Varsity highlights

After a slow start at the Brother Rice invitational, Pioneer ran well at the first SEC Jamboree. Pioneer placed 2nd of 4 teams in this meet. Also, Pioneer beat Saline for the first time since 1997. With many personal records (PR) established, it was a great day for the Pioneers.

Once again, James Naughton led the way. James took 3rd place with a time 16:32, a PR by 27 seconds. Joe Anderson took 8th place (17:27) while Andy Harvey rebounded well from Brother Rice and took 9th place (17:32). The top five was rounded out by Soren Berg (17:50) and Mike Roth (18:00), both of whom established PR's. Freshman Takashi Gould ran well in his first varsity race, recording 18:01, which is a PR by 28 seconds.

Varsity team results

Team       Points
1. Bedford   27
2. Pioneer   46
3. Saline    59
4. Adrian   114

Pioneer varsity runners

Name                 Place    Time
James Naughton         3     16:32  PR!  (-27)
Joe Anderson           8     17:27
Andy Harvey            9     17:32
Soren Berg            12     17:50  PR!  (-26)
Mike Roth             14     18:00  PR!  (-9)
Takashi Gould         15     18:01  PR!  (-28)
Kevin Goehring        22     18:41
Weather: 80, sunny, low humidity

Junior varsity highlights

It was another great performance in the junior varsity race. Freshman Mortie Stensones-Fornaess won the JV race with a fine time of 18:03. Sophmore Jeff Hubbard was not far behind, running 18:18 to take 5th place. Last Saturday, Jeff started well but faded badly in the last mile. But today Jeff ran extremely well from start to finish. Way to go, Mortie and Jeff.

Besides Mortie and Jeff, other first-year runners are emerging. Sophmore Marty Everin improved from last week by 1:24 and took 16th place in a time of 18:47. Freshman Walker Rutter-Bowman also showed dramatic improvement. Walker's time of 19:09 was 1:21 faster than the previous Saturday.

First year senior, Jesper Jarkvist, ran 18:39 in his very first race. This is an excellent time. Phil Dokas and Alex Urbanik both improved their times by 1 1/2 minutes. There were numerous other PR's in the JV race. In all, a total of 15 JV PR's were set. Great job, JV runners.

Name                     Place  Time
Mortie Stensones-Fornaess 1     18:03  PR!  (-54)
Jeff Hubbard              5     18:18  PR!  (-1:14)
Jesper Jarkvist          12     18:39
Marty Everin             16     18:47  PR!  (-1:24)
Alan Antonuk             17     18:56
Walker Rutter-Bowman     25     19:09  PR!  (-1:21)
Dan Moyer                31     19:24  PR!  (-57)
Sam Milgrom              39     19:36
Phil Dokas               41     19:43  PR!  (-1:30)
Nick Wilkenson           42     19:52
Josh Salvner             45     20:02
Dave Ross                54     20:24  PR!  (-38)
Carl Duke                55     20:25
Alex McGuiness           --     21:08  PR!  (-36)
Alex Reynolds            --     21:17  PR!  (-41)
Parry Garff              --     22:02
Kellan Winbourne         --     22:05
Erron Morton             --     22:22  PR!  (-3)
Alex Urbanik             --     23:16  PR!  (-1:32)
Ross Acheson             --     23:18
Nick Wickstrom           --     23:31  PR!  (-26)
Dale White               --     23:35
Cedric York              --     23:51
Luke Hospadarak          --     23:59  PR!  (-18)
Max Hospadarak           --     24:13
Brenner Heintz           --     24:25  PR!  (-21)
Tom Bergman              --     24:33  PR!  (-17)

Final notes

On Saturday the team runs at Holly. This course is harder than Hudson Mills, so PR's will be harder to obtain.

PR! - new personal record, refers to all-time PR, not just the best time of the season

Go Pioneers!