MK GIRLS
D'Achille wins
individual title;
Eagles run 2d
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DENVILLE - Morris Knolls High School senior Diana D'Achille made her last race at Freedom Park one to remember as she cruised home with the individual championship at the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference's American Division Girls Cross-Country Championships on Tuesday, Oct. 20.
D'Achille covered the 3.1 miles in 18:36.46 with Randolph junior Joelle Amaral of Randolph - whom some had touted as the possible champion - a distant second with a time of 18:46.88.
D'Achille and Amaral ran together for the first half of the race before D'Achille pulled away and steadily increased her lead to win by almost 10 seconds.
The Lady Eagles' top runner all season, D'Achille was hobbled by injury and slowed by illness as a junior and did not compete at Freedom Park at all, making Tuesday's championship run all the more special to her.
"This makes up for last year," D'Achille was quoted as saying after the race. "It's a great feeling to do so well here this year after not being able to run last season."
Randolph put four runners into the top ten (2-3-6-8) to win the team championship with 32 points while runnerup Roxbury finished with 67 points.
Morris Knolls was a close third with 71 points while Morristown (79 points), Vernon (134), West Morris (146) and Mount Olive (167) rounded out the seven-team field.
Freshman Julia Strother was the second Lady Eagle to cross the line, finishing 10th in the field of 47 with a time of 19:54.50.
Sophomore Alyssa Brindle was 12th in 20:00.60; freshman Heather Weick was 21st in 21:18.26; and freshman Priscilla Ortiz was 27th in 21:30.79 to round out the Knolls team scoring.
Sophomore Kiki Baldassari and junior Melanie Lamac were the sixth and seventh Lady Eagle runners with Baldassari finishing 36th in 22:26.96 and Lamac 37th with a time of 22:26.95.
Knolls 2nd in JV race
Led by the third-place finish of freshman Brianna Reggiani, Morris Knolls finished second to team-champion Pope John in the NJAC girls junior varsity race at Freedom Park on Tuesday.
Reggiani covered the 3.1-mile distance in 22:13.76 to trail only race-winner Kaela Earruso of Pope John (21:00.72) and runnerup Amelia Whiting of Randolph (22:10.53) in the 74-runner field.
Knolls finished with 53 points while Pope John had 31. Randolph was third with 64 points in the seven-team field followed by High Point (100 points), Vernon (117), Morristown (139) and Mendham (175).
Senior Brianne Henderson was the second Lady Eagle to cross, finishing seventh overall with a time of 22:31.26.
Sophomore Lauren Carlson was 13th in 23:11.16; sophomore Heather LaValle was 17th in 23:20.11; junior Elizabeth Hutnikoff finished 20th in 23:40.99; and freshman Camille Chow was 36th in 23:47.67.
Skarbek 14th
in boys race
Senior Joe Skarbek was the first Morris Knolls runner to finish in the boys race as he placed 14th in a 56-runner field with a time of 17:02.01.
Sophomore Ryan Mariani was the next Eagle to finish, placing 31st in 17:56.37.
Mariani was followed by junior Neil Patel, 42nd in 18:34.68; senior Jack Haeberle, 46th in 18:50.25; junior Victor Dziegielewski, 50th in 19:20.99; senior Joe Beckmann, 51st in 19:24.30; and junior A.J. Wash, who finished 53rd with a time of 20:01.14.
Morris Knolls scored 183 team points to finish seventh in the eight-team field.
Randolph won the team title with 41 points followed by runnerup Vernon (82 points), Delbarton (88), Mount Olive (91), Morristown (97), Roxbury (168), Morris Knolls and West Morris (189).
Morris Knolls entered 16 runners in the boys junior varsity race and junior Spencer Severson was the first Eagle to cross the line, finishing 38th in the field of 189 runners with a time of 19:21.83.
Morris Knolls finished with 258 points to place ninth in the 14-team field. Pope John won the team title by placing four runners in the top ten to finish with 39 points, well ahead of runnerup Mendham, which had 89 points, and Morristown, which finished with 92 points.
Sophomore Peter Czechowicz (52nd in 19:45.54), junior Bobby Cangelosi (65th, 20:15.38), junior Hunter Liu (68th, 20:18.02) and senior Matt Traflet (72nd, 20:25.75) completed the team scoring for the Eagles.
Also competing for Knolls in the JV race were: sophomore Vincent Sacco, sophomore Emilio Eriksen, junior Justin Gonzales, senior Eric Lum, senior Nick Skarbek, sophomore Chris Kalbfell, senior Neil Chen, sophomore Ryan Johnson, junior Jack Wang, sophomore Niko Kotoulas and sophomore J.P. Vanier.
