Week 3 Recap

But first a quick link to the McQuaid Invitational website, which includes the race schedule. I'll write more about McQuaid later this week.

Mendon East
In the boys race, Brighton's Will Ronchetti spent a lot of time looking over his shoulder as he led much of the race. Sure enough, he was overtaken by Mendon's Will Burton and Jack Wesley and Mendon came away with a 26-29 win. Irondequoit was out quickly, but faded badly and lost to Mendon, 19-38 and Brighton, 20-35. Schroeder won the mano-a-mano battles with Penfield's first and second runners, but lost the other three and the meet, 27-28.

Mendon's depth overcame Penfield's outstanding front-runners. Katie Lembo and Leila Mantilla ran about 25 seconds faster than a week ago to win easily and post the third and fourth fastest League Meet times on Mendon East behind Shaylyn Tuite and ... Shaylyn Tuite. Val and Amanda missed the top 25 listing by just 3 and 5 seconds, respectively. The biggest surprise was the Schroeder girls forcing Mendon to score 27 points and only falling 25-30 to Penfield.

Black Creek
Perhaps the slowest boys race of the year - only 7 or 8 runners broke 20 minutes. Last week 9 girls broke 20 at Webster Park! Olympia went 1-2 for the win. Brockport, with their 5th man running 22:21, even lost to East Rochester.

The girls race was quite dull, with only 2 of the 5 schools fielding complete teams of 5 runners.

Center Park
MJ Erb ran 26 seconds faster than a week ago on the same course, to finish in a Course Record 16:30, and Victor used a 1-2 finish to sweep the meet, including 24-31 over Fairport. Fairport's top 5 were only 21 seconds apart.

Meghan McCormick coasted to the 3rd fastest time on the course, and was followed by sister Kate and Kennedy Jensen, to lead Canandaigua to four easy victories. Erin Sedita continued to be Fairport's best runner, ahead of Ashton Hughes (but over a minute behind the winner), and their 1-5 spread was only 1:37, to put them well ahead of Victor.

Harris Whalen
The D&C's ignorance was on full display this morning, playing up Sutherland's win over R-H, despite the fact that R-H clearly coasted through the meet, presumably maximizing their chances against Shaker at the McQuaid Invitational on Saturday. That should be a great race! The Thomas boys continue to look great for a bunch of youngsters - their top 7 included 5 sophomores, a frosh and a rookie - and they took care of Hilton, 25-32.

The R-H girls also backed off, allowing the O'Hara girls from Thomas to go 1-2, but R-H still prevailed, 26-32. Thomas had no trouble handling Hilton and Sutherland.

Mendon West
The HF-L boys had an easy day, with sizable wins over Athena, Churchville and Gates.

The HF-L girls also cruised, their top 3 allowing Churchville's Karli O'Neill to beat them by about a minute. No close scores to be seen here.