Week 1 Recap

An exciting week around the league to open up the season!

Basil Marella
Our girls and boys both swept the day, for just the second time since the Webster schools split. The girls grabbed 7 of the top 9 spots to go 3-0. Val tied for the 25th best time since 2005, when record-keeping began. Unfortunately, it seems that her last name prevents her from being displayed on this page. It appears that ties are broken by alphabetic order of the last name!

The boys found themselves in the Battle of Greece, with the three Greece teams really going after bragging rights. Each of their three meets was decided by 27-29 or 27-30. Meanwhile, our boys won by scores of 22-37, 22-38 and 22-39.

Harris Whalen
Probably the most exciting girls race of the day was the Penfield vs HFL. Leila Mantilla ran the second best recorded time on the course, behind only Shaylyn Tuite, and Ketie Lembo was 2nd. That was just enough to hold off HFL's pack for a 27-29 win, despite a 3:51 gap for 1 thru 5.

In the boys race, Sutherland was favored, but was not at full strength, so Victor recorded a 25-32 win over them and HFL edged them, 28-28, as their 6th man edged Sutherland's 5th by just 4 seconds.

Mendon West
This was the featured girls match-up of the day, with Canandaigua, Mendon and RH competing. Canandaigua looked quite tough, taking 3 of the first 4 places and winning easily. Mendon was strong enough to overcome RH's 39-second 1-5 gap to win, 27-29.

The boys race was strictly a two-team affair, with Mendon and RH each taking 6 of the top 12 places. RH stayed just a step ahead all the way down the line, for a comfortable 23-32 win.

Parma Park
The Fairport girls had underwhelming wins over Brighton and Hilton. That may just be a sign that Brighton and Hilton may be closer to our heels than expected.

The Hilton boys lost another close meet on their home course as Fairport sneaked in a 6th runner to win, 28-28. Brighton easily defeated both of those teams, as expected, despite Will Ronchetti not being the fastest sophomore out there (Hilton's Tyler Ranke won in 17:26).

Seneca Park
Thomas could not take advantage of Irondequoit only placing 4 girls in the top 24, while they had 11, and lost by a 28-29 score.

The boys also had an exciting race, with sophomores named Josh from Thomas and Irondequoit (Goldstein and Dyrland) went 1-2. In this race, it was Thomas that couldn't get a 5th runner in quick enough with Matt Loce and Ben Whitman coming in just behind Irondequoit's 4-5-6 pack to enable Irondequoit to pull out a 28-28 win.