Old Lyme senior Chase Gilbert was one of five Connecticut runners to qualify for the Brooks Cross Country National championships after finishing eighth in the Northeast Regional championship in Boston Saturday.
Gilbert, the State Open champion who won the Class S state title four times, finished the 5,000-meter course at Franklin Park in 17 minutes, 32 seconds.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIn the boys race, Brunswick School senior Nathan Lee, of Greenwich, finished second (15:00) and his Brunswick teammate Teddy Hojlo of Greenwich came in seventh (15:23.7). East Lyme’s Sam Leone, the State Open champion, finished fifth (15:20.1) and Griswold junior Tycen LaBelle, the State Open runner-up, was eighth (15:29.1).
The top 10 finishers in each race qualified for the national championships, which was formerly sponsored by Foot Locker and will take place Dec. 13 in San Diego.
The Northeast Region was comprised of runners from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, D.C.
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