Greely girls win Manchester Invitational Small School race: Leggat-Barr leads Maine contingent

Greely girls win Manchester Invitational Small School race: Leggat-Barr leads Maine contingent

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Katherine Leggat-Barr led the Greely Rangers to the Girl's Small School title at the 42nd Manchester Invitational held at Derryfield Park in New Hampshire Saturday morning. Leggat-Barr, a senior, broke 19 minutes en route to a runner-up finish as the senior stopped the clock at 18:58. She ran by herself most of the race as race winner Eleanor Lawler of South Kingstown, RI set the pace up front and was never challenged. Leggat-Barr went through the mile in 6:03, and her 2 mile split was 12:43 as she averaged 6:07 pace.She was followed two spots later by sophomore Carolyn Todd who ran 19:19. Kate Curran had a big day for Greely as well running a big PR of 20:24 to place 12th overall.

Fryeburg junior Emily Carty placed 8th overall, she finished in 20:02, after hitting the mile in 6:17, then 2 miles in 13:29. Carty's finished helped Fryeburg to a 13th place team finish.  Natalie Dubois of Marshwood had a strong run as she placed 22nd with a 20:55 effort. Marshwood finished 10th as a team.

Girls Small school top 10

Place	TmPl	Name	Yr	School	1m	2m	Time	Pace
1	1	Eleanor Lawler	11	South Kingstown	5:56	12:29	18:45	6:03
2	2	Katherine Leggat-Barr	12	Greely	6:03	12:43	18:58	6:07
3		Susie Poore	12	Windham	6:12	12:48	19:11	6:11
4	3	Carolyn Todd	10	Greely	6:05	12:54	19:19	6:13
5	4	Lucy Glueck	9	Hanover	6:11	12:54	19:23	6:15
6	5	Erin Magill	11	Harwood	6:06	12:56	19:26	6:16
7	6	Danielle Slavin	11	Oyster River	6:05	12:58	19:46	6:22
8	7	Emily Carty	11	Fryeburg	6:17	13:29	20:02	6:27
9	8	Isabella Giesing	11	Oxbow	6:16	13:33	20:02	6:27
10	9	Olivia Lenk	9	Oyster River	6:24	13:39	20:18	6:32

Girls top 3 teams

  1.    99  Greely                    (  20:26  1:42:07   2:46)
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  1      2  Katherine   Leggat-Barr      18:58
  2      3  Carolyn     Todd             19:19
  3     11  Kate        Curran           20:24
  4     41  Chloe       Smith            21:42
  5     42  Chloe       Waldrep          21:44
  6   ( 46) Julia       Curran           21:50
  7   ( 69) Izzy        Evans            22:34

  2.   108  Hanover                   (  20:43  1:43:33   2:35)
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  1      4  Lucy        Glueck           19:23
  2     10  Leila       Trummel          20:22
  3     13  Elsa        Nordstrom        20:35
  4     30  Sadie       Lingelbach-Pie   21:15
  5     51  Kirsten     Miller           21:58
  6   ( 53) Kennedy     Lange            22:05
  7   ( 55) Emily       Bregou           22:10

  3.   110  Harwood                   (  20:49  1:44:01   2:20)
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  1      5  Erin        Magill           19:26
  2     18  Julianne    Young            20:51
  3     21  Anneka      Williams         20:56
  4     22  Phoebe      Sweey            21:02
  5     44  Lily        Clark            21:46
  6   ( 68) Willa       Yonkman          22:32
  7   ( 87) Isabel      Jamieson         23:10

Boys Small School

Henry Jaques of Freeport led the way with a 4th place finish as the senior clocked 16:14 for 5k. Henry covered the first mile in 5:07, that was followed by a 5:33, before dropping the pace back down to 5:02 in the final. 

"I struggled during the second mile" Jaques said post race.

It wasn't much of a struggle as Jaques set a new personal best with his 16:14 effort. That time is the second fastest 5k effort for a Maine runner this fall.

Greely got it down with a tight pack on Saturday. The Rangers top finisher was Luke Marsanskis in 24th (17:23) but after that they had the 4th other scorers finish within 31 seconds of each other. Senior Max Stickney also had a strong run placing 29th (17:30).

