BLUE JAYS HAVE A GREAT SHOWING AT MVAC CHAMPIONSHIP

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MCDONALD OH- On Tuesday the Jackson Milton cross country teams participated in the MVAC League Championship race at Woodland Park in McDonald. The team had their second chance this season to tackle the billy goat hill in the park and bring down their times from the first race of the season, which was run on this same course. In this race the runners are given the opportunity to earn first team, second team, or honorable mention all league honors. Cross country runners are only given one chance to become an all league runner with the place they finish in at this one race.

 

Runners that finish 1-7 in their race are named first team all league, 8-14 are named second team all league, and 15-21 are named honorable mention all league.

 

The team raced on one of their favorite courses and had perfect running weather. The high school boys team finished in 4th place overall as a team out of 8 total teams!

 

7 Runners finished the race with all league honors.

 

Overall Team Results: (Runner – Place – Time)

*Denotes overall placer

 

High School Girls:

*Faith Sullivan – 4th place – 21:55 (First Team All League)

*Serenity Perrine – 10th place – 22:39 (Second Team All League)

Kalli Ivari – 24th place – 24:52

Abby Bueno – 30th place – 26:13

 

High School Boys: 4th Place Overall

*Lucas Sokol – 6th place – 18:05 (First Team All League)

Alex Lipp – 26th place – 20:26

Landon Fortunato – 31st place – 20:46

Nate Craver – 32nd place – 20:51

Jonathan Lanham – 51st place – 23:21

Landon Malmfeldt – 53rd place – 23:34

 

*Contributed By Kayla Malmfedlt at jacksonmiltonathletics.org

A RACE TO THE FINISH

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YOUNGSTOWN, OH – It takes a lot of mental toughness when it comes to excelling at the sport of Cross Country, not only do you have to be in pristine physical shape, but you also have to be able to have the courage inside you to be able to push yourself when your body doesn’t want to go any further. Jarett Gordulic and Rachel Klucinec each embody what it takes to be successful at such a difficult sport. Jarett and Rachel are both coming off great performances at the Canfield Fairgrounds where they were able to place Top 50 in their events!

In this week’s dual-Player Profile, the two Cross Country standouts had the opportunity to discuss what it takes to be good in the sport, some of the things that they do to prepare themselves for events, what it’s like to be a student-athlete at Ursuline, and more!

* Contributed by Anthony Romo *

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HOWLAND GIRLS WIN EP ROTARY INVITATIONAL

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EAST PALESTINE OH-

The Howland Girls Cross Country team won the East Palestine Rotary Invitational with a score of 26.
Top runners for Howland were:
Gabby Scott 2nd 21:35
Lily Lussier 6th 23:08
Anna Vrabel 7th 23:40
Emily Adams 10th 24:15
Camille Sutton 11th 24:17
Abbey Restaino 17th 26:11
Haley Maiorano 30th 29:22
Mya Foster 32nd 30:38
*Contributed By Ferenac at howlandtigers.org

BLUE JAY RUNNERS DO BIG THINGS

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EAST PALESTINE OH- Saturday 9/10/2022 the blue jays traveled to East Palestine City Park to compete in the EP Rotary Invitational. We finally had the chance to run in perfect running weather with cool temperatures. The runners raced against 14 teams and about 50-60 runners in each of their races. The top 10 finishers in the high school races received an individual trophy and 11-20th place received a medal, in the middle school race the top 10 finishers received a trophy.

 

The high school runners raced on a 5k course and the middle school runners competed on a 1.75 course (the shortest race they’ll see all season).

 

Seven of our runners received overall awards as individuals with the rest of the team not far behind, pushing for personal records! The high school boys as a team finished in 4th place

 

* Denotes overall placer

 

Overall Team Results: (Runner – Place – Time)

 

High School Boys: 4th place as a team

*Lucas Sokol – 5th place – 18:23

Landon Fortunato – 21st place – 21:04

Alex Lipp – 25th place – 21:32

Nate Craver – 26th place – 21:54

Landon Malmfeldt – 43rd place – 24:55

 

High School Girls:

*Faith Sullivan – 5th place – 22:55

*Serenity Perrine – 15th place – 25:13

*Kalli Ivari – 19th place – 26:28

Abby Bueno – 22nd place – 27:05

*Contributed By Kayla Malmfedlt at jacksonmiltonathletics.org

WARRIORS FIND SUCCESS AT ASHLEY WHITE INVITATIONAL

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BELOIT OH- t was a great day for the High School WBXC teams this past Saturday at the Ashley White Invitational! There were nearly four times as many girls running in this meet and three times as many boys running as there were last week. The competition for this 5k race (3.1 miles) was tough!

Finishing in the top 5% of 231 girls was:

Clarice Martin–10th place (20:33)

*Martin set a new lifetime PR (personal record), as did Tallie Muniz (25:40).

Congratulations, all HS girls!

Finishing in the top 5% of 343 boys were:

Michael Dorris–19th place (16:59)

Finishing in the top 25% of 343 boys were:

Brian Boston–74th place (18:33)

*Dorris tied his lifetime PR (personal record), while John Biggs set a new lifetime PR (24:55).

**Boston set a season PR, as did and Owen Hoopes (20:41). Congratulations, all HS boys!

 

The High School WBXC teams are excited to take on the challenging hills of Dover on Saturday, 9/10!

