Signal Mountain runner Mallory Young leads the girls varsity cross country race at the Front Runner City Championships Thursday at Baylor School.Dylan Carmack ran the fastest race ever for a McCallie cross country runner Thursday at the Front Runner City Championships at Baylor.
The host Red Raiders, as a team, ran just a little bit faster.
Carmack set a school record in the five-kilometer event, and Baylor edged McCallie by a point for the team victory.
Signal Mountain claimed a sweep in the girls' race, and in far less dramatic fashion. Mallory Young had the fastest race of her career, running in a time of 17 minutes, 59.14 seconds, and the Lady Eagles performed well in their final preparation for next week's region meet by defeating second-place Baylor by 22 points.
Young summarized her best-ever race in one word: "Yea!"
"It was my goal to PR here today," she said. "I wanted to go out and get a lead, and then keep the pace. I'm not sure if I could have done anything different; I didn't pick up my speed until toward the end of the race, but I would have gone harder had there been people in front of me."
Carmack, who recently scored a 34 on the ACT and is looking to get accepted into Davidson College, broke current Ole Miss freshman Derek Barnes' school record of 15:28.10 by almost eight seconds.
"I knew it was going to be my last race in Chattanooga, so I had to lay it all out there," Carmack said. "I felt good in the first mile, then took the lead in the woods around the two-mile mark. I couldn't hear anybody behind me, and one of my coaches told me I was on my way to a big personal record, so those last two or three minutes I left it all out on the course."
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