Germantown Friends PA 71 Max Kaulbach 12:28 (left) leads DyeStat NE#3 / Harrier US#10 team to impressive win over SE#4 Brentsville VA 102. photo by John Nepolitan Boys Varsity E Report - by Matt Soja Germantown Friends from Philadelphia continued their great season, defeating the Canadian team from Thousand Islands, Ontario 71-86 to take the E division title. Brentsville VA, ranked #4 in the Southeast, finished third with 102 points. The Pennsylvania harriers, ranked third in the Northeast, proved that their Paul Short triumph two weeks ago was no fluke. Although they averaged only 13:10.5, which means they will slip in the rankings behind North Penn and probably Don Bosco, their margin of victory over Brentsville was quite impressive. GF is a very top-heavy team, led by its superstar, Max Kaulbach, who won the race in 12:28.0, one of the best times of the day. Jake McKenzie followed soon after in fifth in 12:53.7 and the rest of the Friends finished in mid-13 range. Kaulbach, who has earned an honorable mention in Dyestat’s last Top 25 national list, triumphed by a solid margin of 11 seconds over another accomplished Pennsylvanian, Chris Aldrich of Henderson PA. He said that Aldrich and Dylan Trotzulc of Collegiate (third in 12:47.5) led for most of the race until he took over the lead on the last mile and pulled away decisively. But he also added that the team victory was more important to him than the individual glory. This was the only varsity boys’ race where the individual winner also contributed to his team’s victory.

 1 Germantown Friends 71  
 2 Thousand Islands 86  
 3 Brentville 102  
 4 Henderson 138  
 5 Suffern 167  
 6 Tully Central 206  
 7 Wantagh 255  
 8 Ridgewood 279  
 9 St. Peter’s  281  
 10 Jordan-Elbridge 299  
 11 Jamesville-DeWitt 331  
 12 Collegiate 391  
 13 Ocean Twp 439  
 14 Clinton Central 472  
 15 Commack 496  
 16 Hilton 500  
 17 Burlington 508  
 18 Brooklyn Tech 558  
 19 Ossining 576  
 20 North Hunterdon 586


1 Max Kaulbach Germantown Friends 12:27.92  
2 Chris Aldrich Henderson 12:38.68  
3 Dylan Trotzulc Collegiate 12:47.47  
4 Ray Delgado Brentsville 12:52.11  
5 Jake McKenzie Germantown Friends 12:53.66  
6 Kyle Milks Thousand Islands 12:58.36  
7 Jacob SmithSmith Thousand Islands 13:02.82  
8 #10779  Thousand Islands 13:07.64  
9 John Vallo Beacon 13:11.87  
10 Quimes Delacruz Wantagh 13:14.16  
11 Mike Pereira Suffern 13:15.66  
12 Will Kellar Henderson 13:15.96  
13 Gus McKenzie Germantown Friends 13:18.60  
14 Nate Wigton North Kingstown 13:22.11  
15 Will McFall Thousand Islands 13:24.98  
16 Andrew Johnson Brentsville 13:25.74  
17 Luke Watts Brentsville 13:26.40  
18 Jack Knych Jamesville-DeWitt 13:27.16  
19 Kyle Baxer Henderson 13:27.39  
20 Mitch Leveille North Kingstown 13:27.78  
21 Tom Clark Wantagh 13:28.60  
22 Isaac Ortiz Germantown Friends 13:30.99  
23 Taro Shigenobu Ridgewood 13:31.69  
24 Christian Trautwein Ridgewood 13:31.99  
25 Kevin Mckenna Suffern 13:33.94  
26 #4962  JFK Bellmore 13:34.37  
27 John Wynands Thousand Islands 13:35.14  
28 Gregory Hartnett Tully 13:35.42  
29 Derek Briggs Eisenhower 13:35.91  
30 Nick Mancuso New Paltz 13:36.87