2019 Regionals – Benzie Central

Cool, light breeze, good footing on course.

Lots of PRs today

The girls started things off with a solid run placing 6^th, with 149 points.  Taylor Mater (So) got out at the tail end of the lead pack, while Leah Converse (Jr) was out in the top 1/3^rd.  The rest of the girls were in the middle of the field.  As the race progressed Taylor slowly picked through the leaders moving up into 4^th.  Leah was fighting hard to hold her position after going out a little to fast, while Erin Norton (Jr), Morgan Best (Fr), Taava Johnson (So), Lauren Boerger (Sr), and Annika Tuls (Sr) were moving up.  At about the half way point of the race Annika flipped a switch and really started moving aggressively.  She probably moved from about 60^th to 33^rd by the end of the race.  We ran solid over the 3^rd mile with Taylor closing on 3^rd but not quite getting there and the rest of the girls grouping up in the 30s and 40s.

4^th Taylor Mater PR – All-Region, State Qualifier Indv.

33^rd Annika Tuls PR

35^th Leah Converse SR

37^th Erin Norton PR

40^th Morgon Best PR

47^th Taava Johnson

49^th Lauren Boerger PR

The boys continued to look strong winning the meet with 18 points and qualifying for the State Finals as a team..  Our top 5 separated quickly with Petoskey’s #1 runner in the mix.  Nathan Walker (Jr) spent the meet chasing the lead cart to a winning time of 14:52.8, missing Dathan Ritzenhien’s course record by about 3 seconds.  Conor Somers (So) ran solo in 2^nd for most of the race.  Josh Zerfas (Jr), Ben Paige (Jr) and Adam Ward (Jr) ran pretty close together chasing Petoskey in 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th.  They raced well over the last 1000 with Ben almost catching Petoskey to place 4^th, and Adam and Josh battling over the last 200 to place 5^th and 6^th.  Mikko Vesma (Sr) had his fastest start of the season and was in 15^th at the mile.  He worked his way up to 11^th at the 2 mile and had a great finish to place 7^th.  Colton Best (Jr) had a little more conservative start, but moved up steadily through the first 2 miles, then ran a great 3^rd mile to place 11^th.

 1^st Nathan Walker PR – All-Region

2^nd Conor Somers PR – All-Region

4^th Ben Paige PR – All-Region

5^th Adam Ward PR – All-Region

6^th Josh Zerfas PR – All-Region

7^th Mikko Vesma PR – All-Region

11^th Colton Best SR – All-Region

Varsity Results - https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/155887/results

PROM Results, We were PROM 2 - https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/167439/results

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