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The NHS boys cross country team is led by Alessandro
Pia's 15th-place finish |
By B. Scott Anderson, Newberg
Graphic sports editor
E-mail Scott at banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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MONMOUTH — The Newberg High School boys
cross country team scored 179 to place sixth Saturday at the
Festival of Champions at Western Oregon University.
“We had some kids run very well,” Newberg coach Bruce Sinkbeil
said. “Getting sixth in this meet is very good considering there was
another division below us with another 18 teams.”
 The Tigers were
led by improvements of their five runners who all improved upon
their times after competing in this event last season. The
least a Newberg runner improved was 33 seconds; the most was one
minute, 10 seconds by Danny Minor.
Alessandro Pia led the Newberg contingent by placing 15th overall
(16:27), beating out his time last season (17:30). Clint Cardwell
placed 28th (16:49), an improvement of 39 seconds. Santana Alvarez
placed 30th (16:50), an improvement of 1:01. Tyler Magill placed
52nd overall (17:27), good for a 56-second improvement. Minor was
54th (17:33) and Tanner Clark was 80th (17:58) in a field of 130.
Clark’s time was a 33-second improvement from last year.
“Our top three boys ran exceptionally well as they ran (an) even
pace or faster throughout the race,” Sinkbeil said.
The Newberg girls team placed 15th out of 21 teams with 331 points.
Anna Thomas was Newberg’s top finisher, placing 27th (21:22)
and improving 1:46 from last season’s race. Amy Thorp placed 28th
(21:22), followed by Courtnee Roberts at 102nd place (23:57), Katie
Hirons at 115th place (24:50), Kristi Werner at 116th place (24:52)
and Ryan Cook at 125th place (26:03). Cook shaved off 7:19 from her
time last season.
“The girls showed tremendous improvement with (Thorp) and (Thomas)
getting under 22:00 and (Roberts) under 24:00,” Sinkbeil said.
The Tigers return to action today (Wednesday) with a 4:30 p.m. meet
at Putnam against Tigard.
Notes: The Newberg junior varsity boys team placed seventh
out of 11 teams in its meet by scoring 147 points. Stephen York
paced the Tigers with his 20th-place finish (18:48), followed by
Cody Evans (22nd, 18:52), Sasha Kapleev (26th, 18:55), Jimmy
Avgerakis (35th, 19:05), Danny Rice (45th, 19:39), Philip Gravatt
(45th, 19:39), Taylor Johnston (56th, 20:19), Thomas VanHevelingen
(58th, 20:21), Aaron Sprunger (60th, 20:23), Clark Weber (68th,
20:30), Mark Zakrevsky (75th, 20:49), Derrick Swanson (85th, 21:34),
Christian Hayes (93rd, 22:47), Andrew Launder (94th, 22:53), James
Hines (96th, 23:25) and Jonathon Insley (100th, 24:30). In the
two-mile race, Hector Gouger was 46th (13:58).
The Newberg junior varsity girls team had just three
competitors and was unable to field a team score. Shannon Edwards
was 37th (24:58), followed by Anna Jolliff (50th, 26:35) and Kerstyn
Miller (60th, 27:30).
In the junior varsity two-mile race, Abi Clark placed 57th (17:23)
to pace Newberg. She was followed by Della Anderson (66th, 17:40),
Olivia Anderson (67th, 17:40) and Katie Insley (113th, 20:02). |
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From
Sept. 19, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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