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Hopewell Valley sweeps the team competition and the individual competition, as Sydney Young and Finnegan Curley come away with fast wins.
Highlights include wins from Hopewell Valley’s Sydney Young at the Cherokee Challenge and a trio of WWP North runners — Allison Lee, Paul Wittenberg, and Agrim Jha — at Run the Night, plus a couple of very close 2nd-place finishes from freshmen Ashvin Avineni (WWP North) and Reed Huggins (Allentown).
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Here are the Mercer County girls teams in NJ.com’s latest ranking:
#2 Princeton (no change)
#11 Hopewell Valley (no change)
#18 WWP North (no change)
Three Mercer County boys teams are in NJ.com’s latest rankings:
#18 WWP North (up from #20)
#20 Princeton (down from #18)
Bubble Hopewell Valley (new)
One major takeaway by NJ.com’s Bakari Rice is that the CVC “is shaping up to be very competitive this fall, thanks to strong early-season performances from several top programs.” WWP North averaged 10:23 at Run the Night with a 41-second split. WWP South averaged 10:49 at the Thompson 2 Miler with a 26-second split. Hopewell Valley won the team title at the TCNJ High School XC Invite with a 17:51 average.
Hopewell Valley is one of five Group 3 boys teams that NJ.com’s Bakari Tice considers underrated this season. They’re led by Silas Allevik and his Holmdel PR of 17:00, and they get crucial depth from Finnegan Curley, Colin Vickery, Mason O’Connor, and James Damron.
Two of the five most underrated Group 4 boys teams hail from Mercer County. Princeton has a tight 1:07 five-man split at Holmdel, which includes Finn Wedmid, Braedyn Capone, Evan Raphael, Felix Yu, and Harrison Knoch. They boast a 17:39 team average. WWP South also makes the list, with a 1:16 split and a 18:25 team average at Holmdel. They’re lead by Sean Mania Aron Zola, Harsh Sharma, and Aradhya Vijay.
NJ.com’s girls rankings for week 1 include:
#2 Allison Lee (WWP North, Sr.)
#13 Kajol Karra (Princeton, Sr.)
#21 Grace Hegedus (Princeton, Jr.)
#29 Laura Sallade (Wilberforce, Sr.)
#30 Sydney Young (Hopewell Valley, Jr.)
#32 Eowyn Deess (Princeton, Jr.)
NJ.com’s boys rankings for week 1 include:
#44 Agrim Jha (WWP North, So.)
#45 Paul Wittenberg (WWP North, Jr.)
Fast times at the Thompson 2 Miler from Laura Sallade (Wilberforce), Mateo Abad-Delgado (Hightstown), Aron Zola (WWP South), and many others.