Mother Nature tried to rain us out of another meet, but we were able to get a dual in with Wheaton Academy. The Warriors are a ranked 1A program, and their front three looked the part.
Dallal dropped a shoe at the 1000m mark, but never let up on the pace. He raced to an :80 season best at 16:40. Second place finisher Aaron Lodwig ran a career best 16:56 on the sloppy course. WA took the next three spots with a tight pack within 5 seconds of one another, followed by Nolan Allen’s 17:07 effort. This race was :14 faster than his run at Eddington a year ago. Malone followed up on that improvement, bettering his ‘19 time by :10, good for 17:24 on the day.
Logan Cunz pushed to a home course best, finishing 8th at 17:31. Fitts was six seconds behind, with the fastest 3 mile time of his career when he ran 17:37. Fountain also found himself ahead of WA’s final scoring runner, crossing at 18:06.
Brady Babka knocked :44 off his career best, which now stands at 18:15. Neal was next to the chute, running a course PR by :75 when he clocked in at 18:19. Johnson ran :71 ahead of his Eddington pace of 2019, finishing at 18:35. Evans nearly doubled that, running 18:49, to improve by 2:16 over Eddington 2019.
Chase Brennan was the third lower level runner to enter the chute, blazing under the 19 minute barrier, at 18:58. Behrends put down another strong finishing kick, just ahead of Bruhl, who ran a :32 season’s best on the course at 19:29. Reutimann was a second behind, running a :73 career PR in 19:30.
Lechocki bettered his ‘19 Eddington time by :25 to run 19:53. Fiedler was our next Knight to the line, a few seconds off his Eddington PR last fall when he ended at 20:25. Ramos racing for real this time, found the finish at 20:46 to set a new career best. Kowalczyk maintained a strong pace throughout to finish with a :34 PR at 20:47. Farmer was completely spent when he crossed over the finish stripe at 21:43. Crisci knocked another :27 off his season’s best in the mud, finishing 28th at 23:09.
Stace was on the cusp of another PR, despite the damp course. He finished in 23:48. Cattero was just a few seconds behind, under 8:00 pace at 23:48. Gannon closed the day with another strong effort at 24:06. The finish of the day came with our final two competitors sprinting to the chute in career best times. Broz just outlasted Blickem, with Louis running a :26 PR. Broz erased 2:14 off his previous best on the home course.
We wound up taking the win, 24-34 over Wheaton Academy. It will be important for us to pack up like this again on Tuesday when we host Marmion, with Sandwich. We need to split up packs of Cadets, not letting twos and threes pack on points to our score. Let’s get after it!
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