Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:42:12 -0400

From: "Edward  J. Grant" <[email protected]>

Subject: t-and-f: NJ HS CC-Week 5

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Netters:

        Haddonfield frosh Erin Donohue again took the spotlight as the New

Jersey HS cross-country season reached its halfway point last weekend.

        In her first start on the South Jersey sectional course at

Kingsway, Donohue annihilated the course record with a 17:07 victory in the

C section of the South Jersey Open. She took 34 seconds off the record set

three years ago by Jamie Weisgerber of Woodstown, who was the all-agroup

champion that year.

        The Kingsway course is flat and probably no more than 3M long.

Times for the top girls generally run 70-75 seconds faster than at the

Holmdel state championship course. 

        Christian Brothers had an easy win in the much-depleted Eastern

boys' race at Van Cortlandt park. The conflict between this meet and the SJ

Open kept Donohue and the other SJ stars from getting a shot at Van

Cortlandt Park's classic 2.5M course this year. Some of them will, however,

be up for the Footlocker Trials, including Murad Campbell of Overbrook, who

broke the boys' course record at Kingsway with a 14:58 race.

        The past week also saw the opening of the championship meet season,

but most of the state's top boys and girls teams (outside of SJ) simply

took the weekend off to prepare for the next five weeks of title action.

The big meet this coming week will be the Iron Hills Conference on Oct. 23

at Warinanco Park, Elizabeth, with three ranked boys and girls teams apiece

in the Iron Division races.

        There follows the top finishers, team and individual, in the SJ

Open, then a quick review of the other weekend action:



                        SOUTH JERSEY GIRLS

        A: T-Shawnee 44, Brick 59, Chke 94. 1-K.C. Meehan, Brick 18:37.

2-Robin VanAuken, Highland :56. 3-Leyna Williams, Triton :59. 4-Betsy

White, Shawnee 19:01. 5-Madline Hoos, Cherokee :04. 6-Joy Beckett,

Overbrook :13. 7-Lauren Anders, Shawnee :13. 8-Jenna Darcy, Shawnee :14.

9-Sarah Chase, Brick :16. 10-Megan Ackers, Southern Ocean :17. 11-Jeanne

Davis, Eastern :34. 12-Michelle Bilicki, Cherokee :40. 13-Mandi Orrok,

Brick :42. 14-Andrea Pricskett, Shawnee :43. 15-Colleen Morrissey, Shawnee

:47.

                

        B: T-Ocean City 91, Williamstown 113, Toms River South 115.

1-Porter, Holy Cross 18:59. 2-Erca DeSalvatore, TRS 19:08. 3-Kaye

Henninger, Manchester :25. 4-Erika Lacovara-Switzer, Egg Harbor :41.

5-Hayley DeFeo, MiddleTwp :43. 6-Vernick Smith, Wilson :45. 7-Melissa

Cardwell :51. 8-Tara Loescher, Williamstown :52. 9-Liz Hackley, Holy Cross

:57. 10-Eileen Kickish, Mainland 20:09. 11-Kriten Gisondi, Egg Harbor :09.

12-Jade Fisher, WestDeptford :11. 13-Michelle Fromal, Egg Harbor :17.

14-Rachelle Damminger, Clearview :19. 15-Jodi Black, OC :20.

        

        C: T-Bishop Eustace 46, Maple Shade 151, Kingsway 157. 1-Erin

Donohue, Haddonfield 17:07. 2-Adrienne Alexander, Sacred Heart 18:57.

3-Laura  Bottalico, Bishop Eustace 19:17. 4-Betsy Knaster, Maple Shade :28.

5-Laura Hansen, Haddon Heights :33. 6-Sharon Crow, Haddon Twp :36. 7-Sandy

Ogbin, Schalick :38. 8-Brandes Neiderhofer, Holy Spirit :49. 9-Kathleen

March, Bishop Eustace :51. 10-Tiffany Harris, Burlington Twp 20:01.

11-Stephanie Maxwell, Buena :02. 12-Michelle Bottalico, Bishop Eustace :08.

13-Janel Farrell, Camden Cath :10. 14-Tracy Wolf, Delran :10. 15-Jess

Klein, Delran :16.



