Quirindi High School golden girl Lacie Quigley produced another golden run at Eastern Creek Raceway on Friday.
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Quigley won the secondary 13yrs girls event at the NSW All Schools Cross-Country Championships.
It made it back to back state titles for Quigley after winning the 12yrs last year.
She led virtually the whole way and held off long-time rival Montana Monk in a tight finish.
There was only a second in it, with Quigley clocking 11mins 47secs for the 3km and Monk 11mins 48secs.
As the fastest across the two age groups, Quigley also earned a place on the NSW U14’s team to race at the National All Schools in Hobart next month.
She’ll be joined in state colours by North West team-mates Marcus Nolan (Binnaway Central), Matthew Campion (Glen Innes High) and Adam Williams (Tamworth Public).
Nolan won silver in his 12/13yrs multi-class event after being first across the line. Multi-class events use a point score system whereas an athletes time is judged against the world’s best time for their respective classification.
Campion finished fourth overall in the 18yrs boys but picked up silver as the second Combined High Schools (CHS) runner home, while Williams was fourth in the primary boys 12yrs race.
Representing Combined Catholic Colleges (CCC) system, St Mary’s Gunnedah’s Sarah Schiffman was meanwhile third in the 14/15yrs girls and the first catholic competitor to finish.
Former McCarthy student Ella Heeney was also third, in the 16/17yrs girls.
