High School
Brookline, Braintree, and Wellesley competed on Saturday, October 20th.
Brookline's varsity boys traveled to the Brown Invitational in East Warwick, RI, and submitted another dominant performance, as they won the Championship Boys race. Their top five averaged under 16 minutes. Here are the individual results:
1 Robert Gibson SR 15:13.7
7 David Wilson JR 15:31.5
8 Michael Burnstein SR 15:38.6
15 Elliot Lehane SR 16:06.8
26 Brendan Grove SO 16:35.0
27 Ryan Hardiman JR 16:37.3
Brookline's next pack (seems odd to call them JV) ran at the Catholic Memorial Invitational at Franklin Park and placed 14th overall, averaging 17:56. Chris Mercurio led the Warriors, running 17:02.
Braintree's Kyle Higgins finished second overall at CMI, running 16:12, just 7 seconds behind Whitman-Hanson's Peter Gilmore.
In Division II, the Wellesley boys and girls team made their much-anticipated debut in invitational action. The boys placed a strong third behind Bishop Guertin of NH, and Hingham, MA. Nick Carroll led the Raiders, running 16:57 for 8th overall.
Wellesley's girls placed all seven of their varsity runners in the top 13, scored a miniscule 29 points, and easily defeated Dennis-Yarmouth, among others, to win the Div II Girls Varsity race.
College
At the Little Three Championshiups at Williamstown, Williams senior Liz Gleason ran 19:36, placing 16th in the women's 5K. Wesleyan junior Anna Schindler ran 20:45. In the men's 8K race, Scott Cole ran 31:32.
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Hey John, I want you to shed (preferably in an article) your wisdom upon the debate of who would win in a meet between the '04 NNHS x-c team, and this years Brookline team. Only you could really give the right analysis.
I'm not sure that question deserves an entire article. NNHS '04 ran the Brown Invite without Barnicle. If you assume that Barnicle beats Gibson, and that times in 04 and 07 were comparable, then the results would be:
1. Barnicle
2. Gibson
3. Wilson
4. Burnstein
5. Polgar
6. Lehane
7. Chebot
8. Lloyd
9. Grove.
10. Brecher (maybe)
...and the BRK 2007 team wins handily 24-31.
My dual meet prediction would be similar and hear are my guessed times as well on a good-conditioned day late in the season at Franklin Park with everyone showing their best:
Barnicle 15:20 1
Gibson 15:30 2
Wilson 15:45 3
Burnstein 15:50 4
Polgar 16:00 5
Lloyd 16:15 6
Lehane 16:20 7
Chebot 16:25 8
Brecher 16:30 9
Mercurio 16:35 10
Mine would be a little closer because I think Clay's state meet performance could/would be duplicated, and that Doug would be ahead of Brookline's 5'th at this point. Brookline still wins 26-29. In a big invite, Brookline would win by more.
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