HYDE — The Clearfield High School boys and girls cross country teams each raised their record to 5-1 with sweeps of Mountain League foes on Tuesday.
The boys beat Central 18-44 and out ran Philipsburg-Osceola 23-38. The girls easily beat Central 15-50 and slipped by PO 21-34.
The top overall finisher for the Clearfield boys was, once again, freshman Alex Coval with a time of 18:28 to finish second to Philipsburg’s Nick Patrick who ran a 17:40.
Paige Mikesell, also a Clearfield freshman, was top overall on the girl’s side with a 20:57.
Clearfield head coach John Jacob noted his teams’ improving times, “We had a great night for both the boy’s and the girl’s teams. Alex (Coval) was after Philipsburg’s top runner, Nick Patrick, but the junior runner had a very strong race and Alex was unable to close the gap. Josiah McClarren was next across the line. He had the best race of his career breaking the 19 minute barrier for the first time. Assistant coach (Todd) Winters and I knew he had it in him and he ran a very smart race tonight. The next group of five runners – Grant Climie, Harry McMillen, Quentin Edwards, Brandon Lacock and Logan Gilbert all came in under 20 minutes. To have a group of runners all come in that quick was something that I haven’t seen since I started coaching here at Clearfield. The rest of our runners all came in with personal best times as well. On the girl’s side, Paige Mikesell was the top finisher as she ran away from the field over the last two miles. Nikol Chew was was gaining on P-O’s Kylie Whitehead over the last half mile but ran out of room to overtake their top runner. This was a personal best time for Nikol. She ran a smart race and is consistently lowering her times over the last couple of races. Kristi Fox was not far behind and she also was able to get her best time of the season. Next across were Hunter Gathagan and Claire Mikesell coming in ahead of Philipsburg’s third runner. We had a great meet and it is coming just in time for the Championships at the end of the season. We are looking forward to finishing out this week of training and heading up to the Ridgway Invitational on Saturday to see some of our district competition.”
Boys Race Results:
1 Nick Patrick 11 Philipsburg-Osceola 17:40.00
2 Alex Coval 9 Clearfield Area 18:28.00
3 Josiah McClarren 11 Clearfield Area 18:45.00
4 Michael Shimmel 11 Philipsburg-Osceola 18:56.00
5 Patrick Davis 12 Martinsburg Central 19:04.00
6 Grant Climie 12 Clearfield Area 19:08.00
7 Harry McMillen 9 Clearfield Area 19:09.00
8 Quentin Edwards 9 Clearfield Area 19:29.00
9 Brandon Lacock 9 Clearfield Area 19:32.00
10 Nathan Smith 12 Martinsburg Central 19:42.00
11 Logan Gilbert 11 Clearfield Area 19:46.00
12 Scott Yarger 12 Philipsburg-Osceola 19:53.00 13 Brock Biddle 11 Martinsburg Central 19:54.00
14 Zane Morgan 10 Clearfield Area 20:07.00
15 Tanner Grove 11 Martinsburg Central 20:40.00
16 Tanner Eckenrode 9 Martinsburg Central 20:46.00
17 Matthew Beichner 11 Clearfield Area 21:05.00
18 Shane Graham 11 Clearfield Area 21:10.00
19 Bryce Biddle 12 Martinsburg Central 21:13.00
20 Matthew Bordas 10 Philipsburg-Osceola 21:20.00
21 Reuben Smart 9 Philipsburg-Osceola 21:25.00
22 Jacob Maines 11 Philipsburg-Osceola 21:48.00
23 Thayne Morgan 10 Clearfield Area 21:52.00
24 Mike Hadden Clearfield Area 22:05.00
25 Nathan Quick 12 Philipsburg-Osceola 22:18.00
26 Michael Spencer 12 Clearfield Area 22:27.00
27 Nace Hale 9 Clearfield Area 23:02.00
28 Sam Bumbarger 11 Martinsburg Central 25:03.00
29 Steven Bowman 12 Martinsburg Central 26:24.00
30 Tyler Pike 12 Clearfield Area 27:16.00
Girls Race Results:
1 Paige Mikesell 9 Clearfield Area 20:57.00
2 Kylie Whitehead 11 Philipsburg-Osceola 22:53.00
3 Nikol Chew 10 Clearfield Area 22:56.00
4 Kristi Fox 12 Clearfield Area 23:05.00
5 Mandy Schmidt 12 Philipsburg-Osceola 24:09.00
6 Hunter Gathagan 10 Clearfield Area 24:45.00
7 Claire Mikesell 11 Clearfield Area 25:09.00
8 Shannon Weaver 11 Martinsburg Central 25:20.00
9 Kristen Bennett 9 Philipsburg-Osceola 25:51.00
10 Sarah Bainey 11 Philipsburg-Osceola 27:07.00
11 Emma Riglin 10 Philipsburg-Osceola 27:37.00
12 Alysa Smart 10 Philipsburg-Osceola 29:26.00
13 Bridget McCready 12 Martinsburg Central 31:58.00
14 Lauren Dangle 10 Martinsburg Central 31:58.20
Season Scoreboard:
| BOYS | GIRLS | ||||
| Date | Opponent | Score | Record | Score | Record |
| 08/30 | @ Big Valley Invitational (Mifflin Co.) | 5th | 0 – 0 | 5th | 0 – 0 |
| 09/09 | @ Tyrone | 23 – 45 | 1 – 0 | 16 – 42 | 1 – 0 |
| 09/13 | @ Spiked Shoe Invitational (PSU) | 17th | 1 – 0 | 13th | 1 – 0 |
| 09/16 | Tri-Meet @ Penns Valley | ||||
| vs. Bellefonte | 17 – 41 | 2 – 0 | 18 – 40 | 2 – 0 | |
| vs. Penns Valley | 38 – 28 | 2 – 1 | 30 – 25 | 2 – 1 | |
| 09/23 | BALD EAGLE AREA | 15 – 50 | 3 – 1 | 18 – 45 | 3 – 1 |
| 09/30 | TRI-MEET AT HOME | ||||
| vs. Central | 18 – 44 | 4 – 1 | 15 – 50 | 4 – 1 | |
| vs. Philipsburg-Osceola | 23 – 38 | 5 – 1 | 21 – 34 | 5 – 1 | |
| 10/04 | @ Ridgway Invitational | ||||
| 10/08 | HOLLIDAYSBURG | ||||
| 10/15 | Mountain League Champs @ Penns Valley | ||||