DCL League XC meet

The rain, fog and lightning never came. Most everyone seemed in good spirits. The skies cleared for awards. The venue was good. Maybe, we don't need Franklin Park for the league meet in the future.

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From DCL XC championships 27 Oct. 2010

photo by John Wortham

From DCL XC championships 27 Oct. 2010

From DCL XC championships 27 Oct. 2010

From DCL XC championships 27 Oct. 2010

From DCL XC championships 27 Oct. 2010

From DCL XC championships 27 Oct. 2010

DCL League meet this Wed. at LS at 2 p.m.

The DCL league meet is this Wednesday at Lincoln-Sudbury High School at 2 p.m.
LSHS: 390 Lincoln Rd, Sudbury, MA 01776
see story about 2005 DCLs at:
http://dclrunning.blogspot.com/2010/10/dcl-league-xc-meet.html

Note from coach Norton:

Remembering episodes from an old TV show Kung Fu, "Patience Grasshopper your time will come". For the past 8 weeks, the Boys of the Newton South XC team participated in weekly practices that were mentally and physically challenging for them. They developed new strengths and conditioning as they performed in meets while still exhausted from previous workouts. They learn to push a little more when they mentally feel that they've got nothing left. With every practice day and in the meets they competed in, gave them a new level of threshold that they were unaware of. "I want to be my best!", "I feel stronger now, and I know I can run with the 'A' group!", "I believe I can take 30 seconds off my time!".

In this sport of Cross Country running it takes a little patience to see great progress. This season our young developing team have been patient long enough, and they are now mentally and physically ready to reach new peaks in their performance as individuals and as a viable team player on the NSXC team. 

"When you can take this stone out of my hand...then you will be ready".
They've taken that stupid stone from my hand and thrown it across the pond and I can't find it!!!
These little grasshoppers...I mean XC runners, are ready!

Coach Norton

DCL Championships today 2:00 at Lincoln-Sudbury H.S.. (Some directions listed below)

2:00 JV Boys
2:30 Varsity Girls
2:55 9th Grade Boys
3:15 9th Grade Girls
3:35 Varsity Boys
4:00 JV Girls
4:40 Awards

Coach Norton

LINCOLN-SUDBURY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
390 Lincoln Road, Sudbury, MA 01776, (978) 443-9961 or (781) 259-9527
128 North to Route 20 West.
Route 20 West to Route 27. Go 3 miles to Sudbury Center.
Take right onto Concord Road. There will be a white church on the right.
If you miss it, take a right at the light on to Concord Road.
Follow Concord Road for about a mile and bear right onto Lincoln Road. The
school will be on your left.
OR
Route 9 West to Rt. 27 (Cochituate/Concord)
Rt. 27 for about 8 miles to Sudbury Center.
Turn right onto Concord Road.
Follow Concord Road for about l mile and bear right onto Lincoln Road

NS alum report 23-24 October

Perhaps, an alum report will be filled in here. Check back.

Boston Mayor's Cup at Franklin Park 24 Oct. 2010
Women 5K
63. 19:30 6:16 Madeleine Reed F Boston College

NYSCTC Championships Men 8K, 23 Oct. 2010
Saratoga Spa State Park
26 Wakimoto, Yuji University of Rochester 5:21 26:34 

NSHS vs Acton-Boxborough vs Arlington Results

From Steven:

Below are the resutls of the Arlington, AB and NS meet on 20 Oct. 2010.

The course record is extremely fast as late in the season in 2008 I let Bridget Dahlberg and Kelsey Kary push each other to work to set a course record that could hold up for a while.

In the early 2000's Emily Johnson NS (5:01 mile / 2 Mile All State champ. 8th at Nationals, 10:48 2mile PR, 18:11 PR and All State runner up in XC) had set the standard to 15:48 and back then I did not invision that the record would fall anytime soon as that was so fast.

So Kathy running a solo effort in 15:46 is a pretty speical race. But the entire race was fast. The Acton - Boxboro and Arlington girls provided us and each other with great competition and girls from all of the teams raced to great times. Ten girls under 18 minutes and16 under 19:00 is a very good day on this course.

