A lot of meets in Massachusetts and across the country, and lots of former Newton North and Bay State runners in action.
Brookline H.S. and Newton South squared off in the Amherst XC Invitational on Saturday. The Brookline boys - running without Eliot Lehane and Chris Mercurio - were still very impressive. Robert Gibson, Mike Brunstein, and David Wilson took the top three spots, all running under 16 minutes. Ryan Hardiman (16:34, 9th) and Brendan Grove (17:00, 27th) rounded out the scoring for the warriors. Newton South boys were not too shabby either, as they finished 3rd overall (2nd Mass. team) with seven runners under 17:19. Andrew Worthum led the charge, running 16:17.
In the girls varsity race, Newton South dominated, placing 1-3-5-6-18-19-35, easily dispatching last year's Div I State Champions, Dennis-Yarmouth. The Lions were led by junior Kelsey Karys, who ran a PR 18:47 for the win.
Speaking of Newton South, Lion alums and NSRP friends Sam Donovan (now at Brandeis) and James Vance (now at Johnson and Wales) competed in the UMass Dartmouth Invitational on Saturday. Sam ran a very impressive 26:43 for 8K, while James ran 28:14. In the same race, former Dedham standout and another NSRP runner Rex Radloff tempo-ed a 27:59.
At the Pingree Invitational in South Hamilton on Saturday, the fightin' Chameleons of Concord Academy placed 4th in the girls race, and 8th in the boys race in their debut race of the 2007 season.
On Friday, Jess Barton (Wake Forest, '11) ran 18:47 at Franklin Park to place 42nd at the Boston College Invitational. And wow, Brielle Chabot, ex of Wellesley and now a sophomore at BC ran 17:43 to place 9th.
NSRP stalwart Greg Williams (Gettysburg) ran 28:17 for 8K at a double dual meet against Juniata and Messiah. Greg was 7th man for his team.
Dan Chebot (Rochester) placed 38th (out of 254) at the NYU Invitational held at Van Cortland Park in the Bronx on Saturday. Chebot ran 26:34 on the VCP 8K course.
At the same venue (but in a different race?), Noah Jampol made his return to XC racing after a hip injury sidelined him in the pre-season. Noah ran a very solid 28:10 for 8K, placing 51st overall in a field of 238, which was sixth man for the Blue Jays.
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Hey Jon,
There were 2 courses for the races yesterday at the NYU Invite. The Atlantic Pre-Regional Race(Dan's) was an 8K where you ran two extra field/freshman hill loops and didn't go on the back hills. Our race was the same 5 mile course as last year with the 5K course(with back hills etc) and then a Cemetery Hill loop. I'll probably email you about it later. It was very encouraging, and Dan looked great and it was nice being able to root him on.
Yeah, our course was definitely easier and faster due to a lack of the back hills. Regionals will be absolutely blazing there; I expect it to take a sub-26 to get all region. Noah- We can have our showdown in the 3k at this years BU Valentine Invite. I figure this is a good intermediate distance for us, we just need to seed at the same time so we end up in the same heat. Perhaps we should seed really slow so it's just the two of us off the front.
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