McQuaid Invite 2016

Written by Reggie Henderson on . Posted in Cross Country

Vestri and Lawler Shine at McQuaid

Webster Thomas and Penfield have top team showings

Amanda Vestri blazed a 17:03.1 at McQuaid to place 2nd in merged result and lead Webster Thomas to 4th.  Vestri had over 20 seconds of separation between herself and the next finisher in the field of 2,429 with Anna Kostarellis of Churchville-Chili and Madeleine Shellard of Irondequoit taking 3rd and 4th over all merged results to give Section V girls one of their strongest McQuaid Invite showings ever.

The following results are the top Section V runners based on merged, regardless of which particular race.  Section V’s top 7 boys and girls were all within the top 1% of the finishers.

Penfield, Pittsford Mendon, and Hilton placed both their boys and girls teams in the top 7.

Girls Individual (out of 2,429 finishers)

1.       1. Amanda Vestri, Webster Thomas, 17:03.1 (2)

2.       2. Anna Kostarellis, Churchville-Chili, 17:26.0 (3)

3.      3. Madeleine Shellard, Irondequoit, 17:28.1 (4)

4.       4. Sammy Watson, Rush-Henrietta, 18:02.2 (13)

5.       5. Hayleigh Palotti, Livonia, 18:02.6 (14)

6.       6. Claire Ashton, Webster Thomas, 18:07.3 (17)

7.       7. Bailey Pierce, Rush-Henrietta, 18:08.9 (18)

Girls Teams (out of 159 complete teams)

1.       1. Webster Thomas, 316, 18:31.6 (4)

2.       2. Rush-Henrietta, 506, 18:58.3 (9)

3.       3. Fairport, 732, 19:27.4 (15)

4.       4. Canandaigua, 764, 19:22.9 (17)

5.       5. Pittsford Mendon, 887, 19:37.9 (21)

6.       6. Penfield, 901, 19:38.4 (22)

7.       7. Hilton, 931, 19:37.8 (23)

For the boys Nathan Lawler placed 3rd and matching the results from Wayne, Paul Dellinger of Brighton was 2nd and Tyler Senall of Penfield was 3rd among Secton V runners. EXCEPT... this week Payton Gleason of Churchville-Chili joined the trinity getting the same time as Senall. Penfield was the top Section V boys team at 8th out of 200 complete teams.

Boys Individual (out of 3,293 finishers)

1.      1. Nathan Lawler, Pittsford Mendon, 14:51.1 (3)

2.       2. Paul Dellinger, Brighton, 15:02.7 (9)

3.       3. Tyler Senall, Penfield, 15:17.7 (21)

4.       4. Payton Gleason, Churchville Chili, 15:17.7 (22)

5.       5. Jonah Simpson, Brighton, 15:22.7 (26)

6.       6. Nicholas Andrews, Brockport, 15:23.8 (27)

7.       7. Ryan Thompson, Irondequoit, 15:27.8 (31)

Boys Teams (out of 200 complete teams)

1.       1. Penfield, 449, 15:50.8 (8)

2.       2. McQuaid Jesuit, 606, 16:03.1 (11)

3.       3. Pittsford Mendon, 639, 15:57.3 (13)

4.       4. Brockport, 684, 16:01.3 (16)

5.       5. Brighton, 721, 15:59.6 (18)

6.       6. Hilton, 766, 16:09.5 (19)

7.       7. Churchville, 825, 16:10.9 (20)