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Updated individual rankings for Virginia high school cross country as of September 11th. Western Albemarle's Tyler Stutzman impressed enough in his 9:42 split at the Ragged Mountain Cup to usurp pre-season #1 Thomas Porter, despite Porter winning the Chancellor Invite quite easily to start his season. Group AA boys are also well represented in the Cream of the Crop rankings with five of the top seven rankings in Tyler Stutzman, Andrew Colley, Alex Ott, Kyle Satterwhite, and Josh Morris. Newcomers to the Cream of the Crop (top 15 best individual runners in VA) include James Robinson's Jared Berman, Blacksburg's Allison Homer, Mountain View's Kaitlyn Davis, Midlothian's Leia Lautzenheiser, and Millbrook's Sullivan Parkes. Note: Updated Group A and private school rankings to be added on Friday.

The Mountain View pair of senior Thomas Porter and junior transfer Kaitlyn Davis (previously from Jacksonville, NC) swept the individual titles for their team at the 20th annual Chancellor Invitational held on Saturday, August 30th at Loriella Park in Fredericksburg, VA. More... Chancellor Invitational Results: Varsity Boys - Varsity Girls - Developmental Boys - Developmental Girls Chancellor Invitational Photo Gallery - 1,259 total photos by Brandon Miles. A few more to be added from awards ceremony. Chancellor Invitational Race Videos: Varsity Boys - Varsity Girls - Developmental Boys - Developmental Girls Chancellor Invitational Video Interviews: Coach Bane (Meet Director) - Kaitlyn Davis (Girls Race Winner) - Thomas Porter (Boys Race Winner)

The Brentsville boys pulled off a magical run to a state championship last fall when few were expecting them to. The odds are stacked against them once again not only to win another state championship, but possibly have to fight their way out to advance out of their own district with heavy graduation losses from the 2007 state champion squad. The Northwestern District after all qualified three teams for the 2007 VHSL State Championships with Sherando and Millbrook keeping their state qualifier teams more in tact from last year than Brentsville. Photo by John Herzog Sherando looks to be the pre-season favorite to win the boys' team title in the Northwestern District as they return six runners under 18 minutes with Colby Witt and Danny Stiefvater as their top runners. Witt (4:34 1600, 9:45 3200) and Stiefvater (4:35 1600, 9:45 3200) had outstanding spring track seasons as the Sherando pair are the top two performers from the track among returnees in both the 1600 and 3200 meter races. Along with teammate Scott Guichard, Sherando has three returning All-District runners from the 2007 Northwestern District Cross Country Championships.

Chantilly junior Lia DiValentin continued her strong start to the fall cross country season with a 13 second win at the Judges Classic over some of AA's top younger distance runners. Potomac Falls sophomore Christina Lee attempted to give DiValentin a challenge, but had to settle for third in 19:20 as Millbrook freshmen Presley Parkes scooted in for second at 19:13. After clocking in at 19:00 on a fair Kernstown Battlefield 5K course in Wincester, DiValentin now appears to be the only unbeaten in AAA as the other top returnees in the classification were dealt early season defeats already. Meanwhile, freshmen Parkes led the Millbrook girls (79 pts) to a team title as the #3 ranked squad in AA proved themselves to be a team worthy of state podium consideration in subduing a challenge from a tough Potomac Falls squad (86 pts).   After picking up a big confidence booster win last Saturday over AAA school Thomas Jefferson, the Potomac Falls boys were brought back to reality in regards to the fact that it will be no easy feat to get out of the Region II Meet as Sherando, the 2006 AA state third place squad, scored a four point win with a total of 86 points over their regional rival Potomac Falls with 90 points. The power of the pack defeated Potomac Falls with only 27 seconds separating Sherando's top five, while 1:48 passed before Potomac Falls' fifth man came across after Potomac Falls top finisher in individual runner-up Joshua Hardin (16:27). Josh Wilson of James Wood won the varsity boys' race in 16:20. Judges Classic Photo Gallery by Robert Lee

 Millbrook freshmen Presley Parkes made a big splash for herself as well as her team with junior sister Sullivan at the Chancellor Invite last Saturday. A second place finish by the talented freshmen at Loriella Park has moved her into a #4 AA ranking as an individual, while her Chancellor Invite champion squad shares the same position at #4 this week after both Parkes and her team were unranked in the preseason rankings. The Chancellor Invite and Ragged Mountain Cup saw many of the top boys individuals go head to head (or indirectly based on splits at Ragged) to shuffle the top 15 positions around, while many of the same runners stayed in the top 15 with only one new previously unranked runner in the mix.

