MARATHON – The Norwich varsity cross country team finished out their regular season with a trip to the Marathon Cross Country Invitational, where the Tornado runners on the boys side finished fifth out of small schools with 133 points and 12th overall with 322 points; Norwich would only have one girl runner in the invitational.

Winning the guys side on Oct. 22, was West Genesee's David Leff who ran a 16:40.9 for the best time on the day, however, Norwich's Ben Ericksen would sneak into the top 20 with 19th place finish with his time of 17:46.0.

Following Ericksen on the day for the Tornado was Marcus Cashman who managed a 64th place finish with his time of 18:56.4; followed by Noah Bufalini in 82nd place with a 19:31.0; Nick Loscavio at 89th with his time of 19:51.2; O'Rion Slater in 91st with a 19:55.2; Michael Cardoza in 111th with a 20:49.5; and Stanton Baker in 121st place with a time of 23:09.3 to round out the Norwich boy runners.