Chris will represent Aquinas in the conference meet this morning at Riverside at 11.

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Want to know how it went down? Ask the guy who finished fifth, he relaxed for a second and Tony and the others hit the “gas”. Tony ran perhaps his perfect race to win the title.

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Clearly establishing herself as the unquestioned second fastest girl in WC history, Olivia Sydow finished fourth overall today at MIS.

Photo

The girls team ran to a tenth place finish.

Sydow’s cousin Mike took 39th in the boys D4 race by the way.

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Tony Schafer blew by the field in the last mile and extended his lead in the final 400 meters to secure the victory. Only the second WC athlete to win a state championship in cross country, he was fifth overall based on time.

The team wound up in fifth place.

FREEP Article

Photo of the top three comparing notes.

Tony in the final stretch.

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Quotes both Tony and Olivia and Sparta gives us some love for helping them with their conference title on the girls side. WC boys held off a fast charging Cedar team on the boys side. Nice pictures of them in the print edition too.

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The girls cross country team brought their attitude yesterday to Cedar Springs and knocked off FHN to avenge their regular season loss. They finished ten points behind Sparta who ran a great race. Final score, Sparta 43, West 53, FHN 68, Cedar 113 and then everybody else.

Winning the overall OK Blue individual title was Senior Olivia Sydow who finishes her OK Blue season undefeated!

Also placing for the Falcons were:
5. Olivia. Quam
9. Kelsey. Carpenter
16. Katie. Sochacki
22. Jill. Pindar
23. Sarah. Thimmesch
and
25. Erika. Buczkowski

Based upon their finishes, it appears that both Sydow and Quam will earn first team all conference and Carpenter will earn honorable mention all conference honors.

Excellent first season in the Blue for the Lady Falcons.

Full results are here:

michigancrosscountry.com

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Boys Varsity at 4:30
Girls Varsity at 5:00
All Reserves at 5:30

Cedar View Elementary same as the third dual of the season.

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Reserve Girls:
Sarah Thimmesch West Catholic 11 F 22:51 9
Samantha Steffens West Catholic 12 F 23:13 13
Amy Russo West Catholic 12 F 24:19:00 35
Anna June Leikert West Catholic 11 F 24:19:00 37
McKenzie Iacovoni West Catholic 9 F 24:30:00 43
Carleigh Meyers West Catholic 10 F 24:46:00 48
Betsy Bildner West Catholic 10 F 25:31:00 61
Katie Russo West Catholic 11 F 25:33:00 62
Ashley Smith West Catholic 9 F 25:34:00 63
Tiffany Boorsma West Catholic 10 F 26:01:00 70

Varsity finishes in 5th Place in a tougher meet than years past.

Foxes & Hounds Invitational
Final Team Results
October 11, 2008

Jackson Lumen Christi 1
B.C. Lakeview 2
East Grand Rapids 3
West Ottawa 4
GR West Catholic 5
Wayland Union 6
B.C. Pennfield 7
Unity Christian 8
Jenison 9
Zeeland West 10
Cedar Springs 11
Paw Paw 12
Parchment 13
Concord 14
Hopkins 15
Hackett Catholic Central 16
Galesburg-Augusta 17
Lake Michigan Catholic 18
Gobles Inc.
Heritage Christian Inc.
Benton Harbor H/S Inc.

Name Place Cum Time Differential Corrected
1 Olivia Sydow 9 21:43.1 120 19:43.1
2 Olivia Quam 29 22:14.0 100 20:34.0
3 Kelsey Carpenter 34 22:32.2 80 21:22.2
4 Jill Pindar 37 22:41.1 40 22:01.1
5 Katie Sochacki 59 23:15.5 60 22:15.5
6 Erika Buczkowski 48 23:00.9 20 22:40.9
7 Katie Townsend 71 23:47.4 0 23:47.4

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Girls only:
10:10am Women’s Varsity - All Divisions
10:45am Men’s & Women’s JV Race - All Divisions

http://www.hackettcrosscountry.com/index_files/foxes.htm

See their website for details.

For directions, basically it is just north and east of 131 intersecting with I94 as shown here. Distance wise it is exactly the same as Portage, just north instead of south of 131.

Go 131 South to I94 East to Oakland North to Kilgore East to the road. There is some parking in front of the school. You can also park just east of the school on the residential streets.

We plan to board the bus and depart fairly quickly after the warm down.

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This article mentions both Tony and Olivia who both took third place in their respective divisions. Well done by both of them.

