Rondout Valley High School senior Owen Shaffer-Sermini won the Mid-Hudson Athletic League boys cross country individual title on Oct. 30 in Milton.
Competing on the 3.1-mile course at the Hudson Valley Sportsdome, Shaffer-Sermini won in 15 minutes, 57.1 seconds. He beat Our Lady of Lourdes senior Griffin Kinahan by 11.5 seconds and Wallkill junior Nathaniel Diemoz by 25.4 seconds. Lourdes senior Michael Falsetta was fourth and Wallkill junior Ryder Kilpatrick was fifth.
Shaffer-Sermini was 10th in 2024.
Our Lady of Lourdes captured the boys team title, for the second year in a row, with 44 points, topping Mount Academy (63) and New Paltz (120). For the victorious Warriors, Kinahan and Falsetta finished ahead of teammates Rocco Maggio (sixth), Chase Maggio (15th) and Edward Nuzzo (17th). Pine Plains won in 2023 and Mount Academy in 2022.
The Section 9 championships will be held at Warwick’s Sanfordville Elementary on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
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MHAL boys cross country meet
(at Hudson Valley Sportsdome, Milton)
Team: 1. Our Lady of Lourdes (OLL) 44 points; 2. Mount Academy (MtA) 63; 3. New Paltz (NP) 120; 4. Onteora (Ont) 143; 5. Wallkill (Wall) 146; 6. F.D. Roosevelt (FDR) 169; 7. Red Hook (RH) 171; 8. Ellenville (Ell) 184; 9. Saugerties (Sau) 229; 10. Rondout Valley (RV) 246; 11. Millbrook (Mill) 329; 12. Spackenkill (Spac) 373; 13. Highland (High) 376; 14. Marlboro (Marl) 380; 15. Rhinebeck (Rhb) 387; 16. Dover (Dov) 403. Also: Pine Plains (PP) incomplete
Individual (3.1 miles): 1. Owen Shaffer-Sermini (RV) 15:57.1; 2. Griffin Kinahan (OLL) 16:08.6; 3. Nathaniel Diemoz (Wall) 16:22.5; 4. Michael Falseta (OLL) 16:36.7; 5. Ryder Kilpatrick (Wall) 16:46.1; 6. Rocco Maggio (OLL) 17:01.3; 7. Jameson Kessler (RH) 17:02.7; 8. Joel Horning (MtA) 17:02.2; 9. Damien Riozzi (Sau) 17:06.9; 10. Kelian Meier (MtA) 17:10.8.
11. Joseph Wright (MA) 17:12.4; 12. Richard Scott (MtA) 17:13.7; 13. Anson DiGiacomio (FDR) 17:14.9; 14. Jonah Althouse (Ell) 17:15.6; 15. Chase Maggio (OLL) 17:35.7; 16. Alex Preston (NP) 17:36.9; 17. Edward Nuzzo (OLL) 17:43.3; 18. Leroi Louis (Ont) 17:52.8; 19. Andrew Didonna (OLL) 17:57.9; 20. Derek Schenker (NP) 18:00.3
21. Odin Pawlson (RH) 18:04.1; 22. Darvell Jeong (MtA) 18:11.1; 23. Carter Herron (NP) 18:12.9; 24. Liam Young (Ont) 18:13.7; 25. Charlie Denton (Ont) 18:21.1; 26. Jamison Warren (Wall) 18:23.2; 27. Dhilan Natarajan (OLL) 18:25.7; 28. Ciaran Cummins (NP) 18:25.8; 29. Dylan Vasquez (Mill) 18:28.9; 30. Colin Buttitta (FDR) 18:32.5.
Also: 31. Augustus Lamm (Rhb) 18:33.0; 49. Miles Brown (Marl) 19:36.2; 53. Eben Dedrick (PP) 19:56.0; 57. Alexander Weiss (High) 19:57.6; 62. Diego Giraldo (Spac) 20:13.8; 66. Zain Ibrahim (Dov) 20:23.9
This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: Rondout’s Owen Shaffer-Sermini, Lourdes boys claim MHAL boys cross country championships
Reporting by Ken McMillan, Middletown Times Herald- Record / Times Herald-Record
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