State cross-country results
It was a good day for local runners at the New York State Championship Meet on Saturday at Queensbury.
Section II, which hosted the tournament had some of the best teams and runners.
Saturdays first race proved to be the best.
Guilderland junior Brian Rhodes-Devey won the Class AA state title; edging out rival Steve Murdock of Saratoga by three-tenths of a seconds.
Rhodes-Devey ran 15:25.7.
"I couldn’t be happier," Rhodes-Devey said. "I never felt so good. I felt I made my coach proud and my family and teammates proud."
Rhodes-Deveys teammate, Seth Dubois, a senior, finished ninth with a time of 15:39.7.
"It was a great day for Brian and Seth," Guilderland Coach Bob Oates said. "Seth was only 12 seconds behind. It’s great to have two in the top 10. Brian was unbelievable. It was a real gutsy effort.
"After Seth crossed the line in ninth," Oates said. "I went to the area where the runners were; about three minutes later and Seth said, ‘I’m not even tired, Coach.’ He’s not untapped and he was as good as anybody else that day."
Travis DeRusso of Berne-Knox-Westerlo finished 10th in the Class C race on Saturday. He ran a time of 16:35.6 to be the third finisher from Section II, behind Jeremy McAllister and John Moore of Fonda-Fultonville.
Dan Prahl of Potsdam won the race in 15:42.4, but Fonda, which beat BKW in the Class C Section II race, was the top team at the state meet.
Jared Finke of BKW finished 52nd with a time of 17:45.4.
Macky Lloyd of Voorheesville finished 93rd with a time of 18:57.9.
The Section II champion Voorheesville girls team finished sixth overall at the state meet on Saturday. The Lady Blackbirds had a score of 167. Bronxville of Section I won the team title with 29 points.
Hilary Edmunds paced the Voorheesville finishers with a 34th-place finish at 20:29.2.
Ellen Muster of Marion won the Class C race with a time of 18:49.5.
Edmundss teammates Chantel Little and Alison Vogelien finished 59th and 60th respectively.
Kali Votraw finished 89th; Zoe Edmunds finished 90th; Jessica Brown finished 92nd; and Elizabeth Dawson finished 110th.
BKWs Ada Lauterbach, the Section II champion, finished 53rd overall at the state race.