The Parkland cross country teams are both 9-0 through the first three weeks of the East Penn Conference season.

The Trojans went 3-0 in both boys and girls races at an EPC multi-team meet last Tuesday at the Lehigh Parkway.

The Trojans had 10 of the top 11 finishers in the boys race at the meet. Freedom’s Brayden Boyle took first place overall, followed by 10 Trojans runners.

Making up Parkland’s team score were Ezra Wilson (second overall), Cole Orloski (third), Alexander Abosamra (fourth), Jameson O’Neill (fifth) and Derek Taveras (sixth).

The girls race saw Parkland’s depth win out as Freedom’s Hannah Broadhead took first place with Liberty’s Elizabeth McClarin second. Parkland’s Harshita Keerthi finished third overall followed by Freedom’s Taylor Vidumsky fourth.

Nine of the next 10 runners to cross the finish line were Trojans with Lilah Ellis (fifth overall), Rebecca Vazquies (sixth), Anastasia Pino (seventh) and Hannah Roy (ninth) making up Parkland’s girls team score.

The Trojans also competed at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University last weekend. The PHS boys team finished sixth in the Gold Division at the meet, while Parkland’s girls team was 19th.

Colin McGuigan led the Trojans in the boys race with a 10th-place finish, followed by teammates Orloski (20th), Keshav Patel (64th), Isaiah Wilson (92nd) and Chamorro-Melendez (100th) rounding out the team score.

Also running for Parkland at the meet were Taveras (110th), Jaiden Zabler (120th), Abosamra (130th), Wilson (184th), Nathan Maxwell (203rd) and Brycen Smith (316th).

Keerthi led the PHS girls team at the Paul Short Invitational, finishing 20th overall.

The rest of Parkland’s top five included Adelaide Roy (111th), Vazquies (135th), Pino (152nd) and Dani Schultz (156th).

Also running for the Trojan girls team at Lehigh were Amara Saadeh (171st), Kenzi Schultz (179th), Ellis (185th), Parker Tatum (218th), Jesslyn Taveras Pizzaro (222nd), Hannah Roy (227th) and Molly Church (271st).