Lakeside’s Andrew Kent won the Region 2-6A title and was named Georgia Mile Split’s 6A Boys’ Runner of the Week. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Four region cross country titles and four individual region champions reside in DeKalb County for 2015 as 13 teams advance to their respective state meets on Saturday, November 7 at the Carrollton High School course.

Lakeside swept the Region 2-6A championships at Druid Hills Middle School last weekend as Georgia Mile Split Class 6A Boys’ Runner of the Week Andrew Kent ran a 16:03.17 to lead six Vikings’ runners in the Top 10 and an almost perfect score of 18. Rockdale County was second with 41 points and Tucker qualified for state in third with 74.

Defending 6A individual state champion and 2015 DeKalb County champ Davis Stockwell was second in 16:31.80.

Rockdale County’s Dax Willette prevented the Lakeside sweep of the top five spots in third as Lakeside would take fourth through seventh to easily win the title for the second consecutive season.

Sophomores Myles Boyd (17:43.91) and Jake Tubesing (17:47.16 were fourth and fifth, respectively, followed by freshman Jay Clinton in sixth (17:58.22) and sophomore Caleb Cloud (17:58.30) was seventh to round out the Lakeside runners.

Tucker junior Ryan Wurapa led the Tigers’ third place finish and second consecutive state qualifying finish by finishing 12th in the individual standings with a time of 19:06.22.

Lakeside junior Corrie Smith wins Region 2-6A girls’ title and named Georgia Mile Split’s 6A Girls’ Runner of the Week. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Lakeside junior Corrie Smith won the girls’ race with a time of 19:28.20 and also garnered Georgia Mile Split Class 6A Girls’ Runner of the Week honors as the Lady Vikings won 15-50 over Tucker in the girls’ championship. Smith also won the DeKalb County title this season.

Smith’s junior teammate Morgan Mihalis was second in 19:31.07 while sophomore Eliana Blam (22:40.85) was fourth and freshman Emma Hanson was fifth (22:54.44).

Sophomore Kirtina Martinez (23:24.34) was sixth while senior Jennifer Guzdial (23:24.67) and sophomore Rachel Grimes (23:56.12) were seventh and eighth, respectively, for the Lady Vikings.

Tucker’s Brea Manual finished in the Top 10 at ninth (24:56.16) to lead the Lady Tigers to their second consecutive state berth.

Clarkston’s Suheib Mohamed won the Region 6-5A individual title to lead the Angoras to a region three-peat.

Region 6-5A
The defending Class 5A state champions Clarkston Angoras and Dunwoody Lady Wildcats repeated as Region 6-5A boys’ and girls’ champions at Druid Hills Middle School last weekend.

Clarkston junior Suheib Mohamed (16:20.51) finished 20.47 seconds ahead of Druid Hills junior Ermais Tewolde to grab the individual boy’s title as six Angoras claimed Top 10 finishes. The Angoras are three-time region champs and will make their fourth consecutive trip to the state meet.

Junior Bineyam Tumbo (16:44.74) and senior Paul Nikobiri (17:12.70) were third and fourth, respectively, for Clarkston while freshman Ngabo Daniel was seventh (17:33.85). Sophomore Awet Fitwi (17:49.32) was ninth and freshman Rukundo Uwimana (17:55.66) as all the Top 10 finished in under 18 minutes.

Stephenson senior Brandon Hines qualified as an individual for the state meet with his fifth place overall finish in 17:14.46. Druid hills sophomore Celestin Yacta joined teammate Tewolde in the Top 10 in sixth (17:31.34) and Dunwoody freshman Samuel Mahle (17:38.30) was eighth to round out the Top 10.

The Druid Hills Red Devils advanced to their fifth consecutive state meet with their second place finish.

Southwest DeKalb senior Ashley Middlebrooks (21:13.85) claimed the individual girls’ title, but a trio of Dunwoody runners were next to finish as the Lady Wildcats won their fourth consecutive region title 23-56 over Southwest DeKalb.

Junior Julia Echols (21:16.94) lead the Dunwoody trio with her second place finish as sophomore Chloe Thomas (21:46.80) was third and senior Sophia Tarrago (21:47.71) was fourth. Sophomore Julie Hensley (21:55.95) and junior Olivia Vergura (22:25.09) were sixth and eighth, respectively, to round out the Top 10 finishers for Dunwoody.

Southwest DeKalb freshman Lanee Edwards also qualified for the state meet with her fifth place finish (21:53.59). Top 10 finishes by Druid Hills sophomore Lisa Medford (22:26.45) in ninth and senior Morgan Ross (22:39.85) helped the Lady Red Devils to their fourth consecutive state meet berth with a third place finish just two points behind Southwest DeKalb.

Clarkston led by freshman Zyikeirra Robinson’s girls’ school record time of 22:14.85 qualified for the state meet as a team for the second consecutive season.

Chamblee sophomore Beining Xiao finished fourth at the Region 6-4A championships.

Region 6-4A
The Chamblee boys’ and girls’ teams both extended their state qualifying streak to four in a row with fourth place finishes in the Region 6-4A Championships at Marist last Wednesday.

Sophomore Beining Xiao helped propel the Lady Bulldogs into the state meet with her fourth place (20:54) finish which would have also qualified her as an individual.

Cross Keys sophomore Vanessa Rubio-Toxtle ran a solid time of 21:40 to finish 12th.

Chamblee’s Zachary Chalmers (19:17) was 19th overall to lead the Bulldogs to their fourth place finish.