The boys order of team finish was:
Hillsdale 79
shepherd 130
Whitmore Lake 132
Bangor 135
West Catholic 170 - fifth of 28 full teams
Calvin Christian 178
Allendale 207
Jackson Lumen Christi 208
Elk Rapids 239
Albion 250
Durand 258
Kent City 319
Hackett Catholic Central 319
Schoolcraft 385
Delton 389
Stockbridge 411
Wauseon 497
Parchment 501
Constantine 516
Newaygo 546
Manistee 580
Coloma 608
Morley Stanwood 657
Hartford 688
Hopkins 689
Holton 748
Kalamazoo Christian 778
Berrien Springs 812

Order of Girls Team Finish:
Jackson Lumen Christi 71
Allendale 88
Kent City 132
Wauseon 154
Schoolcraft 160
Elk Rapids 186
West Catholic 207 - seventh of 29 teams
Stockbridge 281
Hillsdale 285
Whitmore Lake 365
Buchanan 372
Parchment 390
Kalamazoo Christian 431
Albion 458
Shepherd 468
Calvin Christian 474
Bangor 491
Hackett Catholic Central 503
Manistee 523
Hartford 530
Morley Stanwood 536
Delton 571
Coloma 603
Berrien Springs 606
Hopkins 612
Grass Lake 626
Galesburg-Augusta 661
Newaygo 722
Lee 728

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Girls:
Olivia Sydow 12 3 Gr West Catholic 18:53
Olivia Quam 11 3 Gr West Catholic 20:20
Kelsey Carpenter 11 3 Gr West Catholic 21:07
Katie Sochacki 11 3 Gr West Catholic 21:40
Jill Pindar 11 3 Gr West Catholic 21:55
Erika Buczkowski 10 3 Gr West Catholic 22:12
Katie Townsend 11 3 Gr West Catholic 22:24
Anna June Leikert 11 3 Gr West Catholic 22:42
Sarah Thimmesch 11 3 Gr West Catholic 23:05
Amy Russo 12 3 Gr West Catholic 23:17
McKenzie Iacovoni 9 3 Gr West Catholic 23:30
Carleigh Meyers 10 3 Gr West Catholic 23:41
Ashley Smith 9 3 Gr West Catholic 23:51
Larissa Copeland 9 3 Gr West Catholic 24:21
Katie Russo 11 3 Gr West Catholic 25:36
Betsy Bildner 10 3 Gr West Catholic 26:25
Rachel McGuinness 12 3 Gr West Catholic 28:38

Boys:
Tony Schafer 12 3 Gr West Catholic 15:49
Zeke Timmer 10 3 Gr West Catholic 17:04
Steve Sterkenburg 12 3 Gr West Catholic 17:10
Caleb Teachout 10 3 Gr West Catholic 17:25
Austin Jacobson 9 3 Gr West Catholic 17:44
Brendan Miller 12 3 Gr West Catholic 17:45
Ian Rheault 12 3 Gr West Catholic 17:57
Kevin Royce 12 3 Gr West Catholic 17:57
Erik Schmidt 12 3 Gr West Catholic 17:59
Brian Royce 9 3 Gr West Catholic 18:10
Christian Teachout 9 3 Gr West Catholic 18:15
Andy Szumski 10 3 Gr West Catholic 18:25
John Blankenmeir 10 3 Gr West Catholic 18:29
Joel Gravelyn 9 3 Gr West Catholic 19:09
Conor Edgar 10 3 Gr West Catholic 19:23
Kenny Hager 10 3 Gr West Catholic 19:56
Kolbe Schmidt 9 3 Gr West Catholic 20:16
Mike Harmon 10 3 Gr West Catholic 20:17
Chris Ford 9 3 Gr West Catholic 20:49
Alex Colon 9 3 Gr West Catholic 20:52
John Faski 11 3 Gr West Catholic 20:59
Joe Faski 9 3 Gr West Catholic 22:48

Finishers from WC in the Open:
48 7056 Don Passenger 48 GRAND RAPIDS 6:52 6:39 20:36.8
90 7139 Sterkenberg Paul 50 GRAND RAPIDS 7:45 7:43 23:40.3

Full Results are available at PortageInvite.com

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The bus leaves at 6:55 sharp! It goes both ways.

Best way to go is 131 South to Centre Avenue, left to Moorsbridge and left on Moorsbridge to the school. You’ll know you are there by the huge crowds. They have some parking for a few $ or you can park in the surrounding residential neighborhoods and walk in. It is not uncommon to park a mile away. It’s a zoo. See the map on The Portage Site. Check that site as the week develops as they update it in case of traffic issues later in the week. Parking is also very full there, so leave early and wear walking shoes. This is one of the neatest races we go to and the girls should really have some fun.

Coaches 8:15 come laugh at us
Boys 9:30 varsity
Girls 10:30 varsity
Boys Reserve 11:00
Girls Reserve 11:30

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32 1005 Monica Kinney 19:22 6:14

Nice Run by Monica. Her high school pr was 20:06.

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Sydow and Schafer established themselves as the number two runners ever on Belding’s Lightening Bend Park.

