Cross Country: Skyline girls win Northville Invite; boys’ team runs second

The Skyline girls’ cross country team crossed the finish line in first place in the junior-senior race at last Tuesday’s Mustang Invitational in Northville. The Eagles landed first with an impressive 103 points, beating out Livonia Churchill (111) and Canton (146) for the top spot.

Northville was fourth (189), Berkley fifth (193) and Farmington Hills Mercy sixth (202).  

Junior Laura O’Brien led the Eagles with a fourth-place finish with a time of 20:32. Junior Catrin Koselka was 12th (21:50) and senior Arielle Melong was 24th (23:03).

Here are the rest of the Skyline finishers:

4.35.12Mara Mueting23:46Ann Arbor Skyline
5.37.11Ella Solomon23:51Ann Arbor Skyline
6.41.12Annalise Bailey23:54Ann Arbor Skyline
7.43.11Sierra Lubetkin24:04Ann Arbor Skyline
8.45.12Maggie Schmidt24:27Ann Arbor Skyline
9.103.11Rukaiyah Hussain29:04Ann Arbor Skyline

Skyline finishers in the 9-10 grade race:

1. 38. 10 Caitlyn Donnelly 23:57 Skyline
2. 54. 9 Lydia Cocciolone 25:19 Skyline
3. 63. 9 Yoko Miller 25:46 Skyline
4. 74. 9 Elizabeth Beck 26:46 Skyline
5. 138. 10 Nadya Babushkin 33:59 Skyline

Boys Race

The Skyline boys’ cross country team ran a close second at the Mustang Invitational in Northville. The Eagles landed with an impressive 82 points, trailing only Northville (65 points).

Livonia Stevenson was third with 95 followed by Royal Oak (114), Dearborn Divine Child (124), Canton (160) and Livonia Franklin (209) in the 19-team tournament.

The seniors led the way for the Eagles.

Thomas Young was third overall in 16:41 followed by Daniel Evans (ninth, 17:20), Isaac Darragh (11th, 17:37), Sam Gardner (31st, 18:36) and Ira Bennett (32nd, 18:39).  

Here are the rest of the Skyline finishers

6.44.12Thomas Boss18:58Ann Arbor Skyline
7.66.12David Evans19:30Ann Arbor Skyline
8.91.12Elliott Beck20:30Ann Arbor Skyline
9.92.11Forest Hadley20:31Ann Arbor Skyline
10.95.11Alex Iekel-Johnson20:35Ann Arbor Skyline
11.126.12Jack Murphy21:37Ann Arbor Skyline
12.144.12Luke Warhurst22:01Ann Arbor Skyline
13.167.12Jalen Steudle23:01Ann Arbor Skyline
14.172.12Jahi Hawkins23:10Ann Arbor Skyline
15.174.11Jelani Hamilton23:15Ann Arbor Skyline

Skyline finishers in the 9-10 grade race:

1. 5. 10 Sanjay Rao 18:16 Skyline
2. 61. 10 Mulugeta Fischer 20:51 Skyline
3. 64. 10 Drew Dunfee 20:59 Skyline
4. 65. 10 Richard Baker 21:02 Skyline
5. 67. 9 Nico Fry 21:09 Skyline
6. 71. 9 Christopher Van Lent 21:15 Skyline
7. 86. 9 Eric VonBargren 21:46 Skyline
8. 94. 9 Luc Zebrowski-Rocheleau 22:05 Skyline
9. 135. 9 David Lee 23:17 Skyline
10. 150. 10 Ethan Hall 24:05 Skyline