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DyeStat Arkansas
11/11/00 at Fayetteville AR
AR-OK All Stars
Oklahoma girls 84-130; Arkansas boys 80-130;
Jessie Gordon OK 14:37; Eric Gross AR 15:11
results from www.ArkansasTrackStats.com
Detailed Results: BOYS - GIRLS
Eric Gross en route to victory
Mountain Home boys celebrate 1-2-3 finish for AR
Highlights by Arkansas TrackStats
On a gorgeous day in Fayetteville, Arkansas the Arkansas-Oklahoma High School Cross Country All-Stars renewed their annual rivalry at the Razorback Cross Country Course. Each state was represented by 25 of their top girls and boys. With partly cloudy skies, a 10-15 breeze from the east and a low 40s temperature, the course and weather cooperated to provide conditions for a fast race.
The runners did their part as well.
In the Girls 4K race, Jessie Gordon of Plainview, OK took the early lead and passed the mile marker at 5:43 followed by Oklahoma's Amanda Jordan of Bishop McGuinness and Beth Madson of Lake Hamilton who was the first Arkansas runner trailing slightly. Madson, a freshman, showed the crowd what she could really do after a sub-par performance at last week's Arkansas State 5A Championship where she toughed out a 29th place finish in the mud and rain at Hot Springs where she ran with the flu. Not today.
As the race played out, Oklahoma began to solidify their lead while Mt. Home's (AR) Dawn Crawford, moved into 4th trying to chase down Madison. Hot on Crawford was Kimbri Lettkeman of Watonga, OK. In a race where the first 10 finishers from each team determined the score, Oklahoma put five in the Top 7 and four in the next seven.
At the finish, Gordon won in an impressive 14:37 (about 5:51 per mile) over 2nd place Jordan's 14:58 and 3rd place Madson who crossed in 15:12. Crawford was 4th in a hard finish with 15:20 with Lettkeman close behind in 15:23.
Oklahoma won the Girls team results 84-130.
The Boys blasted out of the starting boxes then settled down to hit the first mile in only 5:05 with a large pack within 15 yards. By the 1.5 mile mark Eric Gross of Mt. Home, Arkansas Class 5A State Champion and winner of the Chile Pepper Race on this same course earlier this year, began to surge ahead and separate from the pack. The halfway mark saw Arkansas runners Logan Thomas (Mt. Home), Scott Swearengin (Rogers), Chris Behrens (Cabot) and Eric Brock (Russellville) forming a pack with Peter Marston of Mt. Home about 10th.
Gross continued his charge by opening a 15-20 second lead at the two mile mark cruising by in about 9:55 for a 4:50 second mile. By now Marston had put on a surge that brought him up with the trailing pack while 10-15 runners were still in the hunt for the Top 5 spots.
The finish line found Gross taking first in a season's best 15:11 (about 4:54 per mile) indicating the last mile at a quick 4:47 pace. The Mt. Home runners proved once again why they won the Arkansas 5A in 2000 as Logan Thomas grabbed 2nd with 15:46 and Peter Marston took third in 15:54. Right behind Marston was a stride-for-stride sprint the last 200 with Justin Edsell of Watonga, OK winning a photo finish over Scott Swearengin of Rogers, AR with both runners timed in an identical 15:57. Chris Behrens of Cabot, AR was close behind for 6th at 16:00 and Erick Brock of Russellville, AR took 7th at 16:05. Five runners raced the last 400 within yards of one another to finish within a span of 16:08 to 16:12 as Marco Jimeniz of Capitol Hill, OK claimed 8th, Tyler Schneideberg of Edmond Memorial took 9th, Marshall Medicine Bear of Watonga, OK came in 10th and Jake Conley of Rogers, AR edged in at 11th.
The Arkansas Boys put six in the Top 7 to grab a 80-130 win.
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