EVERETT — Former Port Townsend High School standout cross country runners Bereket Piatt and Habtamu Rubio are teammates again, and they continue to finish at the top of major meets.
The pair finished first and third at the NWAACC men’s cross country championships to spark Everett Community College to the team championship on Saturday.
Piatt captured the individual championship in a time of 24 minutes, 32 seconds, and in the process shattered the school record while Rubio claimed third in 24:55, just 10 seconds off the old school mark.
This is the second time this year that the school mark was broken.
Team ace Bryton Reim, a sophomore, set the school 8-kilometer record at 24:45 in a meet on Oct. 1 and equaled that time for runner-up honors at the NWAACC meet Saturday.
The Everett Trojans took the top three, and five of the top nine places to dominate the league championships with a team score of 21 on the 8K course at Everett’s Legion Golf Course. Spokane was second with a score of 59.
Reim has been racking up the honors this year with an NWAACC male athlete of the week award and the NWAACC Northern Region championship last weekend. Both Reim and Rubio were named to the all-region cross country team.
Piatt and Rubio, both Everett freshmen, went 1-2 at the 2009 Class 1A state boys cross country championships, respectively, when they were juniors at Port Townsend.