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In a three-team race hosted by Cheshire on their family weekend, Pomfret beat the hosts by a dual score of 21 to 36, while falling to Gunnery 30 to 26. At the start, Gunnery’s #1 runner took off strong and was followed by a pack of Gunnery, Cheshire and Pomfret runners.
Jeffrey Gibbs knew well enough not to do more than maintain his second position, while Blake Zahansky needed to make sure he got in front of Gunnery’s #2. Zahansky ran his best race of the year - a sure sign that his persistent investments are paying dividends. Despite feeling sore and not optimistic about his prospects today, Cam Adams ran conservatively at the start only to get faster as the race continued. He had a great sprint to the finish to beat Gunnery’s third finisher. At that point, with three Gunnery and three Pomfret runners done, the score stood at Pomfret 10, Gunnery 11. By tracking places we knew we had Cheshire beat (despite their having three swift runners), but that we’d need to make up ground on Gunnery 4 and 5 runners to beat them. Jack Terwilliger ran his best race of the season, both in terms of his time as well as his fourth-place finish for the team. Sometimes, it’s just the case that one’s best isn’t quite good enough. That was the case as Gunnery’s 4 and 5 were able to hold Jack off by just a few seconds to insure their win. Kellen Horst also had a solid race and a terrific finish to pass the Cheshire Wildcat he’d been stalking. Cole Hecker and Cooper Ames rounded out Pomfret’s top seven on the day. Both of them managed to displace two Cheshire runners and one from Gunnery, a testament to the depth of our team.
On the JV scene, had scores been official for them, would have easily defeated Gunnery JV (Cheshire wouldn’t have enough JV runners to score). Jacob Marasco was the first JV finisher, followed by Ian Wolnanin, Alex Chen, Kevin Li, Terry Lim, Bill Tian, David Wu, Danny Wang, Ben Gordon, and Jay Kim. The majority of the Griffins’ JV runners ran personal record times.
Finish places and times:
1, Harry Harwood, Gunnery, 17:31.57; 2 Jeffrey Gibbs, Pomfret, 17:49.51; 3, Blake Zahansky, Pomfret, 18:47.26; 4, John Blair, Gunnery, 19:30.83; 5, Cam Adams, Pomfret, 20:42.72; 6, Buckley Huffstetler, Gunnery, 20:46.08; 7, Tony Wang, CA, 20:58.69; 8, Logan Shvartsman, CA, 20:59.97; 9, Will Brodhead, Gunnery, 21:08.79; 10, Robin Wright, Gunnery, 21:10.62; 11, Angel Mazzetti, CA, 21:12.19; 12, Jack Terwilliger, Pomfret, 21:13.54; 13, Maks Watton, Gunnery, 21:17.70; 14, Kellen Horsts, Pomfret, 21:22.35; 15, Jadon Wolfe, CA, 21:27.09; 16, Cole Hecker, Pomfret, 21:37.37; 17, Cooper Ames, Pomfret, 21:41.22; 18, Jacob Marasco, Pomfret, 21:54.39; 19, Sean Hall, Gunnery, 22:07.44; 20, Paul Clement, Gunnery, 22:09.49; 21, Ian Wolanin, Pomfret,22:21.83; 22, Noah Ram, Gunnery, 22:28.24; 23, Kenny Snyder, Gunnery, 22:29.66; 24, Evan Li, CA, 22:31.04; 25, Alex Chen, Pomfret, 22:32.82; 26, Kevin Li, Pomfret, 22:50.04; 27, Terry Kim, Pomfret, 23:56.70; 28, Bill Tian, Pomfret, 23:58.60; 29, David Wu, Pomfret, 23:59.00; 30, Patrick Boucher, Gunnery, 24:11.31; 31, Danny Wang, Pomfret, 24:51.13; 32, Jerry Yu, CA, 25:09.98; 33, Steven Zeng, CA, 25:16.70; 34, Ben Gordon, Pomfret, 25:17.17; 35, John Auchterlonie, CA, 26:10.17; 36, Keith Hsu, CA, 26:15.44; 37, Jay Kim, Pomfret, 30:07.37; 38, Sam Sagi, CA, 31:23.66.
By David Ring
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