Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1999, Page 70

Description:	Boys Cross Country_FALLSby Pete HallSHORTin Their Quest to Make Stateby tteNUMBEBSPlaceOut of .2ndBloomington North24thRushville Invitational233rdNorth Central/Southport33rdPatriot Invitational61stColumbus East Invitational61stSouth Invitational71stBHSN Invitational (Sr)5thBHSN Invitational (So)NSBHSN Invitational (Jr)NSBHSN Invitational (Fr)5thSouthport Invitational182ndColumbus North/Martinsville310thManchester Invitational255thConference Indiana105thSectional106thRegional10finishing firstThe team won the ColumbusEast Invitational, and the seniorsfinished on top at the BloomingtonNorth Invitational, which wasdivided into classes.We ran really well at theColumbus East meet, and everyoneon the team really came togetherand contributed. Plus, all the otherteams there were really weak,junior Jon McDonald said. power upBefore meets, the team wouldgather at Fazolis or someoneshouse to eat and build spirit.It has been a tradition of ours,and its really good to eat food withlots of carbohydrates to give usenergy, senior Mark Pembertonsaid. leading the wayThere were seven seniors on theteam: Tyler Frank, GeoffMcGregor, Ed Morgan, KyleParker, Mark Pemberton, GarrettSmith and Ben Wingard.Our team would have nevergone anywhere without ourseniors. They really led the team,sophomore Bruce Saulter said.Boys CrossCountryCOURTESY OF MARK PEMBERTONFront Row: Jared Payne, Jesse Davis, BruceSaulter, Nic Jones, Jim Schroeder, NickStrauser.Back Row: Jon McDonald, Ben Wingard, GarrettSmith, Jannson Engleman, Mark Pemberton, JoshLloyd, Geoff McGregor, Ed Morgan, Kyle Parker,Tyler Frank. winning strategySenior Ed Morgan won fourraces during the season and wasthe only teammember to competeat State, where he placed 31st.At the state finals, I ran myrace strategy well, which was torun fast in the beginning with thelead pack, and then just try to keepup. I was very pleased with myperformance, Morgan said. one place awayThe team finished sixth out of10 teams at Regional, preventingthem from advancing to Semistate.The meet didnt express howgreat of a season we had. Wedidnt get caught up in the raceand didnt get the job done. Peoplefelt all the work we had put in forour goal fell short, senior GarrettSmith said.KATIE SHEEHANSenior MarkPemberton pushes past anopponent In the teams dualmeet versus BHSN. BHSNwon the meet. 23-35.W \ Spread Design by1701 sports\ f,Jordan Garner and AnshuKalhanM
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