Twos and Sevens at B'ville
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Photo courtesy of Steve Wehrley
NGM Cross Country Award winners from Saturday: Joe Quaglia, Adam Nelson, Evan Guenther, Rudy Wicker, Garrett Grossen, Dane Duerst and Ben Lukszys.
Belleville's former coach, Bill Kernen, designed a contrasting cross country course. Competitors run across smooth grass to the base of the woods then encounter roots, rocks, winding uphills and steep downhills. Following a cool, quiet wooded path they turn and are spit out onto a large open field. For the next 1,000 meters, they experience cheering fans and blazing sun. As our New Glarus-Monticello Varsity boys wind back and forth, we assess our situation. For the second week in a row Joe Quaglia (18:43) leads the team with Adam Nelson (18:49) right behind. They'll finish 8th and 9th overall. Evan Guenther (18:56) and Rudy Wicker (19:02) finish 12th and 14th. In 22nd place, Conor McCoy (19:24) becomes the fifth man and last scorer. Back-up runners are Ty Ready (19:48) and Kellan Zwiefel (20:35). The boys team finishes with a low score of 65 points. We believe we've done well, but Home School Eagles finished three guys in front of our first runner and that makes it mathematically tough for us to beat them. Sure enough, they earn 61 points to our 65 and we take second place in the fourteen team meet.
The girls team is not thinking of winning, just improving from last week. Dayna Karls (24:18), Molly Molencamp (25:04) and Annie Fuller (26:00) run ahead of host Belleville's first gal, Gina Salmela, thus making it hard for the Wildcats to beat our NGM'ers. With Emily Streiff (28:21) and Dylan Noll (23:14) holding down our last two scoring positions we just edge out our B'ville neighbors and finish 7th overall. Today Sam Burgess (32:59) is our lone JV girl. A little sprint at the end allows her to stay under 33 minutes.
JV boys focus on Home School Eagles with our Garrett Grossen (20:02), Dane Duerst (20:52), Ben Lukszys (20:59), Beckett Malaise (21:17) and Simon Blohowiak (21:28) scoring for the team and defeating the Eagles with our score of 43 to their 87. However, Milton dominates by finishing with a surprisingly low 18 points. Again, we end up second.
Two middle school girls represent us today: Tenley Faber (13:58) and Whitney Disch (14:02) as they place 7th and 9th of 88 competitors.
The middle school boys are led by Tommy Nelson (11:31) who finishes in second place with Linden Lounsbury, Ian Schwartzlow, Ray Valentine, Carter Ness, and Landon Schneeberg as teammates. The young guys finish 7th of 11 teams.
Next Saturday our CC team faces a course we've never competed on: Boscobel. We're looking forward to everything about it - except leaving at 5:30 in the morning.
