The state

cross country championships were held on Saturday in

Carrollton. Some of the results were what you expected,

Landmark Christian's boys won the Class A championship,

while other results had some of our local teams falling

short.

Landmark

Christian won the meet with a score of 42 points. The

second place team was Greater Atlanta Christian with a

total of 65 points. The strength of Landmark's

performance was in the fact that all of their top seven

runners finished in the top 40. Taking first place was

Kyle Rabbitt with a time of 16:47. Nathan Kosiba placed

second overall with a time of 16:47. They were the only

two runners in single A competition to finish with a time

under 17 minutes.

Rounding

out Landmark's top seven were Clark Rivers finishing

fifth (17:32), Blake Fertitta finishing eighth (17:42),

Eric Sumner finishing 29th (18:46), Jonathan Best

finishing 33rd (18:52) and Chris Rogers placing 38th

(19:02). Landmark were definitely the favorites going

into competition and they should have a strong track

season this spring as well.

Last years

girls AAAA champions, the McIntosh Chiefs, fell a little

short this year. They placed third overall behind Walton

and South Gwinnett respectively. In fact, the Chiefs

finished third to the same two teams a few weeks ago at

the Last Chance meet on the same course in Carrollton.

McIntosh had some injuries early on in the season and

stayed dominant in region competition, but they only had

one runner finish in the top ten on Saturday, Judy

Thomasson who finished fourth with a time of 20:08.

They will

return the bulk of their squad next year and by bringing

in some added depth of the soccer team this fall, they

will be much more experienced and powerful next season.

The Chiefs finish the season as region champs and the

third best team in AAAA in the state.

Starr's

Mill's girls also showed off their stuff on Saturday,

placing second in the state to Marist. The Panthers

scored 93 points overall and had two runners finish in

the top ten, Katie Hughes placed eighth with a time of

20:47 and Ashley Meredith placed 10th with a time of

21:00. Starr's Mill looks forward to their spring track

season as well as running in AAAA next year, after

realignment. The team has depth and a number of girls

returning to the squad.

The Starr's

Mill boys placed sixth overall in the state, recording

184 points overall. They did not have a top ten finisher

but got good production out of their squad. Fayette

County's boys performed well in the AAAA meet, too. They

did not finish in the top ten teams but had a top ten

finisher in Trey Alverson, who finished fifth overall

with a time of 16:56.