Dust Bowl

The cross-country course at Franklin Park was bone dry yesterday, and races were like buffalo stampedes, with the hundreds of runners nearly lost in the billowing clouds of dust. With temperatures reaching 80 degrees, times were not fast, and in the crowded chutes, sweat and dust mingled on the runners' bodies in rivers of grime and mud.

Many NNHS and Bay State alumni competed in varsity and sub-varsity races.

Running her first race of the season, Wesleyan freshman Haleigh Smith placed 24th in the sub-varsity race, running 20:18.

In the women's varsity race, Wellesley grad Alexandra Krieg (Middlebury) placed 8th in 18:33. NNHS alum and Williams senior Liz Gleason ran 19:27. Weymouth alum and UMASS-Amherst freshman Sam Sacchetti ran 21:43. NNHS alum and Wesleyan junior Anna Schindler ran 22:07.

In the men's varsity race, David Polgar ran 28:03. Although David experienced some breathing problems after the race, he told me it was nothing as bad as his last race in which he blacked out on the course and received treatment form EMTs.

In the men's sub-varsity race, Brookline alum and UMass-Lowell sophomore Matias Carrasco ran with the lead pack for the first 2M, but settled for 15th in 26:40. His former teammate at Brookline, Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, now a freshman at Tufts, started the race, but his name doesn't appear in the results. We hope he's ok. NNHS alum Scott Cole, running his first season for Wesleyan, ran 31:00. Weymouth alum and Bentley freshman Mark Jordan ran 31:27.