Boys Top 10

Place	TmPl	Name	Yr	School	1m	2m	Time	Pace
1	1	Patrick O'Brien	12	Oyster River	5:02	10:17	15:22	4:57
2	2	Jeremy Hoyne-Grosveno	12	Montpelier	5:06	10:34	15:46	5:05
3	3	Stephen Looke	11	U-32	5:07	10:44	16:04	5:11
4	4	Henry Jaques	12	Freeport	5:07	10:40	16:14	5:14
5		Riley Fenoff	11	Danville School	5:07	10:49	16:21	5:16
6	5	James Elmour	12	Monadnock	5:20	11:05	16:37	5:21
7	6	Isaac Freitas-Eagan	11	Brattleboro	5:24	11:13	16:43	5:23
8	7	Demeke Geremew	12	Hyde School	5:28	11:14	16:46	5:24
9	8	Noah Eckstein		Harwood	5:18	11:14	16:50	5:25
10		Elijah Akindolie	11	Hope	5:16	11:10	16:51	5:26

Boys top 4 teams

  1.    90  U-32                      (  17:09  1:25:41   1:37)
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  1      3  Stephen     Looke            16:04
  2     10  Andrew      Crompton         17:07
  3     20  Ben         Davis-Noe        17:23
  4     24  Nathan      Smoller          17:26
  5     33  Ellis       Landry           17:41
  6   ( 41) Jackson     Root             17:46
  7   ( 58) Jules       Perkins          18:00

  2.   124  Oyster River              (  17:09  1:25:41   2:28)
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  1      1  Patrick     O'Brien          15:22
  2     13  Henry       Keegan           17:09
  3     30  Max         Stenslie         17:39
  4     34  Reed        Gibson           17:41
  5     46  Cameron     Casella          17:50
  6   ( 66) Noah        Strout           18:11
  7   ( 77) Ben         Stone            18:25

  3.   151  Monadnock                 (  17:29  1:27:23   1:23)
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  1      5  James       Elmour           16:37
  2     19  Braeden     Hout             17:22
  3     32  Dawson      Adams            17:40
  4     36  Lucas       Beteau           17:44
  5     59  Simon       Swartout         18:00
  6   (173) Hyden       Goodenough       20:28
  7   (203) Peter       Margand          23:24

  4.   178  Greely                    (  17:41  1:28:21   0:31)
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  1     21  Luke        Marsanskis       17:23
  2     26  Max         Stickney         17:30
  3     39  Patrick     Lyden            17:45
  4     43  Mathew      Todd             17:49
  5     49  Ben         Wilson           17:54
  6   ( 52) Caleb       Thurston         17:56
  7   (101) Andrew      Storey           18:57

Boys Large School Race

Alex Swett of Massabesic had a strong day as the junior ran a new personal best of 16:28 to place 10th in the boys large school race. The Mustangs placed 17th as a team.

Boys Top 10 Individuals

Place	TmPl	Name	Yr	School	1m	2m	Time	Pace
1	1	Lucas Aramburu	10	Brookline	4:40	10:08	15:46	5:05
2	2	Tyler Marshall	12	Champlain Valley	4:39	10:03	15:52	5:07
3	3	Chris Zaino	12	Londonderry	4:41	10:10	16:05	5:11
4	4	James Wilkes	12	Concord	4:42	10:23	16:17	5:15
5	5	Noah Bellomo	12	Alvirne	4:46	10:29	16:18	5:15
6	6	Joe Pearl	11	Manchester	4:48	10:34	16:19	5:16
7	7	Calvin Graves	12	Pinkerton	4:54	10:35	16:20	5:16
8	8	David Vorbach	11	Nashua North	4:39	10:18	16:21	5:16
9	9	Connor Muise	12	Nashua North	4:49	10:32	16:22	5:16
10	10	Alex Swett	11	Massabesic	4:51	10:31	16:28	5:18

Massabesic Results

17.   478  Massabesic                (  17:48  1:29:00   2:04)
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  1     11  Alex        Swett            16:28
  2     82  Donovan     Duffy            17:39
  3    109  Jacob       Aboud            18:01
  4    133  Jeffrey     Waters           18:20
  5    143  Tim         Zimmerman        18:32
  6   (145) David       Phinney          18:33
  7   (170) Jeb         Johnson          18:59

Sanford Results

 38.  1221  Sanford                   (  22:11  1:50:53   4:08)
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  1    213  Abe         Phillips         19:58
  2    242  Ian         Poyant           21:05
  3    254  Kyle        Kaberle          22:32
  4    255  Isaac       Miles            23:12
  5    257  Samuel      Lapenta          24:06

Girls Large School

The Massabesic girls were led by Hallie Benton in 84th place, her time was 21:28.