Sweep! Heathwood Hall takes home SCISA cross-country championships
The Heathwood Hall cross-country teams swept the SCISA Class 4A championships on Saturday morning.
It was the second straight championship for the Highlander girls team after winning the 3A championship last year. Heathwood moved up to 4A when SCISA added an extra classification.
Heathwood junior Madelyn Gomez won her third straight individual championship with a time of 18:24, 13 seconds faster than Ailish Ward. Heathwood had fourth through sixth-place finishers in junior Mary Frances Iseman (18:59) and seventh-graders Annabel Martin (19:09) and Lydia Smith (19:20).
Ben Lippen’s Jais Ward (18:58) was third, Cardinal Newman’s Caroline Timmons (19:25) and Hammond’s Megan Joye (19:29) was eighth. As a team, Ben Lippen was second and Hammond was third.
Heathwood’s boys won their first title since 2020 after losing by three points last season to Porter-Gaud. The championship comes a month after longtime coach Cindy Scannella died of cancer.
The Highlanders had four runners in the top eight — third-place Jackson Engh (16:40), fifth-place Matthew Black (16:51), sixth-place Jack Wilcox (16:52) and eighth-place Dean Brook (17:06).
Ben Lippen was second and had three runners in the top seven, including runner-up Luke McCrudden (16:33). Samurai Van Horn (16:30) was fourth and Jonathan Rios (17:04) was seventh.
Hammond was fifth and Cardinal Newman ninth.
In SCISA 2A girls, Jennifer Gause (20:08) won the individual championship and teammate Kendall Murray (20:11) was second. The Crusaders finished third as a team.
This story was originally published October 29, 2022 at 3:41 PM.
