It didn’t come together the way Menlo-Atherton expected but, in the end, the Bears ran their way to the first Central Coast Section championship in boys’ cross country program history.

M-A ran in the morning hours on the 2.95-mile Crystal Springs Cross Country Course, and overcame a horrendous fall by junior Grant Bennitt to claim the CCS Division I team championship. Senior Aidan Sharp was the team’s top finisher in 14 minutes, 58 seconds, taking second place in the field of 100 runners, to lead M-A to 51 points, topping second-place Bellarmine’s score of 55.

Bellarmine senior Stephen Sziebert claimed the Division I individual championship in 14:55.8.

“I thought he was going to be able to catch him,” M-A head coach Eric Wilmurt said, “but the Bellarmine kid had just enough to keep him

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