Last year in our last home meet of the season Anna Laurence ran 17:15 in a break through race. She set a PR on this course of 25 seconds and that shows a lot of improvement. The great thing is that she had company the entire way with teammate Anna Rhatigan making a huge breakthrough. Emily was not far behind and ran the time that Anna L ran last which is also a big improvement. Hannah Friedman closed our 1 - 5 gap down to 2:00 and Sarina Weiss was not far back. When you consider how fast Kathy is running that puts us in pretty good shape for the championship meets.

Sarina Weiss, Leda Olia, Zuzana Skvarkova and Clarissa Ren all also ran PR races.

This is one of the very rare races in which all 9 of our varsity girls set PRs on the same day.

Our JV girls team finished the season undefeated. Scoring 15-49 vs Arlington and 15 - 50 against AB. We also had 6 - 9th grade girls under 20:00 for this course (actually under 19:48) to make this the deepest 9th grade class in our history and also the largest with 14 - 9th grade girls.

I have told the kids that because of their dedication, passion and their great racing all season that I consider our JV team to be our 2nd varsity team. This is a great bunch of girls and all of them truly give a lot to the sport and to our team.

Varsity Record: 7-2 JV Record 9 - 0

This team has come a very long ways in such a short time and we look forward to the championship meets. Kathy is the only senior in our top 9 so the future holds a lot of promise for this young team.

Newton South hosts Acton-Boxboro and Arlington
Acton - Boxboro 21 Arlington 37
Newton South 17 Arlington 43
Newton South 24 Acton-Boxboro 34

Cold Springs Park 2.7 + 40 meters Mostly fast packed trails
Weather: No wind 60 Ideal
Course Record: Bridget Dahlberg NS and Kelsey Karys NS 15:41 2008

1. Kathy O' Keefe NS 15:46
2. Zambarano AB 16:46
3. Anna Laurence NS 16:50
4. Flynn AB 16:52
5. Anna Rhatigan NS 16:52
6. Campo AB 16:54
7. Emily Caggiano NS 17:16
8. Sarah Cassidy ARL 17:43
9. Shayna Linov ARL 17:45
10. Hannah Friedman NS 17:46
11. Sarina Weiss NS 18:07
12. Claire Doyle ARL 18:07
13. Benson AB 18:23
14. Leda Olia NS 18:33
15. Zuzana Skvarkova NS 18:46
16. Purdom AB 18:56
17. Clarissa Ren NS 19:07
18. Mullen AB 19:31
19. Katie Paglierani ARL 19:38
20. Litterio AB 19:46
21. Lili Zigo ARL 19:50
22. Duquet AB 20:03
23. Caroline Donovan ARL 20:03
24. Megan Hourican ARL 20:19
25. Charolette Wells ARL 20:20
26. Mara Steinetz ARL 20:21
27. Arielle Rosenthal ARL 20:21
28. Kothapalli AB 20:21
29. Josie Jacob Dolan
30. Barth AB 20:36

JV
1. Sara Wang NS 19:15
2. Saranya Ramadurai NS 19:20
3. Emily Chen NS 19:47
4. Kathy Zhou NS 19:48
5. Maraglit Glasgow NS 20:49
6. Lindsey Woo NS 20:50
7. Lea Collin ARL 21:15
8. Grace McKay ARL 21:25
9. Kim Ly NS 21:25
10. Laura Cotter NS 21:28
11. Noa Snneorson NS 21:36
12. #11 AB 22:06
13. Wang AB 22:14
14. Christina Tapiero ARL 22:25
15. Dietly AB 23:13
16. Pruett AB 23:13
17. Cooper - Hauser AB 23:17
18. Reilly AB 23:28
19. 1071 25:07
20. Selam Ahmed ARL 25:18
21. Emily Shvarts ARL 28:43
22. Kim Shaner ARL 30:28

From Ted:
Date: 10/20/2010
Newton South XC Race Report
Course: Newton Cold Spring Park (2.75 Mile)
Weather: Sunny Dry 49
Team: Varsity Boys
Schools: Newton South v. Acton-Boxborough v Arlington
Team Scores:
AB 20 - NS 41
NS 23 - Arl 34
AB 19 - Arl 42

