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Chattanooga, TN – Nearly one thousand athletes and fifty teams will assemble Saturday morning to compete in the 3rd Annual Chattanooga Cross Country Festival held at the Chickamauga Dam. Rainy conditions this week could bog down an already hilly layout. Among the teams battling for the title this weekend include ten Georgia high schools and six Alabama teams crossing the border.
The race of the day will probably belong to the girls. Two of the top three teams from last year’s Festival will clash again after being separated by six points in 2008. Georgia power St. Pius X was runner-up at last year’s showdown followed closely by Alabama’s Briarwood Christian School. However, absent from the 2008 race was Georgia’s Heritage High that finished 6th at the 3A State Championship in Carrolton ahead of 9th place St. Pius X. All of the above programs return their top athletes as St. Pius X senior Kathleen Leporte and Briarwood’s freshmen Mallory Mathias finished 3rd and 5th a year ...
