Dunwoody Fares Well in Cross Country

Provided by Mark Brock

Clarkston ends Lakeside’s 18-year reign as county cross country champs

Six Clarkston Angoras runners placed in the Top 10 of the DeKalb County
Varsity Cross Country Championships to end the Lakeside Vikings 18-year
streak of DeKalb County titles with a 25-56 victory at the Druid Hills
Middle School course on Tuesday.

A group of five Angoras swept third through seventh place in the race
handing Clarkston its first ever DeKalb County Cross County Championships
title.

Lakeside sophomore Davis Stockwell was the individual winner with an
excellent time of 16:41.19 to break Stone Mountain’s two-year grip on
the medalist honors while Southwest DeKalb senior Kameron Scott was
runner-up in 17:00.46. Stockwell’s time was the fastest of the season at
the Druid Hills Middle course.

The Clarkston quintet followed led by senior Muhozi Aimable (17:13.21),
junior Sahlu Gidey (17:30.97), sophomore Abbas Abbkr (17:31.44), senior
Leiso Tumbo (17:32.69) and senior Hussen Sadik (17:39.85) to nail down the
championship. Freshman Suheib Mohamed was 10th overall for Clarkston with
a time of 17:55.86 to give the Angoras six of the Top 10 finishers.

Druid Hills junior Max Atkinson (17:41.38) was eighth and Redan junior
Keith Terry (17:52.58) was ninth to round out the Top 10.

Dunwoody senior Quinton Johnson (17:56.86), Lakeside senior Cooper Gray
(17:57.41) and Lakeside juniors Dan Nelson (17:58.48) and Tyler Breeden
(17:59.25) were 11th through 14th, respectively, and all broke the 18
minute time.

Dunwoody was third in the team standings with 134 points followed by Cross
Keys (137), Druid Hills (144), Chamblee (152), Southwest DeKalb (196),
Stone Mountain (222), Redan (230), Stephenson (281), Tucker (293), Arabia
Mountain (356) and Towers (389).

Dunwoody captures fourth girls’ title in past five seasons

Dunwoody senior Alex Cameron set a DeKalb County record in leading the
Lady Wildcats to their second consecutive DeKalb County Girls’ Cross
Country Championship title and fourth in the past five years.

Cameron, the 2012 Class AAAAA individual state champion, pulled away from
Lakeside freshman Morgan Mihalis down the stretch of the race to become
the first girl to win four consecutive DeKalb County titles. She finished
in a time of 19:35.74, the fastest on the course this season, on her way
into the history of DeKalb County cross country.

The only other runner to win four consecutive county cross country titles
was Lakesides’ Joe Thorne (1998-2001) in the boys’ championships.

The Lady Wildcats place four other runners in the Top 10 to take the 27-34
victory over the Lady Vikings. Sophomore Ansley Heavern (20:29.56) was
third, junior Ellie Conoley (21:24.14) was fifth, freshman Callie Dill
(21:46.55) was eighth and senior Jennifer Hardister (21:53.61) was 10th to
help the Lady Wildcats sew up their second consecutive title.

Lakeside was led by Mihalis (19:38.27) in second and three others in the
Top 10 to make the final tally a close one. Senior Shannon Hagopain
(21:17.28) was fourth followed by freshman Hannah Price (21:36.60) in
sixth and sophomore Sarah Breeden (21:38.51) in seventh.

The only non-Dunwoody/Lakeside runner in the Top 10 was Tucker senior Nuba
Jackson (21:50.64) whose Lady Tiger team finished fifth overall with 152
points.

Third place Druid Hills (90) was paced by junior Paulette Juieng
(22:01.46) in third while fourth place Southwest DeKalb (110) was led by a
13th place finish by sophomore Ashley Middlebrooks (22:01.81).

Sixth place Redan (166) had sophomore Tanzanie Brown just miss out on the
top 10 with a time of 21:57.67.