Boy's Results: Granite City Invitational

I just wanted to start off telling you guys I am very proud of the way we competed this week. We have had a very intense three weeks of training to start the school year and have been pounded with four consecutive days approaching 100 degrees. Today we need to throw times out the window and look at effort. Our effort was there today.

Varsity Boys:

Team Scores:
1) Edwardsville: 78
2) O'Fallon: 94
3) McCluer North: 202
4) Mount Vernon: 209
5) Glenwood: 228

Comments: Congratulations on the victory, but remember O'Fallon was missing two guys off their varsity team. We need to run much harder and continue to improve for a chance to hoist a Conference, Regional, and/or Sectional Championship!!! I still think O'Fallon is ahead of us, but we are inching closer.

Individual Results:

1) Garrett Sweatt: 15:15
5) Chad Maxwell: 15:56
21) Brydon Groves-Scott: 16:52
25) Caden Cramsey: 17:04
26) Ryker Frohok: 17:05
35) Austin Abegg: 17:34
36) Joel Burroughs: 17:36

Congratulations to Garrett for winning the meet by 30 seconds. I think we could have pushed more for time, but it was still a good effort considering conditions. A couple of numbers that bother me: 1-5 split of 1:50!!! 1-7 Split of 2:21. I don't care how good Garrett is, that is unacceptable. If we want to make a statement at State this year, the 1-5 gap must close to 1:20. That does not mean Garrett slows down, but the rest of group has to step it up!!! A team effort with a 1-5 gap of greater than 1:20 will not win Conference, Regionals, or Sectionals.

Fresh/Soph:

Team Results:

1) O'Fallon: 44
2) Springfield: ?
3) Edwardsville: 9?
4) Sacred Heart Griffin: 12?
5) Glenwood: 14?

Evidently one of Springfield's runners was left out of scoring. Granite City should have updated results later. I was pleased with our front pack, but need to continue working.

Inviduals Results:
8) Wes Schoenthal: 17:44
13) James Mayfield: 17:48
17) Chris Miller: 18:00
18) Zain Pyarali: 18:06
33) Jacob Trueb: 18:39
29) Jay Lickert: 18:54
65) Allen Bilbruck: 20:25

Freshman and first year runners should be proud of their races. I know that last three weeks have been a rude, but necessary wake-up call to high school running.

Open Race Results:

Brendan Colligan: 17:47
Andrew Patterson: 18:38
Ben Gabel: 18:56
Collin Christ: 19:00
Mark O'Brien: 19:07
Zach Gabel: 19:17
Brad Wever: 19:25
Spencer Burkart: 19:30
Zach Bertels: 19:35
Alan Bonk: 19:42
Michael Stubban: 19:45
Josh Bertels: 20:04
Kurt Niemeyer: 20:13
Joe Shannon: 20:25
John Schoeberle: 20:33
Chandler Reed: 20:35
Dalton Masterson: 20:35
Brandon Sommer: 20:56
Prakash Kandula: 20:57
Nick Ferrari: 21:13
Hunter Hessler: 21:25
Joel MaGee: 21:41
Conner Dunaway: 21:50
Doug Jones: 23:18
Jack Cann: 23:40
Sam McKeehan: 24:03
Andy VanZandt: 24:11
Andrew Nolen: 24:46
John Brandenburg: 25:11
Jai Kansal: 25:17
Conner Jones: 28:20
MichaelPowell: 29:53
Matt Compton: 30:43
Chris McLaughlin: 34:14

I am proud of you guys. Keep up the hard work and you will see the results.

--Coach P.
Noah Knapp: 35:36