For the 7th time in 9 years, the Laval Rouge et Or males’s and girls’s cross-country groups have claimed double gold on the Quebec XC Championships, which additionally function the RSEQ convention championships.
On Saturday in Rawdon, Que., the top-ranked Laval males gained their twelfth consecutive RSEQ name, marking the longest present (sports activities) successful streak within the convention. Regardless of the absence in their chief, Jean-Simon Desgagnés, who’s these days competing for Canada on the 2023 Pan-American Video games in Santiago, Chile, his teammate, Philippe Morneau-Cartier, led the way in which for Laval, successful his moment consecutive RSEQ particular person gold. Laval’s Jonathan Tedeschi adopted Morneau-Cartier, taking moment position to lend a hand the Rouge et Or seize the crew name.
Thomas Laviolette of U of Montreal Carabins completed 3rd within the males’s 8K race, with the #5 ranked Sherbrooke Vert et Or and McGill Redbirds taking silver and bronze within the crew class.
Within the girls’s championship 8K, Laval positioned 5 runners within the height 10, successful the RSEQ convention name by way of a landslide. Their height runner, Catherine Beauchemin, gained by way of just about 50 seconds over her Laval teammate, Jade Bérubé. Elisa Tripotin of UQAM Citadins earned bronze. This marks Laval’s 3rd consecutive convention name within the girls’s race.
Guelph upsets Queen’s at OUA Championships
The Queen’s College males’s crew regarded to finish a 34-year OUA name drought on Saturday afternoon in Waterloo, Ont. The whole thing looked as if it would align for the #2 ranked Gaels to win their first convention XC name since 1989, till their height runner, Jude Wheeler-Dee, dropped out of the race with simply over a kilometre to move. Nicholas Bannon of Guelph, trailing Wheeler-Dee when he withdrew, gained the lads’s 8K in 24:24, assisting the #6 ranked Gryphons in incomes their 3rd OUA name within the ultimate 4 years.
Regardless of Wheeler-Dee’s withdrawal, Queen’s nonetheless took silver, completing 21 issues in the back of Guelph. To the marvel of many, the College of Toronto Varsity Blues clinched the bronze, successful their first OUA cross-country medal since 2006.
Within the girls’s race, the #2 ranked Western Mustangs had been the crew to overcome within the OUA this season. They solidified their energy on Saturday morning by way of successful the college’s first OUA girls’s name since 1998. The Mustangs claimed 3rd to 7th positions to accumulate a low ranking of 25 issues, successful the crew name over Guelph (the protecting champions). Julia Agostinelli of Guelph seized the person 8K name in 29:06, finishing a blank sweep of the end spots for the Gryphons, over McMaster’s Rosalyn Barrett and Western’s Chloe Coutts.
UBC dominates CanWest champs
For the 3rd consecutive 12 months, the UBC Thunderbirds swept the CanWest XC Championships as each the lads’s and girls’s groups displayed their dominance at Project Game Park on Saturday afternoon in Kelowna, B.C.
The highest-ranked UBC girls’s crew secured their 5th consecutive CanWest name, with Katie Newlove successful particular person gold at the 8K direction in 28:12. She completed 10 seconds forward of second-place finisher Chloe Turner of Calgary (28:22), whilst Kaitlyn Harrison from the College of Saskatchewan finished the rostrum in 28:34.
Within the males’s 8K race, UBC claimed the end 3 spots, with Andrew Davies main the way in which for the #3 ranked Thunderbirds, in a swift 23:40. His teammates, John Perrier and Jaiveer Tiwana, joined him at the podium, securing UBC’s 3rd consecutive CanWest name.
The UBC groups will no doubt be a drive to look at all through the U Sports activities XC Championships, scheduled for Nov. 12.
UNB Reds end on height in Halifax
It’s been greater than twenty years because the #7 UNB Reds ultimate gained a males’s AUS convention name for move nation. On Saturday morning in Halifax, Jared Howse and William Boyle propelled The Reds again to the end within the Atlantic convention, completing moment and 3rd within the males’s 8K to overcome #10 St. Francis Xavier X-Males for the crew name. The Reds’ males are hitting their stride on the proper time and may emerge as a depressing horse for a top-five end at U Sports activities in two weeks.
The ladies’s race was once fiercely contested, with 4 athletes vying for the end spot. After 8K, best 4 seconds separated the primary and fourth runners, with UNB’s Emily Doucet taking the victory in a dash end over StFX athletes Allie Sandluck and Eileen Benoit. Whilst Doucet took the end spot, The Reds couldn’t stave off the problem from the #4 ranked StFX X-Girls, who positioned 5 runners throughout the height seven to protect their girls’s AUS crew name.
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