Amazing when you take your second varsity group and race them against 12 teams — and come up 5th. The Allegan crew ran well and has a lot to be proud of.

Results are up here: http://michigancrosscountry.com/michigan_track_cross_country_forum/showthread.php?tid=1110

And of course I have added them to Athletic.net as well.

We didn’t fare as well as one would have hoped at Portage, perhaps a combination of several things, homecoming, getting absolutely wrecked on a tree by the field at the bottom of the first hill (we had nowhere to run and several girls were pinched off, knocked down, spiked — but fortunately unlike the girl from Whitehall, we were able to get up and run even if our rhythm was a bit disrupted), etc. The bottom line is that come regional meet, it won’t matter what our story is, we finish in the top three or our season ends. We were fourth among our regional teams on Saturday with EGR and GR Christian finishing one, two and Holland Christian finishing 11th, one place in front of us (and by a fair margin). So we have work to do.

http://highschoolsports.mlive.com/news/article/8028623753604673820/dexter-and-milan-impress-at-portage-invitational/

And of course full results are here:

Active.com - Official Results

and on Athletic.net.

We did celebrate a few season and career PR’s if you look at the season summary.

Kelsey Carpenter 20:31.2 - one second career PR.

Larissa Copeland 21:39.5 - nearly 30 second career PR.

Rachel Dolphin 25:53.9 - three minute career PR!

Posted on October 11th, 2009 by site admin
Filed under: General, races - results