Spa Park, Saratoga Springs, 11/5/21- After sixteen straight sectional titles and state meet appearances, the Greenwich Central HS girls cross country team's streak has ended. Running without injured, top runner, Nina Sgambelluri, the Witches finished a feisty 5th in a field of 13 teams in the Class C race. Voorheesville won the team title, handily outpacing runner-up Broadalbin-Perth by a score of 29-80.
GCS Junior Teagan Wright finished 7th in the field of 110 runners to qualify for next weekend's state meet at Chenango Valley State Park, in Chenango Forks, NY. Wright battled to the finish line, holding off two other runners surging for a ticket to Chenango Forks. Only five runners outside of the winning team members qualify for the state meet. Wright's time on the lengthened, now fully 5k (3.1 mile) Spa Park course was 20:17.44.
Following Wright for the Witches were senior Emily Skiff (18th, 21:21.39); Caroline Kelly (29th, 22:18.55); senior Nadia Chincola (56th, 23:49.86); senior Caitlyn McClay (71st, 24:33.46); freshman Esther Moore (85th, 25:50.03); and 7th grader Claudia Johnson (97th, 27:21.49).
The Greenwich boys did not field a full team, but senior Jacob Ziehm raced strongly, finishing in the top third of the 117 runner field (36th, 18:37.05) and Colin Murray finished in the top half of runners (20:03.04).