State cross country: Mitchell senior bolts to 8th in Class 3A meet

By Joey Knight, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Sunday, November 18, 2012

Steinbrenner’s Matt Magee (532) chases and eventually passes Land O’Lakes’ Travis Nichols (728) at the finish of the Class 3A boys race. Magee beat Nichols by 0.29 seconds for 11th place.
	[MARK WALLHEISER | Special to the Times]

TALLAHASSEE — On the most sublime racing morning of her high school life, 5-foot Mitchell senior Claudia Cancello consumed half a banana, a little water and essentially none of Nikita Shah's dust.

Shattering both her personal record and Shah's two-year reign of dominance over her, Cancello overtook seven runners in the last 400 meters to finish eighth (18:39.40) in the Class 3A girls cross country race Saturday on a rolling course at Apalachee Regional Park.

Shah, a Harvard-bound Wiregrass Ranch senior who beat Cancello by 40 seconds at last week's Region 2 meet, placed 15th (18:58.92).