Both Wayland cross country teams had a successful visit to Waltham High School today, with both the girls and boys teams winning their repsective meets. The courses began and ended near the school with much of the rest of the course in the woods north of the Paine Estate, on grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. This is a layout that runs slow due to a combination of rugged footing and rolling terrain.
The first race of the day was the boys JV on a course just under 2.4 miles in length. The Wayland boys were led by 9th grader Matthew Tan who was followed closely by 11th grader Ben Dugan. Edge Wheeler, Azan Salahuddin, and Jayden Newland also finished in a tight group soon after.
In the girls race, Wayland was losing the meet at the half mile, mile, and 1.5 mile points of the race. This despite having control of the top two places throughout by Bella Thoen and Arya Samaratunga. In the final mile of the race the rest of the top five--Grace Marto, Sofia Ciciarelli, and Selena Liu--pulled ahead of enough Waltham runners to turn the score in Wayland's favor.
The boys varsity race on a longer 5k course wasn't close with Wayland taking places 2-5 led by 10th grader Will Jackson. Daniel Narvaez and Thomas Creavin, both of whom passed Waltham runners in the second half of the race, rounded out the scoring five.
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