Place Name School Time
1 D. Melly NS 13:33
2 Z. Sullivan AB 13:53
3 C. Owen AB 14:24
4 Q. Stipp ARL 14:24
5 S. Gyota AB 14:30
6 T. Cox AB 14:34
7 W. Deflorio ARL 14:43
8 F. Foley AB 14:47
9 D. Wortham NS 14:57
10 A. Durkee AB 14:57
11 C. Forgo AB 14:59
12 Z. Ballard AB 15:00
13 B. Lemire AB 15:00
14 B. Eisenberg NS 15:16
15 J. Trask NS 15:18
16 S. Haas NS 15:35
17 W. Sullivan ARL 15:35
18 M. Zache ARL 15:37
19 K. Stricker NS 15:39
20 D. Shuler NS 15:40
21 S. Arlington 15:41
22 C. Pham NS 15:46
23 S. Gupta AB 15:47
24 J. Dunn ARL 15:49
25 K. Loria AB 15:53
26 M. Berg ARL 15:59
27 M. O'Rourke ARL 16:14
28 Unknown ARL 16:26
29 Y. El Korchi NS 16:34
30 L. Linov ARL 16:36
31 S. Chakmakjian ARL 17:00
32 C. Potochnik NS 18:21

Date: 10/20/2010

Newton South XC Race Report

Course: Newton Cold Spring Park (2.75 Mile)

Weather: Sunny Dry 49

Team: Junior Varsity Boys

Schools: Newton South v. Acton-Boxborough v Arlington

Team Scores: 

AB 26 - NS 33

NS 15 - Arl 50

AB 15 - Arl 50

1 V. Moisescu Newton South 15:28

2 C. Wiggins AB 15:38

3 A. Verbitsky Newton South 15:41

4 M. Vicik AB 15:58

5 M. Szewczyk AB 15:59

6 D. Pasquale Newton South 16:07

7 D. Kiernicki AB 16:09

8 N. Usoff AB 16:26

9 K. Tiah AB 16:30

10 J. Utt AB 16:31

11 B. Vitale AB 16:33

12 J. Karys Newton South 16:37

13 D. Cutright Newton South 16:44

14 A. Elliot AB 16:48

15 A. Edelstein Newton South 16:51

16 M. Costello Newton South 16:59

17 R. Lowe AB 17:00

18 N. Rowles AB 17:08

19 B. Danzig AB 17:09

20 A. Currul Arlington 17:17

21 N. Weaver Newton South 17:24

22 B. Miller Newton South 17:36

23 M. Pieroni Arlington 17:36

24 M. Harris AB 17:38

25 T. Yu AB 17:47

26 M. Guzzardi AB 17:47

27 S. Murphy AB 17:48

28 T. Golin Newton South 17:55

29 K. Schoenthaler Arlington 17:57

30 Unknown Newton South 17:58

31 N. Forsyth AB 17:59

32 M. Forsyth AB 17:59

33 N. Smith AB 18:05

34 C. Funk Newton South 18:08

35 J. Cohen Newton South 18:10

36 D. Hon AB 18:15

37 R. Davis Newton South 18:26

38 G. Gately AB 18:29

39 K. Ward AB 18:29

40 K. Immerman AB 18:44

41 Unknown Arilington 18:45

42 C. Teitleman Newton South 18:46

43 C. Wu Newton South 18:46

44 Unknown Arlington 19:02

45 D. Cloud Newton South 19:06

46 J. Mills AB 19:08

47 Unknown

48 Unknown

49 Unknown

50 B. Tai Newton South 23:47

51 Unknown

52 Unknown

53 Unknown

54 Unknown

NSHS vs Acton-Boxboro vs Arlington

It was cool and cloudy to start but the sky cleared at sunset.
The varsity girls won both matchups and the varsity boys beat Arlington and lost to Acton-Boxborough. I don't have any results yet.
Click here for photos by John Wortham
Click here for photos by George
Click here for photos by David Stricker
- boys varsity and JV results soon

From NS v AB v Arl XC at Cold Spring Park

From NS v AB v Arl XC at Cold Spring Park

From NS v AB v Arl XC at Cold Spring Park

NSHS vs Acton-Boxboro vs Arlington, 4 p.m. Cold Spring Park, Newton

from Coach Norton:

The stage is set.

