The Parkland cross country teams opened their season last Saturday at the 37th Annual DeSales University Centaur Invitational.

The boys varsity team has big goals for this season and the Trojans looked on schedule to achieve those goals.

Led by top-five finishes from Hailemichael Geiger and Dan Kyvelos, the Parkland boys won the varsity team title by seven points over second-place Owen J. Roberts.

“We have a very strong team this year and we’ve been working over the summer,” said Geiger, a junior who finished second at DeSales with a time of 16:35. “All that work pays off.”

Kyvelos took fourth place overall, followed by teammates Sam Morgan (14th), Matthew Bianco (18th), Nicholas Bower (30th), Steven Kaleycik (31st) and Jacob Ringer (34th).

The Trojans return all but one runner from a team that finished second in the district and 15th at states last season. With all the returning talent, they hope to get back to states and contend as a team this season.

“We were preseason ranked fourth in the state,” said Kyvelos, who is one of just two seniors that ran for Parkland in the DeSales’ varsity race. “We wanted to prove a point today that not only are we going to win, but we’re going to give it our all and show people we’re serious about cross country this year. We want to get top five at states. As long as we take it serious, we’re going to have a great season and prove a point to teams all over the state.”

Parkland’s girls team is in the midst of a rebuilding year. Just five runners competed in the DeSales varsity girls race for Parkland. The Trojans still earned a seventh-place finish out of 16 teams, led by junior Sydney DelVecchio’s seventh-place finish.

“I wanted to just go out and try my best,” said DelVecchio. “I really wanted to medal so I’m fairly happy with how I did today.”

Medals went to the top 25 finishers in the varsity race.

The rest of the Parkland varsity line up included Kiera Segan (35th), Erin Wood (37th), Haley Havighurst (57th) and Natalie Britton (74th).

Havighurst was the only senior in Parkland’s girls varsity line up at DeSales. The line up included three sophomores.

“We won last year but we lost a lot of our seniors,” said DelVecchio, a junior. “Our goal was to try and get top five. I feel like we did really well. We work really well as a team together.

“We have a little bit of work because there’s so many new girls but we’re working really hard this season and I hope we do pretty well.”

Parkland fared well in several of the subvarsity races held at DeSales.

The Trojans won the boys junior varsity race, led by seniors Devender Dayal’s (first place), Tyler Gaspar (second place) and Justin Bergen (fourth place).

Parkland girls took second place in the JV race as sophomore Kiley Krasley placed third and Abigail Sheridan was fourth.

Parkland boys won the freshmen team title behind a fifth-place finish from Benjamin Alden.

Parkland took third in the middle school boys race as Nathan Reimer placed fourth on the two-mile course. The Trojan middle school girls team finished in second place with Jill Bushinsky leading the way in tenth place.

DeSales Invitational Results

Varsity

Boys

Team

1. Parkland 67, 2. Owen J. Roberts 74, 3. Holy Ghost Pres 104, 4. William Tennent 114, 5. Twin Valley 159.

Individuals

1. Liam Conway (Owen J. Roberts) 16:24.14, 2. Hailemichael Geiger (Parkland) 16:35.18, 3. Sean Rahill (William Tennent), 4. Dan Kyvelos (Parkland) 16:40, 5. Callahan Lennon (Holy Ghost Prep), 6. Josh Faber (Twin Valley), 7. Patrick Donahue (Holy Ghost Pres), 8. Abe Van Helmond (Owen J. Roberts), 9. Hudson Delisle (Quakertown), 10. Noah Falasco (Upper Merion)

Parkland

14. Sam Morgan 17:15, 18. Matthew Bianco 17:17, 30. Nicholas Bower 17:35, 31.Steven Kaleycik 17:36, 34. Jacob Ringer 17:53.

Girls

Team

1. Downingtown East 61, 2. Owen J. Roberst 90, 3. Twin Valley 108, 4. Pennridge 135, 5. Northwestern Lehigh 157, 7. Parkland.

Individuals

1. Allana Powletter (Stroudsburg) 19:46.28, 2. Maddy VanBlunk (Downingtown East), 3. Sophie Doman (Palisades), 4. Lexi VanBlunk (Downingtown East), 5. Meghan Bernotas (Owen J. Roberts), 7. Sydney DelVecchio (Pakland), 8. Joyce Michelle (Stoudsburg), 9. Tierra Graham (Twin Valley), 10. Allison Brunton (Owen J. Roberts).

