“In the sport of cross country, tie scores are almost non-existent.So when the South Whidbey boys team ran into their second team championship tie with Lakewood in two weeks at Friday’s 2A bi-district meet in Mount Vernon, they couldn’t help but feel that they were having deja-vu all over again.Trying to avenge their tiebreaker loss to the Cougars at the previous week’s North Cascade’s Conference championship, the Falcons again fell victim to Lakewood’s tight pack running and to their sport’s rarely-used tiebreaker rule. That rule broke the teams’ 52-52 tie by comparing the teams’ sixth place runners. Like the week before, the Cougars finished their sixth man first.But the Falcons’ runner-up finish was earned on some of the best individual performances of the year. Those performances were good enough to win them a trip to Saturday’s state championship meet.Headlining for the Falcons for the second week in a row was senior Braden Giswold. Last week’s NCC champion, Giswold scorched Port Townsend’s Jake Haskins in a finish-line sprint to win his first-ever district title. Haskins finished one place ahead of Giswold at last year’s state meet, but he, like almost every other state champion hopeful this season, could not match Giswold’s start-to-finish speed.Giswold said last week that he was looking for three straight wins to end his high school cross country career. His coach, Tim Gordon, said the senior has a good chance to become South Whidbey’s first boys state champion.Oh yeah, he’s definitely in the hunt for that, Gordon said.Backing Giswold will be seniors Bruce Hymas and Brett Perkins. The pair placed fourth and fifth behind Giswold in times of 16:47 and 16:51, proving to anyone with any doubts that South Whidbey has the fastest front-three runners in the state. Their coach said Friday’s race threw Hymas and Perkins in with better runners than they had seen at the NCC meet, where the three Killer Bs placed 1-2-3. It was good practice for Saturday’s state meet in Pasco. You get into a meet where there’s some good runners, it’s a totally different meet, Gordon said.Fighting Lakewood’s hoard of runners further back in the back, late-season heroes Andy Wills and James Sundquist ran the races of their lives to keep the Falcons in the district hunt. Wills, a sophomore rookie to the sport of cross country, slashed 27 seconds from his time on the same 3.1-mile course last week to place 19th overall. Sundquist cut five seconds off his time to place 24th.Sophomore Jasper Hein ran in sixth position for the Falcons, placing 44th. Brandon Bilyeu, one of the Falcons’ fastest runners for most of the season, was the team’s seventh man. He ran the race sick with a virus, a virus his coach hopes he can shake before Saturday.Ranked as one of the top two teams in the 2A division all season, the Falcons are one of the favorites to win in Pasco. They race at Sun Willows Golf Course Saturday at 12:30 p.m. “