In the Girl's Race of Champions 8th Grader, Avery Hartley, of Cornerstone Classical Academy, is having a spectacular year. She is undefeated through three races, including her win at the FLRUNNERS.COM Invitational. Harley at the mile was running controlled with a group of four girls who had broken away from the main body of runners, including Highland Preps Annabella Tomasic, Dillard's Shyna Collins and Tavare's Cheyenne Thomas. Thomas fell off just after the half way point and Collins with about 1600m to go. Tomasic and Hartley battled with Hartley passing Tomasic with around 500m to go and Tomasic passing her back. Hartley then made a more definitive pass and pulled away from Tomasic to win in 18:11.23. Tomasic ran 18:21.21.
Here's your Top 10 Girls Finishers
Left to right - Shyna Collins, Cheyenne Thomas, Avery Hartley and Annabella Tomasic
The ROC team title was captured by Dillard with 61 points. The Dillard scorers went 2+8+15+17+19.
Shynah Collins
Dillard HS 18:34.76
2
Abigail Richards
Dillard HS 19:25.75
8
Miley Gill
Dillard HS 19:57.62
15
Peyton Williams Dillard HS 20:08.39
17
Latiah Gore
Dillard HS 20:19.39
19
Our Lady of Lourdes (Miami) was 2nd with 126 points. The Lourdes girls were led by Sr. Lucia Castillo-Rios who was 25 overall and 20 in the team race with a 20:19.88.
East Ridge was 3rd scoring 129 points, led by Jr. Rhyen Foley who was 7th overall and 5th inthe team race. Foley ran 19:15.41.
The Boy's Race of Champions was won by Indian Rocks Sr. Blake Young. Through the first mile Hayden Clark of Palmetto Ridge led the lead group of Young, Angel Cruz of Mariner HS, Brandon Witherow of Bloomingdale and Craig Allard Jr. of Fort Myers. Young was patient through the first 2,000m and then moved to the lead, pressing the pace, and winning in 16:00.57. East Ridge HS So. Axel Sallault was 2nd in 16:09.59.
Here's your Top 10 Boys Finishers
1 Blake Young
Indian Rocks Christian 16:00.57
2 Axel Sallault
East Ridge HS 16:06.59
3 Hayden Clark Palmetto Ridge HS 16:06.63
4 Craig Allard Jr.
Fort Myers HS 16:12.99
5 Joushua Gammage
Dillard HS 16:13.75
6 Angel Cruz
Mariner HS 16:16.67
7 Jacob Leon
Hagerty HS 16:17.24
8 Diego Eseverri
Christopher Columbus HS 16:24.87
9 Brandon Witherow
Bloomingdale16:33.60
10 Reece Lolly
Naples HS 16:36.77
Left to right - Hayden Clark, Blake Young, Angel Cruz, Brandon Witherow, Axel Sallault and Craig Allard
The Boy's Race of Champions was won by
Hagerty with 82 points, in a tie break, having to go to the #6 runner to break the tie.
Cambridge out of Milton, GA was 2nd. The #6 runner for Hagerty placed 39th. The #6 for Cambridge, 42nd.
Hagerty was led by Jacob Leon who was 7th overall and 5th in the team race with a 16:17.24. The Hagerty scorers went 5+8+18+22+36+39.
The
Cambridge team is currently the #3 ranked team in Georgia. They were led by Francisco Palacios-Rodriguez who was 15th overall and 12 in the team race.
15 Francisco Palacios-Rodriguez
Cambridge (GA) 16:43.44
12
18 Yan Berezitsky
Cambridge (GA)16:52.63
15
19 Aidan McHugh
Cambridge (GA)16:53.42
16
21 Grayson Peterson
Cambridge (GA) 16:58.89
18
24
Mavric Gould
Cambridge (GA)
17:03.66
21
46
Grey Donner
Cambridge (GA)
17:25.68
42
