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Sports
St. Anne's girls' x-c�untry teams finish in top 10 at OFSAA
Muddy conditions, a difficult at the Ontario Federation of
track and the spread of the H1N1 School Athletic Association (OF -
flu all took their toll on athletes SAA) cross-country final Novem-
ber 7, however
the girls of St.
Anne's in Clin-
ton managed
top -ten finishes
in both the se-
nior and junior
races.
Both senior
and junior girls
teams netted
seventh place
for the Eagles,
while the senior
boys team took
14th place.
While below
past finishes
for the Eagles,
their placement
is still among
the top few per
cent from the
more than 700
Ontario high
schools compet-
ing.
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cross-country has a situation
where everybody in the province
is all competing at once," said
coach Baird Robinson. "Basically
top eight receive ribbons."
Robinson said the boys' team
was dealing with illness heading
`We're lucky,
we've got a big
core that work
hard,' ---
St. Anne's School cross
country coach Baird
Robinson
into the OFSAA final, and he had
to employ alternate runners for
their race. However, illness was
only one of a series of setbacks
faced by all schools, he said.
"It was rough," he noted. "There
were all kinds of injuries on the
course and I think people were
running with H1N1 that shouldn't
have been."
It wasn't the course alone that
provided difficulties. Robinson
said two girls were hit by a deer
while racing - one of whom was
knocked out by the collision.
"It was chaotic," he said. "You've
got so many schools there and so
many spectators. There were peo-
ple passing out, throwing up...
Lots of bodies, lots of things go-
ing on."
Robinson said the course could be
one of the toughest students will
have to run in their high school
careers.
However, he said the Eagles had
a good day overall, with Shan -
nen Murray placing 28th, and
Shawna Regier and Grace Hart-
man placing back-to-back at 36
and 37th places respectively. Pat
Hartman was the top St. Anne's
boys' finisher at 46th.
Robinson said the boys team
will see every runner back for
another season, and he said he
hopes to make it a fourth year in
a row for the team, which already
has a provincial third and a fifth
place under their belts.
"Every single guy we had going
will be back for another run and
hopefully make it four straight
years at OFSAA," he said. "We're
lucky, we've got a big core that
work hard."
The boys completed their seven
kilometre race with an average
run time of 27:01.7.
The senior girls averaged
22:43.08 for the 5K and the ju-
niors averaged 17:23.79 in their
3.8 kilometre trek.
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