The Independent

LCCVI’s Carter Duff finished second in the novice boys’ race at the LKSSAA cross-country championship at Sarnia’s Canatara Park Thursday.

His time of 15:03 was only two seconds off the championship time in the 4K race.

Hayden Prangley of Dresden’s Lambton Kent Composite placed fifth while North Lambton teammates Charlie Perker and Darragh Lawlor were seventh and ninth respectively.

Olivia Wallace of LKCS was eighth in the novice girls’ race.

Meantime, Kenzie Maoirat led the LCCVI junior girls’ squad to a second-place finish behind Northern in the team standings. Individually, Jocelyn Field and Hailey Reed of North Lambton were second and third in the 5K competition and Maoirat finished fifth.  Brier Croft of NLSS placed tenth.

North Lambton’s AJ Huras was 10^th in the junior boys’ competition.

Camlachie’s Keala Pickard was third in the senior girls’ 6K final, part of the Irish’s second-place finish in the team standings behind Northern. Ellyot Schoonjans of North Lambton was eighth.

And, Benjamin Leystra of LCCVI cracked the top ten with a ninth-place finish in the senior boys’ race.   As expected, Chase Capes of St. Patrick’s won the race by a margin of nearly a full minute.

The SWOSSA championships will be run next Thursday (Oct. 29) also at Canatara.