The Xavier High School Cross Country team captured the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) Clas MM State Championship on Saturday, October 31 at Wickham Park. The state title was Xavier’s eighth in a row!
The Falcons had 31 total points thanks to three runners finishing in the top five. Xavier topped second-place Guilford by an impressive 83 points. The Falcons total team time of 1:21:26.3 was the fastest team time in state history.
Junior Quentin Koch was the first Falcon to cross the finish line in second place with a time of 15:50.9 and he was followed by classmates Holden Hines (16:09.4) in fourth and Nolan O’Connor (16:14.6) in fifth.
Junior James Perrault came in seventh place with a time of 16:28.3 and junior Alex Brown rounded out the scorers for the Falcons, finishing 13th with thanks to crossing the finish line at 16:43.2.
Juniors Jackson Gould (16:49.5) and Nathan Hendrickson (17:01.3) were the other two Falcons that competed, finishing in 14th and 16th, respectively.
The state title is the 25th in program history for the Falcons.