Championship day at Mount Academy.
By June Mercer | November 9, 2026
Mount Academy High School in Esopus hosted the Section 9 cross-country championships for the first time Saturday. All classes ran a 3.1-mile course. Qualifiers advance to the state public-school championships November 14 at Queensbury High School.
Boys Team Results
Warwick edged Kingston by one point in Class A, 36 to 37. Cornwall took Class B with 34 points over Minisink Valley's 64. Class C ended in a deadlock: both James I. O'Neill and Onteora scored 47 points. O'Neill claimed the title on a sixth-man tiebreaker. Tri-Valley won Class D with 32 points, narrowly ahead of Sullivan West's 38.
Girls Team Results
Monroe-Woodbury won Class A with 30 points, 20 clear of Kingston. Cornwall claimed Class B with 35 points to Minisink Valley's 72. Rondout Valley won Class C with 27 points over O'Neill's 46. Tri-Valley swept Class D at 15 points to Sullivan West's 56.
Individual Champions
Jackson St. Lawrence of Goshen ran 15:30.8 in Class B, the fastest boys time of the day. Leo Shostal of Warwick won Class A in 15:35.7. Josiah Post of O'Neill took Class C in 16:54.9. Bryce Bressler of Sullivan West claimed Class D in 17:13.0.
Olivia Heim of Monroe-Woodbury took the girls Class A title in 17:53.0. Tri-Valley's Anna Furman won Class D in 18:18.4. Minisink Valley freshman Abigail Caputo claimed Class B in 18:19.7. Hannah Chapin of Rondout Valley took Class C in 18:51.9.
Dutchess County Schools
F.D. Roosevelt placed 8th in boys Class A. Anson DiGiacomio of FDR ran 11th individually in 16:46.1. Beacon's Travis Dickston finished 6th in Class B in 16:32.9. Red Hook placed 5th in boys Class C, with Jameson Kessler 2nd in 17:10.9. Rhinebeck's Augustus Lamm finished 4th in Class D in 17:47.5.
Results from the Times Herald-Record.
