50th McQuaid Invite - 2014

Written by Reggie Henderson on . Posted in Cross Country

At Hilton's Glavin 2 mile last spring Corning freshmen Jessica Lawson nearly upset Katie Lembo with an amazing last lap kick.  Now this spring as a sophomore Lawson has truly come into her own winning the McQuaid Invite Girls Seeded Varsity AAA (3-mile) by over 30 seconds with the fastest time of the day for any race with an all-time course record of 16:43.3 good enough to rank 9th in the nation for the 3-mile.

Andrew Marston of Conestoga won the Boys Seeded Varsity AAA with a 14:31.3 which the fastest time of the day for any race.

Fayetteville-Manilus of Syracuse was the team to beat in both boys and girls.  Elmira’s girls beat Fayetteville-Manilus in the Girls Seeded Varsity AAA 67-71, but in the merged results F-M beat Elmira 107-108.  Elmira had the faster average time 18:04.4 to 18:05.8.  For the boys F-M won the Boys Seeded Varsity AAA and had the best scores and lowest times (15:03.06 average) in the merged results.

Among Section V runners the usual suspects were on top with Pittsford Mendon Boys taking 2nd in the Boys Seeded Varsity AA to Xavier of NYC in a tight finish of 87-89. Mendon was 7th overall in merged results. 

  2.    89  Pittsford Mendon               (15:50.7  79:13.4 0:25.7)
  1      9  Isaac Goodman               11 15:35.7
  2     15  Griffin Hess                11 15:46.7
  3     16  Evan Feigel                 12 15:48.3
  4     24  Kevin Dooley                12 16:01.3
  5     25  Henry Burton                11 16:01.4
  6   ( 28) David Azzara                12 16:03.7
  7   ( 75) Ryan Young                  11 17:11.0

While the boys top 7 shuffled around considerably since last week, the top Section V girl was still Alex Cooper of Rush-Henrietta taking 6th in the Girls Seeded Varsity AAA and 7th in the merged at 17:41.7.   Cooper was awarded the Katie Harper Memorial Plaque.  This week sophomore Anna Kostarellis of Churchville-Chili narrowed the gap between Cooper and the rest of Section V winning the Girls Unseeded Varsity AA-2 by over 50 seconds with a 17:48.0.  With sophomores in the 2nd, 3rd and 7th positions among top Section V girls fiinishers, the future looks strong! 

Girls 3 Mile - Merged
7    7 Alex Cooper         12  2 Rush-Henrietta          17:41.7  5:54         
10   10 Anna Kostarellis    10  2 Churchville-Chili       17:48.0  5:56     
20   19 Amanda Vestri       10  5 Webster Thomas          18:07.9  6:03          
26   25 Meghan Curtin       11  8 Wayland-Cohocton        18:19.5  6:07          
33   32 Mary Visca          12 17 Pittsford Sutherland    18:28.8  6:10 
35   34 Claire Miller       11 10 Penfield                18:31.1  6:11  
44   42 Sammy Watson        10  7 Rush-Henrietta          18:38.9  6:13  

This week Webster Thomas was the top Section V girls team taking 5th in the Girls Seeded Varsity AAA and 6th in merged results and they were the only team to manage a sub-19 average time at 18:57.9.

  5.   166  Webster Thomas                 (18:57.9  94:49.2 1:36.8)
  1     12  Amanda Vestri               10 18:07.9
  2     26  Claire Ashton               10 18:43.1
  3     32  Ellie Songer                11 18:47.7
  4     46  Alexandra Carpenter         11 19:25.8
  5     50  Brittany Mechler            12 19:44.7
  6   ( 70) Taylor Zeigler              10 20:10.6
  7   ( 73) Alena Wisniewski            10 20:16.8

Last week the top 7 Section V boys were Schmitt, Hess, Servos, Goodman, Burton, Glavin, Roach.  This week those results were completely shuffled and completely missing from last week was Nick Neamtu of Webster Thomas who came out decisively on top among Section V boys at McQuaid with a 15:03.6 which was nearly 30 seconds over the next best Section V boy Donovan Glavin of McQuaid Jesuit.  Neamtu was awarded the Charlie McMullen Memorial Plaque.

Section V Boys 3 Mile - Merged
11   11 Nick Neamtu         11  4 Webster Thomas          15:03.6  5:02    
25   24 Donovan Glavin      11  7 McQuaid Jesuit          15:30.3  5:11  
30   28 Drew Schmitt        11 11 Brighton                15:34.0  5:12  
36   34 Isaac Goodman       11 12 Pittsford Mendon        15:35.7  5:12 
42   40 Dawson Bathgate     11 14 East Rochester          15:38.5  5:13 
59   55 Griffin Hess        11 21 Pittsford Mendon        15:46.7  5:16
60   56 Everett Geiger      12 30 Caledonia-Mumford       15:47.1  5:16