Girls Cross Country: Pioneers cross first at SEC Jamboree 2 (see WLAA photo gallery)
The Pioneer girls’ cross country team grabbed three of the top seven spots to grab the overall top spot in Wednesday’s SEC Jamboree at Pioneer High School on a perfect day to go for a run.
The Pioneers finished with 37 points while Saline ran second with 43 and Dexter crossed third with 75. Skyline was fourth (90) and Huron fifth (137) in the seven-team race.
Senior Emily Cooper led the Pioneers with her first-place time of 18 minutes, 43 seconds. Junior Natalie Mello ran fourth in 19:23.8 while junior Sylvia Sanok Dufallo was seventh in 19:35.6.
The rest of the Pioneers:
- 11 Lydia Bowman 19:53.6
- 9 Quincy Behm 20:00.3
- 11 Katie Hume 20:20.0
- 9 Hana Boggess 20:47.0
- 12 Allison Nutt 21:19.6
- 10 Lucy Pike 21:51.5
- 10 Clara Peikert 21:53.5
Dexter had three sophomores at the top of their scorecard: Alena Blumberg was third (19:11.0), Annabel O’Haver was sixth (19:31.1) and Addison Bruckman was 18th (20:32.3)
The rest of the Dreadnaughts:
- 11 Kate Varitek 20:43.2
- 12 Antonia Bruckman 21:06.1
- 10 Olivia Shaieb 21:29.4
- 10 Addison Streetman 21:37.6
- 9 Hannah Bougher 21:38.1
- 9 Avery Hoeft 22:48.2
- 10 Rhya Wright 22:48.9
Skyline senior Natalie Kessler finished second overall with a time of 18:59.9. Junior Allison Mayer was 14th (20:05.7) and senior Leah White was 20th (20:40.4)
The rest of the Eagles:
- 12 Lydia Cocciolone 21:01.5
- 12 Annalisa DeGuzman 21:45.1
- 11 Celia Begosso 22:26.6
- 9 Grace Hopkins 23:11.6
- 11 Serena O’Brien 23:48.4
- 11 Aileen Bachrans 24:28.3
Junior Sonya Shelgikar led the River Rats with her 19th place time of 20:39.3.
The rest of the River Rats:
- 9 Leena Shelgikar 20:50.3
- 12 Emily Ma 22:01.1
- 10 Aiko Motohara 22:01.8
- 11 Sarah Conley 22:16.3
- 12 Royce Smith 22:36.7
- 12 Mia Solomon 22:37.3
- 10 Lianne Liu 24:36.5
