cross country running

Doing distance work outside in cold, windy, snowy weather is deemed as just fine now and has become the norm more than the exception for indoor track athletes.

Carroll County Times first-team all-county capsules for girls cross country.

One season after the Catonsville girls and boys didn¿t qualify as teams for the Maryland State Cross Country Championship meet, coach Sandra Gallagher-Mohler was beaming with excitement at Hereford High on Nov. 14.

Ashley Betz concluded her first season of cross-country with a strong finish Saturday in the MPSSAA state meet. The 14-year-old Patterson Mill freshman placed second in the Class 1A girls' race, the highest finish among Harford County runners in the meet.

Leading the way for the Knights was senior Kiley Hurst, finishing at 20 minutes, 20 seconds and finishing 10th. She was the only Century runner to finish in the top 20, but Colby Brodsky placed 21st for the Knights.

The top-ranked Dulaney boys cross country team finished a dominant season in style at the state championship meet Saturday. Eric Walz won the race, and Dulaney put five runners in the top 18 as the Lions ended No. 2 Severna Park's three-year hold on the Class 4A title with a decisive victory over the Falcons at Hereford. The top-ranked Hereford girls also won, easily taking the Class 2A state title.

The annual Highland Day Celebration that was postponed until Oct. 31 was a huge success. Over 50 local businesses supported the day by purchasing ads in the online directory. There were over 20 patrons plus nearly 90 sponsors.

Members of Westminster High School volunteer at Shepherd's Staff Saturday morning

Loyola Blakefield had won six consecutive individual and team titles at the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championship meet. But Dalton Hengst of McDonogh and Mount Saint Joseph changed everything Wednesday at Stevenson in this year's title race.

Westminster's boys outlasted Liberty, last year's team champ, thanks to placing five runners in the top 14. South Carroll, with senior Erin Langille winning the girls race, prevented the Owls from a team sweep and had five runners in the top 17. The Owls' boys won their first county crown since 2003; the Cavs claimed their second girls county title in four seasons.

The terrain might be soggy and the result could be somewhat slower times, but Carroll's top runners and their coaches are feeling good about things when the annual cross country county meet begins Friday at 3:30 p.m.

Top-ranked Dulaney finished with a perfect score of 15 points and another county crown.

Kieran McDermott won the varsity boys race in the Gunpowder Falls Cross Country Invitational Saturday, leading some of Maryland's top high school runners over a 3-mile course at Jerusalem Mill in Kingsville.

With cool weather greeting them, more than 20,000 runners take to the streets of Baltimore today for 15th running festival.

Westminster and Liberty's boys cross country teams finished with the same number of points at Saturday's Westminster Invitational, but the Owls prevailed based on tiebreaker criteria and won a team title at their home meet.

Justin Fields, a cross country runner and basketball player who graduated from Dunbar last spring, was killed in a single-car accident Tuesday morning in Delaware.

The excitement for the Towson girls cross country team started to build in late September of 2014 when they finished fourth in the Varsity Girls Elite race at the Bull Run Invitational.

Brit Lang finished with the best girls time, while Centennial girls placed first in overall team score at annual Howard County Invitational Cross Country meet

The Dulaney boys cross country team comes into the 33rd annual Barnhart Invitational on Saturday at Dulaney High as the team to beat after winning the meet in 2014 and 2013.

Chad Boyle is coaching his 18th season of cross country at Dulaney High School this fall, and he is just as excited as when he started as head coach of the Lions' indoor track team in 1997.

Race features 5K and one-mile color run

Sometimes, it can take runners until their senior year to reach their potential on the course. But, after the county graduated a majority of its talent, Nick Tilson may get an opportunity to show just how good he can be as he enters his third year.

Hereford High School junior Sarah Coffey career ambition jumps off the page.

Dulaney's Eric Walz wanted to run in the New Balance Nationals in Greensboro, N.C., on June 19. It¿s often the next step for Lions track and field athletes this time of the year, unless they feel as if they would benefit from rest.

On May 16, animal activism and business networking will share a venue on the grounds of the Baltimore Humane Society in Reisterstown as part of the Cross Country 5K.

Wilde Lake's David Eisenhauer outpaces his competition on way to headlining the 2014-15 Howard County boys indoor track all-county team

Eisenhauer posted Class 3A state championships in the 2-mile run and the 1,600. He collected wins in both races at the county and 3A East regional levels as well.

Dulaney boys soccer and volleyball, Notre Dame Prep volleyball, St. Paul¿s basketball and ice hockey, Loyola Blakefield cross country, swimming and soccer, Calvert Hall ice hockey and football, and the accomplishments Dulaney cross country runner Eric Walz highlight a memorable 2014 for Towson-area high school sports.

After finishing top three in all three postseason races, Centennial's Shreya Nalubola headlines this year's girls cross country all-county team

The 2014 boys cross country All-Metro first team.

The Baltimore Sun's girls cross country All-Metro first team.

After being crowned last year's Class 3A 800- and 1,600-meter state champion during both the indoor and outdoor seasons, the senior is no longer concerning himself with gaudy times or setting records. At this point, Chris Heydrick just wants to be remembered for how he finishes.

Race helps Catonsville High Athletic Performance Training Center grow

River Hill wins both team titles in 3A, while Atholton and Mt. Hebron boys finish in second and third, respectively

River Hill boys and girls cross country dominate state meet at Hereford High School in Parkton.

Severna Park boys wins Class 4A state title for third straight year as Dulaney's Walz taks second in boy race.

The MPSSAA's region meets for cross country took place at the end of last week, and a number of local runners and teams fared well.

Bryn Mawr's Sophie Gitlin seemed only mildly surprised at the extent of her victory in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland championship cross country meet Oct. 29 at Oregon Ridge Park.

After a successful junior year in indoor and outdor track, Matt Kane knew he wanted to run in college and felt joining the cross country team would be beneficial. He enjoyed immediate success.

Top-ranked McDonogh left little doubt that its undefeated Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference regular season would bode well for a stellar showing in the league championship meet Wednesday afternoon at Oregon Ridge Park.

Edgewood won its first cross country title in 44 years Thursday, capturing the boys championship in the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference meet in Bel Air.

The Baltimore City cross country championship meet scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed and now will be run Saturday at 2 p.m. at Herring Run Park.

Howard County rec sports submissions for the week of Oct. 23

Oakland Mills junior Britt Lang, River Hill senior Chris Heydrick win the individual titles at the Howard County cross country county championship meet. Both River Hill teams also win.