
Meet Summary: The expected showdown between Virginia's two returning Foot Locker finalists in Sean McGorty and Thomas Madden was not much of a race on Saturday at the Oatlands Invitational with McGorty out blazing in the first mile with a nice buffer on Madden and the rest of the field through the first third of the race. McGorty proved himself to be in another class from the many top ranked runners in Virginia in the field as he continued to distance himself to an eventual 25 second margin of victory from the runner-up finisher Louis Colson (15:51) of Thomas Edison. McGorty's time of 15:26 on a warm day which crept up into the mids 80s by the varsity A races, was only one second off the course and meet record set by 2008 Foot Locker National champion Solomon Haile from Sherwood High School in Maryland. Madden, who never challenged McGorty at any point in the race and actually fell back well into the top 10 at some later points in the race, was able to muster a solid last mile to move up into third place for a time of 16:04. After a trio of out-of-state runners came through the chute, Stafford's Ian Macleod was able to beat all three runners who he had placed second to in earlier races with his 7th place effort of 16:16 including Colin Crilly (8th, 16:18) of Good Counsel from the Chancellor Invite, Nathaniel Hall (9th, 16:23) from the Woodberry Forest Invite, and Patrick Joseph (10th, 16:27) from the Great Meadow Invite.
Equally dominant as McGorty's individual win was over a field of some of the state's best and top out-of-state talent was his Chantilly boys' team in taking the varsity A team title by 114 points with their team score of 80. Following individual champion McGorty, Chantilly nearly had their entire top five as well as a sixth runner under 17 minutes on a course which saw even a returning state champion in Walker Mogen of Radford barely dip under the time. Chantilly's scoring top five included McGorty, Logan Miller (17th, 16:41), Faris Sakallah (18th, 16:41), Peter Malander (23rd, 16:50), and Ryan McGorty (33rd, 17:00). Chantilly and Blacksburg look to be clearly head and shoulders the best two teams in Virginia this season and they finally will get to meet next weekend at Great American to settle at least next week who is the best team in Virginia since both are in different classifications at the state championships in November.
The Battlefield boys as expected took second again to Chantilly like they did two weeks prior at the Monroe Parker Invitational. The Bobcats are certainly proving themselves as a legitimate state podium squad in Group AAA with their team performances in the first month of the season. Battlefield had a tight spread for their top five runners of only 36 seconds between Ryan Miller (16:54), Luke Mazzu (16:55), Haben Zemichael (17:11), Aaron Hill (17:21), and Cameron Henken (17:30). Their team could certainly close the distance on Chantilly later in the season with more consistent and better races from their top runners including Zemichael, a returning sub 16 minute 5K runner who ran as the team's #3 runner this past Saturday and over 17 minutes.
In third place in the team standings with 271 points was one of the bigger surprises in the boys' varsity race with the Osbourn Park as an unranked squad leap frogging several highly ranked teams coming into the meet including VA #5 Brentsville, VA #8 Riverbend, VA #13 Stafford, and VA #15 Western Albemarle. Osbourn Park did not have a single individual runner break into the top 40 places, but overcame a lack of a front runner by having the smallest time spread for their top five among all teams in the race at 24 seconds. Osbourn Park has not qualified for state competition in several years and their chances look a lot better at breaking that drought after beating many of teams at Oatlands who will be contending for those top 4 state meet spots in the region between Riverbend, Stafford, and Albemarle.
While McGorty's win was a re-assertion of himself as the state's top runner, Jennifer Flack's win in the girls' race was a grand introduction to the rest of the state of Virginia. The Thomas Edison senior Flack transferred to Virginia over the summer from Kansas, where she had solid track times including a 11:27 3200, but the new scenery and competition in Virginia seems to have elevated her running to a whole new level. After taking fifth at the Monroe Parker Invitational against many of the Northern Region's best, Flack scored her first signature win in the state's largest cross country invitational of the fall at Oatlands. Flack was in a pack through the first mile consisting of other top VA top 25 ranked runners such as Molly Breidenbaugh of Trinity, Nicole Carter of Battlefield, and Bailey Kolonich of Robert E. Lee. Not too long after the mile mark, Flack made a surge to break away and had really opened up quite a lead on the field on the downhill following the two mile mark. After running 4K's for much of her high school career in Kansas, Flack showed she could go the extra 1K distance on the hilly Oatlands Plantation 5K course terrain with a personal best 5K time of 18:53 for the win.
Robert E. Lee junior Bailey Kolonich had a strong kick to overtake Battlefield's Nicole Carter (3rd, 19:27) for second in a time of 19:24. Sub 5 minute miler Kendall Cowne of Chantilly is showing herself to be much more than a star on the track as the VA #12 ranked runner was able to pull ahead of VA #10 ranked Molly Breidenbaugh of Trinity for fourth place with a time of 19:44. Breidenbaugh in fifth place at 19:47, was able to compete in the same race with defending private school state champion Devin Nihill of Bishop O'Connell for the first time as a private school runner herself (transferred in from Hanover High School this summer) and was able to come out on top in this encounter by 25 seconds with Nihill in 13th place.
The VA #7 ranked Osbourn Park girls (150 pts) scored a big win for their program in defeating their Northwest Region rival Battlefield (3rd, 168 pts) as well as one of the top ranked teams from Maryland in Bethesda-Chevy Chase (2nd, 164 pts). The Osbourn Park girls have really thrived and focused on pack running in cross country over recent seasons and it was no different on Saturday in Leesburg. Osbourn Park had an intact pack for much of the first half of the race, before it broke off a little bit in the last mile and half but not much with just 34 seconds separating their top five runners in Jessica Gray (20:31), Jillian Everly (20:49), Kelly Russell (20:51), Rachel Labella (21:02), and Sarah Karalus (21:05). Extra insurance was found with their sixth runner Helena Mulder just behind Karalus at 21:06.
2012 Oatlands Invitational Results:
- JV Underclassmen Boys
- JV Underclassmen Girls
- JV Upperclassmen Boys
- JV Upperclassmen Girls
- Varsity A Boys
- Varsity A Girls
- Varsity B Boys
- Varsity B Girls
Photo Gallery:
Race Videos by Brandon Miles & John Owen: JV Underclassmen Girls - JV Underclassmen Boys - JV Upperclassmen Girls - JV Upperclassmen Boys - Varsity B Girls - Varsity B Boys - Varsity A Girls - Varsity A Boys