We knew the course was tough. We didn’t know our own team was tougher. Proving to be Warriors once again, the team was determined to pack up and race brilliantly on the legendary 5K course. 13 medals, every frosh soph runner ran a PR mile pace, and we finished as the best 2A school in the meet once again.
Richtman overcame two falls on the course to start scoring with a second place finish. Daniel Occhipinti landed a Top 20 finish with 17th overall, and was followed by our first big wave of finishers.
Aidan Lodwig, Sam Webster, and Jacob Wielgos finished 0.7 seconds apart, to complete our scoring and accomplish our first milestone of the season (3-5, sub :20, two meets in a row). Webster surged from 10 seconds down at the end of the race. Heiser came in 23 seconds later, good for 44th.
Finn and Petrik paired up and ran two seconds apart with Fin running a better mile pace than Tuesday, which is quite a feat!
Drew Occhipinti led another wave of checkerboard Knights when he out-leaned Orczykowski, just one second ahead of Purcell. Finishing in waves like this is breathtaking and exciting to watch because it shows that you all teamed up throughout the race to work with one another. Drew ran a PR mile pace, on the rolling Veteran’s Acres. Matt Konrad improved his mile pace by 11 seconds per mile with a gritty effort and strong finishing kick.
Our Frosh Soph crew managed to have every single runner net a new PR mile pace for the season, despite the hills. Neal surged and passed all race long to finish 14th overall. Seth Nosek (26) led a twelve second wave of Knights to the finish with Walker, Dallal, Popovich, and Lodwig (32, 34, 38, 40). This type of scoring does a great amount of damage in team scoring. All runners were under 6:00 mile pace on the run. Fitts earned the last of our medals with a 61st place finish, and Dunne missing out by just one spot but a season’s best effort.
Fountain and Huber came in next after spending much of the race in contact with one another; they were 2 seconds apart. Malone and Abruzzo were quickly in next, five seconds later, making it a wave of four runners in :10. Holder ran :30 per mile faster than Tuesday, and Sussland incredibly improved by :56 per mile. Conley also dropped :19 per mile on the course to finish in 16:28.
We have new milestones this week, and a course to be excited about, on tap in Peoria. We will see some of the very best 2A teams in IL this weekend; and an enormous open that will help us hit new heights for PR times.
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