by Mike Scott, Special to USATF

(ORLANDO) -- Thomas Morgan (Blowing Rock, NC) and Josh Simpson (Morgantown, W.V.) finished 1-2 in the senior men's 8-kilometer race to lead Team USA to the team title at the fourth annual North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Cross Country Championships at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.

U.S. squads took team silver medals in the senior women, junior men, and junior women competitions at the event, which featured 61 athletes representing six national federations.

Running in the day's final event, the Team USA senior men were locked in a virtual dead heat with Team Canada for much of the race's first three laps before they surged away from their counterparts as they entered the final loop.