The 2.8 mile cross country course is marked, free of downed trees, and water pond floods.
The grass in the fields are cut at a low and even height, painted arrows along the trails and small mini flags near each turn with clearly visible parallel lines to mark the finish. The local Newton dogs are on their leashes and are paw-ready to give a cheering howl to their Newton South XC Boys as they compete against Acton-Boxboro and Arlington at 4:00pm in Cold Spring Park Newton.

Course:
Start on the edge of the soccer field. Take 1 loop around the field and then they proceed through the woods and across the dog park ( 1 Mile), then come out of the woods at the soccer fields and will proceed back into the woods for a 2nd loop and will approach the Mile 2 near the entrance of the dog park. As they run across the dog park a second time (bearing not to slip on any dog poop), they will be approaching the finish when they exit the woods and sprint about 50 yards to the finish line which will be in the middle of the soccer fields.

You are expected to see a great XC race today on this legendary NS home XC course.
The course is pretty flat and fast, but narrow areas where good cross country racing strategies will become useful. Today we are also hoping for new course records to be challenged by our top Boy and Girl Senior competitors Kathy O'Keefe and David Melly as well as great performances from both Boys and Girls Varsity and JV teams.

Beat the Clock---Win the meet!

Hope to see you there,
Coach Norton

Cold Spring park is off Beacon Street about 1/3 mile west of Walnut Street.

NSHS alumni results 16-17 Oct. 2010

A little delayed but some results of last week.

State of Maine XC Championships

women 5K
Bowdoin College - Brunswick, ME - 10/16/2010
89 Chari, Sara FR Bates 23:28.45
men 8K
44 Schneider, Marcus SO Bowdoin 28:02.35

Brown Univ Rothenberg CC Invitational Fri Oct 15, 2010 E Greenwich, RI
women 5K
31 Melanie Fineman FR 18:44.4 6:02 Brown Univ
44 Madeleine Reed FR 19:04.7 6:09 Boston College

SCIAC Cross Country 2010 Multi-Dual Meet 8K
October 17, 2010 La Mirada Park, La Mirada, CA
64 Cameron Fen SO Caltech 30:00.12

Inter-Regional Rumble at Oberlin College 16 Oct.; men sub varsity 8K
10 Ben Finch SO Carnegie Mellon 27:30.7 5:31/M

Hood College Invitational - 10/16/2010 Utica Park 8K
29 Olia, Kian So Catholic 30:00.07

Penn State Nationals women 6K State College PA Oct. 16, 2010
65 Kelsey Karys, So 22:14 6:00 Cornell

Sixth Annual Emmanuel Saints Invitational at Franklin Park, October 15, 2010
4th James Vance 26:37

44'TH Annual U Albany XC Invitational Oct 15, 2010
U at Albany,NY women's gold race - 5000 meters
8 Juliet Ryan-Davis SO Middlebury College 19:39.9 6:20

2010 Conn Col XC Invitational, Waterford, CT 

MEN'S 8k RACE Harkness Memorial State Park Oct 16, 2010
71 Matt Weaver Jr MIT 27:16 5:30
103 William Cha So Trinity 27:48 5:36
115 Cliff Bargar Jr Tufts 27:58 5:38

2010 Yellowjacket XC Invitational - 10/16/2010 Genesee Valley Park - Rochester, NY
50 Yuji Wakimoto FR Rochester 5:30 27:19

51st Catholic Memorial Invitational at Franklin Park

Click here for full results
Click here for photos by John Wortham
Click here for photos by David Stricker

photo by JohnWortham

photo by David Stricker

photo by John Wortham

Results, top 3 plus Newton South:

