Boardman McDonough recap

 

Boardman and McDonough recap

This past weekend the cross country team split up the squad and attended two separate meets.  The top 8 varsity runners woke up early to trek out to Boardman High School to run the Spartan Invitational, which is held on the same course as the post-season regional race.  Because of this, most of the best teams in NEO travel to this meet to get a preview of the course.  The Jags finished 9^th out of 35 teams – 3 of the teams that were ahead of the Jags were from Pennsylvania and West Virginia.  For the fourth race in a row, Ali Blouch was first across the line on the significantly long (over 5000m) course.  For her efforts running a strong second loop, Anna Duesenberg was named the team’s “athlete of the meet”.

The rest of the team stayed local by running at the 60^th McDonough Invitational hosted by VASJ at Forest Hills Park in Cleveland Hts.  Running against other teams varsity squads, our second unit performed admirably, finishing 5^th of 10 teams.  Junior Susie McGowan paced the varsity squad.

In the open race, it was a Jag festival (as usual) with over half the field being SJA runners.  Using smart tactics and team strategy, junior Clare McCarthy paced herself over the first half but stayed strong to finish first overall in the race.  The Jags had 10 of the top 13 finishers with Maeve Kelly ’25 finishing 3rd Grace Harris ’25 4th, Morgan Rudolph ’22 – 5^th, Kate Mocho ’25 – 6^th, Bridget Mullen ’25 – 9^th, Monica Saurette ’24 – 10^th, Bridget Collins ’24 – 11^th, Isabella Bobe ’22 – 12^th, and Clare Jordan ’22 – 13^th.

The JV will head to Black River next week to again race as a varsity while the top 8 sit out to take a break from racing for a week.