CC Roundup: Skyline sweeps; Huron splits with Dexter; Pioneer girls win

The Skyline cross country teams ran first in both races on Saturday at Heritage Park in Adrian.

The boys finished with 33 points to beat Adrian (36), Tecumseh (71) and Hudson (99).

Senior Hobbs Kessler ran 17:23.16 to finish first overall. The Eagles had three other runners finish in the top eight with junior Sanjay Rao fourth (17:38.69), freshman Luke Suliman seventh (17:49.17) and sophomore Nicolas Fry eighth (17:50.10).

Junior Alex Ball was 13th (18:41.01), sophomore Christopher Van Lent was 14th (18:41.45), senior Forest Hadley was 15th (18:52.45.) and senior Alex Iekel-Johnson was 16th (18:56.83).

The Lady Eagles finished with 15 points as they took the top eight spots to beat Adrian (62) and Hudson (65).

Seniors Catrin Koselka (20:45.92) and Laura O’Brien (21:11.94)  went one-to lead Skyline. Sophomore Lydia Cocciolone was third (21:13.05), junior Caitlyn Donnelly fourth (22:22.52), sophomore Natalie Kessler fifth (22:44.61), freshman Audrey Wells sixth (22:50.83), freshman Celia Begosso seventh (23:02.77) and senior Sierra Lubetkin eighth (23:06.78).

Huron splits with Dexter

Dexter took the top three spots in the girls’ race to defeat Huron 19-42 on Saturday at Hudson Mills Metropark. The River Rats won a close finish in the boys’ race with a 25-32 victory to earn a split.

On the girls side, Dexter junior Amanda McGill took first (20:28.4) followed by sophomore Chloe Sprague (21:24.5) and senior Abigail Fox (21:26.2) as the Dreadnaughts went gold-silver-bronze.
Huron sophomores Rachel Overgaard (21:43.9) and Mia Solomon (22:21.8) went four-five.

But the Dreadnaughts ran off with the next four spots: senior Faith Jones (22:23.7), sophomore Quinn Hilla (22:24.5), junior Hannah McComas (22:25.5) and junior Jessica Hoehn (22:28.0).

Huron freshman Sonya Shelgikar was 10th (22:29.4), freshman Sarah Conley ran 11th (22:40.8) and senior Rose Basch was 12th (22:53.5).

Dexter’s Kate Varitek was 13th (23:00.9) and Huron’s Verena Wu was 14th (23:05.1).

Dexter senior Conor Kolka ran first in the boys’ race with a time of 16:26.3.

Huron took the next two spots with seniors Michael Hill-Carruthers (16:50.8) and Donovan Smith (16:55.8). After Dexter senior Nathan Gariepy ran fourth in 16:58.2, Huron senior Peter Stenger was fifth (17:15.7) and sophomore Adam Hauser was seventh (17:29.3).

Dexter junior Adam Hauser was seventh (17:50.8) and sophomore Owen Ackerman was eighth (17:54.5).

The River Rats took the next three spots with seniors Roman Quesada (17:55.8), Calvin Shaw (17:57.8) and Koen Van Nieuwstadt (18:13.1).

Dexter senior John Harm was 12th (18:16.5) and freshman Sam Gibson was 13th (18:25.1). `
Pioneer girls win       

The Pioneer girls’ cross country team took six of the top seven spots and 11 of the top 13 in a 17-44 win over Tecumseh in an SEC dual-meet at Hudson Mills Metropark on Saturday.

Freshman Rachel Forsyth went 18:26.8 to finish first and junior Cookie Baugh ran 18:27.0 to take second as the two Pioneers dominated the top of the race.

Pioneer freshman Sylvia Sanok-Dufallo was fourth (20.09.8), sophomore Emily Cooper fifth (20:18.6), senior Anna Dudek sixth (20:27.8) and junior Charlotte Batra seventh (20:35.8).

Pioneer sophomore Allison Nutt was ninth (21:42.7), senior Lauren Jamsen 10th (21:49.9), freshman Mia Berens 11th (22:26.1), senior Genna Novara 12th (22:31.3) and freshman Lydia Bowman 13th (22:32.6).

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