51st Annual Catholic Memorial Invitational Cross Country Meet

Franklin Park - Boston, MA, October 16, 2010

Freshman Boys

1.    977  Nong, Randy FR  Lowell  10:35.7       

2.    983  Whitney, Andrew FR  Lowell  10:48.1       

3.   1273  Mahoney, Matt FR  Swampscott 10:57.3 

13.  1089  Haas, Sam FR  Newton South 11:12.9             

16.  1096  Shuler, Dylan  FR  Newton South   11:15.9       

18.  1093  Pham, Collin  FR  Newton South  11:18.1       

23.  1094  Roitman, Nick FR Newton South 11:26.3   

Freshman Girls

1.     38  McCauley, Kaitlin  FR  Arlington Catholic   12:24.4       

2.   1630  Snow, Zoe   FR  Weston  12:35.1       

3.    611  Epplett, Abby  FR  Whitinsville Christian  12:39.6 

6.    344  Weiss, Sarina   FR  Newton South  12:53.4            

17.   339  Olia, Leda   FR  Newton South    13:42.0            

20.   340  Ramadukai, Saranya   FR  Newton South  13:54.2       

22.   334  Cheh, Emily  FR  Newton South  13:59.0       

27.   343  Wang, Sara   FR  Newton South   14:06.3       

33.   345  Woo, Lindsey FR  Newton South   14:36.0  

48.   337  Ly, Kimberly   FR  Newton South     14:48.6           

50.   335  Cotter, Laura   FR  Newton South   14:50.2       

Division 1 Boys

1.    #996 Collins, Shayne SR Mansfield 15:53.3

2.    #1673 Gordon, Dan SR Plymouth North 15:59.9

3.    #1645 Sullivan, Tyler SR Whitman Hanson 16:03.3

4.    #1091 Melley, David SR Newton South 16:07.9

76.  #1101 Wortham, David JR Newton South 17:56.6

87.  #1088 Eisenberg, Ben SO Newton South 18:10.6

94.  #1095 Shim, Allen FR Newton South  18:14.4

120. #1097 Stricker, Keegan SO Newton South 18:37.0

121. #1098 Trask, Joe SO Newton South 18:37.3

13th team

Division 1 Girls

1.   #523 Patrierca, Laura JR Tewksbury Memorial 18:47.0

2.   #338 O'Keefe, Kathy SR Newton South 19:04.4

3.   #222 Solimine, Julie Haverhill 19:05.8

34.  #341 Rhatigan, Anna  FR Newton South 20:59.0 

97.  #336 Eisenberg, Naomi  FR Newton South  23:15.5

Catholic Memorial Invitational at Franklin Park, Saturday 9:30 a.m.

Newton South will be at the 51st Catholic Memorial Invitational at Franklin Park tomorrow, Saturday.
Click here for meet info PDF
schedule:
1.) Frosh  All Divisions Girls 9:30 AM

2.) Frosh  All Divisions Boys 9:45 AM

3.) Varsity Division 1 Girls 10:00 AM

4.) Varsity Division 1 Boys 10:30 AM

5.) Varsity Division ll Girls 10:55 AM

6.) Varsity Division ll Boys 11:25 AM
(NS is Div 1)

From Coach Norton:
"Like the Baystate Invitational a few weeks ago, this meet is a great spectator-friendly meet with about 26 teams competing in the varsity race. This meet is just a bit more competitive as this event includes a few select larger private Schools, and some of the local Div.I large Schools. This will give our kids a little more competitive experience as they prepare for our next full team DCL meet this Wednesday at Cold Springs.
So...Come on down! bring a friend, the rest of your kids,...and watch our Boys (I mean your Boys) make tremendous efforts towards accomplishing their goals for their team."

The boys teams entered are:

Varsity Race(5K)
David Melly
David Wortham
Allen Shiu
Ben Eisenberg
Joe Trask
Keegan Stricker
Joe Hickey (Alt.)

Frosh Race(3k)
Collin Pham
Sam Haas
Dylan Shuler
Nick Reitman
Alex Verbitsky
Michael Costello

( max. 7 runners/team each race)
Full results will be posted on coolrunning.com

Last years results:
http://www.coolrunning.com/results/09/ma/Oct17_50thAn_set3.shtml

NS v LS v Wayland results

Click here for photos by Sue Chari
Click here for photos by John Wortham
Boys results are posted on results pages to right.
I'm still waiting to hear complete results from yesterday.
In the meantime John Keklak is trying to get the DCL blog going.
Check out:
http://www.dclrunning.blogspot.com/
Team Results from John Keklak of LS
NS-Wayland: 18-41
LS-Wayland: 15-48
LS-NS; 20-40
From John about the girls race:
"Kathy (O'Keefe NS) ran alone way up front and possibly set a course record of 16:22.  Andrea (Keklak LS) paced the L-S pack to pull along the L-S 3, 4 and 5, so there wasn't (unfortunately) a race with Kathy.  However they posed for a nice photo afterward.  I'm sure there will be a race at DCL's."

photo by John Keklak

Andrea won the MIAA Eastern MA Cross Country Championship last year with Kathy 3rd.

