Perhaps with two shoes on his feet, Baldwinsville boys cross country runner Shaun Thompson arrives home with a New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class AA championship. As it was, Thompson still managed to get to third place in last Saturday’s AA race held at Lakeside Park in Pawling, near Poughkeepsie. But he had to watch a runner he beat in the Section III championships finish in front. Somewhere early in the state race, Thompson, a senior, lost his left shoe, and it caused him to lose ground behind Cicero-North Syracuse’s Chris Buchanan and Saratoga Springs’ Sam Place. Thompson had topped Buchanan on Nov. 6 to win the sectional Class AA race at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill. To his credit, Thompson found his top speed again and hit the line in 16 minutes, 0.7 seconds. It still wasn’t quite enough as Buchanan, in a time of 15:55.9, edged Place (15:56.7) to earn the state title. Earlier that morning, in the state Class AA girls championship at Pawling, B’ville eighth-grader Rachael Miller made her debut on this big stage. In a time of 20 minutes, 15.7 seconds, Miller took 55th place, fourth among eighth-grade runners as Saratoga’s Estela Smith (17th, 18:54.8) fared best in her age group. Fayetteville-Manlius stars Christie Rutledge (17:31.0) and Jillian Fanning (17:46.1) went 1-2, leading the Hornets to a fifth consecutive state title.