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.

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The rest of the Pioneers:            

  1. 11 Lydia Bowman                   19:53.6
  2. 9 Quincy Behm                     20:00.3
  3. 11 Katie Hume                        20:20.0
  4. 9 Hana Boggess                    20:47.0
  5. 12 Allison Nutt                        21:19.6
  6. 10 Lucy Pike                             21:51.5
  7. 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:  

  1. 11 Kate Varitek                       20:43.2
  2. 12 Antonia Bruckman           21:06.1
  3. 10 Olivia Shaieb                      21:29.4
  4. 10 Addison Streetman         21:37.6
  5. 9 Hannah Bougher              21:38.1
  6. 9 Avery Hoeft                       22:48.2
  7. 10 Rhya Wright                     22:48.9

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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:  

  1. 12 Lydia Cocciolone               21:01.5
  2. 12 Annalisa DeGuzman       21:45.1
  3. 11 Celia Begosso                    22:26.6
  4. 9 Grace Hopkins                   23:11.6
  5. 11 Serena O’Brien                  23:48.4
  6. 11 Aileen Bachrans                24:28.3

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Junior Sonya Shelgikar led the River Rats with her 19th place time of 20:39.3.

The rest of the River Rats:          

  1. 9 Leena Shelgikar 20:50.3
  2. 12 Emily Ma                              22:01.1
  3. 10 Aiko Motohara                  22:01.8
  4. 11 Sarah Conley                      22:16.3
  5. 12 Royce Smith                       22:36.7
  6. 12 Mia Solomon                     22:37.3
  7. 10 Lianne Liu                            24:36.5