The Desert Twilight Cross Country Festival brings out the best best Arizona has to offer in the sport Friday (Oct. 3) at its new home.

The 8th annual meet moves from Toka Sticks Golf Course in Mesa to Casa Grande where five hours of races take place at the Grande Sports Complex. The same array of races for large school (1,800 enrollment plus) and small school (1,800 enrollment and below) plus shorter junior high races and a community race. The new course, 5K in length, snakes through the Francisco Grande Golf Course. Races run from 4 p.m. through the marquee races of the day -- the girls championship at 8:25 p.m., boys championship at 8:40 p.m., 9 p.m. Sole Sports Girls Sweepstakes and concluding with the Sole Sports Boys Sweepstakes at 9:25 p.m.

Here are schools entered in boys and girls championship races and those entered in girls and boys sweepstakes races:

Girls championship 8:25 p.m.  -- Apollo, Boulder Creek, Buena, Campo Verde, Chandler Deer Valley, Desert Mountain, El Paso Eastwood, Florence, Hopi, Maryvale, Mesquite, Mountain Ridge, Murrieta Valley, Perry, Piedra Vista, :Pusch Ridge, Salpointe, St. Michaels, Tempe and Tuba City. Boys championship 8:40 p.m. -- Apollo, Boulder Creek, Catalina Foothills, Deer Valley, Desert Mountain, El Paso Eastwood, Florence, Glendale Prep, Greenway, Hopi, Horizon, Marana Mtn. View, Maryvale, Mountain Ridge, Murrieta Mesa, Murrieta Valley, Pueblo, Queen Creek, St. Augustine, St. Michaels, Pusch Ridge, Skyline, Vista Grande. Girls sweepstakes 9 p.m. -- Arcadia, Catalina Foothills, Chaparral, Chinle, Corona del Sol, Desert Vista, Durango, Hamilton, Highland, Ironwood Ridge, Los Alamos, Mesa Mtn. View, Mingus, Murrieta Mesa, Queen Creek, Red Mountain, Rio Rancho, Rio Rico, Sandra Day O'Connor, Vista Grande, Xavier. Boys sweepstakes 9:25 p.m. --  Brophy, Buena, Canyon del Oro, Chinle, Corona del Sol, Desert Vista, Durango, El Paso Eastwood, Gila Ridge, Hamilton, Highland, Los Alamos, McClintock, Mesa Mtn. View, Mesquite, Mingus, Perry, Piedra Vista, Red Mountain, Rio Rico, Saguaro, Salpointe, Sandra Day O'Connor, Tuba City.

Top individual girls sweepstakes (Arizona runners) -- Danl Jones, Desert Vista, Baylee Jones, Desert Vista, Lauren Ellwsworth, Highland, Bridgette Doucet, Canyon del Oro, Kelly Naumann, Corona del Sol, Allie Schadler, Rio Rico, Jane Miller, Xavier; Megan Reniewicki, Arcadia, Taryn Estavillo, Red Mountain, Ali Kallner, Chaparral, Haley Wolf, Desert Vista, Jesselyn Bries, Sandra Day O'Connor, Allyson Girard, Highland, Megan Goettl, Mingus. Top individual boys (Arizona runners) --Nathan Thomas, Salpointe, Marcus Wheeler, Corona del Sol, Tyler Day, Mesquite, Seamus White, Hamilton, Oscar Amaya, Rio Rico, Albert Fuller, Tuba City, Emmanuel Hidalgo, McClintock, Xavier Esparza, Desert Vista; Keith Durkin, Cactus Shadows, Tim Ronan, Canyon del Oro, Alex Stevens, Saguaro, Ryan Wolf, Millennium, Carlos Villarreal, McClintock, Cade Burks, Perry, Tyler Beauchamp, Saguaro, Abdi Aden, McClintock, Slade Sumners, Corona del Sol, Alex Hart, Corona del Sol, Darren Joey, Chinle.

Last year's girls sweepstakes champs: Individual -- Dani Jones, Desert Vista. Team: Desert Vista. 2nd throught 5th were Xavier, Lake Braddock, Los Alamos and Highland. Top returning placers (top 20 finish in 2013) -- Dani Jones, Desert Vista, Baylee Jones, Desert Vista (3rd); Allie Schadler, Rio Rico (4th); Lauren Ellsworth, Highland (5th); Taryn Estavillo, Red Mountain (11th); Allyson Girard, Highland (14th); Ali Kallner, Chaparral (15th); Sierra Brown, Xavier (17th); Jane Miller, Xavier 918th); Lauren Kinzle, Xavier (19th) and Sarah Carter, Xavier (20th). Last year's boys sweepstakes champs: Individual -- *Nate Rodriguez, Corona del Sol. Team -- Corona del Sol. 2nd through 5th were Page, Lake Braddock, Desert Vista and Tuba City. Top returning placers (top 20 finish in 2013) -- Marcus Wheeler, Corona de Sol (4th); Jeffery Miller, Page (12th);  Oscar Amaya, Rio Rico (13th), Tyler Day, Mesquite (14th).

*-- Graduated.