BRISTOL — Middlebury girls and boys runners cruised to wins in a three-team cross-country meet hosted in pleasant fall weather by the Mount Abraham Union High School team on Tuesday.
Tiger senior Mary Ann Eastman won the girls’ race and she and her teammates took five of the six top places to score 18 points to cruise to the win.
The host Eagles, led by Ruby Jean Hall and Ruby Markowski in seventh and eight places, respectively, edged Missisquoi for second place, 57-58.
Sophomore Nat McVeigh paced the Tiger boys, who finished 1-2-3 and scored 27 points to hold off the second-place Eagles (41), with Missisquoi (53) trailing. Noah Engvall finished fourth to lead the Eagles.
Scoring for the Tiger girls were: 1. Eastman, 22:25; 2. Isabel Olson, 23:02; 4. Malia Hodges, 24:59; 5. Maddy Stowe, 25:01; and 6. Ari Graham-Gurland, 25:41.
Scoring for the Eagle girls were: 7. Ruby Jean Hall, 25:50; 8. Ruby Markowski, 25:54; 9. Abigail Johnson, 26:50; 24. Maisy Hill, 32.18; and 27. Emmaline Heilman, 38:46.
Scoring for the Tiger boys were: 1. McVeigh, 19:08; 2. Tom Nevins, 19:09; 3. William Carpenter; 8. Samuel Klingensmith, 21:43; and 13. Gabriel Cason. 
Scoring for the Eagle boys were: 4. Engvall, 19:43; 7. Liam Davison, 21:21; 9. George Collete, 22:10; 10. Hugh Ball, 22:10; and 11. Sean Davison, 22:10.
The Eagle, Tiger, Vergennes and Otter Valley teams are all scheduled to compete in this Saturday’s Randolph Invitational.

OTTERS HOST
Also on Tuesday, the OV cross country team hosted a three-team meet. OV’s highlight was sophomore Parker Todd’s first-place finish while setting a course record of 19:45. Mill River’s Brogan Giffin’s previous record stood at 20:25.
Rutland swept the boys’ and girls’ team races. On the boys’ side Rutland won with 16 points, followed by OV (41) and Mount St. Joseph (47). On the girls’ side Rutland defeated OV, 13-27, with MSJ not fielding a full team.
Joseph Cijka joined Todd in the top 10 in the boys’ race by taking fourth in 22:00.
Rutland’s Rosanna Hyde won the girls’ race in 24:11. For OV, Kelsey Adams was third in 29:20, Kendra Mallette was fifth in 31:33, and Brittany Corey finished 10th in 43:30.

BURLINGTON INVITE
The VUHS boys also joined the Tiger and Eagle boys and the Tiger girls at this past Saturday’s Burlington Invitational.
The MUHS boys finished third in a 10-team field with 109 points, trailing North Kingstown, R.I., (33) and host BHS (50). The Commodores were sixth (151) and the Eagles were ninth (254).
The MUHS girls were fourth (96) trailing BHS (51), Essex (59) and Harwood (66).
The winner and local finishers in the boys’ race were:
1. Wondu Summa, BHS, 16:58.8; 5. Ben Huston, VUHS, 18:15.4; 15. Nevins, MUHS, 18:43.9; 16. Jack Christner, MUHS, 18:50.1; 22. McVeigh, MUHS, 19:13.8; 24. Erich Reitz, VUHS, 19:16; 28. Carpenter, MUHS, 19:31.4; 29. Gabe Praamsma, VUHS, 19:33.3; 31. Lucas Palcsik, MUHS, 19:38.7; and 34. Engvall, Mt. Abe, 19:48.5.
Also, 37. Elvis McIntosh, MUHS, 19:52.1; 46. Davison, Mt. Abe, 20:26.7; 48. Julio Quiles, VUHS, 20:47.4; 51. Luke Bergmans, VUHS, 21:08.3; 52. Chris Therrien, VUHS, 21:17.4; 58. Hugh Ball, Mt. Abe, 22:20.1; 61. Klingensmith, MUHS, 22:35.5; 63. Liam Beatty, Mt. Abe, 23:12; 66. Brewer Atocha, Mt. Abe, 23:21.9; 69. Sean Davison, Mt. Abe, 23:47.4; and 71. Charles Stewart, VUHS, 25:47.4.
The winner and Tiger finishers in the girls’ race were:
1. Ava Thurston, Harwood, 19:50.3; 10. Olson, MUHS, 21:30.2; 16. Eastman, MUHS, 22:00.5; 20. Stowe, MUHS, 22:22.3; 24. Ella Landis, MUHS, 22:34.6; 26. Fairley Olson, MUHS, 22:43.0; 31. Sofia Stefani, MUHS, 23:16.1; 45. Hodges, MUHS, 25:49.4.