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Girls Cross Country Team Looks to Improve

North Andover lost its best runner Olivia Marshall to graduation.

Welcome to the fifth installment of our Scarlet Knights fall sports season preview. Today we look at the North Andover High School girls cross country team.

Head coach Rich DelleChiaie and the Knights are coming off a pretty average season in 2010.

North Andover’s regular season was 6-6. The squad did better on their own turf going 4-2 in North Andover and 2-4 at away meets.

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The Knights did have some strong finishers at the MIAA Division 2 East Championships at Franklin Park in Boston last fall.

North Andover as a team finished 9th with 272 points, a considerable distance behind Mansfield (191).

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Olivia Marshall finished in 9th place overall in the 5k competition with a time of 19:59.

Katelyn Thomas had the Knights’ next best finish with a time of 22:17, good for 53rd overall. Kiera McManus, Adrienne Michaud, Alison Swanson, Julia Varoutsos, and Brianna Marie-Barron rounded out the team’s performance with times between 22:35 and 22:47.

Olivia Marshall was the only Knight to at the Gardner Golf Course in Gardner Mass.

At All-States, Marshall ran the 2.9 mile run in 18:54.2, which was good for 87th place overall.

North Andover participates in the Clipper Relays on Sept. 10 this year. The Knights will host Masconomet on Oct. 25 in an important late-season meet.

Tune in to Patch throughout the season for coverage of the Scarlet Knights girls cross country team and as always, your pictures and videos are welcome. Just send an email to jay@jayoza.org to contribute. 

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