FHSAA Class 2A Region 4 cross country, Thursday, November 12, 2026, South County Regional Park, Boca Raton.

Carrollton won the Class 2A Region 4 girls title at South County Regional Park on Thursday morning with 60 points, 15 ahead of Cardinal Newman. Gulliver Prep won the boys with 24, 119 ahead of Florida Atlantic.

Neither individual race went to our pick. Cardinal Newman junior Tessa Brown won the girls race in 18:57.3, 5.1 seconds ahead of Ransom Everglades freshman Julianna Hart. Gulliver senior Adrian Iziliaev won the boys race in 15:52.2, 4.3 seconds ahead of teammate Kayaan Ghaffar.

The boys team race was close all the way down. Ransom Everglades and NSU University both scored 182, and four points covered fourth through seventh. American Heritage (Delray Beach) took the last spot with 190. Pine Crest, third on our list, scored 208 and finished ninth.

Girls: Carrollton by 15 without a runner in the top five

Carrollton put four runners between sixth and 13th: freshman Eva Martinez-Lejarza sixth, Antonia Beltran seventh, freshman Lauren Martinez-Lejarza ninth in a season best and Paola De La Iglesia 13th. Isabella Puggina was 32nd for 60 points.

Cardinal Newman came from fourth on our list to second with 75, behind Brown and Lucy Burkly, eighth in a season best. Ransom Everglades was third with 86 and Cardinal Gibbons fourth with 112.

Gulliver Prep, Coral Springs Charter and Calvary Christian Academy finished fifth through seventh, nine points apart. Florida Atlantic took the last spot with 217. Mater Brickell was ninth with 260.

2A Region 4 girls team results

PlaceTeamPointsScoring places
1Carrollton 2A606, 7, 9, 13, 32
2Cardinal Newman 2A751, 8, 19, 25, 28
3Ransom Everglades 2A862, 10, 15, 29, 39
4Cardinal Gibbons 2A1123, 11, 14, 24, 70
5Gulliver Prep 2A15922, 30, 40, 41, 43
6Coral Springs Charter 2A16712, 17, 45, 46, 66
7Calvary Christian Academy 2A16816, 34, 38, 47, 52
8FAU 2A21718, 50, 53, 54, 65
9Mater Brickell Academy 2A26020, 55, 61, 73, 78
10Palmer Trinity 2A2784, 68, 75, 80, 82
11Benjamin 2A27935, 36, 69, 84, 86
12St. Andrew's School 2A32923, 77, 79, 91, 92
13Miami Arts 2A33748, 56, 76, 95, 96
14Key West 2A35344, 63, 67, 103, 110
15Pine Crest 2A36821, 81, 97, 100, 102
16Florida Christian 2A37358, 85, 88, 89, 90

The orange line is the state cut: the top eight teams go to Tallahassee.

Brown ran 18:57.3 and Hart 19:02.4, both season bests. Cardinal Gibbons senior Allison Albrect, our pick, was third in 19:13.5.

Palmer Trinity eighth grader Valentina Sarcos was fourth in a season-best 19:21.6 and goes to state as an individual. So do Coral Shores junior Ali Wheatley (fifth, a season-best 19:25.3), Mater Brickell eighth grader Emmie Palacios (20th, a season-best 20:29.9) and Pine Crest senior Sarah Montague (21st, a season-best 20:30.9).

St. Andrew's junior Erin Cabrera-Hock was the first runner out. She finished 23rd in 20:43.7, 12.8 seconds behind Montague.

2A Region 4 girls, top 15

* Goes to state as an individual (not on one of the top eight teams). Individual qualifiers below 15th are listed after the top 15.

Going to state: Carrollton 2A, Cardinal Newman 2A, Ransom Everglades 2A, Cardinal Gibbons 2A, Gulliver Prep 2A, Coral Springs Charter 2A, Calvary Christian Academy 2A, FAU 2A. Individuals: Valentina Sarcos (Palmer Trinity, 4th), Ali Wheatley (Coral Shores, 5th), Emmie Palacios (Mater Brickell Academy, 20th), Sarah Montague (Pine Crest, 21st).

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Boys: Gulliver Prep by 119, four points from fourth to seventh

Gulliver went 1-2-5-6-10: Iziliaev, Ghaffar, Emilio Perez-Garcia, Christopher Arana (a season best) and Tyler Keating. That's 24 points. Its sixth and seventh runners were 11th and 12th.

