2023 Hill and Bale Invitational

Mid to uppper 60s and calm

The girls varsity started off the day with some great individual performances.  The team placed 6^th with 103 points.  Fruitport won with 50 points.  Sophomore Linnea Paige put herself in the lead pack early and continued to run tough as the pack split up to run a SR (season record), place 4th, and run over a minute faster than she did last year.  Joelle Patten (so) also got out well and ran a complete race to record an improvement of over 2 minutes compared to last year.  Elise Pfeiffer (Sr) 4 minutes, Rachel Maddox (Jr) 3 minutes, and Rocquel Richards (So) 2 minutes recorded those improvements over their race at the Hill and Bale last year.  Kira Manchip used her hurdling skills to run a 3 minute season Pr.  In the Girls JV race both Liv Stroven (jr) and Jessie Kendziorski ran Prs.

The boys placed 2^nd to Allendale with 66 points.  Sean Pettis (Sr) took the lead at the 1000 and never looked back, running a very strong 16:35 for the win.  Carter Sherman continues his strong start to the season placing 6^th  with a season record.  Issac Romero (So) was our other medalist, placing 13th.  Blake Taylor (Jr) had a solid race coming back from a sore leg with a conservative start.  Cole Lowery (Jr) and Chase Lower (So) both ran a season record, with Freshman Mossen Green scoring a Pr in his first varsity invitational.  In the boys JV race Evan Christoffersen (Fr) had a break through race to place 2^nd as he moved up well over the second half of the race.  Brandon Rasmussen (Jr) ran a season record.

A lot of people put in a lot of work to make this event a success.  My wife Trisha, Coach Hamilton and her family, Coach Wheater, our Maintenance staff, Athletic Department, Administrators, FFA program, Frau and The Captain, and parent and community volunteers, make this a great event.  We couldn't do it without them.  

Thank you to everyone and I apololgize for anyone I may have missed.

Full results can be found here -   https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/221073/info

Our next race is a conference race at Montague on Tuesday.

Coach