Full Results

WC Girls Times:
Olivia. Sydow (12) 18:39.1
Olivia. Quam (11) 20:04.9
Kelsey. Carpenter (11) 21:04.2
Katie. Sochacki (11) 21:28.5
Jill. Pindar (11) 21:39.7
Sarah. Thimmesch (11) 21:46.5
Erika. Buczkowski (10) 21:51.1
Katie. Townsend (11) 22:42.0
Anna June Leikert (11) 22:57.8
Samantha. Steffens (12) 22:59.3
Amy. Russo (12) 24:00.1
McKenzie Iacovoni (09) 24:18.9
Katie. Russo (11) 25:20.5
Carleigh. Meyers (10) 25:22.4
Brittany Pasikowski (11) 25:23.4
Melissa Harmon (12) 26:26.8
Tiffany. Boorsma (10) 26:27.3
Ashley Smith (09) 27:54.2
Larissa Copeland (09) 27:56.7
Rachel McGuinness (12) 28:25.4

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google maps - try 1200 Merrick Street - don’t use google’s directions per Belding’s coach

FROM: Grand Rapids AREA:

take Belding Road EAST (also known as M-44) all the way to Belding
as you come to the edge of town you will pass a Burger King and then a Subway and then a BC Pizza - keep going until Bridge Street
take M-44 EAST to Bridge Street (Marathon and Wesco on the corner and the one traffic light that is in town)
turn LEFT onto Bridge Street and NORTH for 8 blocks to Congress Street
turn RIGHT onto Congress St. and go EAST for three blocks
at the deadend turn LEFT onto Wilson St. and go NORTHEAST (I don’ think there is a street sign)
as you go over the river the street changes names to Ashfield Street
go up the steep hill (you are heading north) for three blocks
turn RIGHT onto Merrick Street and go EAST for three long blocks to the park; d

The park is just past the intersection of Gooding and Merrick, it is across the street from Belding Tank Technologies (a huge underground tank storage company, they own the land on the front half of the park). The entrance to the park is on the 1200 block of Merrick Street.

Map: http://www.bas-k12.org/uploads/documents/directions_lightningbend-map(1).pdf

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Sympathy to you Tony at the loss of your Grandmother!

The boys had a good day at Carson City taking second in the boys freshman race and third in the varsity race against bigger opponents.

Varsity Results

Freshman Results

Dream Race (combining all times on the day … remember it’s just imaginary)

The rest of the boys traveled cross town to Union where they met some pretty stiff competition.
Redhawk Invitational

At Union

Team scores

West Ottawa 30, Byron Center 35, East Kentwood 102, Wayland 109, West Catholic 160, Northview 173, Rogers 177, Creston 203, Comstock Park 243, Ottawa Hills 247, Union 250.

WEST CATHOLIC–21. Schmidt 19:09; 29. Szumski 19:53; 28. Blakemeier 20:55; 36. Pawlaski 19:31; 26. Edgar 20:52.

Nice job by that group of kids. Remember too that Union is a very tough course finishing up the great big hill south of the track! Try that at the end of 5K, in fact, just try that fresh …

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The girls had a great day on Saturday with 12 of 19 athletes running season personal records on Saturday and two running career pr’s. For Anna Leikert it was great to see her break a time achieved in 2006 after being injured some in 2007 she is back to health and about to leap forward it appears. Sarah Thimmesch also set a career pr on Saturday, eclipsing the mark established by her just one week earlier at the Cougar Falcon Invite.

Full results are here:
michigancrosscountry.com/

Our times were:

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Only the girls! Boys are splitting between Union High School and Carson City (where 46 ranked teams are competing!).

This year the girls run at 9:45. We will ride the bus both ways. Leave WC at 8:00 sharp. We will be back at WC before noon.

To get there, take 96 West.
Get off at Fruitport Exit.
Go South on Airline Road/3rd Street through Fruitport
Turn right at the south end of town on Park Street which will become Fruitport Road. Near corner is 5/3rd Bank Branch and far corner is a park.
Take that to the park on your right side about three or four miles down, more or less.

Click for Map on Google.

Click for Map

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“Tony Schafer from West Catholic, he has always beaten me by a ton, but every race I go out and my goal is to beat him. I want to stick with him as long as I can.” Jimmy is a great kid.

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Congratulations to Olivia Sydow and Tony Schafer who both set meet records on the course today. Special thanks to Rockford Cross Country for allowing us to use their course.

West Catholic High School ET MANAGER 2:02 PM 9/20/2008 Page 1
2007 Cougar Falcon Invite - 9/22/2007
East Rockford Middle School
Rankings
Event 2 Boys 5k Run CC Varsity
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Name Year School Finals Points
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Varsity Results
1 Schafer, Tony 12 West Catholic 15:52.1 1
2 McKeiver, Jimmy 12 GR Catholic Central 16:41.1 2
3 Peterson, Kevin 12 Grand Rapids 17:00.5 3
4 Warner, Zach 10 Portage Central 17:03.9 4
5 Doornbos, Eric 12 Grand Rapids 17:05.4 5 Read more…

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