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  At Radford University this past Saturday, the Stonewall Jackson boys ran away with the Group A state track championship team title led by two individual stars, while a well-rounded James River girls' team were able to pull out a last second victory in the 4x400 meter relay over a formidable Strasburg squad by 5 points. The 2012 edition of the Group A State Track & Field Championships witnessed three meet records going down including one meet benchmark which had lasted for an incredible 3 decades.

A total of 7 meet records were set at Thursday's Region B Outdoor Track & Field Championships at East Rockingham High School including a pair set by both Amelia County's Jasmine Mitchell and Strasburg's Katlyn Ayers. Mitchell scored 47 points total among 6 events including meet record performances in the high jump with a 5'4.50" clearance and a 56.49 clocking in the 400 meter dash. Mitchell also won the long jump with a leap of 18'4" and finished as a runner-up in the 100 meter dash and 800 meter run.   It took a meet record run from Strasburg's Katlyn Ayers to keep Mitchell from fourth individual title on the day. Ayers earlier battled in the 1600 meter run with this fall's Group A state cross country champion Hannah Rose of Wilson Memorial and received some redemption from her state cross country meet loss with a meet record victory of 5:08.88. Ayers again faced major competition later in the 800 from Amelia County's Mitchell and came out in first place again breaking a 14 year old meet record with a time of 2:19.20.   Strasburg made a clean sweep of the team titles for boys and girls with Ayers and thrower Taylor Cockerille (discus winner and shot runner-up) leading the girls to a team score of 81 points. Strasburg boys (52 pts) squeezed out a one point win over Stonewall Jackson (51 pts) as a sweep of the distance races and the 30 points from those wins by Anthony Wallis in the 1600 (4:33.72) and 3200 (10:07.39) in addition to Strasburg teammate Dylan Callaway running away with gold in the 800 meter run by a resounding four seconds with his time of 1:59.78.   The boys 200 meter dash was the fastest race ever in meet history with two runners breaking the old meet record and the third place finishing tying the old all-time meet best of 22.00. In any other year, Dan River sophomore Antwane Ferrell would be the regional champion with his 22.00 clocking but had to settle for third behind Altavista's Justin Brown rolling a swift 21.62 performance for the title and followed by Nelson County's Rodrell Smith (2nd, 21.95) for runner-up. Brown also took first in the 100 meter dash earlier with a 10.82 clocking, while Ferrell ran a leg on a meet record shattering 4x100 meter relay for Dan River at 43.04. Both 4x100 records went down as the Gretna girls lowered the time set by Appomattox County one year ago down to 50.49.   Chatham's Tori McKenzie was a double champion in the sprints with times of 12.24 and 25.64 respectively in the 100 and 200 meter dash. McKenzie is the reigning Group A state champion in both events and looking to match or better her performance from a year ago when she ran personal best times of 11.96 and 24.99 in state competition. William Campbell boys have some talented jumpers as showcased by the 6'7" clearance from Maxie Crews in the high jump and a leap of 45'11" by Marques Adams in the triple jump.   Region B Championships Complete Results Region B Championships National Elites (17)

Despite quite a few teams not able to attend due to the deteoriating weather conditions expected throughout the day with Hurricane Irene working its way up the East Coast on Saturday, a decent group of schools in Northern Virginia were able to make it to Great Meadow for the meet to be held under a revised and condensed race schedule. 

George Mason boys join George Mason girls as Region B team champs   Defending state champion Katlyn Ayers pulls away comfortably for 19:12 win   Clarke County boys team may be down, but Steven Trayer & Paul Myer look to continue individual state glory   Full meet summary, race videos, interviews, and photo gallery to come from Wednesday's Region B Cross Country Championships at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville. Complete results posted.   Region B Meet Results: Boys Race - Girls Race Region B Meet Photo Gallery by Brandon Miles - 817 photos total. Race Videos - To be added Thursday morning. Interviews - To be added Thursday morning.

Group A girls pre-season cross country rankings with 10 deep in teams and 25 deep in individuals. The George Mason girls will be trying to keep up with defending individual state champion Katlyn Ayers (pictured above by Tom Hoerner) while Ayers and her Strasburg teammates will be trying to challenge the defending team state champions from George Mason. Ayers only runs cross country in the fall, but her talent has overidden the fact so far that she is not a year around competitor. She will have another state track champion to deal with in 1600/800 meter champion Clare Moretz of Madison County.  

The 2009 All-MileStat.com Cross Country Team has been announced with a total of 42 athletes being selected among the 7 member first, second, and third teams for both boys and girls. Awards winners also announced for Runner of the Year, Coach of the Year, Team of the Year, Freshmen of the Year, Most Improved Runner of the Year, and Comeback Runner of the Year. Congratulations to all selections for this fall's All-MileStat.com Team!

The George Mason girls repeated as Group A state team champions with no seniors among their top seven and missing their top runner due to injury. Katlyn Ayers of Strasburg started off the first race of the day with a runaway 19:03 victory. Strasburg and Radford had a close team battle for second and third place despite having very wide difference in team spreads.

Strasburg sophomore Katlyn Ayers figured to be the third best runner in the Group A classification coming into the season but injuries to defending champion and course record holder Megan Marsico of Glenvar and Natalie Young of George Mason have opened the door of opportunity for Ayers to win her first state title. She has went undefeated in all of her races this season and another first place finish should be in the works for her on Saturday at Great Meadow.

MileStat.com's newest high school individual state cross country rankings as of October 22nd are released with the top 15 individuals (as well as bubble mentions) for Group AAA, Group AA, and private school as well as an updated "Cream of the Crop" top 15. Pictured left: Katlyn Ayers of Strasburg has risen to the #1 ranking in Group A as she has remained undefeated in all races this season.

The 2009 Oatlands Invitational should prove to be one of the biggest and most competitive meets in the state of Virginia this year with another great field of teams assembled by meet directors Derek Farrey and Matt Oblas. The meet will feature team of all classifications and different regions throughout the state of Virginia as well as schools from the states of Maryland and West Virginia. At last count, close to 90 schools in all will be represented on the Oatlands Plantation 5K course in Leesburg on Saturday, September 26th.

Megan Marsico of Glenvar will be getting a late start to this cross country season as her summer training has been put on hiatus due to injury. Nonetheless, she will be expected to defend her Group A state cross country title this fall as last year's Foot Locker finalist is still too much of talent to let the current injury setback to prevent her from a first place at Great Meadow in November.   There are two rising sophomores who had exceptional freshmen years of cross country in Natalie Young and Katlyn Ayers (both pictured left by Scott Rigler) who will look to be the leading runners in Group A in the early part of the season in September with Marsico working herself back into shape. Young and Ayers were the third and fourth place finishers in last year's state race with Young winning a state title this past spring in the 3200 meter run, while Ayers did not run track and is the returning Region B cross country champion over Young. Madison County junior Clare Moretz might be the most improved from last fall (8th in the state cross country meet) as she claimed the Group A 1600 meter state title against Young at Radford University in late May.

Clarke County's Ben Veilleux continues his path to a Group A state cross country title and possibly greater feats in the post-season at Wednesday's Region B Meet in Charlottesville (Photo by Ted Plunkett) The best two girls teams in Group A happen to be in the same district and region this fall as the Bull Run District Meet saw an exciting and extremely close team race between George Mason and Clarke County. George Mason was able to knock off the defending district, regional, and state champions by a thin 2 point margin. The Region B Championships on Wednesday at Panorama Farms figures to have another small margin of victory with the Clarke County girls hungry to avenge their district loss.