On Friday, October 9 the Lincoln Academy Cross Country team (LAXC) participated in its second regular season meet of 2020 hosted by Mt. Ararat High School at the Highland Green Golf Course. The course featured many rolling hills and ran approximately one minute slower than the course at Medomak Valley High School that Lincoln ran on earlier this year.
Both Lincoln squads placed second behind strong Mt. Ararat teams. The Mt. Ararat boys team are the defending Class A state champs and returned five out of their top seven runners from last year's squad including junior Grady Satterfield who had the fastest 5K (15:54) in the state going into Friday's meet. Mt. Ararat won the boys meet with a perfect score of 15 points to Lincoln's 46 points. The Mt. Ararat girls team placed 5th at Class A states last year and also returned five of their top seven runners. Adeline Hall broke up the Mt. Ararat top five to avoid a perfect sweep. The final team score was Mt. Ararat 18 to Lincoln's 42.
Five Lincoln runners - Mya Bessey, Caitlin Cass, Bao Dang, Michal Maciejewicz, and Alexandr Bedarev - posted strong results in their first races of the season. Two Lincoln girls - Marina McManus and Mara Abbott - posted season best times which was no small feat on the much more challenging Mt. Ararat course. While no Lincoln boy who also ran at Medomak posted a season best time, Conor Glasier, Cedar Cannon, and Will Clark showed significant improvement from the first race of the season.
Complete results have yet to be posted online, the results for Lincoln runners are included below. The Facebook livestream of the race can be found here. Hats off to all the Lincoln runners who raced on Friday. This was a challenging course and everyone stepped up and posted solid times.
LA Girls Results
Name (Place) 2019 SB Finish Avg/Mile
Adeline Hall (2) 22:32 23:17 7:31
Marina McManus (7) 24:21 24:21 7:51
Audrey Hufnagel (9) 21:55 24:51 8:01
Margo Fairfield (11) 24:44 25:09 8:07
Violet Bailey (15) 24:32 25:41 8:17
Rebecca Tomasello (16) 24:35 25:48 8:19
Callie Stapp (17) 24:58 26:08 8:26
Mya Bessey (18) 26:14* 8:28
Clara Goltz (20) 24:50 26:28 8:32
Caitlin Cass (21) 26:49* 8:39
Mara Abbott (25) 27:44 27:44 8:56
*First race of season. 2019 PB times in bold are for team members who have run more than one race in 2020 and achieved a season best at this race.
LA Boys Results
Name 2019 SB Finish Avg/Mile
Liam Card (6) 18:11 19:14 6:12
Will Sherrill (7) 18:48 19:43 6:22
Nick Russ (11) 20:01 20:58 6:46
Thaddeus Eddyblouin (12) 20:33 21:19 6:52
Conor Glasier (13) 20:49 21:21 6:53
Cedar Cannon (14) 20:52 21:21 6:53
Will Clark (19) 22:01 22:39 7:18
Elliott Chapman (20) 22:02 23:26 7:33
CJ Savastano (21) 22:03 23:33 7:35
Bao Dang (22) 23:58* 7:44
Michal Maciejewicz (24) 25:13 * 8:08
Alexandr Bedarev (26) 31:52* 10:01
*First race of season. No member of the boys team who has run multiple races this season ran a season best time at this meet.