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Great day for race
It was a great day of racing for both the varsity and JV boys' cross country teams. Pomfret races in the third of four NEPSTA divisional championships. This year the race was co-hosted by Gunnery and Millbrook in Litchfield.
There were 22 scoring teams in the varsity categories and 14 for JV.
The Pomfret School varsity team came in 13th out of 22 and the JV team finished sixth out of 14.
Varsity runner Jeffrey Gibbs was 6th out of 148 and JV racer Kevin Li was 23rd out of 100.
In JV there are, unlike most of our season races, separate races for Varsity and JV. Coaches designate seven varsity runners and are permitted up to 12 JV runners. Seniors Kevin Li and Jack Terwilliger were excited to suit up for their last Pomfret XC race. They were joined by returning veteran Danny Wang. All others were first-year runners. Alex Chen, Jacob Marasco, Terry Kim, Bil Tian, Ben Gordon, and Jay Kim all ran extremely well, with nearly everyone posting a new PR. Kevin, Jack, and Alex all ran times as fast as some of our varsity finishers who ran earlier in the day.
On the varsity side, as he has all season, Jeffrey Gibbs, came to compete. Moving up from around 14th place around the 3/4 mile mark to 4th place with a 1/3 of a mile to go, Jeffery gave his all as he ran a hard and shrewd race. Gibbs ended up 6th overall with a smoking fast 16:11 time (5:22/mi pace). With this finish, Jeffrey qualifies for the All-Star race Nov. 16, which is open to the top 20 finishers of all four divisional championships.
Juniors Blake Zahansky and Cam Adams both posted new PRs in their final race of the season. Overall, this was an extremely fast field; it helped to run on a course that had substantial downhill stretches offering some free speed to the runners. 94 of the 148 runners posted times below 19 minutes (a 6:18/mi. pace). Sophomores, Kellen Horst, Cooper Ames, Ian Wolanin and Cole Hecker all posted their best times of the season.
By David Ring
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