LEX GIRLS TAKE DOWN MEET RECORD AT CLIPPER RELAYS; BOYS FINISH 4th
Meet Information
26th Annual Clipper Relays
September 12, 2025
Maudslay State Park - Newburyport, MA
BOYS RESULTS (incomplete)
GIRLS RESULTS
NEWBURYPORT, MA - Expectations could not be any higher for the Lexington's girls as they enter the 2026 cross country season. The team returns their top five from the 2025 team, which steamrolled their way to a Division 1 state title. And, with the added firepower of track stars Amelia Whorton and Natalie Bielat, who came over from LHS's soccer program, it is clear that the Lex girls have all the pieces they need to make 2026 a historic season. On the boys' side, The Minutemen will once again be one of the teams vying for the top spot on the podium at the Division 1 Championship in November.
On Saturday, the LHS's season got underway, as is tradition, at the annual Clipper Relays in Newburyport. The only meet of its kind on The Minutemen's calendar, the race breaks teams up into 3-person relays, with each tackling the same nearly 2-mile loop of Maudslay State Park (the anchor leg's loop being ~80m longer than the first two). As expected, the Lex girls were dominant. Whorton led off for LHS's top girls' relay, and led the race from wire to wire. Her split of 11:00 gave the team a large gap over second place Billerica. From there, fellow junior Ella Tyson grew the lead even more. Tyson carried the baton around the 2-mile loop to the tune of an 11:34 split, before she handed off to Janie Conrad. With the race all but in hand from the moment she got the stick, Conrad locked in, and chased the clock all the way to the finish line. In the end, she crossed the line with a final time of 33:37. That performance shattered the previous meet record, set by the 2015 Beverly girls, by a whopping 58 seconds.
While the Lex girls' top team was sensational, the depth of the team was on full display on Saturday. Bielat anchored the B-team with a 12:16 split in her first cross country race since middle school. Sophomore Emma Kosnik got that same relay off to a stellar start with an opening split of 12:09. Freshman Ophelia Charest made quite a splash in her high school debut. The ninth grader ran a time of 12:14 on the second leg of the B-team. Fellow classmates Lucia Cassano (12:46 on the anchor) and Anjali Pandya (12:38) both delivered great races of their own. Sophomore Beatrix Koch-Cochrane (12:53 on the anchor) and senior Josie Bettencourt (12:39) rounded out the top-10 for the Lex girls on Saturday.
After the girls wrapped up, the boys toed the line. When the gun fired, senior Owen Ross took off for the final time at Maudslay State Park. The opening leg was blistering fast, and after Ross's 10:21 split, The Minutemen were sitting around 10th place overall. The boys chose to put their star, senior captain Trevor Stevens, on the second leg, which helped bring them back into contention. And bring them back into contention he did. Stevens (9:25) delivered the fastest split ever run by an LHS athlete at Clipper Relays, and carried his relay up to a position where fellow classmate Alden Hall could fight for a spot on the podium. Hall, who, like Ross, was competing in his fourth and final Clipper Relays, delivered a great carry of the baton. However, his anchor split of 9:56 fell just shy of third place, as the anchor for B.C. High was able to outlast him down the final stretch. Despite finishing nearly 30 seconds better than the time that earned LHS the victory at last year's meet, Lexington settled for fourth, while Billerica's top boys took home the overall title.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the day for Lexington came from Ben Sbihli. The senior has been one of the more talented athletes on the squad for over a year now, but never seemed to be able to pull it together on race day. That was not the case on Saturday, however, as he anchored the B-team with a 10:15 split. Another breakout performance came from his training partner, junior Jay Krishnan, who delivered a time of 10:19 on the second leg of that same relay. Junior Ethan Wang (10:26) and sophomore Andrew Dulgarian (10:28) were nearly neck-and-neck before the upper classmen passed the baton just ahead of his teammate. Sophomore Kiran Green (10:50) got called up last minute to anchor the C-team relay, and did so in fine fashion. Junior Rohan Banerji delivered a strong carry of his own with a second leg split of 10:37. Sophomore Kian Khani rounded out The Minutemen's top-10 with a split of 10:50.
Up Next
The Minutemen are right back to work next Saturday, September 19th, as they will travel to the Granite State for the first time to compete at the 51st Annual Manchester Invitational. Lexington's top-seven boys and girls will face a tough test against some of the region's best talent, and one of the more challenging courses in New England. Action begins at 1:20pm.
