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<p>DIMOCK &#8212; According to Dominic Hockenbury&#8217;s season-long master plan, the best is yet to come for the Lake-Lehman senior.</p><p>Hockenbury has already reached levels that are unmatched in the six years that Elk Lake has been hosting the District 2 Cross Country Championships.</p><p>The defending state champion&#8217;s winning time of 15:47 while repeating as Class 2A boys champion Saturday is the fastest ever run in a district race at Elk Lake in any classification.</p><p>&#8220;Everything is going exactly according to plan,&#8221; Hockenbury said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been getting into better shape, my times have been getting faster and I&#8217;ve been feeling better as the season goes along.</p><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what we want. We don&#8217;t want to be at our best at the beginning of the season. We want an uphill climb.&#8221;</p><p>Before winning the state title last year, Hockenbury was state runner-up as a sophomore behind Dominic DeLuca from Dallas. It was DeLuca&#8217;s record of 15:53 that he broke Saturday.</p><p>Hockenbury&#8217;s past accomplishments have allowed him to point his senior season not only toward the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Championships Nov. 7 at the Hershey Parkview Course, but also to two weeks after that for Foot Locker Regionals where he wants to qualify for the national high school championships.</p><p>&#8220;The goal is to be in my best shape two weeks after states,&#8221; said Hockenbury, who won by 26 seconds over North Pocono&#8217;s Matt Kravitz.</p><p>Wyoming Valley Conference runners won two of the three individual boys titles.</p><p>Matt Houser from Hazleton Area, a second-place finisher a year ago, won the District 2-4 Class 3A Subregional title by four seconds over Williamsport&#8217;s Tyler Holcomb in 17:09.</p><p>Houser and Hockenbury were among the eight WVC boys who claimed the 20 available individual berths from the district for the state meet in Hershey.</p><p>While Wallenpaupack was finishing strong as a team to pick up the places it used to turn back the Hazleton Area team, Houser was making a similar move individually.</p><p>&#8220;We had a plan to get out in front and run with the lead group,&#8221; Hazleton Area coach Jason Smolinsky said. &#8220;Right around two miles in was where he made his move. He was sitting in third or fourth place for most of the first half of the race.</p><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a strong kid. I knew the top of the hill at the two-mile mark, that&#8217;s where his strength was going to show through.</p><p>&#8220;From there, that&#8217;s where he led the way. He ran a good race.&#8221;</p><p>Franklin Cunningham, Houser&#8217;s sophomore teammate, was the other 3A runner to advance after placing fourth.</p><p>Tunkhannock&#8217;s Jacob Toczko, a returning state medalist, was third in 2A.</p><p>Coughlin&#8217;s Franco Balbuena was seventh and Lake-Lehman&#8217;s Chris Sabol was 12th to also claim spots among the top 10 runners who were not part of the two qualifying teams in 2A.</p><p>The same format existed in Class A where Tim Snyder of Meyers and Eamon Gibbons from Wyoming Seminary qualified.</p><p>Snyder made it by finishing eight while entered as an individual because Meyers did not have the necessary five runners to compete as a team.</p><p>Gibbons grabbed the last available spot by finishing 18th.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Dominic Hockenbury of Lake Lehman wins the District Boys&#8217; 2 Class 2A Championship at Elk Lake High School on Saturday. Hockenbury&#8217;s winning time of 15:47 while repeating as Class 2A boys champion Saturday is the fastest ever run in a district race at Elk Lake in any classification. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_xcchampionships02.jpg</photo0><caption0>Dominic Hockenbury of Lake Lehman wins the District Boys&#8217; 2 Class 2A Championship at Elk Lake High School on Saturday. Hockenbury&#8217;s winning time of 15:47 while repeating as Class 2A boys champion Saturday is the fastest ever run in a district race at Elk Lake in any classification. </caption0><photoCredit0>Pete G. Wilcox|Times Leader </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Lehman senior has fastest ever run in a district race at Elk Lake</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Tom Robinson</p><p>For Times Leader</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Times Leader sports at 570-829-7143 or on Twitter @tlsports.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

H.S. Cross Country: Dominic Hockenbury crushes Elk Lake course at District 2 Championships