Parkland

35. Kiera Segan 21:41, 37. Erin Wood 21:48, 57. Haley Havighurst 22:29, 74. Natalie Britton 23:16.

JUNIOR VARSITY

Parkland Boys (1st)

1. Devender Dayal 17:59, 2. Tyler Gaspar 18:08, 4. Justin Bergen 18:13, 7. David Ordway 18:34, Jonathan Ceh 18:34, 11. Matt Clune 18:45, 11. Jonathan Snyder 18:48, 19. Zachary Lynch 18:57, 22. Spencer Schade 19:02, 23. Ben Russo 19:03, 27. Jesse Hance 19:22, 31. Chris Sperry 19:26, 33. Matthew Schoch 19:29, 34. Chris Maitski 19:31, 35. Jake Jarosik 19:31, 37. Stephen Galucy 19:34, 39. James Tarantino 19:38, 51. Jason Warren 20:14, 67. Tyler Prehl 20:48, 69. Thomas Monks 20:51, 72. Kevin Browning 21:03, 83. Daniel Pruzinsky 21:32, 85. Matthew Eible 21:35, 94. Robby Rosenfeld 21:50, 108. Connor Foley 22:09, 109. Jared Barna 22:10, 117. Stephen Lamm 22:28, 128. Paarth Desai 22:41, 136. Jacob Ross 22:57, 153. Andrew Fine 23:50, 155. Nicolai Mrochko 23:53, 158. Joshua Rust 24:01, 174. Joseph Jabbour 24:30, 179. David Jabbour 24:45, 206. Christopher Kerridge 31:57.

Parkland Girls (2nd)

2. Kiley Krasley 21:57, 3. Abigail Sheridan 22:19, 10. Caroline Davis 23:01, 12. Courtney Gelb 23:09, 22. Makenna Warminsky 23:27, 23. Zoe Sheridan 23:43, 37. Isabella Gnasso 24:32, 38. Ashley Steele 24:36, 80. Bridgit O’Brien 26:28, 83. Haley Crable 26:54, 85. Rileigh Schalter 27:00, 90. Natalie Unangst 27:14, 96. Emily Kowalski 27:37, 99. Sabine Malik 27:48, 103. Samantha Turner 28:10, 113. Leah Mirth 28:43, 120. Alana Dee 29:04, 126. Emma Hochstetler 29:35,

FRESHMEN

Parkland Boys (1st)

5. Benjamin Alden 18:59, 10. Matthew Zager 19:25, 18. Alexander Albertson 19:58, 19. Phillip Schoch 20:06, 23. Ryan Smith 20:14, 25. Andrew Maitski 20:18, 26. Matthew Santacoloma 20:19, 51. Nick Tomko 22:37, 55. John Patrick Villano 22:48, 59. Brayton Brandis 23:15, 62. Brian Ervin 23:22, 63. Brandon Heist 23:42, 64. Michael Salvino 24:15.

Parkland Girls

7. Sara Clapham 22:28, 18. Morgan Glenn 24:43.

MIDDLE SCHOOL (2 Miles)

Parkland Boys (3rd)

4. Nathan Reimer 12:12, 7. Veera Saha 12:23, 11. Logan Iacobelli 12:34, 16. Benjamin Esquieres 12:54, 21. Lucas Adam 13:05, 25. Ethan Warren 13:16, 35. Gavin Russell 13:33, 41. Nicholas Rode 13:49, 43. Jacob Melady 13:55, 46. Kyle Schantz 14:01, 54. Wyatt Ledeboer 14:21, 68. Bradley Drews 15:04, 74. Max Gruber 15:10, 75. Benjamin Iacobelli 15:12, 77. Ryan Wasielewski 15:13, 78. Blake Hilliker 15:18, 85. Hunter Brans 15:26, 90. Owen George 15:38, 91. Jassen Mantz 15:38, 100. Gabriel Wolfgang Dirnbeck 15:59, 108. Noah Moreef 16:13, 112. Thomas Colarusso 16:29, 116. Cole William Dirnbeck 16:38, 117. Peter Strong 16:38, 123. Ryan Hoelzel 16:46, 125. Alan Uthuppan 17:07, 129. Shawn Kushner 17:21, 139. Alex Bartman 18:48, 143. Logan Edelman 18:48.

Parkland Girls (2nd)

10. Jill Bushinsky 14:01, 15. Abigayle Lytle 14:27, 17. Lexi Lehman 14:34, 21. Alexis Marstellar 14:39, 25. Stephanie Snyder 14:58, 28. Kayla Kinney 15:03, 34. Punya Bhasin 15:25, 36. Lindsay Berger 15:31, 50. Claire Todaro 16:10, 72. Brooke Glenn 17:11, 75. Skylar Urland 17:15, 77. Paige Glenn 17:28, 82. Emmaline Newnham 17:53, 84. Lindsey Husja 18:04, 88. Anna Sweeney 18:26, 91. Cora Hochstetler 18:29, 97. Jeanique Campo-Virgil 18:48, 99. Morgan Stay 18:53, 103. Riley Mang 19:15, 105. Casey Tremblay 19:21, 124. Kyleigh O’Neill 20:54.