Andrea also won the 2009 MIAA All State Meet last year with Kathy 6th. 

I'll be there for the DCL championship at LS and then at Franklin Park for the Eastern MA championships to see this rivalry continue. 

 Here are the results from the NS v LS meet from 2008 won by Andrea in 16:16. There were 9 girls under 17:00. see: 

http://newtonrunningtimes.blogspot.com/2008/10/ns-v-ls-v-arl-1-october-2008.html

photo by Sue Chari

photo by John Wortham

photo by John Wortham

NS v LS v Wayland; Wed. 4 pm at LS

DCL double dual meet tomorrow against Lincoln-Sudbury and Wayland at Lincoln-Sudbury HS at 4 pm.
LSHS: 390 Lincoln Rd, Sudbury, MA 01776

NSHS alumni results 9-10 Oct. 2010

The New England Championships were held Saturday at Franklin Park.
Click here for photos by Dave Fineman

Men Varsity 8K
88. 26:05, Andrew Wortham, So, Bates

Men Sub Varsity 8K
80. 27:21, Matt Weaver, Jr, MIT
146. 28:14, Cliff Bargar, Jr, Tufts
175. 28:31, Marcus Schneider, So, Bowdoin
229. 29:28, Sam Ebb, So, Wesleyan

Women Varsity 5K
86. 19:07, Melanie Fineman, Fr, Brown

Women Sub Varsity 5K
31. 19:33, Madeleine Reed, Fr, Boston College
292. 23:01, Sara Chari, Fr, Bates

CMU Invitational, Pittsburgh PA, 8K
60. 27:46, Ben Finch, So, Carnegie-Mellon

2010 Runnin' Monks Invitational, Standish, Maine, 8K
3. 27:55, James Vance, Sr, Johnson & Wales
J&W swept the 1st 5 places. James finished with 2 other teammates shoulder to shoulder

14th Annual James Earley Invitational, Westfield MA, 8K
46. 28:01, Wil Cha, So, Trinity

photo: Dave Fineman

DCL double dual meet POSTPONED today, flooding, downed trees

Steven reports:

"The meet today at Cold Spring Park has been postponed due to some flooding and a few downed trees.

The make up date is most likely the 20th.  We will hold boys and girls practice today at NS @ 3:00."

DCL double dual meet; NS & Acton-Boxborough & Arlington

The next DCL double dual meet is tomorrow, Wednesday,  at Cold Spring Park at 4 p.m.
It is against Acton-Boxboro and Arlington.
AB has a very good boys and girls team. Arlington boys should give a good challenge.

Newton South High School, Alumni Results 1,2,3 Oct. 2010

CUA XC Invite 2010 - 10/2/2010 Old Soldiers Home Wash DC, 8K
3. 28:38.80 Kian Olia, Catholic University

Paul Short Women Gold 6K, Lehigh U, Oct. 1, 2010, 41 teams
37. Kelsey Karys, So Cornell, 21:21, 5:44/mile

Pop Crowell Invitational, 13 teams,2 Oct. 2010, 8K
2. 26:29 James Vance, Johnson & Wales

2010 VT X-C Intercollegiate Championships Oct. 02, 2010, 6 teams, 5K

10.  20:13  Juliet Ryan-Davis, Middlebury

Pomona-Pitzer Cross Country Invite 2 Oct. 2010, 8K
Cameron Fen, Cal Tech
wasn't feeling well but finished.

Baystate Invitational at Wrentham

I was surprised to see that NS boys ran at the Baystate Invitational since it wasn't on the schedule.
Click here for link to results at MSTCA site
Click here for photos by John Wortham
In the boys varsity division 1 race David Melly finished second in a spectacular time of 15:59. There were 300 runners in the race and 44 teams.
In the boys freshman race, Newton South shows great promise with a large and deep squad. DCL rival, Westford Academy also had a large and fast team.
NS also had 6 runners in the boys JV race.

lead pack boys div 1 varsity photo by John Wortham