After last weekend, they may have to add the impromptu road-trip rave to the list. On the way home from Tanglewood Park, with two more state championship trophies in their cars, the CHHS harriers couldn't hide their ecstasy when they pulled over at a rest stop; they broke into song and dance.

"It was so bad, it was good," CHHS head coach Ron Olsen said.

Chapel Hill won both the girls' and boys' team championships at the NCHSAA state meets, their ninth and seventh, respectively. It marked the third time in five years the CHHS boys and girls both won state titles.

Olsen admitted to "chewing on a few Tums" before last Saturday's 5K races. After all, he noted, CHHS had won the girls Carolina-Six Conference meet by a mere 9 points and their NCHSAA Mideast Regional by 10, both times over Cardinal Gibbons. The Crusaders were right behind them again last Saturday.

Junior Sarah Rapp of Gibbons was the individual 3-A women's champ in 19:29.50, her second consecutive individual state title after winning at 2-A in 2008. But Chapel Hill's depth was proven out by Tristin Van Ord (5th place), Sarah Jane Kerwin (6th) and Ahna Weeks (9th) all winning all-state honors with top-10 finishes. Meg Duffy (16th) and Alexa Young (24th) closed out the girls scoring for 52 points, to win by 42 points over Gibbons.

On the male side, Chapel Hill won it with 54 points to 102 for Gibbons, with the Tigers putting five runners among the top 14 scoring positions. Olsen was more than pleased to see less than 15 seconds separating his top five finishers.

Chapel Hill junior Jacob Hoerger was in 11th coming down the last 100 meters to the finish line and then out-kicked Matt Zachrich of Hickory St. Stephens to take 10th place and earn all-state honors with his time of 16:55.7. He and Asher Colburn-Hertzberg, (12th), Kyle Villemain, (14th), Brad Viles (15th) and Paul Noah (17th) produced the Chapel Hill's winning 54 points. Gibbons had 102.

Eastern Alamance senior Jake Hurysz took top individual honors among the 3-A men in 15:49.77, just under eight seconds ahead of Chris Colo of Marvin Ridge.

"Our girls ran so well," Olsen told the Winston-Salem Journal. The boys could've done better. But I never thought their margin (of victory) would be as large as it turned out to be."

Amazing Grace

Carrboro's remarkable group of underclassmen (and women) continued to amaze last weekend as the girls won and the boys placed fourth in the NCHSAA Class 2-A state meet. Carrboro ninth-grader Grace Morken was the top finisher from the Triangle with her third-place overall in the girls 5K meet with a time of 20:22.57. Sophomore teammates Laura Hamon, Frankie Perone and Maisie Mraz all finished in the top 15 and ninth-grader Alexa Phillips came in 22nd to round out Carrboro's scoring.

The Jaguars finished with 45 points, well in front of girls' runner-up Croatan with 88. Sophomore Julie Sloan led Northwood with her fourth-place finish to help the Chargers tally 206 points and to finish seventh, just ahead of Cedar Ridge at 254 in eighth place.

Carrboro's depth also was on display in the boys' 5K, with each of the Jaguars' top finishers all crossing the line within 1:20 of each other. In 13th overall, Phillip Goodling of Cedar Ridge (17:27.30) was the first in among Carolina-Nine runners, and Northwood's Eric Williams (17:39.30) was in 22nd. Elliot Pahel-Short (17:39.39) was right behind in 23rd and led in a group of Jaguars -- Tyler Oleski, Ty Fenton, Jordan Thomas, Jesse Dellea, Hayden Stults and Michael Jushchuk -- who all came in within the top 75 runners.

Northwood and Orange both finishd among the top 10 teams.

Handstands

Laura Hoer of T.C. Roberson said she just wanted just to keep East Chapel Hill's Carolyn Baskir "in my sights" during the girls' 4-A race. Hoer was directly behind Baskir as the two broke out of the woods into the home stretch and then kicked past her to win the individual girls' 4-A title in a time of 18:13.01. That was within 10 seconds of the meet record, and Hoer celebrated with some handstands near the awards podium. Baskir was little more than a second back (18:14.37).

Green Hope won the women's 4-A title with 47 points, 13 ahead of Hoer's Asheville Roberson team. Raleigh Sanderson's balance enabled the Spartans to slip past two-time defending champion Raleigh Broughton to win the men's 4-A team title Saturday.

Senior Patrick Crawford of East Forsyth beat runner-up Bryan Spreitzer of Cary Green Hope to the finish line by about a five-second margin to take top individual honors in a time of 15:47.11.