*Contributed By Ryan Wolf at wbathletics.org

BLUE JAYS PERFORM WELL IN OPENING SUBURBAN LEAGUE MEET

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NORTH JACKSON OH- On Tuesday 8/30 the cross country teams competed in their first suburban league meet of the season. The teams raced against 13 total schools in their league at Badger High School. The runners were working to improve on their times from their first race last Saturday and also had goals to finish in the top 25 in order to earn a top finisher award.

 

As a team the high school boys finished in 4th place overall. Individually, 11 of our runners earned overall awards and everyone on the team set a new personal record!!

 

SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS to Nora Schwarten for finishing in 1st place in her race!

 

Individual Results:

Runner – Place – Time

 

High School Girls:

*Faith Sullivan – 2nd place – 22:40

*Serenity Perrine – 3rd place – 23:11

*Kalli Ivari – 10th place – 25:00.4

*Abby Bueno – 17th place – 27:00.4

 

High School Boys: 4th place as a team!

*Lucas Sokol – 4th place – 18:35

*Landon Fortunato – 22nd place – 20:50

*Alex Lipp – 23rd place – 21:11

Nate Craver – 35th place – 23:13

Luke Kolenick – 45th place – 24:10

Landon Malmfeldt – 53rd place – 26:35

*Contributed By Kayla Malmfedlt at jacksonmiltonathletics.org

D’ALTORIO SHINES AT KENSTON CLASSIC

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Chagrin Falls, OH-  Boardman Sophomore David D’Altorio raced to a 1st place finish in a time of 16:19 against 288 varsity and junior varsity runners at this year’s Gibas Invitational held at Kenston High School. The Spartans placed 5th overall in the 13-team field.

Scoring for the Spartans were sophomore Brock Farris in 4th place at 16:34, senior Ben Zilavy in 32nd at 17:42, junior Ethan Boots in 42nd at 18:00, and sophomore Danny LaCivita in 76th at 19:09.

 “We really did not perform to the best of our ability as a varsity group today,” said Boardman Head Coach John Phillips, “cross country is a grind and it’s important to learn from races that do not go well and build from it. How we respond at Wooster in two weeks will say a lot about who we are as a team.”

The Spartan JV squad placed 6th overall and were led by senior Jason Sweder at 19:23, freshman Adam Nigro in a time of 19:46, senior Ethan Dunlany in a time of 20:06, sophomore Frank Quinlan in a time of 20:19, and sophomore Josh Belgin at 20:24.

Setting new career bests at Kenston were junior Antajuan Hightower at 19:30, junior Evan Sweder at 21:57, sophomore Josh Belgin at 20:24, sophomore Isaiah Doyle at 23:11, sophomore Noah Gonzales at 21:34, sophomore Frank Quinlan at 20:19, freshman Connor Boots at 21:24, freshman Adam Nigro at 19:46, freshman Logan Poulakos at 22:08, freshman Jonah Stevens at 24:00, freshman Quinton Swavel at 23:43, freshman Dom Theodore at 20:34, and freshman Kevin Tomlin at 25:19.

Earning this week’s ‘Runner of the Week’ award was sophomore Noah Gonzales on dropping 4:19 off his previous career best effort.

“The improvement that Noah has shown over the past several months is a shining example of what putting in the work and giving your best effort will result in, he is one of the most dedicated athletes in our program and I am very proud of the way his sophomore season has started,” said Phillips.

 

Next up for Boardman is The Wooster Invitational on September 10 at Wooster High School.

*Contributed by John Phillips

GORBY KEEPS RUNNING AT NEXT LEVEL

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BOARDMAN, OH- Julia Gorby will continue her running career at Norwich University in Vermont.  Julia signed today to run cross country with the Cadets.  Julia was a 3-time all-conference athlete as well as a three-time regional qualifier.  She has earned 7 letters between cross country and track.  

Best of luck to Julia in her future endeavors, and congratulations on all her success!

BOARDMAN’S GORBY TO RUN FOR YSU

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BOARDMAN, OH-   Beau Gorby signed to continue his college career in Cross Country at YSU.  He was a 2-time Regional Qualifier and Indoor Track State Qualifier.

His personal best was 16:33 which he set this season.  He, along with his dad and two uncles, are all in the Top 25 runners in Boardman Cross Country History.

Congratulations to Beau and his family for his success, and we wish him all the best in his bright future.

NE8 ANNOUNCES ALL CONFERENCE CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS

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YOUNGSTOWN, OH-

Cross Country:

Boys Champion: Poland

First team:

Logan Flament-Poland

Jet Bailey-Poland

Nate Charnis-Lakeview

Caleb Carlson-Lakeview

Michael Hvizdos-South Range

Luke Robinson-Jefferson

Geno Gallo-Poland

 

Second team:

Tony Gallo-Poland

Micah Curry-Niles

Andrew Biggs-Poland

Isaac Baun-South Range

Ryan Cline-Niles

Connor Nichols-South Range

Liam Justinson-South Range

 

Player of the year:  Logan Flament-Poland

 

Girls Champion: Poland

First team:

Halle Sebest-Poland

Gianna Stanich-Poland

Jackie Grisdale-Poland

Allie Wintz-Jefferson

Sydney Dobler-Lakeview

Emily Bennett-Lakeview

Hailey Hoover-Lakeview

 

Second team:

Emily Denney-Poland

Haley Trolio-Poland

Taylor Garvin-Lakeview

Emily Razo-South Range

Riley Wood-Jefferson

Nicole Chalker-Girard

Abby Discher-Jefferson

Player of the year: Halle Sebest-Poland