He stuck with me the whole way on the back half of the course, and then he just made a real surge on that real downhill part and I just couldn’t keep up with him.” “It feels really good to come out and get second,” Lechleitner said. Strawser won the race with a time of 16:42.1, while Lechleitner came in 22 ticks behind at 17:04.7 and Huntingdon’s Rader Tyler was third at 17:20.9. The push was too much for Lechleitner to overcome. Strawser and Lechleitner were on equal footing at both the 1-mile (5:50) and 2-mile markers (10:56) before the Juniata student began to make his move late in the race.
Red Devil junior Aiden Lechleitner hung with boys overall champion Logan Strawser of Juniata for nearly the entire race before losing ground on the last downhill stretch. Other top finishers from area schools were Jaylee Cook from Philipsburg-Osceola who placed 13th, junior Elizabeth Pearson of Tyrone who was 19th, freshman Chloe Karabinos of Penn Cambria came in 20th, and junior Maia Jeffries of Central placed 31st. In addition to Dill qualifying, she was joined by teammate Avari Admire (10th overall), and the Forest Hills trio of Delaney Dumm (fourth), Danielle Dumm (eighth) and Payton McGough (12th). Meanwhile, seniors Faith Wilson (ninth) and Abigail Walwro (11th) cleaned up the final two spots for Central Cambria. Lady Red Devil freshmen Alaina Sheehan and Abigail Sheehan were 1 second and 8 seconds behind Kuntz to finish sixth and seventh. She didn’t come out on top in any of the other times we faced them.”Ĭentral Cambria freshman Morgan Brandis was just 8 seconds behind Dill, while two-time district champ Stella Kuntz, a senior, came in fifth at 20:34.3. “We’ve faced all the girls in that race - this is our third time we’ve faced them,” Wilson said. In the last mile, Niebauer increased the distance even more as she picked up her pace. “I tried to accelerate more on the second loop, and just to try to keep my head in the game and not get too psyched out.” “She (Dill) is an awesome competitor,” Niebauer said. Niebauer set her pace and slowly worked away from Dill, who was just 5 seconds behind at the 1-mile mark, and then fell to 13 seconds behind when they hit the 2-mile point. I wanted to come out here and see what I could do.” “My plan was to just do my best,” Niebauer said. Westmont Hilltop’s Julia Dill was second at 19:51.6. That total was 44 points better than second-place Forest Hills.Ĭentral Cambria’s Annaliese Niebauer was the lone Mirror coverage area competitor to capture a district individual crown as the junior finished the course in 19 minutes, 29.5 seconds. I think they made a good statement as we had five (girls) in the top seven.”
“The big thing with the way the conditions being what it was today we really wanted to get through, run solid and we wanted to get out of here injury free,” Central Cambria coach Randy Wilson said.
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