Goddard Memorial Park is the place to be on Friday and Saturday for middle and high school cross country. More than 4,500 runners will congregate at the Warwick park for the sixth annual Ocean State X-C Invitational. The two-day meet is one of the top regional competitions on the east coast, attracting schools from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennslyvania and Vermont. MileSplit RI will be on site both days and provide complete coverage of this great event, which begins with six middle-school races on Friday and 14 high school races on Saturday.
MileSplit RI will have LIVE results of all the races!!!
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Here's a list of the schools in the featured boys' and girls' championships races,
scheduled for 12 p.m. and 12:30 p.m., respectively:
Girls - Archbishop Wood (PA), Barrington (RI), Bishop Feehan (MA), Bishop Guertin (NH), Branford (CT), Colonie Central (NY), Darien (CT), Douglas (MA), Glastonbury (CT), Hamilton Wenham Regional (MA), Kellenberg Memorial (NY), Millbury (MA) Nashoba Regional (MA), New Fairfield (CT), North Kingstown (RI), Red Bank Catholic (NJ), Suffern (NY), Tolland (CT), Wheeler School (RI)
Boys - Archbishop Wood (PA), Barrington (RI), Chelmsford (MA), Cumberland (RI), Delbarton School (NJ), Hamilton Wenham Regional (MA), Mansfield (MA), Monsignor Farrell (NY), Naugatuck (CT), North Providence (RI), Oliver Ames (MA), Parker Charter (MA), Robbinesville (NJ), St. John's (MA), Wheeler School (RI), Whitinsville Christian (MA)
(Ocean State X-C Invitational race directors Bob and Anne Rothenberg and Charlie Breagy)
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
Middle School
3:45 p.m. – Race 1: Seventh-grade girls
4:10 p.m. – Race 2: Seventh-grade boys
4:35 p.m. – Race 3: Sixth-grade girls
5 p.m. – Race 4: Sixth-grade boys
5:25 p.m. – Race 5: Eighth-grade girls
5:50 p.m. – Race 6: Eighth-grade boys
6:10 p.m. – Awards Ceremony
SATURDAY
High School
9 a.m. – Race 1: Freshman boys
9:25 a.m. – Race 2: Freshmen girls
9:50 a.m. – Race 3: Junior Varsity boys
10:20 p.m. – Race 4: Junior Varsity girls
10:55 a.m. – Race 5: Varsity I boys
11:20 a.m. – Race 6: Varsity I girls
11:50 a.m. – Opening Ceremony
12 p.m. – Race 7: Championship boys
12:30 a.m. – Race 8 – Championship girls
12:50 a.m. – Awards Ceremony (races 1-8)
1:10 a.m. – Race 9: Varsity 2 boys
1:35 p.m. – Race 10: Varsity 2 girls
2:05 p.m. – Race 11: Junior Varsity 2 boys
2:35 p.m. – Race 12: Junior Varsity 2 girls
3:10 p.m. – Race 13: Freshmen 2 boys
3:35 p.m. – Race 14: Freshmen 2 girls
3:45 p.m. – Awards Ceremony (races, 9-14)
Last year's race recap boys girls
Last year's results