CROSS COUNTRY Area schools ready to run in various meets Saturday

Colin Durina of Cardinal Mooney seeks his third straight title at Niles.
Malone College and Niles and Lordstown high schools will hold cross country meets Saturday, while Salem will be competing in the Great American Cross Country Run in Raleigh, N.C.
Niles and Lordstown will get runs underway at 10 a.m.
Mooney defends its team title at Niles and the Cardinals' Colin Durina will be go after his third consecutive individual title in this meet.
Durina's top time this season is 16 minutes, 43 seconds.
Mooney's girls placed second last year behind Ashtabula Lakeside, which also returns.
Lauren Finnerty and Christina Oles of Mooney should contend for individual honors. Maura Bulgrin of Akron Hoban is the defending champion.
Other schools entered are Conneaut, East Palestine, Girard, Howland and Niles.
Lordstown
Brookfield, Jackson-Milton, LaBrae, Lowellville, Mineral Ridge, South Range (girls only), Warren JFK and Western Reserve will participate with the varsity girls run at 10 a.m. and boys at 10:40, with junior high races to follow.
Lordstown is the defending boys champ and the Red Devils' Jake DiEugenio is the favorite.
South Range and LaBrae are expected to challenge for the girls title. Samantha Hamilton of Jackson-Milton has one of the top times entering the meet.
Malone
Boardman will be in a field of 39 schools for the boys Division I run. Cleveland St. Ignatius is defending champion.
Jake Lape of the Spartans will be among the top contenders.
There are 27 schools entered in the girls Div. I run, including defending champion Massillon Jackson. Lauren Agnew of Boardman will contend for individual honors.
Some other area teams entered in the meet are Struthers, Southern, Leetonia, East Palestine and United.
LaSalle ranked eighth
Salem and Cincinnati LaSalle, ranked eighth in the nation, are the two Ohio schools entered in the Great American Cross Country run, with the boys race at 9:30 a.m. and the girls at 11:45.
Some of the nation's top runners from Delaware, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming are entered.
Last year's winning time in the boys run was 15:14. Salem's Aiman Scullion (15:39) has the area's top marks this season.
The top girls effort at the Raleigh meet in 2004 was 16:57. The Quakers' Alexis Thorne (19:23) has the area's top mark this season.