                        SOUTH JERSEY BOYS

        A: T-Shanee 73, Cherokee and Toms River East 92. 1-Murad Campbell,

Overbrook 14:58. 2-Matt Ruhl, Triton 15:38. 3-Al Rispoli, Toms River East

15:30. 4-Bob Broomhead, Absegami 15:40. 5-Brad Bisinger, Lenape 15:44.

6-Dan Christensen, Shawnee 15:48. 7-Nick Ferrara, Toms River East 15:53.

8-Ben Werbos, Cherokee 15:56. 9-Dave DeJong, Shawnee 15:56. 10-Jeff

Logandro, Triton 16:07. 11-Tom Sargent, Southern Ocean 16;09. 12-Blake

Connor, Absegami 16:18. 13-Scott Freedan, Absegami 16:18. 14-Pat Juliano,

Overbrook 16:20. 15-Joe Halin, Cherokee 16:21.



        B: T-Mainland 73, Paul VI 101, Delsea 104. 1-Ian hahn, Manchester

Twp 15;09. 2-Steve Preite, Delsea 15:47. 3-John Garton, Cumberland 15:49.

4-Bill Carroll, Mainland 15:54. 5-Tom Cresong, Paul VI 15:59. 6-Jesse

McDonald, Williamstown 16:10. 7-Tyler Forrest, Mainland 16:11. 8-Joseph

Lacovara-Switzer, Egg Harbor 16:16. 9-Michael Janowicz, Toms River South

16:17. 10-Doug Parave, Toms River South 16:21. 11-Hans Ertl, Williamstown

16:24. 12-Randy Wetzel, Oakcrest 16:24. 13-James Holden, Bridgeton 16:25.

14-ED Counsellor, Clearview 16:25. 15-Mike Ruggia, Mainland 16:25.



        C: T-Haddonfield 103, Wildwood Catholic 148, Haddon Twp 161. 1-Bill

Mason, Cinnaminson 15:37. 2-Mike Fulton, Maple Shade 15:38. 3-Tim Callinan,

Sacred Heart 15:53. 4-Ray Tomczuk, Delran 15:58. 5-Kevin Sacco, sacred

Heart 16:10. 6-Mike McGowan, Bishop Eustace 16:15. 7-Jason Griscom,

Kingsway 16:19. 8-Tim Dwyer, Wildwood Catholic 16:25. 9-Kris Miller, Delran

16:32. 10-Aaron Winkelspecht, Riverside 16:37. 11-Ryan Carmody, Haddonfield

16:38. 12-Ryan Perazzelli, Bishop Eustace 16;49. 13-Robert Butterick,

Clayton 16:50. 14-Dan Platt, Woodbury 16;52. 15-Ray Carter, Burlington Twp

16:53.





                        RIDGEWOOD INVITATONAL

        Two of the state's top girls' teams met here with Red Bank catholic

defeating Ridgewood, 30-38. Ridgewood went 1-2 with senior Celeste Sedo

setting a course record of 18:13 and soph Kelly Behan a step behind in

18:14. The course is 5K, but flat as a pancake with some sandy stretches.

Meghan Cunniff led RBY in 3rd at 19:14.

        NY teams usually dominate the boys' meet here and Washingtonville

won again over Clarkstown South, 31-75, with its Manuel Thomas winning in

15:58. The B boys race went to 5th Ave Mile winner Rob Dobson of Mater Dei

in 16:14.



                        NORTHERN HILLS CONFERENCE'

        This one was run over a hilly, 3M course at picturesque Delbartobn

School. There are two divisions for boys and girls. The hosts, a perennial

winner, took the Skyline Boys, 29-80, over Pasaic Valley, whose Andres

Cordero, a junior, set a course record of 15:30.

        The top girls were in separate races. Janie Steinemann of Villa

Walsh, whose brother is Delbarton's No. 2, won the Suburban race in 18:50

and Aisha Alexander of Passaic Valley the Skyline in 18:52. Steinemann

upset the two-time defending champ, Lauran Avallone of Morris Catholic.



                                                Ed Grant