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Racing Systems - Ed
Grant: the good news for Haddonfield - Highlights
by Don Rich -
Haddonfield falls when Skip Stiles falls;
Marc Pelerin and Jesse Mizzone win big
Group 2 boys at the mile - Bonnette
on the left, and Stiles (who didn't finish)
on the right. Platt is at the back of the front pack, not
visible.
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Jesse Mizzone
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Marc Pelerin
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- Combined
- Boys - Marc Pelerin, 12, Cherokee, 16:08.4
- Girls - Jesse Mizzone, 11, Passaic Valley, 18:46.5
- Group 4
- Boys - Marc Pelerin, 12, Cherokee, 16:08.4 - Old Bridge
63, Cherokee 69, Hunterdon Central 89
- Girls - Clair Nowakowski, 12, Ridgewood, 19:35.4 - Old Bridge
79, Shawnee 81, Southern Regional 101
- Group 3
- Boys - Edward Baynes, 11, Toms River South, 16:24.1 - Mainloand
Regional 54, Mount Olive 116, Red Bank Regional 130
- Girls - Jesse Mizzone, 11, Passaic Valley, 18:46.5 - Hopewell
Valley 59, North Hunterdon 69, Middletown South 82
- Group 2
- Boys - Chris Platt, 11, Haddonfield, 16:10.8 - Craig Segal,
12, Holmdel, 16;12.1 - Breton Bonnette, 12, Haddonfield, 16:13.2
- Holmdel 48, Haddonfield 54, Moorestown 107
- Girls - Meghan Hughes, 11, Moorestown, 19:27.9 - Moorestown
39, Voorhees 70, Montville Township 98
- Group 1
- Boys - Marc Altenau, 11, Shore Regional, 17:08.0 - Shore
Regional 72, Metuchen 120, Bernards 123
- Girls - Erin Henry, 12, Glen Rock, 19:52.3 - Shore Regional
37, Glen Rock 98, Arthur P. Schalick 117
- Parochial A
- Boys - Jim Fannery, 12, Saint Joseph HS-ME, 16:17.3 - Christian
Brothers Academy 58, Don Bosco Prep 59, Paul VI 89
- Girls - Nichole Kurtain, 12, Notre Dame, 19:38.4 - Red Bank
Catholic 52, Monsignor Donovan 80, Paul VI 88
- Parochial B
- Boys - Oskar Nordenbring, 10, Montclair Kimberle, 16:40.0
- Saint Rose-Belmar 56, Bishop Eustace Prep 68, Pope John
XXIII 81
- Girls - Lindsay Van Alstine, 11, Hawthorne Christian, 19:21.9
- Pope John XXXIII 57, Bishop Eustace Prep 76, Pingry School
90
Highlights by Don Rich
US#4 Haddonfield was upset by hometown Group II heroes Holmdel
48-54,
after one of Haddonfield's trio of race leaders, Skip Stiles dropped
out
of the race at 2.5 miles with stomach cramps. But the two other
members
of that Haddonfield trio, Chris Platt and Breton Bonnette stepped
up and
went 1-3 with the second and fourth fastest times of the day, 16:10.8
and 16:13.2. In fact, Bonnette was leading with less than 200 to
go
coming out of the woods, and was passed in the final stretch by
Platt
and Holmdel's Craig Segal.
Haddonfield head coach Nick Baker said:
"At the beginning of the year we said we had to come here
(Holmdel)
healthy. We couldn't have anybody go down. Skip (Stiles) went down,
and
we're pretty disappointed. It was a breathing problem. He went down
with
cramping. He had that happen once this summer, too. If it was just
some
dust, or some freak thing, we'll be fine. I'll give them 24 hours
to be
disappointed, because we'll come back next week with a shot at the
championship.
"Chris (Platt) did what he had to do. Breton (Bonnette) stepped
up
unbelievably from 16:34 down to 16:13. That's just a huge step up.
And
(Brian) Goldberg, the sophomore, getting 10th his first year running
was
real nice. But look at our times. If Skip stays where he was (lead
pack
at 2.5 miles), even if he finished 4th, our times would have been
one of
the best all-time averages, and we'd all be happy."
Jesse Mizzone of Passaic Valley had the fastest girls' time of
the day,
a sizzling 18:46.5 to take the Group III Championship. And Cherokee's
Marc Pelerin cruised to a 16:08.4 and easy win in the Group IV Boys
race.
The closest team race of the day came in the Parochial A Boys race
as
CBA took Don Bosco Prep by a single point, 58-59.
Ed Grant's Report - the good news for Haddonfield
Netters:
There was both bad news and good news for Haddonfield's No. 1 NJ
boys' CC team today (Nov. 10) at the 83rd annual group championshsips
at
Holmdel County Park.
The bad news was that, due to a badly-timed stitch, No. 2 runner
Skip Stiles dropped out of the Gr. II race and cost his team a certain
title.
The good news was that, presuming he will return to form next
week
at the all-group championships, Haddonfield seems an almost certain
winner
off the performances of its other four regulars.
