Varsity highlights

The Pioneer mens varsity cross country team had a somewhat disappointing performance at the Jackson invitational, placing 8th of 16 teams. After showing great improvement at Holly the previous weekend, only one runner was able to improve his time. And, arrgh, Pioneer was edged out by Saline.

One more time, senior James Naughton led the way. James took 6th place with a personal record (PR) time of 16:15, his 3rd consecutive PR. Andy Harvey took 33rd place with a time of 17:17. Joe Anderson followed with 37th place, while Soren Berg was #52. Mike Roth was the 5th man, taking 54th place. Mike's time of 17:50 tied his PR. Freshman Takashi Gould did not run due to illness.

Varsity team results

Team                     Points
1. Portage Northern        93
2. Milford                118
3. Traverse City West     118
4. Grand Blanc            136
5. Traverse City Central  146
6. White Lake Lakeland    169
7. Saline                 177
8. Ann Arbor Pioneer      182
total of 16 teams

Pioneer varsity runners

Name                    Place  Time
James Naughton             6   16:15  PR!  (-9)
Andy Harvey               33   17:17
Joe Anderson              37   17:26
Soren Berg                52   17:49
Mike Roth                 54   17:50
Mortie Stensones-Fornaess 67   18:05
Kevin Goehring            75   18:17
Weather: 60, sunny, medium humidity, course a little soft

Junior varsity highlights

The JV team ran on Friday afternoon. Although the course was quite wet, a number of runners had excellent races.

Sophmore Jeff Hubbard easily won the race with a PR time of 17:55. Considering the sloppy conditions, this was an awesome performance. Way to go Jeff.

About 30 seconds after Jeff, Marty Everin came in and grabbed 2nd place overall. Marty had a PR time of 18:36.

A total of 13 JV runner established PR's. Brenner Heintz, Jeff Nao and Nick Wickstrom improved their PR's by over a minute. Considering the conditions, those are great times. It was a fine performance by the entire JV team.

Name                 Place  Time
Jeff Hubbard          1     17:55  PR!  (-2)
Marty Everin          2     18:36  PR!  (-11)
Alan Antonuk         --     19:05
Dan Moyer            --     19:18
Nick Wilkenson       --     19:25
Jesper Jarkvist      --     19:25
Carl Duke            --     19:35  PR!  (-16)
Phil Dokas           --     19:38
Dave Ross            --     19:42  PR!  (-6)
Josh Salvner         --     19:47  PR!  (-5)
Parry Garff          --     19:51
Walker Rutter-Bowman --     20:09
Alex McGuiness       --     20:31
Stuart Remick        --     20:50  PR!  (-18)
Sam Milgrom          --     21:11
Eric Ressler         --     21:30
Brenner Heintz       --     21:34  PR!  (-1:06)
Jeff Nao             --     21:36  PR!  (-1:14)
JP Decker            --     21:48  PR!  (-23)
Tom Bergman          --     22:03  PR!  (-28)
Alex Urbanik         --     22:07
Nick Wickstrom       --     22:15  PR!  (-1:16)
Ross Acheson         --     22:32 
Dale White           --     22:34  PR!  (-20)
Erron Morton         --     22:44
Luke Hospadarak      --     23:36  PR!  (-23)
Max Hospadarak       --     24:23

Final notes

The next race is the SEC Jamboree #2 at Pioneer on Tuesday, October 2.

PR! - new personal record, refers to all-time PR, not just the best time of the season