Bulldogs set PRs at Detweiller Park

By Fred Kroner

Five of the seven Mahomet-Seymour runners who competed in the varsity division of the Richard Spring boys’ cross-country invitational on Saturday (Sept. 17) at Peoria’s Detweiller Park set personal records.

Running their career-best for a 3-mile course were freshman Augustus Gaudio (80^th place in 15 minutes, 57.9 seconds), freshman Henry McMurry (211^th in 16:58.8), sophomore Lukas Nykaza (255^th in 17:21.2), sophomore Kaleb Kasper (275^th in 17:29.8) and junior Grant Smysor (293^rd in 17:37.8).

Other M-S participants in the varsity race were Ben Wallace (240^th in 17:15.6) and Emmett Kearns (242^nd in 17:16.7).

The split between the Bulldogs’ second- and seventh-place finishers was 39 seconds. There were 474 varsity finishers.

M-S placed 35^th in the 71-school boys’ field with a score of 1016. Meet champion Oak Park-River Forest had a cumulative total of 79.

In the open race, the Bulldogs ended 18^th out of 44 teams with a team composite of 525 points. Meet champion Oak Park-River Forest ended with 83 points.

Two M-S runners ended among the top 75.

Hayden Grotelueschen was 36^th in the 639-runner field (17:30.0) and Lukas Carey was 74^th (17:58.6).

Other finishers for the team were Zach Wilcoski (105^th in 18:24.2), Colin Johnson (232^nd in 19:54.1.), Gavin Fan (260^th in 20:11.8), Henry Carpenter (394^th in 21:46.6), Alex Carpenter (578^th in 25:17.1) and Ben Schultz (636^th in 37:01.9).

M-S returns to action on Saturday (Sept. 24) in the East Peoria Invitational at Illinois Central College.