Dulaney, Hereford repeat as champs
Lions win sixth straight boys title; Hereford repeats as girls team champion
It was repeat day at the Baltimore County cross country championship meet, held Saturday morning at the Baltimore Agricultural Center.
For the sixth straight year, the Dulaney boys captured the team title, and for the second straight season, Dulaney’s Drew Dailey won the individual crown.
For the girls, Hereford won the team championship for the second consecutive fall and Hereford’s Emily Konkus repeated as champion.
Dulaney coasted to the crown with 22 points, followed by Hereford (63), Towson (96), Catonsville (116) and Loch Raven (101).
Dailey took the lead from the opening gun and never let it go, finishing in personal best time of 16:08.
Runner-up Ryan Weeks, of Eastern Tech, finished in 16:22.
Last year, Dailey won the race when he outkicked teammate Brian McCullough at the line, finishing in 16:19.6, compared to McCullough’s 16:19.7.
Dailey had no desire to make it close this time.
“I knew it was my race to begin with and like it’s a big thing for me mentally to go out with that attitude,” he said. “I was feeling pretty good today.”
Also in the top 10 for Dulaney was Sam Merng (third, 16:30), Zak Audia (fourth, 16:41), Alex Whatley (fifth, 16:47) and Cooper Giesler (ninth, 17:12).
“My goal was to try and break 15, but it’s hard when you are all alone,” said Dailey, who may have been alone on the course, but had many supporters off it, including the horses and goats the runners cruised past.
“I notice the horses and the goats, all of them, and people that are cheering for me, I see their faces, I wanted to say hi or wave to them, but I have to keep going,” Dailey said.
Dulaney coach Chad Boyle has seen him go and grow over the past two seasons.
“I think it’s a really big deal that he went back-to-back,” Boyle said. “Eric Walz (Dulaney’s three-time county champion) did that, but that is very difficult to do.”
Hereford’s girls know all about a winning culture.
They’ve won three straight straight state championships and four of the past five.
This year’s county title was the Bulls third in the past four years.
The Bulls finished with 30 points and won by 20 over runner-up Dulaney (50).
Towson (72), Catonsville (96) and Pikesville (101) rounded out the top five.
“We expected it to be really close, five or six points either way, the Dulaney kids are great runners, very well-coached and they always come and perform on this day, so we knew they were going to give us everything we could handle and we were just exceptional,” Hereford coach Adam Hittner said.
Konkus crossed the line 24 seconds ahead of runner-up Brooke Ruffin (19:34), of Dulaney and admitted she was gassed at the end.
Piper Lentz (fourth, 19:48), Caroline Benda (fifth, 19:55), Libby May (ninth, 20:08) and Emily Francis (11th, 20:47) were the top five placers for the champions.
ST. VINCENT-ST. MARY (OHIO) 19, NO. 11 MCDONOGH 7: Luke Lindsay completed three touchdown passes to lead the host Fighting Irish (6-3) past the Eagles (2-5) at Green Street Stadium in Akron, Ohio.
St, Vincent-St. Mary’s scored 13 points in the second quarter, but both teams made early misteps. McDonogh missed a 26-yard field goal with 10:47 left in the first half and the Fighting Irish’s Terrance Keyes Jr. made an 80-yard run before fumbling and turning the ball over on the McDonogh 10-yard line with 3:01 left in the first half.
Jabriel Johnson had a 20-yard touchdown run and Harrison Beattie kicked the extra-point for the Eagles’ only scoring drive with 11:10 left in the third quarter.
St. Vincent-St. Mary is a six-time Division II Ohio state champion, including back-to-back in 1981-1982 and 2012-2013 and is the alma mater of NBA star and Los Angeles Laker LeBron James.
ST. VINCENT PALLOTTI 35, SEVERN 14: The visiting Panthers (5-3, 4-1 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference) took a 21-0 lead in the first half and beat the Admirals (2-5, 0-4).
Anthony Dragisics gave the Friars (9-7-1, 8-6-1 MIAA A Conference) a 1-0 lead on penalty kick in the first half before the Greyhounds (12-4-2, 9-3-2) knotted the score with two minutes left in the game.
SEVERN 2, KEY SCHOOL 0: Eva Gormley and Emilia Stirling each scored as the host Admirals (9-4) shut out the Obezags (8-4). Severn outshot Key School, 11-4, and had 12 penalty corners to Key’s 2. Baltimore Sun staff contributed to this article.