ECC Medium Division includes Montville, Plainfield, Stonington, Killingly, Windham, Bacon Academy

GIRLS:

With Griswold dropping down to the Small Division of the ECC, the medium division should be a shootout between Bacon Academy and Windham. Both these schools return a core of runners and Windham will try to keep everyone healthy in its effort to win the division. Leading Bacon’s young squad is sophomore Courtney Benoit and Chelsea Ahmed. Windham will counter with Leslie Garabedian and Katelynn Person. Montville returns Cheyenne Baker, but graduated the bulk of its strength, while Plainfield will be led by Caitlyn Walker. Molly Rathbun will lead the Bears of Stonington, but if help doesn’t arrive via the freshmen class the Indians, Panthers and Bears will be out of the running. Killingly will compete albeit short-handed as they only have one runner out for the girls in Kies Orr. None of the medium teams has the firepower to win the ECC outright with NFA being the prohibitive favorite for October’s championships at Norwich Country Club.

BOYS: 

Bacon Academy appears to have the inside track in the medium division with a strong core of three young harriers. Peter Malicki, James Wall and Andrew Hill will lead the Bobcat contingent this fall. Stonington and Plainfield were decimated by graduation and return Ryan Lee and Kyle Landry respectively. Mike Preble will lead Montville and Dave Cobb is the lead runner for Windham. As is true on the girls side, Killingly will run short of a team with only two boys participating this fall. The large division teams have too much firepower and Bacon, while probably taking the division, will not fare as well at ECCs.