Jamestown junior Clevon Wofford will be the first local runner to take to the 3.1-mile course in eastern New York when he runs in the Class A boys race, which is set to start at 10 a.m. Wofford took sixth place in 16:59.23 at the Section VI state qualifier earlier this month at Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora.

After the Class B boys race at 10:30 a.m., the Class C boys will take to the course at 11 a.m. In that race will be Fredonia/Westfield sophomore Trenton Krenzer, who took 11th at the Section VI state qualifier with a time of 17:29.06.

Class D will be the final boys race of the day, kicking off at 11:30 a.m. The Maple Grove boys, who won the Section VI Class D title with 39 points at Knox Farm, finished fourth at the state meet a year ago with 95 points. Junior Ethan Verbosky, the Class D winner in East Aurora at 16:12.33, leads the Red Dragons. Freshman Liam Price, junior Jacob Lewis, sophomore Joshua Ashbaugh and freshman Jack Sherry were the other scoring Maple Grove runners at the qualifier. Verbosky was fifth overall last year at the state meet, but two of the four runners ahead of him were seniors. Ashbaugh was 55th and Lewis was 62nd last year.

Frewsburg senior Cody Kent, West Valley senior Jack Tharnish, Gowanda senior Chase Bolen, Gowanda junior Cashis Montour and Franklinville/Ellicottville junior Grant Cornell will also represent Section VI in Queensbury on Saturday. Cornell was 39th and Tharnish was 61st at the state meet last year.

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The CCAA did not send any girls to Queensbury for the Class A or Class B girls races.

In Class C at 1:30 p.m., Southwestern sophomore Emma Lewis, who took fourth at Knox Farm with a time of 19:12.19; Silver Creek/Forestville freshman Leah Mays, who took fifth in East Aurora with a time of 19:25.17; and Salamanca senior Ryanna Brady, who was seventh at the state qualifier in 19:35.65, will represent the CCAA. Last year, Lewis was 16th in Class C and Mays was sixth in Class D at the state meet.

The final race of the day will be the Class D girls at 2 p.m. Clymer/Sherman/Panama will be the Section VI team representative after winning the title at Bemus Point Golf Course with 26 points. Senior Tess Flikkema, sophomore Grace Cooke and senior Solki Martin-Lacayo finished in the Nos. 4-6 spots, while junior Brooke Warner was 12th and sophomore Bria Palmatier was 22nd for the Wolfpack. Last year at the state meet, Clymer/Sherman/Panama took sixth with 144 points.

Other CCAA Class D girls competing this weekend will be West Valley junior Olivia Harmony, Allegany-Limestone freshman Elexa Duggan, Randolph junior Gracyn Rowland and Maple Grove sophomore Evalyn Fessel.

Last year at the state meet, Harmony was fifth, Cooke was 59th, Flikkema was 62nd, Martin-Lacayo was 74th and Palmatier was 83rd in Class D. Duggan was fourth in Class C.