Great finish in start of XC at Chancellor! Photo by Brandon Miles A great opener to the cross country season was held at Fredericksburg's Loriella Park for the Chancellor Invitational. The meet had two nationally ranked boys programs Jamestown and Mountain View clash in an early season test for both squads to see where they are at in beginning of this fall. The Chancellor Invite also saw a meet and course record go down by a somewhat surprise winner in Northwest Region outdoor 3200 meter champion Elizabeth Walls just dipping under the old Loriella best of 19:46 set by Kristyn Shiring of North Stafford with her winning time of 19:45 on a mild Saturday in September. While Walls pulled away for a decisive victory over a quality field in the last half of the race, Alex Ott and Andrew Colley could not shake each other off until the end in the varsity boys race with Ott pulling out the slight edge in a great finish. In a kicking battle to the line between two of AA's best juniors, Ott took the win in 16;30.8, while Colley settled as a close runner-up in 16:31.2.  Colley did take home first place hardware though as his Jamestown team (54) defeated a Thomas Porter-less Mountain View squad (67 pts) by 13 points. The Eagles were able to overcome Mountain View putting five ahead of their fourth with three runners ahead of Mountain View's top finisher Daniel Porter (9th, 17:25.4). The Mountain View coaches wanted to see how well the rest of their guys could run without their ace Thomas Porter and their boys held up well as Mountain View at full strength against Jamestown on this day would have likely picked up a close win.  While girls field lacked the powerhouse squads like Jamestown and Mountain View on the boys, one team stepped as a team to look out for thanks to the emergence of a talented freshmen. Sullivan Parkes had been a pre-race favorite coming in as a pre=season #13 ranked runner in the state, but she was not even the top finisher on her squad or household despite a solid fourth place time of 20:24 as her freshmen sister Presley Parkes ran a stellar high school debut race as runner-up in 19:58. With the firepower up front from the Parkes sisters, Millbrook won by a fair margin of 20 points over host school and AA #7 ranked Chancellor (2nd, 101 pts) with a team score of 81 points. Millbrook also defeated additional AA ranked squads in AA #5 James Wood (5th, 206 pts) and AA #6 Heritage-Leesburg (7th, 230 pts). Chancellor Invite Results: Varsity Boys - Varsity Girls - Developmental Boys - Developmental GirlsChancellor Invite Photo Gallery: Varsity Boys (348 pics) - Varsity Girls (358 pics) - Developmental Girls (148 pics) - Developmental Boys (247 pics) - Awards (38 pics) Video Interviews: Alex Ott - Andrew Colley - Elizabeth Walls Race Videos - Varsity Boys - Varsity Girls - Developmental Girls - Developmental Boys  

 Photo by Brandon Miles  A total of 34 schools and 1157 athletes will be competing at Saturday's Chancellor Invitational, which will be an season opener for all teams involved. MileStat.com will be on-site with coverage bringing you video, photos, and interviews from Loriella Park in Fredericksburg. First race begins at 9:30 AM with the varsity boys as the varsity girls, developmental boys, and developmental girls will follow thereafter. The meet will be an early clash between two Nike Team Nationals ranked squads in SE #4 Mountain View and SE #8 Jamestown, who will be led by two of the top individual harriers in the race with VA #4 ranked Thomas Porter (Mountain View) and VA #13 ranked Andrew Colley (Jamestown). Throwing in Turner Ashby junior and VA #6 ranked Alex Ott, the course record of 16:02 set by Devin Cornwall in 2005 could come under attack. Millbrook junior Sullivan Parkes finished 11th at the 2006 Chancellor Invite, but comes into this season as the #13 ranked runner in the state of Virginia and as a pre-race favorite for Saturday. However, defending Chancellor Invite champion Kaylan Comer (pictured above) might have something to say about that as a three-time All-State cross country performer in cross country.