{"id":367595,"date":"2026-10-08T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367595\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:20:10","slug":"manhattan-eastern-states-preview-northeast-ready-to-battle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367595\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Eastern States Preview: Northeast Ready To Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.milesplit.com\/meets\/752573-manhattan-university-cross-country-invitational-pres-by-hoka-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791436810_367_752573.png\"\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Oct 07, 2026\n        <\/p>\n<p>            BEGINS AIRING ON OCTOBER 11 AT 9:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>Only a select few have made it to the top of the podium here.\u00a0It&#8217;s one of the most coveted spots in the sport of high school cross country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern States Championship race at the Manhattan College Invitational has typically been a mid-season stepping stone for teams and individuals that have gone on to win state and national titles down the line. <\/p>\n<p>The year 2026 looks to be no different, as the Northeast&#8217;s top runners in both genders look to hold off the fields and the team battles are only heating up. <\/p>\n<p>It would look like the top team entrants in both genders have a shot at taking down the course team averages, so we&#8217;re on record watch.<\/p>\n<p>We break down the best of the best at both the individual and team level below, with the varsity letter race previews coming out tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>Join us all week, as we dig in to the Manhattan College XC Invite presented by HOKA.<\/p>\n<p>Full Entries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 07, 2026 BEGINS AIRING ON OCTOBER 11 AT 9:00 AM Only a select few have made it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,135808,84,83,9,24,12,63],"class_list":["post-367595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-eastern-states-preview-northeast-ready-to-battle","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}