26th Annual Clipper Relays
September 12, 2025
Maudslay State Park - Newburyport, MA
BOYS RESULTS (incomplete)
GIRLS RESULTS
NEWBURYPORT, MA - Expectations could not be any higher for the Lexington's girls as they enter the 2026 cross country season. The team returns their top five from the 2025 team, which steamrolled their way to a Division 1 state title. And, with the added firepower of track stars Amelia Whorton and Natalie Bielat, who came over from LHS's soccer program, it is clear that the Lex girls have all the pieces they need to make 2026 a historic season. On the boys' side, The Minutemen will once again be one of the teams vying for the top spot on the podium at the Division 1 Championship in November.
On Saturday, the LHS's season got underway, as is tradition, at the annual Clipper Relays in Newburyport. The only meet of its kind on The Minutemen's calendar, the race breaks teams up into 3-person relays, with each tackling the same nearly 2-mile loop of Maudslay State Park (the anchor leg's loop being ~80m longer than the first two). As expected, the Lex girls were dominant. Whorton led off for LHS's top girls' relay, and led the race from wire to wire. Her split of 11:00 gave the team a large gap over second place Billerica. From there, fellow junior Ella Tyson grew the lead even more. Tyson carried the baton around the 2-mile loop to the tune of an 11:34 split, before she handed off to Janie Conrad. With the race all but in hand from the moment she got the stick, Conrad locked in, and chased the clock all the way to the finish line. In the end, she crossed the line with a final time of 33:37. That performance shattered the previous meet record, set by the 2015 Beverly girls, by a whopping 58 seconds.
While the Lex girls' top team was sensational, the depth of the team was on full display on Saturday. Bielat anchored the B-team with a 12:16 split in her first cross country race since middle school. Sophomore Emma Kosnik got that same relay off to a stellar start with an opening split of 12:09. Freshman Ophelia Charest made quite a splash in her high school debut. The ninth grader ran a time of 12:14 on the second leg of the B-team. Fellow classmates Lucia Cassano (12:46 on the anchor) and Anjali Pandya (12:38) both delivered great races of their own. Sophomore Beatrix Koch-Cochrane (12:53 on the anchor) and senior Josie Bettencourt (12:39) rounded out the top-10 for the Lex girls on Saturday.
After the girls wrapped up, the boys toed the line. When the gun fired, senior Owen Ross took off for the final time at Maudslay State Park. The opening leg was blistering fast, and after Ross's 10:21 split, The Minutemen were sitting around 10th place overall. The boys chose to put their star, senior captain Trevor Stevens, on the second leg, which helped bring them back into contention. And bring them back into contention he did. Stevens (9:25) delivered the fastest split ever run by an LHS athlete at Clipper Relays, and carried his relay up to a position where fellow classmate Alden Hall could fight for a spot on the podium. Hall, who, like Ross, was competing in his fourth and final Clipper Relays, delivered a great carry of the baton. However, his anchor split of 9:56 fell just shy of third place, as the anchor for B.C. High was able to outlast him down the final stretch. Despite finishing nearly 30 seconds better than the time that earned LHS the victory at last year's meet, Lexington settled for fourth, while Billerica's top boys took home the overall title.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the day for Lexington came from Ben Sbihli. The senior has been one of the more talented athletes on the squad for over a year now, but never seemed to be able to pull it together on race day. That was not the case on Saturday, however, as he anchored the B-team with a 10:15 split. Another breakout performance came from his training partner, junior Jay Krishnan, who delivered a time of 10:19 on the second leg of that same relay. Junior Ethan Wang (10:26) and sophomore Andrew Dulgarian (10:28) were nearly neck-and-neck before the upper classmen passed the baton just ahead of his teammate. Sophomore Kiran Green (10:50) got called up last minute to anchor the C-team relay, and did so in fine fashion. Junior Rohan Banerji delivered a strong carry of his own with a second leg split of 10:37. Sophomore Kian Khani rounded out The Minutemen's top-10 with a split of 10:50.
Up Next
The Minutemen are right back to work next Saturday, September 19th, as they will travel to the Granite State for the first time to compete at the 51st Annual Manchester Invitational. Lexington's top-seven boys and girls will face a tough test against some of the region's best talent, and one of the more challenging courses in New England. Action begins at 1:20pm.