Mercersburg hosted the Mid-Atlantic Prep League Cross Country Championships October 31 on campus. Peddie won the boys’ team title while Lawrenceville took the girls’ crown. Individual champions included Robert Enck of Lawrenceville (boys, 16:37) and Charlotte Bednar of Hun (girls, 18:10).

Boys’ team standings:
1. Peddie, 42
2. Lawrenceville, 45
3. Hill, 78
4. Mercersburg, 89
5. Hun, 118
6. Blair, 136

Girls’ team standings:
1. Lawrenceville, 26
2. Hill, 60
3. Blair, 71
4. Mercersburg, 98
5. Peddie, 111
(note: Hun did not enter the minimum number of runners in the team competition)

Full results:
Boys’ team results
Boys’ individual results
Girls’ team results
Girls’ individual results
Futures Race results

The 5,000-meter course (approximately 3.1 miles) begins and ends on the practice field across Sycamore Lane from Tippetts and Fowle Halls and winds across and around campus past the Irvine Memorial Chapel, the Smoyer Tennis Center, and Regents’ Field before the finish.

Read more information about the course and race day.

Six schools (Blair Academy, The Hill School, The Hun School of Princeton, Lawrenceville School, Peddie School, and Mercersburg) comprise the MAPL membership. Mercersburg’s girls’ team and Hill’s boys’ team were the 2017 team champions; Peddie hosted the 2017 event in Hightstown, N.J.

Mercersburg has previously hosted MAPL championship events in basketball, squash, tennis, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field.