Fox Lane Cross Country Beats Port Chester and Croton-Harmon

On a crisp, cool and beautiful afternoon for running at Croton Gorge Park, the Fox Lane Cross Country team was able to lap the field.

Behind a strong performance from both the boys and girls, Fox Lane defeated both Port Chester and Croton-Harmon. 

In the boys event, the stand out performance came from Fox Lane's Carl Turner as he won the race with a time of 16:20, followed by his teammates Yared Lahart, who finished in third place with a time of 19:08, and Joe Collins, who finished in 6^th place with a time of 20:09.

Fox Lane boys defeated Croton by a score of 24-35, and Port Chester by a score of 20-41.

Boys head coach Chris Dossena was happy with the performance from Turner and was looking for even more in the future.

"I think it's a nice start, I think he's got more in him and I think when he moves into the next invintational, will give me a little bit of a gauge of where he stands. But he did a nice job today and he handled the race well," he said.

In the girls event, the top five was dominated by Fox Lane. Carly Schwartz, Rachel Eisman, Paige Cloonan and Kristina Dittrich finished from 2^nd place to 5^th place respectively to lead the way for the Foxes.

Schwartz had a finishing time of 22:56, while Eisman finished ten econds behind and Cloonan was 30 seconds behind.

"That was our goal today; our goal was to run with those four girls as a pack, and be able to have that pack ready to attack the other team," said girls coach Steve Petrillo.

Fox Lane girls also finished with a record of 2-0 against Croton and Port Chester. Fox Lane defeated Croton 25-32, and also defeated Port Chester 16-45.

The park was a new place to run for both teams and the coaches knew it could be tough, but as the results did show, the team did very well adjusting to the surroundings.

"The park is brand new to us," said Petrillo. "We try to do some good fundamental training, and hopefully we can take that wherever we go, no matter what kind of park that may be."

At the end of the day, with the sun setting behind the hilltop surrounding the park, Fox Lane was able to show that although they are a young team, they are going to be a team to be reckoned with.