Anderson 29th at national cross country meet

By: HSSN Staff
Sunday, December 9, 2018 | 5:15 PM

Mt. Lebanon junior Patrick Anderson placed 29 ^th overall Saturday at the 40 ^th Annual Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships at Morley Field, Balboa Park in San Diego.

The field of 40 runners competed on a dry course under sunny skies with temperatures in the mid 60s.

Anderson was 10 ^th among his fellow junior racers with a time of 16 minutes, 16.4 seconds.

The only boy in the field from Pennsylvania, he qualified for the national race by earning a top-10 finish at the Northeast Regional meet Nov. 24 in New York City.

Anderson capped his 2018 high school season by first earning a runner-up finish in the boys AAA race at the WPIAL championships Oct. 25 at Cal U (Pa.).

But he wouldn’t take a back seat to anyone at the PIAA championships as he captured the state title with a time of 16:03.

Michael Love is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Michael at mlove@tribweb.com or via Twitter @MLove_Trib.

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