Gonzalez wins Middle School Cross Country City Championship for girls, Bastiaanse, boys; St. Joseph School takes title for both boys and girls teams

Chippens Hill Middle School cross country team with Loren Gonzalez, girls winner in blue in the back row, earlier in November. | Jen Labbe

Posted By: Staff November 16, 2023

Loren Gonzalez carved out a little history for herself by finishing first at the Middle School Cross Country City Championship at Rockwell Park earlier in November.

In what may be another first for siblings, Loren joined her sister Kaelyn, a 10th grader running this year for Bristol Eastern took first place in the high school cross country championship last month.

Both ran cross country for Chippens Hill Middle School, where Kaelyn still holds the record from 2021 with a time of 13:51.1.

Chippens High Middle School girls team finished second overall to St. Joseph School on Nov. 8, at Rockwell Park under partly cloudy skies and 42-degree weather. Third place was Northeast School and fourth, West Bristol.

For the boys championship, St. Joseph School also took first place, followed by West Bristol, Chippens Hill and Greene-Hills.

Contributing to the second-place finish for the Chippens Hill girls, along with Loren (14:03.9), were Quinn Floyd (sixth place, 16:09.0), Maddy Russo (eighth, 16:35.6), Isabella Thomas (12th, 16:48.7) and Arianna Ulinski (18th, 20:32.6).

Loren Gonzalez took first place in the girls category for the Middle School Cross Country City Championship on Nov. 8 at Rockwell Park. | Jen Labbe

St. Joseph School was led by Alyssa Dufour (14:46.9) who finished second to Gonzalez, Marissa Moreau (third, 15:44.3), Lacey Connoy (fourth, 15:47.9), Sierra Baquil (14th, 19:35.1) and Alex Robinson (15th, 19:58.2).

Third place for the girls was West Bristol with Isla Thibodeau (fifth, 15:58.3), Gabriella Walsh (seventh, 16:15.4), Isabella DiMatteo (ninth, 16:48.7), Riya Lizotte (19th, 20:42.4) and Juliana Mixon (22nd, 22.36.1).

West Bristol’s Michael Bastiaanse (13:33.9) won the boys championship. The course record is held by Mark Petrosky, also of West Bristol, running in 2015 with a time of 12:16.0.

West Bristol boys finished second overall to St. Joseph School.

Joining Bastiaanse for West Bristol were Caleb Sokolowski (second, 13:36.1), Carson Carriere (eighth, 14:12.7), Isaiah Cordero (11th15:24.2) and Blake Ferrucci (21st, 17:53.5).

Leading St. Joseph School was Lukas Dahn (third, 13:40.4), Ethan Casinghino (fourth, 13:46.0), Hayden Reid (fifth, 13:51.0) Gavin Fisch (seventh, 14:01.2) and Hunter Dudzikowski (ninth, 14:47.2).

Third place winner overall Chippens Hills was led by Thomas Zabawa (14th, 16:22.6), Eric Dean (15th, 16:30.1), Ethan Dwyer (16th, 16:34.6), Finnegan Graham (19th, 17:32.0) and Brody Tedesco (24th, 18:15.9).

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