Milton High School Cross Country held its annual Time Trial race with both Cambridge High School & Pinecrest Academy in attendance and came away with their roster for their next meet and had a little fun in the process.
Girls Race
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The Lady Eagles split up their squad into teams of 7 so 8 Milton girls teams toed the line along with 5 teams of 7 from Cambridge and 2 individual runners from Pinecrest and the Lady Eagle teams finished 2nd & 3rd to the varsity squad of the Bears from Cambridge. Senior Jessica Zalzman from Pinecrest was the overall winner on the tough Milton 5km course in 22:19. Zalzman waited until about 1100 meters in the race to take the lead and extended it throughout the race. Senior Abbey Jordan was 2nd in a course personal best of 22:44 followed by sophomore Riley Burr in 22:47. Cambridge’s top runner, junior Caroline Willis was 5th in 23:33. Milton placed 7 finishers in the top-10 with juniors Juanita Pardo (4th-23:04) & Amy Ruiz (6th-24:18) followed by senior co-captain Katie Robinson in a stellar performance of 24:34 for 8th. The Bears put all their top-runners on one team and easily dispatched the 12 other scoring teams recording 69 points. In a close team battle for the rest of the medals, the team “Abusement Park” captained by senior Sarah Hoffman (19th-27:18) tied “Team USA” captained by senior Maddie Bluth (20th-27:28) and the tie was broken by the better 5th runner on the team! (with Morgan Curtis, 44th edging out Lauren Susgin who was 49th).
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Boys Race
Again the Milton Eagles split their squad up into teams of 7 so 9 teams of boys were up against 4 teams of Cambridge & 2 teams from Pinecrest. Cambridge again came up with the easy victory as their top runners again competed on one single team. Scoring 86 points the Bears easily outdistance two Milton inter-squad teams by a good margin (2nd-Team Morgan, captained by senior Drew Theil-142 pts, 3rd Happy Trailers, captained by senior Kevin McGorrey-148 pts). In a very close individual race the entire way, sophomore Bjorn Leicher of Cambridge improved upon his county meet time from 2012 to pull away in the last 80 meters from Milton sophomore Clay Marshall to claim the race win by 10 seconds. Leicher’s time of 18:30 was a thirty second improvement! Marshall finished in a solid runner-up position (2nd-18:40) followed by Milton junior Preston Meade (3rd-18:53). The Eagles finished runners 4th thru 11th before the 2nd Cambridge runner had crossed the line. An impressive run by sophomore Connor Cole (4th-19:05) dropped his course personal best by 1:12! Senior co-captain Kevin McGorrey followed (5th-19:13) along with the ever-improving sophomore Jack Bluth (6th-19:19).
The Milton Cross Country teams travel to the Pickens County XC Preview Meet next Saturday, August 24th at Roper Park in Jasper, GA.
