Owen Powell, Josiah Tostenson Epic Finish at Woodbridge [Full Replay]

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The race for the tape between Mercer Island WA's Owen Powell and Crater OR's Josiah Tostenson was one of the most exciting in the history of the storied Woodbridge Cross Country Classic.
Powell and Tostenson, both potential sub-four milers in their senior years of high school, pushed each other under Leo Young's meet record time on Saturday night.
Powell pulled it out, 13:30.3 to 13:30.5.
They are the fastest two times ever recorded on a 3-mile high school cross country course.
"I love Josiah. He's an awesome kid and he's so tough," Powell said. "He really made me work hard for this one today. I just knew going through this race if I could hold on for two miles and then compete after that would be my best chance to run as well as I wanted to."
No. 1 Herriman of Utah, the defending national team champions, won an unprecedented third straight team title with 58 points.
Herriman put all five of its scorers in the top 25, led by Jackson Spencer, who was sixth overall in 13:49.2. The Mustangs' five all arrived with a span of 23 seconds. Tayshaun Ogomo was eighth, Jonah Tang was 16th, Micah Tang was 24th and Noah Manwaring was 25th.
Southlake Carroll, No. 6, was second with 173 points. Junior standout Caden Leonard led the team with a fourth-place finish (13:41.8).
No. 11 Crater of Oregon was third with 187 points, with Tostenson and Tayvon Kitchen finishing in second and fifth place overall.
No. 22 Hamilton of Arizona was fourth with 226 points.
No. 8 Coeur d'Alene of Idaho was fifth, led by third-place finisher Maximus Cervi-Skinner (13:37.0), with 258 points.
The top finishing California team was Mira Costa, at eighth.
Dana Hills senior Evan Noonan, the 2023 champion, finished 18th.
Christian Yoder and Cooper McNee, teammates at Oak Christian CA, went 1-2 in the rated boys race in 14:15.7 and 14:16.5.
Mountain View CA won the team competition with 138 points.
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[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Commentator said that Josiah and Owen have competed the last four years, but Owen has only competed for three. Fantastic race by all. Herriman is off the chain!

[@TrafficGD]

A band playing at the line is pretty sick I can't lie

[@thearrowverseclips4194]

Did a guy fall??

[@shrimp3480]

what happened to my baddie noonan💔

[@nro337]

Need to see if this new course will be ratified as proper length before I think it should be considered "course record". Amazing performances regardless, this sport is getting crazy!

[@calvinonmc]

The course was over 100m short of 3 miles. Still impressive times and these boys would have been under 13:50 for sure.

[@user-sx3zz2ef2g]

@@calvinonmc I heard a lot of people were there wheeling the course and most were actually getting 3 miles or very close to it. I don't know where you got this from

[@adamfromthepopularfilmtheb8770]

@@calvinonmc People say that the course is short every year but it last year it was long. It's been wheeled tons of times and it is a true 3 mile course.

[@calvinonmc]

@@adamfromthepopularfilmtheb8770they changed it for 2023 because it was 50m short, but it ended up 60m long. Then they changed it again this year and it ended up as its shortest ever.