Well, our win-loss record does not show it, but we turned in a very nice performance on Saturday. All 11 boys who ran on Saturday, and also ran at Seneca Park in late September 2007, improved their times. Not only that, but the average improvement was an outstanding 1 minute and 30 seconds, and the median was 1:39 (last year's first meet only showed a median improvement of 1:02, and 7 of the 16 boys improved less than 41 seconds)! The minimum improvement was 41 seconds. Excluding the injured Janelle, the girls improved by an average of 1:32. Outstanding!
Our boys record is 0-3 and was hurt badly by the absence of Nico, Alex and Chris. If Nico or AB had run under 17:56 (so, within 10 seconds of Nate) and Alex or Chris had run under 18:25 (within 39 seconds of Nate), we would be 2-1 right now. That bodes well for the future of our season, but also demonstrates the importance of team commitment.
Now, on to tomorrow. We face some pretty tough competition against established teams: Rush-Henrietta, Thomas, Irondequoit, Victor and Batavia. The girls should be able to notch a win against Batavia.
Rush-Henrietta should be able to win the boys race. Without Nico, we cannot compete with Thomas, as a team, but we should be able to make some individual statements against our cross-town rivals. Irondequoit is pretty decent, they put 9 guys under 19 minutes at Center Park on Saturday, but only 2 under 18 (I think Kenny, Nate and AB could all be under 18 at Center Park), so the race should come down to the 4-5 (and 6?) runners:
Looby, Ricky 17:34
Greenfield-Tuttle, Josh 17:46
Perry, Luke 18:32
Frachioni, Anthony 18:54
Mclaughlin, Ian 18:56
Duguay, Ben 19:03
Bigenwald, Eric 19:31
Densieski, Ben 19:42
Koss, Nick 19:51
Victor ran at Mendon East. We have a very good chance of beating them. Here are their top runners:
Reid, Kyle (10) 18:40
Hayward, Connor (9) 19:19
Erb, M.J. (9) 19:41
Ballard, David (12) 19:43
Palomaki, Joe (11) 19:48
Iovoli, Austin (10) 19:56
Smathers, Mike (9) 19:57
Rieck, Matt (10) 20:04
Spawton, Jeff (11) 20:06
So, the boys should aim for 3-2 tomorrow.
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