In the first of two home meets this season, both the girls and boys teams had well executed races that resulted in wins over the visiting Waltham teams. Under sunny skies, the ground was in many places waterlogged thanks to the rainy weather of the past few months including from Monday's storm. This made the course run slower than it would if it were dry underfoot. Note to self, bring an extra pair of socks to the next home meet in two weeks.
The girls raced first, and at the mile mark it was a very close race with Waltham leading 27-28. With just under a mile to go, the score was still 27-28 but in favor of Wayland. In the final stages there were various place changes among the two teams' top five runners, almost all of which favored Wayland and this resulted in a final score of 23-32 in favor of Wayland. Leading the way for the second meet in a row was junior co-captain Arya Samaratunga who held off a hard charging Waltham runner for a closely contested first place position. Just behind the Waltham runner was 10th grader Sofia Ciciarelli, with the top three finishers separated by 2 seconds. Senior Amy McCormack ran well on her own for almost the entire race finishing well ahead of Waltham's second runner (and everyone else behind that). Rounding out the top five for Wayland were 9th grader Ainsley Jay and senior AJ Bell, both of whom passed Waltham's 4th and 5th runners in the second half of the race. Seniors Selena Liu and Michelle Yee rounded out the varsity seven for Wayland.
In the boys race, junior Will Jackson and senior captain Daniel Narvaez quickly put the rest of the field in arrears and consolidated their hold over the top two places the rest of the way. For most of the first mile, Waltham held places 3 through 7 and were winning the meet definitively despite Wayland holding the top two places. Once the course went into the woods and headed uphill to the aqueduct things changed with seniors Kyle Reece and Michael Wightman leading their teammates Ben Caddoo and Matthew Tan through much of the Waltham pack. Leo Ciccarelli rounded out the top seven in his second cross country race ever. In the end Wayland took the meet by a score of 24-33.
splits - if you recorded your 2 mile split on your watch send it to me
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