Ithaca junior Tsadia Bercuvitz repeated as Class A champion with the fastest time of the day Thursday, Nov. 6 at the Section 4 girls cross country championships, helping the Little Red snap Corning’s streak of team titles at six.
Bercuvitz ran the 3.1-mile course at Chenango Valley State Park in 18 minutes, 16.7 seconds. Corning senior Olivia Martinec was the runner-up in 19:34.5, second-fastest time among the four races.
Bercuvitz was runner-up in the Class A race at last year’s New York State Public High School Athletic Association meet.
Southern Tier Athletic Conference winner Ithaca finished with a team score of 26, with Corning second at 52. Seven of the top eight girls times came from the Class A race.
Delhi/South Kortright in Class D was the only repeat girls team champion.
Vestal captured the Class B title and Chenango Forks was tops in Class C.
Forks’ title was led by a win from sophomore Clara Little (21:24.4).
Vestal’s Hellen Zhang in Class B (20:15.3) and Deposit/Hancock eighth-grader Kali Buttacavoli in Class D (20:49.2) joined Little as first-time sectional titlists.
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The NYSPHSAA championship meet will be held Saturday, Nov. 15 at Queensbury High School, near Glens Falls. The meet begins at 9 a.m. with Class B girls and concludes with the 1 p.m. Class A boys race.
First-place teams from Section 4 and the top five individuals in each class not on the winning team qualified.
Class A results
Team scores: Ithaca 26, Corning 52, Horseheads 83, Elmira 98, Union-Endicott 109.
Top 15 individuals: 1-Tsadia Bercuvitz (Ithaca) 18:16.7; 2-Olivia Martinec (Corning) 19:34.5; 3-Mattea Dauria (Ithaca) 19:48.3; 4-Avery Whittaker (Ithaca) 20:05.5; 5-Mackenzie Baker (Horseheads) 20:15.9; 6-Ella Devlin (Elmira) 20:37.7; 7-Kateland Dininny (Corning) 20:42.0; 8-Skyler Lovenheim (Ithaca) 21:06.0; 9-Abigail Wagner (Corning) 21:13.2; 10-Nora Golden (Ithaca) 21:30.7; 11-Suzanne Sydlansky (Horseheads) 21:47.7; 12-Madelyn Wise (Elmira) 22:03.2; 13-Taylor Kerber (Ithaca) 22:03.7; 14-Sadie Limbert (U-E) 22:17.7; 15-Ruby Betts (Ithaca) 22:22.6.
Class B results
Team scores: Vestal 29, Owego Free Academy 30, Maine-Endwell 66.
Top 15 individuals: 1-Hellen Zhang (Vestal) 20:15.3; 2-Abigail McHugh (OFA) 21:00.3; 3-Jaelyn Chrysler (OFA) 21:04.2; 4-Leyla Kamil (Vestal) 21:06.2; 5-Sarah Heath (OFA) 21:08; 6-Kayla Fletcher (Vestal) 21:17.9; 7-Stella Palladino (OFA) 21:49.6; 8-Savanna Ulrich (Vestal) 22:02.1; 9-Maddison Novotny (M-E) 22:02.7; 10-Mikayla Silverio (Vestal) 22:18.8; 11-Lena Velez Mattia (M-E) 22:18.8; 12-Lindsey Steele (Vestal) 22:32.5; 13-Lilly LaFever (OFA) 22:47.1; 14-Brooklyn Wahila (M-E) 23:09; 15-Jailyn Barton (M-E) 23:29.3.
Class C results
Team scores: Chenango Forks 37, Afton/Harpursville/Bainbridge-Guilford 41, Lansing 59, Thomas A. Edison 103, Dryden 138.
Top 15 individuals: 1-Clara Little (Forks) 21:24.4; 2-Lyla Houser (Chenango Valley) 21:38.5; 3-Evelyn Jackson (Lansing) 21:54.2; 4-Maddie Ingham (A/H/B-G) 22:07.8; 5-Madison Farberman (A/H/B-G) 22:22.1; 6-Melody Sternberg (Lansing) 22:33.6; 7-CeCi Kasmarcik (Forks) 22:40.7; 8-Lena Lindow (Forks) 22:43.1; 9-Lelaenia Baldwin (A/H/B-G) 22:51.9; 10-Madison Hubschmitt (TAE) 23:18.9; 11-Jalyn Winans (A/H/B-G) 23:20.3; 12-Ella Hart (Chenango Valley) 23:27; 13-Addison Rothenberg (Oneonta) 24:01.3; 14-Kiley Kaczynski (Susquehanna Valley) 24:20.2; 15-Katherine Yahner (Forks) 24:29.6.
Class D results
Team scores: Delhi/South Kortright 49, Newark Valley 68, Trumansburg 73, Odessa-Montour 83, Southern Cayuga 100, Edmeston/Morris 166, Marathon 175, Seton Catholic Central 210.
Top 15 individuals: 1-Kalie Buttacavoli (Deposit/Hancock) 20:49.2; 2-Hadley Merrill (Newark Valley) 20:51.8; 3-Mirabella Sanford (Deposit/Hancock) 21:01.1; 4-Lilly McGonigal (Delhi/SK) 21:07; 5-Alexandria Morgan (Southern Cayuga) 21:09.1; 6-Janne Anderson (O-M) 21:12.2; 7-Niveck VonBergen (Trumansburg) 21:18.2; 8-Brook Illsley (Newark Valley) 21:22.8; 9-Aurelia Comer (Delhi/SK) 21:37.3; 10-Hanna Jantzen (O-M) 22:35; 11-Samantha Morgan (Southern Cayuga) 22:49.9; 12-Lexi Strobel (O-M) 22:53.5; 13-Daphne Vasilakis (Delhi/SK) 22:54.7; 14-Madelyn Ellison (Spencer-Van Etten) 22:57.4; 15-Reese Mills (Tioga) 23:20.2.
This article originally appeared on Elmira Star-Gazette: Bercuvitz becomes three-time Section 4 girls XC champ as Ithaca ends Corning’s streak
Reporting by Andrew Legare, Elmira Star-Gazette / Elmira Star-Gazette
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