Clearview graduate Abby Waddington began her junior year at Boston University by placing 5th out of 45 runners Friday at the Providence College Friar Invitational.
Waddington ran 14:43 over 4,000 meters at the Mark Coogan Cross Country Course at Highland Park in Attleboro, Mass.
Waddington finished just 36 seconds behind winner Gabby Schmidt of Providence, who ran 14:07. Waddington was B.U.’s first finisher.
Providence won the team title with 20 points, and Boston College was 2nd with 46.
Liliah Gordon, in her first collegiate race, finished first Friday afternoon in the Dolan Duels, the annual season-opening Penn State-Lock Haven dual meet on the West Branch Cross Country Course across the Susquehanna River West Branch from Lock Haven in Woodward Township, Clinton County.
Gordon, a PSU freshman from Northern Burlington, ran unattatched, which seems to indicate she won’t be officially racing this fall for Penn State, potentially saving her last year of eligibility until the fall of 2029.
The official results don’t say how long the course was, so it seems pointless to mention her time, but she won by five seconds over PSU sophomore Ada Rand of Australia, who has run 4:15.24 for 1,500 meters. An article previewing the meet on Lock Haven’s web site also doesn’t say how long the course is.
Can you imagine this sort of information lapse in any other sport? Embarrassing.
Seniors Luke Andresen and Ryan Gibson both ran sub-10 minutes for 3,200 meters Tuesday and Haddonfield – ranked 21st in the U.S. – opened the 2025 season with a top-seven sweep in a five-team Colonial Conference batch meet.
Andresen ran 9:45 and Gibson 9:50 at Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield and Cherry Hill for Haddonfield, which won the state Group 2 title last year and finished 2nd at the Meet of Champions and 1st among public schools.
Seniors Peter Simpson [10:23], Benjamin Andrus [10:24] and Brandon Stoner [10:43] completed Haddonfield’s scoring group, and seniors Michael Sinnes [10:43] and Aaron Keither [10:43] were also in their top seven.
Gloucester seniors Marcus Flagg [10:53] and Vincent Kelly [10:53] placed 8th and 9th. Haddonfield sophomore Connor Brand took 10th in 10:58 and was the 1st underclassman across the line.
Freshman Dylan Hosty, in her 1st high school race, won the girls race in 13:03, also over 3,200 meters. Junior Molly Mills [13:03], junior Madison Kelsey [13:04] and senior Riley Austin [13:05] gave Haddonfield a sweep of the top four spots.
Senior Riley Fayer of Audubon took 6th [13:05], with West Deptford junior Taylor Sierzega [13:07], West Deptford senior Kayla Romanoski [13:19], Audubon junior Lydia Gravante [13:38], Haddonfield junior Harper Benjamin [14:08] and Haddonfield senior Elizabeth Pappas [14:09] also in the top 10.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 