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Lawrence coaches save high school meet at Rim Rock Farm
Matt Noonan shakes Adam Perkins
Rim Rock Farm - Lawrence Coaches Invitational
Full Results from this meet can be found at www.freestaterunning.com
On Thursday the Big 12 announced that no athletic events would
be held, including
the KU sponsored Rimrock Classic. Herculean efforts by Lawrence
Free State's Steve
Heffernan and other area coaches resulted in Free State hosting
a high quality
invitational being put together in less than 24 hours on Friday.
Saturday morning saw
an abbreviated version of the KU Invitational (originally 150 teams
expected.) Bob
Timmons graciously hosted over 20 schools from Kansas and Missouri.
A moment of
silence was held before the meet began in rememberance of the victims
of Tuesday's
attacks and in honor of the men and women serving to protect and
rescue.
A summit meeting of Kansas's finest distance runners occured in
the girls race as
Leavenworth's Amy Hastings dueled with Riley County's Erin Mortimer,
both
undefeated this season. Hastings and Mortimer flew over the KU course
in tandem
through the Oakdale Covered Bridge and up a steep hill at the mile
mark, then down
steep downhills to the mile and a half mark. Hastings made a definitive
move up the
Billy Mills Hill to drop Mortimer, and then hammered home in 11:30
over the 2 mile
course. Mortimer followed in 11:43, with defending 6A state champion
Alysha
Galbraith (Olathe South-12:03), Amy Gouchnour (Olathe South-12:04)
and Bishop
Miege's Sarah Glatte-12:09 following.
In the team race Gary Kruger's Lee's Summit (MO) North squad showed
fine balance
to outrun Blue Valley Northwest 103-134 . Raymore-Peculiar placed
third with 137 and
top-ranked Olathe South fourth at 141.
The boys race saw Liberty (M0) star Adam Perkins hook up for the
early lead with
defending Kansas 4A champ Matt Noonan (Baldwin). Also running in
the lead pack
and pushing the pace was Pawnee Height's Christian Smith, from a
1A school
(Kansas's smallest class) near Great Bend. The three appeared to
alternate pushing
the pace over the first mile and a half of the course. After a steep
downhill and through
a new covered bridge, Perkins and Noonan began to gap Smith around
the flat
broomfield near the 2 mile mark. Perkins and Noonan entered the
Narrows (a wooded
narrow climb near the 2 1/2 mile mark) together. Near the Billy
Mills hill, Noonan
made a very strong move, dropping Perkins, and then dashing home
for a 28 second
victory in 16:03. Perkins followed with 16:31, and Dylan McClain
(Lawrence-16:52),
Brandon Daniels (Lee's Summit North-16:53), and Pawnee Height's
Smith (17:01)
rounded out the top five.
Lawrence High used five runners in the top fifteen to edge Liberty
(MO) 50-67 for the
team title. Independence (MO) Truman 104, Lawrence Free State 142,
and Shawnee
Mission East 167 rounded out the top five.
Boys Team Scores: Lawrence 50, Liberty (MO) 67, Independence (MO)
Truman 104,
Lawrence Free State 142, SM East 167, Lee's Summit (MO) 173, Baldwin
212,
Warrensburg (MO) 212, Tonganoxie 246, Olathe South 257, Olathe East
278, Kearney
(MO) 308, SM South 358, Leavenworth 368, Maize 388, Raymore-Peculiar
(MO) 445,
SM Bishop Miege 468, Blue Valley Northwest 472, Olathe North 491,
SM North 588
Girls Team Scores: Lee's Summit North (MO) 103, Blue Valley Northwest
134,
Raymore-Peculiar (MO) 137, Olathe South 141, SM East 145, Liberty
(MO) 152,
Independence Truman (MO) 188, Lawrence Free State 230, Baldwin 252,
Warrensburg
(MO) 274, Maize 275, Lawrence 289, Olathe East 304, Kearney 376,
SM South 418,
Tonganoxie 462, Olathe North 486
Thursday 9/12/01
Buhler Invitational
Hay High, ranked 3rd in class 5A, won the boys team title at Buhler.
Sparked
by the 1-2 finish of Scott Rome (16:05) and Mike Staab (16:10. Hays
defeated
Buhler, with McPherson third. Hays also scored and individual win
on the
girls side with Pam Weber (12:01) using a late kick to defeat Hutchison
Trinity's Maggie Foss (12:03). Buhler used three top ten finishers
to win
the girls team title.
Boys Team Scores: Hays 27, Buhler 54, McPherson 104, Salina South
106,
Newton 128, Hutchinson Trinity 129, Andover Central 154, Great Bend
244,
Augusta 259
Girls Team Scores: Buhler 50, McPherson 62, Hutchinson Trinity 100,
August
113, Great Bend 119, Salina South 159
Oakley Invitational
Colby continued it's dominance of far Northwest Kansas , sweeping
both the
boys and girls team titles. Speedy Aguilar (Goodland) and Ivy Ramsey
(Colby)
won individual titles on a rugged wind-swept course.
Bluestem Invitational
Clearwater freshman Mallory Champa continues to establish herself
as a 4A
contender, winning by over a minute in 11:41. Champa led Clearwater
to a
narrow 58-61 win over Towanda-Circle, with Halstead right behind
at 62.
Clearwater also won the boys title with 34 points, with Hesston
next at 81.
Segwick's Cory Enterkin won the boys title at 16:32, with Andale's
Dan Simon
next (16:46).
Boys team scores: Clearwater 34, Hesston 81, Caney Valley 115, Wichita
Collegiate 128, Goessel 160, Sedgwick 171, Halstead 175, Towanda-Circle
176,
Douglass 227, Marion 244, Remington 277, Andale 288, Bluestem 321,
Hillsboro
339
Girls team scores: Clearwater 58, Towanda-Circle 61, Halstead 62,
Bluestem
90, Remington 111, Andale 147, Segwick 181, Marion 191
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