Freshman Peter LaVallee was the only Knolls runner to compete in the freshman race and he finished the 2655-meter run in 11:04.49 to finish 48th in a field of 66 runners.
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Morris Hills sophomore Erin Gaven (above), competing in a race earlier this season, was the first Lady Knight to finish in the NJAC's National Division championship race, placing seventh to lead Hills to a third-place finish in the team standings. Freshman Allis Clyne was the second Morris Hills runner to finish, placing 15th, and she was followed by Jackie Mosca and Stepnanie Churchman, who ran 16th and 17th.
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Ailis Clyne, Morris Hills
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Jackie Mosca, Morris Hills
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Sophomores Allyssa Brindle (above), and Ryan Mariani (below), shown here running earlier in the season, competed for Morris Knolls in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference Cross County Championships held at Freedom Park in Randolph on Tuesday, Oct. 20.
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MH GIRLS
Gaven leads
Lady Knights
to 3d-place
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ROCKAWAY - Sophomore Erin Gaven finished seventh overall and the Morris Hills High School girls cross country team placed third at the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference's National Division Championships held at Freedom Park in Randolph on Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Gaven completed the 3.1-mile layout in 20:02.31 and was the first of five Lady Knights to finish in the top 20 in the 48-runner field.
Freshman Allis Clyne was the second Morris Hills runner to cross, placing 15th with a time of 20:56.31. Juniors Jacquelyn Mosca and Stephanie Churchman ran 16-17 with Mosca turning in a 21:07.76 clocking and Churchman finishing in 21:08.34; and junior Jana Sedlacek completed the scoring for the Lady Knights with her 20th-place finish in 21:31.75.
Also competing for Morris Hills were freshman Angela Ciallella, who finished 29th in 22:09.74, and sophomore Zoe Weimersheimer, who placed 37th with a time of 23:30.71.
Pope John, with its five scoring runners in the top 13, won the team title with 39 points.
High Point was the runnerup with 75 points followed by Morris Hills, third with 75 points, Mendham (4th, 86), Montville (5th, 122), Parsippany Hills (6th, 167) and Sparta (7th, 178).
Sub-varsity races
In the girls junior varsity race, the Lady Knights entered only two runners in the 74-runner field with sophomore Katie Lin finishing 43rd with a time of 25:14.71 and junior Kira Polimeni finishing 53rd in 26:06.55.
In the girls freshman 2655-meter run, Marissa Meehan was the lone Lady Knight to enter and she finished third in the 17-runner field with a time of 12:00.85
Doyle runs 9th
in boys race
Connor Doyle was the first Morris Hills runner to finish in the NJAC's boys varsity race as the junior turned in a time of 17:17.53 to place ninth overall in the field of 47 runners.
The Knights finished fifth in the seven-team field as Mendham won the team title with 31 points. Parsippany Hills was second with 75 points and was followed by Pope John (3rd, 81), Montville (4th, 94), Morris Hills (5th, 109), Sparta (6th, 145) and High Point (7th, 161).
Sophomore Nicholas Patterson was the second Knight to cross, finishing 16th with a time of 17:37.37.
Patterson was followed by freshman Robert Biro (20th, 17:47.52), sophomore Alex Fayerman (31st, 18:25.08), senior Leonardo Valdebenito (33rd, 18:37.07), junior Jesse Spector (34th, 18:47.67) and senior Mark DiGennaro (43rd, 19:49.99).
MH 5th in JV race
Connor Whelan's ninth-place finish in a field of 189 led Morris Hills to a fifth-place finish in the team standings of the boys junior varsity race that attracted a field of 14 entries.
The sophomore completed Freedom Park's 3.1-mile layout in 18:17.77.
Junior Joseph Rewick was the next Knight to cross, finishing 13th with a time of 18:31.22.
Rewick was followed by senior Eric Prebor (22nd, 18:46.40), sophomore Adrian Samsel (25th, 18:49.95) and sophomore Joshua Shamouil (35th, 19:13.10) completed the team scoring for Morris Hills.
Also running for the Knights were sophomore Hemal Shah, junior Ian Zieder, sophomore Patrick Dunn, junior Brendan Hill, sophomore Brett Mitchell, sophomore Daniel Chiusano, junior Derrick Washington, junior Mihail Stantchev, senior Ian Martin, sophomore Akash Patel, sophomore Sahil Kerkar, sophomore Kevin Nguyen.
In the boys freshman race, Patrick Gavin was the only entry from Morris Hills and he completed the 2655-meter course in 10:01.16 to finish 11th in a field of 66 runners.
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More Photos
To see more Morris Hills cross country photos, please point to 'H.S. Photo Albums' and then click on 'MH Cross Country.'
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