Cross Country Regional held at Benzie

10/30/04

On what started out as a nice morning with temperature near 50 degrees, the girls got ready to run at 10:00 a.m. As their race progressed along came the winds and they really started to blow as people hurried to take all the team tents down in a hurry before they blew away.

The BL/OHS/MCC girls had five girls to run today. They put out a great effort as our girls closed out a good season under new head coach Ms. Kelly Schultz

In the Girls Team Event:

  • 1st Traverse City St. Francis 46 points and Regional Champs,
  • 2nd place Glen Lake 79 points
  • 3rd MCE 84 points
  • 8th place BL/OHS with 182 points

You had to be in the top 15 to qualify for state. Senior Jackie Bladzik came in 19th with a time of 22:23, 28th Ronnie Maidens 23:24, 39th Senior Ashley Zupin 24:19, 52nd Carmen Hayes 27:02 and 64th Cali Schoedel 34:23

Congratulations to the girls on a good season and especially to our 2 Seniors Ashley Zupin and Jackie Bladzik for your great efforts and rewards you have given us in your High School careers. Ashley has been to the state finals 3 times as a team member and been named all conference 1st team all 4 years. This is Jackie's 3rd year in our Co-op and she has been to the state finals twice as a team member and been 1st team all conference 3 years. Jackie as just recently been accepted to attend U/M next fall. Congratulations girls we will miss both of you next year. Enjoy the rest of your Senior year.

As our BL/OHS boys got ready to run at 11:00 a.m. the wind was blowing quite hard and rain clouds were overhead, but our boys were ready to go at the sound of the officials gun.

The team results in Division 4 are:

  • 1st place BL/OHS and REGIONAL CHAMPIONS with 50 points
  • 2nd place Hersperia 60 points and
  • 3rd place MCE with 71 points

All 3 of these teams get to go to the State finals next weekend at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn MI. The Boys Divisional 4 Finals will be at 11:30 a.m.

Overall finish for our Regional Champions:

  • 1st place overall with a great run was Josh Groenwald 16:51 MEDAL,
  • 5th Nick Swisher 17:34 MEDAL,
  • 8th Senior Luke Allen 17:44 MEDAL,
  • 17th Jordan Maxey 18:07,
  • 19th Ryan Brown 18:09,
  • 23rd Nate Milarch 18:17,
  • 31st Andy Desmarais 18:39

Great Job boys and Coach Dal Townsend on a SUPER job today and GOOD LUCK next weekend at the State Finals. Also to our other Seniors who finished their season Tuesday at Gaylord: Senior Josh Vertalka, Mike Coryell and Jordon Wilson. Congratulation guys on a great season

Barb, between Bonnie and my pictures you will have lots of pictures to look at as we have pictures of the boys with their regonal trophy.

Main Cross Country Page

Our reporter Dennis Zupin with daughter Ashley

Main Cross Country Page

Additional pictures on this page were submitted by Brian Allan and Bonnie Brown.

Main Onekama School Page: http://www.onekama.k12.mi.us