SJA stayed closer to home this weekend participating in the McDonough Invitational in Cleveland Hts. The Jags had yet another strong day across the board as they finished 4th out of 19 teams in the varsity race, 2nd out of 8 teams in the JV race, and 3rd out of 16 teams in the open race.
In the varsity, the team used a strategy of sitting back for the first mile then moving up as the race progressed. This plan worked well as all 7 girls moved up in place the last 2 miles. Emily Bauer thrived the best moving up from 47th place to 12th by the time she finished. As she has the past 2 weeks, Alesha Vovk came across next with Mel Ward, Rachel McGuire, and Mallory Fahey close behind. Jill and Jess Bresnahan came across not much later to round at the varsity placers.
The JV team ran short-handed as a key runner had to stay home sick. Nonetheless the Jags battled hard for their 2nd place finish with junior Maddie Zimmerman finish as top Jaguar and 4th overall in the race. Rachel Cogar, Maeve Kroeger, Lauren Marconi, and Molly Moore were the other scorers for the team.
In the open, senior Helen Steve led early and held on for a 4th place finish. Running her best race of the year was freshman Katie Butterfield who finished 11th overall. Emma Stalder, Libby Pipak, and Sara Hurley were the next 3 finishers for SJA that contributed to the team score.
For her breakout race in the open competition, the team voted Katie Butterfield the team’s athlete of the meet. She ran a minute faster than her best time ever.
The team travels to Dayton next week for the annual All-Catholic Invitational.
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