As the runners came out of the hills for the finish of the last
of
12 title races, Chris Platt of Haddonfield was leading, Craiug Segal
of
Holmdel was 2nd and, apparently, Stiles was running third. But as
the
runners approached the fiish, it turns out that the third man was
the usual
No. 3 runner for Haddonfield, Breton Bonnette, who crossed the line
in
16:13, fourth best time of the six boys' races. A minute later,
the third
and fourth Hadonfield runners were across the line and it was then
another
minute wait for the fifth.
Even with this 18;25 clocking, Haddonfield had one of the fastest
team times of the day. With Stiles in his usual place---more than
two
minutes faster--it would have had one of the fastest team times
ever
recorded at Holmdel. The stitch occurred when Stiles was leading
the 4-man
pack just oast the 2M mark after the most difficult part of the
course, the
infamous "Bowl," had been completed.
The hometown favorites took advantage of the mishap to score a
totally unexpected 47-53 victory. Platt finished in 16:10, with
Segal at
16:12.
Two other favorites had very close calls. In the first boys'
race of the day, Christian Brothers Academy took its seventh conseuctive
Parochial A title, 58-59, from Don Bosco Prep. The difference proved
to be
the CBA sixth man finishing in from the the fourth and fifth Don
Bosco
runners,
Jim Flannery of St. Joseph, Metuchen, who had missed th meet last
year with a collapsed lung, was an easy winner this time, 100 yards
ahead of
Peter Gerboth and Sean Swift of Don Bosco in 16:17.
Old Bridge, which has been ina seesaw battle with Haddonfield
all
season for the No. 1 slot, got a scare in the Gr. IV race when its
usual
tight pack developed a leak as No. 2 runner Rich LaFergola trailed
his
teammates by 26 seconds.
Cherokee had three runners, including winner Marc Pelerin (at
the
day's fastest, 16:08) over the line before the first Old Bridge
finisher,
but didn;t have another until the five OB boys had completed the
course and
the faborites took a 63-69 decision.
The other boys' races were more or less routine. Mainland
outclassed the Gr. III field with five of the first 18 finishers
for a
54-116 defeat of Mt. Olive. Eddie Baynes of Toms River South, who
had lost
the last two weeks on flat courses, won over the hills by 45 yards
from Greg
Hughes of Mainland in 16:25.
Marc Bloom's St. Rose team repeated in Parochial B, 56-68, over
Bishop Eustace and then went back to nearby Belmar to ride the town
fire
truck around the streets of the shoreside community (this is not
the same
town which recently made headlines in NJ when its PO was struck
by
anthrax---that one has a "w" before the "r"
and is near the Delaware River)
Soph Oskar Nordenbring of Montclair Kimberley Academy, coached by
marathoner
Tom Fleming, also repeated as individual champ in 16:40.
Shore Regional gave Monmouth a third winner as it took the Gr.
I
race easily from Metuchen, 72-120, with Marc Altenau winning in
17:08.
Old Bridge and Shore also won in the six-race girls' prorgram.
The
Old Bridge win over favored Shawnee, 79-81, even surprised its coach
since
its top 2000 runner, Linda Sanders, has been running below form
all season
and was the fifth finish for her team yesterday. The leadership
role has
fallen to frosh mara McInerney, who was eighth today in 20:08. Clair
Nowakowski of Ridgewood won the race in 19:35.
Shore also has an injured leader, but Julie Ullmeyer managed a
3rd
polace finish in 20:57 and five teammates, led by her sister, Nicole,
occupired the 8th through 12th places for an easy Gr. I win over
Glecn Rock,
whose Erin henry won the race in 19:52.
But the real fireworks in the girls' program came in the Gr. III
and
II races. In the former, Hopewell Valley had its best race by far
of the
season to upset North Hunterdon (which had beaten it for Central
Jersey
honors on the same course a week earlier), 59-69. And Jesse Mizzone
of
Pasaic Valley, who has led the state all fall, turned in the day's
fastest
time of 18:46.
In the Gr. II race, Moorestown showed why it has been the No.
1
ranked team almost all season as it defeated No. 2 Voorhees, 39-70.
And
Megan Hughes added the final touch when she finished 50 yards ahead
of
favored Christy Planer of Rumson in 19:17.
Solo runner Lindsay VanAlstine of Hawthorne Christian had the
day's
second best time as she won her third straight Parochial B title
by250 yards
from Caroline Bugg of Newark Academy in 19:21. Pope John had a larger
margin
than expected in what looked to be in advance the closest team race
of the
day, defeating Bishop Eustace, 57-76.
Red Bank Catholic, the founding school of girls' track and field
in
the state, took the Parochial A title again from Msgr. Donovan,
52-80, for
its 12th group title (it also has won the all-group title eight
times,
including the first four years (1972-75) when there were no group
meets).
The individual race was a repeat of last week's New Jersey Catholic
Track Conference campionships with Nicole Kurtain of Notre Dame
outrunning
the Geiger twins of Immaculata in 19:38.
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