Harriers impress at regionals
The men’s team competed against 20 other schools and finished in ninth place, two spots higher that last years regional result. GCSU finished in third place out of the schools in the Peach Belt Conference.
Freshman Rob Manning finished the ten-kilometer race eighteenth with a time of 33:56, and was only three spots away from making All-Region, a new school record. The second Bobcat to finish the race was freshman Colin Conroy, finishing in 35:16 and coming in forty-fourth. Sophomore Tim Cary finished third for GCSU, coming in seventy-second overall with a time of 36:37.
“We need to work on coming together and work more as a team throughout the whole year. If we don’t set any goals, we can’t reach them,” junior Josh Hollar said.
The Lady Bobcats finished in fifth of 22 teams, which is ten spots higher than last year, as well as a new school record. They finished second to Columbus State in the PBC schools. GCSU had two runners who finished the six-kilometer race in the top 30, junior Heather Raines, who finished in twenty-sixth with a time of 25:16, and junior Bonnie Ueltzen with finished in twenty-eighth in 25:21.
“We were really happy with the results, and we are already setting goals for next year,” Raines said.
Junior Virginia Balkcom finished fifty-second in 26:06. Freshman Victoria Dobson crossed the finish line in 26:15 for fifty-ninth. Sarah Balkcom finished the race just 13 seconds after her sister, coming in sixty-third with a time of 26:19.
“We were really excited because this was our last race. We do all the talking with our legs and just go for it,” Dobson said.
Head Coach Joe Samprone was happy with his teams’ results.
“We did well this season, this is a young team and this will help is do better in the future,” he said.
Student Assistant Coach Richard Dobson was pleasantly surprised with the results.
“I didn’t expect that great of a finish,” he said. “We now need to work on staying team-oriented, coming together as a whole, keeping each other accountable throughout the year, and make it a unified goal to make nationals and win the conference.”
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on Nov 14 2008. Filed under Sports.
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