Saranac Lake hosted Lake Placid, the Plattsburgh Hornets and the Beekmantown Eagles for the opening meet of the season.

After coming away with an invitational win on Saturday, the Red Storm girls looked solid once again as they had nine runners place inside the top-15 to sweep the meet. Saranac Lake’s girls earned a 17-46 victory over Plattsburgh, a 20-40 win over Beekmantown and a 15-50 win over the Blue Bombers.

However, for the Lake Placid girls, who finished last season as the Class D state runner-ups, they only had four of the needed five runners to score team points. Despite this, the girls turned in some solid individual results from Leila Fey and Norah Francis.

On the boys side, Saranac Lake picked up wins over Plattsburgh and Lake Placid, by scores of 25-32 and 22-33, respectively, but lost to Beekmantown 21-39. The Blue Bomber boys also fell to the Eagles, by a score of 16-47. They didn’t race against the Hornets on Tuesday, but will later in the season.

Lake Placid’s Leila Fey races in Tuesday’s cross country race at the Dewey Mountain Recreation Center in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Fey, an eighth-grader and the reigning Section VII, Class D individual champion, won the girls race in 19 minutes, 15 seconds. Shortly behind was her fellow eighth-grade teammate, Francis, who crossed the finish line in 20:48. Saranac Lake’s Meadow Nashett, also an eighth-grader, placed third in 20:50 and freshman Nora Daley (20:50) was fourth. The top five was closed out by Beekmantown’s Olivia Drowne (20:53), who placed fifth overall.

The Eagles’ Nolan Laidman (16:48) and Chris Lincourt (17:43) were the first two boys to cross the finish line in their race, placing first and second, respectively. Saranac Lake’s Emmett VanBuskirk took third place in 17:52, and teammate Keaton Daley was fourth in 17:58.

Beekmantown’s Loghan Strickland (18:32) rounded out the top five. Meanwhile, Connor Mannion led the Blue Bomber boys with an eighth-place finish in 18:42.

Up next, the Lake Placid and Saranac Lake cross country teams will compete at Fort Ticonderoga at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Following that, they will once again meet, this time at Mount Van Hoevenberg at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

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Saranac Lake’s Keaton Daley, left, and Emmett VanBuskirk compete in Tuesday’s cross country race at the Dewey Mountain Recreation Center in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Top-15 results:

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Boys

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1. Laidman (BCS), 16:48; 2. Lincourt (BCS), 17:43; 3. Emmett VanBuskirk (SL), 17:52; 4. Keaton Daley (SL), 17:58; 5. Strickland (BCS), 18:32; 6. Trombley (BCS), 18:35; 7. Burke (PHS), 18:37; 8. Connor Mannion (LP), 18:42; 9. Carter (BCS), 19:02; 10. Carter-Kelley (PHS), 19:03; 11. Miller-Whippin (BCS), 19:16; 12. Cipriano (PHS), 19:19; 13. Rowan Popp (SL), 19:25; 14. Hoffman (BCS), 19:25; 15. Colin Glascock (SL), 19:26.

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Girls

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1. Leila Fey (LP), 19:15; 2. Norah Francis (LP), 20:48; 3. Meadow Nashett (SL), 20:50; 4. Nora Daley (SL), 20:50; 5. Drowne (BCS), 20:53; 6. Clementine Guenette (SL), 21:04; 7. McLean (PHS), 21:06; 8. Marro (BCS), 21:22; 9. Pepper Laxson (SL), 21:28; 10. Cadence Kennedy (SL), 21:37; 11. Asa Bruno (SL), 21:49; 12. Provost (BCS), 22:14; 13. FinnLee Orapallo (SL), 22:19; 14. Lila Zobel (SL), 22:46; 15. Gwen Haney (SL), 22:59.