Lakers sweep top
spots at first jamboree
Manistee News
Advocate
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
WALKERVILLE — The
Bear Lake cross country team kicked
off competition in the West Michigan
D League in familiar fashion by
sweeping the top spots in a jamboree
at Walkerville on Wednesday.
The Bear Lake girls
and boys both won while John Girven
and Keena Gilbert took the top spots
individually.
“They did well,” said
Bear Lake coach Tony Shrum. “We have
three elements to our program for
training. We do endurance, we do
strength and we do speed. We did an
endurance workout on Monday, we did
a strength workout on Tuesday and
with the race on Wednesday, they had
their speed workout.”
The Bear Lake girls,
who had seven of the top eight
runners, narrowly missed a perfect
score and finished first with 17
points.
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Gilbert led the way with a time of 21:50, followed by
teammates Faith Moerdyk (second, 22:42), McKaya Groenwald (third,
22:55), Kelly Babcock (fifth, 23:23), Alycia Peterson (sixth, 23:35),
Meredith Hengy (seventh, 24:35) and Alyson Fink (eighth, 24:40).
The Bear Lake boys also finished comfortably in first
with a score of 22 and placed six in the top 10.
Girven crossed the finish line first in 18:28, followed
by Shane Peterson (third, 19:27), Jordan Anderson (fourth, 19:38), Jared
Bair (sixth, 19:57), John Schoedel (eighth, 20:19) and Cole Verrett
(20:20).
Both the boys and girls were missing one of their top
runners, but it didn’t have an impact on the jamboree as the Lakers
competed for the first time since the Pete Moss Invitational at Benzie
Central on Aug. 25.
“It was a good opportunity for them to get another race
under their belt,” Shrum said. “It’s a pretty cool course with a lot of
twists and turns, a lot of ups and downs, so it’s not an incredibly fast
course, as evidenced by the times.” |