Lakeside's Morgan Mihalis recorded the fastest girls' time in DeKalb County this season with a 20:06.02 to lead Lakeside to victory on Tuesday. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Lakeside’s Morgan Mihalis recorded the fastest girls’ time in DeKalb County this season with a 20:06.02 to lead Lakeside to victory on Tuesday. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Lakeside senior Morgan Mihalis ran the fastest girls’ time of the season in DeKalb County to help Lakeside finish a sweep of the first races at the Druid Hills Middle School course on Tuesday.

Mihalis clocked a 20:06.02 to win individual honors in the girls’ first race of the day and propel the Lady Vikings to a 23-74 win over Chamblee. Druid Hills (81) was third followed by Tucker (216) in fourth and Stephenson (263) in fifth.

Lakeside place seven runners in the Top 10 to cruise to the win over Chamblee. Following Chamblee’s junior Beining Xiao (20:44.83) in second and Druid Hills senior Rachel Juieng (22:32.27) in third, the Lady Vikings swept the fourth through seventh slots in the Top 10.

Sophomore Emma Hanson (22:38.85) was fourth followed in order by freshman Lena Ayoub (22:39.10), freshman Margaret Racine (22:49.51) and junior Eliana Blam (223:20.75).

Freshmen Santai-Blu Boyd (23:35.27) and Sydney DeWoody (23:51.06) finished ninth and 10th for Lakeside.

Cross Keys’ junior Vanesa Rubio claimed a spot in the Top 10 with a time of 23:34.72 to claim the eighth place finish.

The Vikings started the sweep with a 49-57 win over Druid Hills in the boys’ race with a strong surge just out of the Top 10 in a race which had nine teams score.

Clarkston and Druid Hills both had three runners in the Top 10 while Lakeside junior Myles Boyd (18:04.86) was fourth and freshman Ethen Gregory (18:27.91) was ninth.

But the 11-13th pack finish by sophomore Jay Clinton (18:43.27), junior Jake Tubesing (18:44.09) and senior Andrew Crites (18:47.61) sealed the win for the Vikings.

Clarkston's Bineyam Tumbo won his third race of the season by running his second fastest time of the year in 17:18.63. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Clarkston’s Bineyam Tumbo won his third race of the season by running his second fastest time of the year in 17:18.63. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Druid Hills’ strong finish was led by senior Ermias Tewolde (17:23.41) who took second in the individual standings.  Sophomore’s Carter Rather (18:12.01) and Ian Schunk (18:23.09) were sixth and eighth, respectively.

Clarkston (75) was third led Bineyam Tumbo (17:18.63) who was just off his best time of the season to win the individual honors. The Angoras had sophomore Thomas Weldemichal (18:02.55) in third and junior Abdi Nasir Yahye (18:08.19) in fifth.

A pair of sophomores in Chamblee’s Bennett Solomon (18:22.07) in seventh and Tucker’s Miles Smith (18:37.12) rounded out the Top 10.

Southwest DeKalb's Nakai Jack won the second boys' race with a time of 19:35.78. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Southwest DeKalb’s Nakai Jack won the second boys’ race with a time of 19:35.78. (Photo by Mark Brock)

The Arabia Mountain Rams and Lithonia Bulldogs tied atop the boys’ standings in the second race with 57 points apiece but the Rams 21st place finisher Sanjay Lord (23:08.79) finished ahead of Lithonia’s No. 6 finisher Brian Chesnokov (25:02.80) who was 26th overall to get the race victory.

Martin Luther King Jr. was third with 72 points and Cedar Grove was fourth with 201.

Both Arabia Mountain and Lithonia place three runners in the Top 10 with Arabia Mountain holding a slim 22-23 edge behind the fifth place finish of senior Malik Wright (21:10.89), eighth by sophomore Ridge Turner (21:22.63) and ninth from junior Sam Garrett (21:58.65).

Lithonia’s junior Ziren Alexander (21:12.42) was sixth and freshman Justin Harris (21:2.89) was seventh with sophomore Brison Rockcliffe (22:37.29) in 10th.

Southwest DeKalb did not get a team score but racked up the Top 3 spots in the race led by sophomore Nakai Jack (19:35.78) in first along with juniors Anthony Parker (19:56.78) and Hasim Smith (20:37.33) following in order.

Martin Luther King Jr. sophomore Demetrius Carson (20:44.97) was fourth overall in the individual standings to finish up the Top 10.

Southwest DeKalb's Lanee Edwards won her second race of the season with a time of 23:00.76 to lead the Lady Panther's to a win at Druid Hills Middle. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Southwest DeKalb’s Lanee Edwards won her second race of the season with a time of 23:00.76 to lead the Lady Panther’s to a win at Druid Hills Middle. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Southwest won the second girls’ race 22-51 over Arabia Mountain as sophomore Lanee Edwards (23:00.76) paced a group of seven Lady Panthers to finish in the Top 10 with her second individual victory of the season.

Sophomore Jamarria Williams (26:22.04) was third before a group of five Lady Panthers took the fifth through ninth spots. Junior Raekwan Bostic (27:04.18) started the Southwest DeKalb run in fifth followed in order by sophomores Raven Thurman (27:06.39), Kennedy Morman (27:15.97), Yaria Sanders (27:22.15) and Caniece Collins (27:29.31).

Arabia Mountain put a pair of runners in the Top 10 led by senior Sydni Rush (25:29.31) in second while sophomore Asya White (28:24.26) was 10th.

Columbia junior Franol Hulufe finished the group of Top 10 finishers in fourth with a time of 26:43.29.

The next meet is set for Arabia Mountain on Tuesday, September 27 at 5:15 and 5:45.