Chamberlain’s del Monte, Gulf’s Grippo lead locals at Foot Locker

Posted Nov 26, 2011 by Bill Ward

Updated Nov 27, 2011 at 05:24 PM

Paced by Chamberlain senior Max del Monte’s 19th-place finish, area cross country runners represented Florida well in Saturday’s Foot Locker South Regional Championships at McAlpine Greenway Park in Charlotte, N.C.

Competing in the top boys division of the meet, the seeded race, del Monte took 19th place in a 5-kilometer time of 15 minutes, 22 seconds. That was just 20 seconds away from qualifying for the Foot Locker finals, where only the top 10 finishers in each of the four regionals advance. Del Monte, the state runner-up in Class 3A at last week’s title meet in Dade City, was the second finisher from Florida, behind 11th-place Chris Godwin of Gainesville Buchholz, who was the state runner-up last week in Class 4A.