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Competitive Championship Race on a Muddy Track
Another Saturday, another deluge. Thankfully, the spigot shut off and the sun came out by race time, but the ground was saturated and the wind was howling for the Founders League championship at Taft School. The Martlets face stiff Division I competition at this meet each year, but the team knew that its hard work over the preceding year would allow the boys to compete in this fast field. At the mile, the top runner from Taft was blazing ahead by over 15 seconds, but he was run down by the lead pack of four runners by the halfway mark. Emmett de Kanter ’19 was in that pack, vying back and forth with athletes against whom he has competed for years. He ended up fourth in a solid sub-17 minute run on this difficult course. Kieran Haug ’21 was the Second team finisher, running a smart race from beginning to end; he did not have anything left to sprint but was ahead of a large pack of Hotchkiss runners. Daniel Pinckney ’20 and Justin Schuster ’19 did, however, have some gas in the tank, and they each passed three or four runners in the final 100 yards to take 12th and 13th, right behind Kieran’s 11th place overall. These four runners, by finishing in the top 15, earned All-Founders honors; that is a first for Westminster to have four earn that honor in one meet. Elliott Kennard ’19 was the last scoring runner at 28th overall, and he, Will Rizzo ’21 (31st) and Alex Ellis ’20 (41st) left it all out on this challenging course in a field of 63 varsity runners. Pinckney and Ellis had season best runs. The team’s efforts earned third place out of nine teams (68 points) behind champion Loomis Chaffee (39) and Hotchkiss (58) and ahead of Choate (89), Taft (98), Avon Old Farms (177), Kent (197), T-P (223) and K-O (249).
In the JV race, the field was huge, as the large schools in the Founders League bring 40 or more runners for this race. Brendan Greene ’20 stepped up as the top Westminster runner in this race, besting his season best time by over 90 seconds and finishing 35th overall. He was closely followed by Spencer Kwan ’22, Nate Chaves ’19, Kellen Seeley ’22 and Raymond Liu ’22, all of whom ran lifetime bests (and a few dropped over a minute). The two displacers for Westminster were Grant Pietri ’22 and James Beit ’22; the Third Formers as a group could grow into the core of Westminster’s XC future. The JV group finished seventh of nine teams.
Results, here.
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