4 and Oh, Baby!

Well, we picked up a big win last night. The team effort was outstanding!

First, the girls. We lost to Churchville, 24-33 and Eastridge, 24-31, but gave them nice battles. If we keep improving at our current rate, we should be able to run with those teams at the end of the year. Alaina ran faster than at Mendon West, on a course that is 0.1 mile longer. Khristyna, Sarah M, and Hannah all ran over 30 seconds faster than expected. Janelle seems to be getting fit, and Anneleise and Amanda made nice dual meet debuts, giving Kristen someone to accompany.

The boys bounced back from the Wildcat Invitational very well, with most running their races as planned. It was great to see the solid teamwork throughout our line-up, from Kenny and Nico working together to go after Hilton's top guy, to the loud cheering section bringing Bobby home in under 30.

Schroeder had not been 4-0 in a dual meet since 10/5/2004 against much weaker opponents (we were 3-0 on 10/10/2006, also against a weak schedule). That day was the last time we had 3 runners in the D&C for a single race - and they were 18:26-18:35 at English Road, which is about 30 seconds faster than Parma.

We finally had our top 5 runners in attendance and performing well, for the first time this season, so we had 5 under 19 minutes. Our 1-5 gap, which had been in the 1:50s all year, dropped to 1:15, and it was our 1-7 that was 1:53.

Beyond the top 7, we had some great performances, such as Ethan's sub-20 to be 8th, John pulling Tommy to a course-adjusted PR and Alex running 22:00, about 1.5 minutes faster than expected.

I would write more, but I think my boss is coming, so don't feel slighted if you weren't mentioned!