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Cross-Country Meet August 23 Another Cross-Country season got started Saturday morning for the Bear Lake/Onekama/MCC boys and girls teams as they took part in the Benzie Central Invitational with 12 teams competing in Division 3 & 4. We are a Division 4 school. In order to run as a team you need 5 runners and each team can have up to 7 runners the first 5 to finish count and the team with the lowest scores wins. Each member runs 3.1 miles. The boys will run first this year. |
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For the Girls they took home the Runner Up Trophy finishing 2nd behind Division 3 school Elk Rapids and beating one of their main foes this year Traverse City St. Francis. 1st Elk Rapids 66 points; 2nd BL/OHS/MCC 87 points; and close behind 3rd place Traverse City St. Francis 92 points. All five girls got medals. 2nd Erica Jach 20:25; 5th Sam Mitchell 21:04; 21st Jackie Bladzik 22:2; 29th Elsie Ocelnik 22:49; 30th Ashley Zupin 22:49; 36th Renee Pienta 23:08; and 39th Sam Bladzik 23:28 |
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At Benzie they gave medals out to the top 30 finishers in the Varsity boys & girls. At the sound of the gun at 9:00 a.m. the boys were off on a great morning for a CC meet. The BL/OHS/MCC boys cruised to a easy 1st place finish and Trophy with all five top finishers getting a medal First BL/OHS/MCC 50 points; 2nd Pine River 92 points; 3rd Belding 93 points. For the boys 3rd Luke Allen 17:32; 6th Josh Groenwald 18:04; 8th Nate Milarch 18:15; 13th Casey Pomery 18:26; 20th Nick Swisher 18:53; 34th Dan Diesing 19:41: and 39th Alex Savory 19:53 |
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In a Junior
Varsity race for the boys runners were Kellen Story,
Jackson Carter, Jordon Wilson and Mike Coryrell and for
the girls Lauren Schmoke. I didn't get their times.
Congratulations to the boys and girls on a great start to a new season and to Coach Del Townsend. …Dennis Zupin, reporter and photographer |
