Maryland State Meet
11/13/99 at Hereford HS, Hereford MD
3 miles, very steep hills, including twice down and up a steep ravine called "the dip",
sharp turns throughout and sidehill stretches
Girls Course Record falls twice in 3 hours!
Tenke Zoltani (left) shaved 3 seconds off the Hereford course record in the
morning; but Middletown's Buzzell sisters (right) countered in the
afternoon. Freshman Emily, the shorter one, ran 18:57 to become the first
girl ever to break 19 minutes on the dreaded hills of Hereford. Randy
finished 2nd as Middletown's 24 points gave them their third straight 2A title
and third straight best overall state meet time for Maryland girls.
| 4A Boys - jr Marcus Hershberger,
Gaithersburg 16:28; Westminster 54 |
| 3A Boys - sr Mike Styczynski 16:22 and
River Hill 64 |
| 2A Boys - sr Scott Herrick, Linganore
16:41; Urbana 92 |
| 1A Boys - jr Ryan Foster, Beall 16:34;
Oakland Mills 72 (Glenelg 73) |
| 4A Girls - so Tenke Zoltani, Dulaney
19:04; C. Milton Wright 84 (Dulaney 86) |
| 3A Girls - jr Colleen Lawson, N. Carroll
19:37; Walter Johnson 63 |
| 2A Girls - fr Emily Buzzell 18:57 and
Middletown 24 (1-2-5-6-10) |
| 1A Girls - sr Nory Sams, Allegany 20:48;
Southern Garrett 40 |
Partial Highlights
Girls 3A: McDuff and Lawson ran together until they disappeared from sight
around the final turn. When Lawson emerged, she had a sizeable gap on
McDuff, which grew even larger over the final 150 meters. Lawson thus defended her 3A title.
Walter Johnson won their 4th straight team title.
Boys 3A: Mike Styczynski set a meet record for all classes to help
River Hill end South Carroll's championship string.
Girls 4A: Zoltani had the lead by 800 meters and led comfortably the rest of
the way, with mile splits of 6:10 and 12:40. She went on to break the
long-standing course record of Renee Berry by 3 seconds.
A good showing by Karen Pulliam, of Quince Orchard, who
finished second in 19:31. Heavily favored CM Wright
finished only 2 points ahead of Dulaney. Expected contender Kacie Remeto
fell down and was out of contention quickly.
Boys 2A: Former champion Van Tine led until the final uphill when he
was caught by Herrick, who
then pulled away. Van Tine slowed to a crawl in the last 50 yards
and was passed by Shawn Spencer of Centennial for second. Frederick County teams went 1-2-3.
This time it was Urbanas turn for a title. Linganore was 2nd, Middletown
3rd. In the past 3 weeks, each team has taken a championship between the
Frederick County
meet, the 2A West regional, and now the state meet.
Girls 2A: All Middletown - Emily and Randy Buzzell went out hard, with Randy leading. They crossed
the first mile in 6:06, four seconds ahead of Zoltanis pace. Frande was not
far behind. Randy and Emily were still together until 1.5 miles, when Emily
pulled away on the hill after the dip. Randy held together well, but Frande
still stalked her. Rocky Morgan struggled and fell to tenth at one point, with
Kathy Harrigan slowly making her way through the field until she was fifth. At two
miles, Emily was at 12:40, matching Zoltanis pace. Her father and
assistant Middletown
coach Dave BuzzellI told her that and Emily really set her jaw for a last mile
in 6:17, seven better
than Zoltani earlier. It made Emily the first girl to break 19 minutes on
the difficult Hereford course.
Frande caught Randy Buzzell during the
last turn and briefly moved ahead. Randy came back on her and the two of
them kicked furiously the last 50 meters, with Randy edging her out.
It was
almost a carbon copy of Randy's race 2 years ago when she edged Suzy McCullough
(who won
the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional today at Fort Frederick State
Park). Randy even
bettered her time that year by three seconds, finishing in 19:33. Harrigan
moved into fourth over the last mile, but was caught at the finish by Tricia
O'Connell,
who led Catonsville to a surprising second place finish with 84
points.
Rocky Morgan recovered and settled for 7th. Middleton's fifth finisher, Andrea
Pope, was 11th,
giving Middletown 24 points, the lowest of the meet and surely one of the lowest
of all time
in Maryland. Middletown averaged 20:02. Only 9 girls cracked 20
minutes in the meet, and the MHS girls averaged that as a team!
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