Florida Atlantic was second with 143 behind Michael Gomez (third) and Robert Joines (fourth, a season best). Keys Gate, 12th on our list, was third with 158. Darian Rodriguez was ninth in a season best, and the next four came in between 32nd and 53rd.

Ransom Everglades and NSU University tied at 182, and Ransom took fourth on the sixth-runner tiebreak. Calvary Christian Academy (185), Kings Academy (186) and American Heritage (190) took the last three spots. Pine Crest scored 208 and Cardinal Gibbons, eighth on our list, finished 13th.

2A Region 4 boys team results

PlaceTeamPointsScoring places
1Gulliver Prep 2A241, 2, 5, 6, 10
2FAU 2A1433, 4, 28, 55, 66
3Keys Gate 2A1589, 32, 33, 46, 53
4Ransom Everglades 2A1827, 39, 43, 54, 56
5NSU University 2A18215, 20, 34, 51, 79
6Calvary Christian Academy 2A18522, 26, 30, 57, 67
7Kings Academy 2A18613, 21, 37, 60, 71
8American Heritage (Delray Beach) 2A19016, 18, 24, 47, 102
9Pine Crest 2A20825, 27, 31, 69, 77
10Palmer Trinity 2A21519, 40, 48, 63, 65
11Mater Brickell Academy 2A24417, 42, 49, 78, 81
12North Broward Prep 2A2608, 45, 62, 73, 98
13Cardinal Gibbons 2A29238, 44, 70, 76, 94
14Coral Shores 2A33036, 52, 90, 91, 96
15Immaculata-LaSalle 2A34735, 59, 80, 101, 105
16Donna Klein Jewish 2A535114, 115, 116, 117, 118

The orange line is the state cut: the top eight teams go to Tallahassee.

Iziliaev ran 15:52.2, a season best, and was 10th at District 8. Ghaffar was second in 15:56.5 and Gomez third in 15:57.3, eight-tenths back. Joines and Perez-Garcia were next.

Four individuals go to state: North Broward Prep sophomore Caden Nassar (eighth, a season-best 16:38.6), Cardinal Newman sophomore Logan Simpson (14th, 17:21.1), Mater Brickell sophomore Emmanuel Caceres (17th, a season-best 17:30.0) and Palmer Trinity sophomore Alejandro Herrera (19th, a season-best 17:33.5).

Reagan junior Joaquin Taulis was the first runner out. He ran a season-best 17:40.1 for 23rd, 6.6 seconds behind Herrera.

2A Region 4 boys, top 15

* Goes to state as an individual (not on one of the top eight teams). Individual qualifiers below 15th are listed after the top 15.

Going to state: Gulliver Prep 2A, FAU 2A, Keys Gate 2A, Ransom Everglades 2A, NSU University 2A, Calvary Christian Academy 2A, Kings Academy 2A, American Heritage (Delray Beach) 2A. Individuals: Caden Nassar (North Broward Prep, 8th), Logan Simpson (Cardinal Newman, 14th), Emmanuel Caceres (Mater Brickell Academy, 17th), Alejandro Herrera (Palmer Trinity, 19th).

How our preview did

Girls: all eight of our teams made it, though we had Cardinal Gibbons second and Cardinal Newman fourth, and they finished fourth and second. Two of our four individuals made it, Sarcos and Wheatley. Cabrera-Hock was the first one out and St. John Paul II's Hannah Dohler was 27th. Our top pick, Albrect, was third.

Boys: six of our eight teams made it. Keys Gate and Calvary Christian Academy got in, and Pine Crest and Cardinal Gibbons didn't. Two of our four individuals go as individuals, Nassar and Simpson, and Rodriguez goes with Keys Gate. Benjamin's Padraig Irish was 29th. Our top pick, Ghaffar, was second, four seconds behind his teammate.

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About these results

  • Times and places are as they were posted on TFRRS. FHSAA posts the official state qualifier list after the region meets.
  • Team scores count each team's top five finishers; the sixth runner breaks a tie.
  • A season best here means faster than any 5K that runner has in our database this fall.

Every finisher is in the full results, and every runner's season is a click away in the Florida XC results database. See you in Tallahassee.