Grant Allen

It\'s a banner week for the Ivy League as seven of PA\'s top runners have signed with Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn and Princeton. The top two members of this year\'s AA State Championship Eisenhower boys team, Grant Allen and Greg Haines, will be joining 2002 State AA XC Champ and Foot Locker Finalist Ian Gottesfeld of West Chester Henderson at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 2004. All-State and Slippery Rock XC course record-holder James O\'Toole will be studying and running for Princeton. Great Valley\'s Katy Andersen will also compete for Princeton. Betsy Sensenig of Ephrata, the Lancaster Lebanon League X-C

Frances Koons set her expectations high this season, did the work necessary to have the opportunity to do great things, delivered some early, promising performances, faced mounting expectations because of her success, and today, ignored all the pressure and delivered her best race of the year - a 5th place at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional Championships. The effort earned her a free trip to San Diego in two weeks to face 31 other talented harriers in this the 25th year of \"the nation\'s only true high school championship.\"

It was deja vu for the boys AA race, as Jed Christiansen, Greenville, won the title just ahead of Harbor Creek\'s Brian Soder and Eisenhower\'s Grant Allen. Eisenhower took the team title in AA. Villa Maria upset the experts by taking the girls AA title by nine over Seneca. Erin Richard must be having too much fun to stop now in her first year of XC (she\'s a senior), going 19:59 to lead her team to a 21 point win over Warren.

Youngsville is one of the top AA teams in the Northwest, and used their league meet to tune-up for the important District 10 meet this week.

Eisenhower dominated the boys small schools at the McQuaid Invitational at Genesee Valley Park behind a first place 15:30 3-mile. Lane King of Fairview was 4th in 16:00. Eisenhower won with 75 points. Wellsboro\'s girls won the girls small school race with 87 points.