{"id":22238,"date":"2025-10-27T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22238\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:51:20","slug":"nchsaa-cross-country-regionals-top-jacksonville-area-runners-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22238\/","title":{"rendered":"NCHSAA cross country regionals: Top Jacksonville area runners | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NCHSAA East Regional boys and girls cross country championships were held Friday and Saturday. Here is a look at the area runners who placed in the top 10 in their races.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2-A East Regionals<\/p>\n

BOYS<\/p>\n

Matthew Barbabella, Lejeune: The senior was third in 17:23 at Red Oak Course in Rocky Mount on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jude Keller, Lejeune: The senior was second in 16:38 to help the Devilpups win the team title with 45 points, 25 ahead of runner-up Pamlico.<\/p>\n

Noah Keller, Lejeune: The junior was 10th in 18:29.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GIRLS<\/p>\n

Olivia Briick, Lejeune: The freshman was sixth in 23:07 at Red Oak Course in Rocky Mount on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Madison Perry, Lejeune: The sophomore was third in 22:39 to help the Devilpups place first as a team with 37 points, five ahead of runner-up Camden County.<\/p>\n

Olivia Tweedy, Lejeune: The freshman was seventh in 23:14.<\/p>\n

Xyanna Valentin, Lejeune: The senior was 10th in 23:44.\u00a0<\/p>\n

5-A East Regionals<\/p>\n

BOYS<\/p>\n

Atticus Brinson, Croatan: The junior was second in 16:37.13 to help the Cougars win the team title with 38 points, one ahead of West Carteret, at WakeMed Soccer Complex in Cary on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Zach Guerrero, Croatan: The sophomore was third in 16;39.06.<\/p>\n

Judah Spellman, Croatan: The sophomore was eighth in 17:27.32.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GIRLS<\/p>\n

Reagan Clifton, Croatan: The sophomore came in first place in 18:15.45 to help the Cougars place second as a team with 80 points, only behind West Carteret\u2019s 64, at WakeMed Soccer Complex in Cary on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Maisy Stephens, Croatan: The junior was fourth in 20:39.82.<\/p>\n

Addy Clark, Dixon: The sophomore was 10th in 21:18.06.\u00a0<\/p>\n

6-A East Regionals<\/p>\n

BOYS<\/p>\n

Michael Justice, Swansboro: The junior was third in 17:13 to help the Pirates win first place as a team with 57 points, six ahead of West Johnston at Red Oak Course in Rocky Mount on Friday.<\/p>\n

Jasiah Mason, Swansboro: The junior was fifth in 17:40.<\/p>\n

Cole Weimer, Swansboro: The senior was 10th in 17:51.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GIRLS<\/p>\n

Emma Sanders, Swansboro: The junior was fifth in 20:30 to help the Pirates place second as a team with 78 points, behind only Middle Creek\u2019s 42 at Red oak Course in Rocky Mount on Friday.<\/p>\n

Isabel Maxwell, White Oak: The freshman was sixth in 20:53 to help the Vikings place third with 119 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NOTE: There were no local 4-A runners in the top 10.<\/p>\n

Chris Miller can be contacted via email at cmiller@jdnews.com<\/a>. Follow him on X @jdnsports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCHSAA East Regional boys and girls cross country championships were held Friday and Saturday. Here is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-22238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}