As the picture at the top shows it was a mud-fest at Gilmour! In a reflection of the weather that forced Monday's practice inside and Tuesday's practice onto the track, the rain hit Gilmour once again causing times to be forgotten, along with a few shoes...
SJA has been bitten by the injury and illness bug. The fact the team was able to muster a 6th place finish out of 14 teams is a reflection of the team's depth and commitment. As typical for Gilmour a team "pack" strategy was employed in which the whole varsity was supposed to stay together for one full loop on the two-loop course. For the most part the gang was together after a loop, then the top 3 in particular went crazy moving up from around 50th place to finish 10th (Mary Kate Chambers), 11th (Rachel McGuire), and 12th (Emily Bauer). Maddie Zimmerman, bumped up from JV to varsity just a couple of hours earlier actually finished as 4th runner with Jessica Bresnahan being 5th.
In the JV race, the boys and girls were combined in an effort to save daylight and temperature. This combining of races caused some problems as 11 SJA girls did not get their chips put on their shoes properly thus they did not show up in the race. Mallory Fahey, clearly second overall in the girls race did not show up in the results, but ran a very strong race. Molly Moore moved up nicely after the mile mark to finish as 4th girl, but again she did not have a chip on as well. The first "chipped" SJA girl was Helen Steve who finished 5th officially. The JV team, officially, was 6th, but if all our girls had been counted they would have won the title. I am still looking for those 11th girls to tell me where they were in the race so I can email the race director and maybe have those results inserted.
Team results not posted yet.
Gilmour results can be found on baumspage.
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