Salisbury freshman Emily Batten finished 40th at Saturday’s PIAA Class A Cross Country Championships.

She was among 11 ninth graders to place in the top 40 at the event, which included 257 runners.

Batten, who qualified for states with a seventh-place finish at the District 11 Championships, ran the state championship race in 22 minutes and one second on a warm and humid day on the difficult Parkview Course in Hershey.

Batten was one of many Colonial League teams and individuals to have success at the state championships.

Moravian Academy freshman Virginia Kraus won the girls Class A title Saturday in 18:54, 40 seconds faster than the second-place runner, Chelsea Hartman of Shady Side Academy (19:36).

Notre Dame (Green Pond) won the Class A girls team title. After tying with Montrose at 78 team points, the Crusaders took the title based on the finish of their sixth runner. They had seven finishers while Montrose had just five.

In the Class A boys race, four-time Colonial League champ Thomas Smigo won a state title in 16:33.40, beating second-place Tyler Rader of Huntingdon Area (16:39.3) and the rest of the field, which included 266 finishers. Central Cambria won the boys Class A team title.

In Class 2A, Danville’s Rory Lieberman (15:53.6) won the boys individual title while Grove City cruised to the team title, 67-128 over second-place Danville.

Jolena Quarzo of Brownsville Area (18:11.3) won the girls Class 2A individual title with Erie’s Cathedral Prep finishing first in team standings 111-115 over Danville as the Ironmen ere runners up in both 2A races.

Natalie McLean of Pine-Richland (18:46.1) won the Class 3A girls title while North Allegheny cruised to the team title, 60-118 over State College.

In boys Class 3A, Brian DiCola of Hatboro Horsham took the individual title in 15:24.2, while North Allegheny made it a sweep, taking the boys title over second-place LaSalle Prep 85-116.