Cross Country for Fall 2005

What started out as a cool morning at WSCC for the Ludington Briggs True Value Invitational turned into a warm day by the time they got to the JR. High and open race about noon. When the Varsity boys started the morning off at 9:45 a.m. it was nice morning for running.

There were 20 teams for the Varsity Boys. They had teams from all 4 division and all 4 division ran together. When the gun went off, 140 boys took off. Their overall finish will be in parentheses [1] and their division 4 finish will be next The BL/OHS boys took 1st place in division 4 with 23 points 2nd MCE 45 and 3rd Hart with 52 points there finish is as follows. The Boys got a nice 1st place trophy. (Ryan Brown and Jordan Maxey didn't run due to injuries)

[6th] 1st Josh Groenwald 17:01 Medal
[14th] 2nd Nick Swisher 17:43 Medal
[32nd] 5th Nate Milarch 18:20 Medal
[62nd] 8th Shawn Gonyon 19:18 Medal
[92nd] 15th John Evans 20:15 Medal
[102nd] 19th Jaron Liewellyn 20:34
[114th] 20th Donovan Alkire 21:23

In the BL/OHS girls Varsity race, the girls finished 3rd with 72 points. MCE was 1st with 46 points, 2nd was Hart with 64 points. They also had all 4 division run together, and there were 131 runners total. Plus a deer got scared up in this race and didn't know where to go as there were people all over the place. First it slowed down a couple of runners, then it showed them how fast they should run if they wanted to finish first, as it headed for the woods.

[57th] 4th Shelby Sidor 23:57 Medal
[94th] 12th Ronnie Maidens 26:37 Medal
[101st] 15th Courtney Swisher 27:45 Medal
[115th] 20th Carmen Hayes 29:20
[116th] 21st Cali Schodel 29:33

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In the JV Boys and Girls race they put all the runners together and didn't split it up by division. There were no BL/OHS girls that ran. The boys finished 10th overall as a team with 265 points. All upper division schools were in ahead of them. Charlevoix won it with 44 point, 2nd was Fremont 56 points and Benzie Central finished 5th with 111 points. There were 177 runners total in this race.

25th Andy Desmarais 20:47 ribbon
54th Mark Markiewicz 22:30 ribbon
70th Nick Schmoke 22:03 ribbon
79th Nick Bradford 24:06 ribbon
86th Justin Zupin 24:45 ribbon

In the Junior High race they also put all 4 division together and the girls and boys ran together. They took the top five runners from each team for their score --could either it be a boy or girl. And our Junior High kids did a great job as they finished 4th overall. All upper division teams finished ahead of them. Fremont was 1st with 51 points, 2nd Ludington 75 points, 3rd Whitehall 88, 4th BL/OHS 97 and 5th Benzie Central 134 points and 7th was MCE with 154 points. BL/OHS own Chuck Schodel was the 1st runner to cross the finish line in a great run. Ryan Pienta and Danny Brown were in the top 12 out of 194 runners Congratulations to all the Junior High runners as they did a great job today. Here is their order of finish as they only run about 2.1 miles

1st Chuck Schodel 12:26 Medal
7th Ryan Pienta 13:09 Medal
12th Danny Brown 13:19 Medal
35th Bartlet Lewis 14:56 ribbon
75th Katherine Schmoke 16:47 Medal
95th Brandon Clark 17:42 ribbon
104th Kaitlin Matesich 18:19 ribbon
121st Braden Bowling 19:38 ribbon {This was Braden 1st cross country race}

In the Open Class Jerry Brown, Bonnie Brown and Kelly Schultz all got medals for their run.
Reported by Dennis Zupin / Photos by Bonnie Brown & Dennis