Mustang Athletics
Cross Country
Thursday, August 20
Notable performances: Ben Payton and Caleb Phillips won the boy's pairs race by 1 second over Seeger's Conner Million and Jacob Harris. Our FC girls team lost the team title in a tie breaker to North Montgomery. They were led by Bailey Hoffa and Mackenzy Linville who were 3rd overall. Dan Adams finished a close second overall in the junior high 3k race. Nadya Rahm was 4th overall for the JH girls.
Saturday, August 22
Ben Payton breaking his own school record with a time of 16:40.
Logan Pietrzak breaking freshman school record with a 17:34.
The FC girls place 6th and were led by the 15th place finish of Bailey Hoffa and the 19th place finish by Hannah Gayler.
Our boys junior high runners place second as a team. They were led by Dan Adams in 5th, Carson eberly 6th, Cody linville 11th and Kyle Mellady 12th.
Our girls junior high cc place 4th led by Nadya Rahm in 6th, jerzi hershnerger 10th and Kendall eberly 15th.
Overall the FC coaching staff is very pleased with the start our runners have had this year. The work we put in this summer and these first few weeks of the season is showing that our program is ready to have a lot of success this season.
Cross Country is back in action on August 27.
August 29
Riverton Parke Invite:
Boy's-Ben Payton at 4th overall with a 17:57, Logan Pietrzak 10th overall at 18:18, Caleb Phillips 16th overall at 19:02.
Girl's- Bailey Hoffa at 6th overall with a 23:03, Hannah Gayler at 15th overall with a 23:55, and Mackenzy Linville at 16th overall with a 24:10.
We were happy with the individual performances on our girls team. We felt that winning the meet was a possibility if we were at full strength, but we had two runners out for that Saturday. Bailey Hoffa finished first among all conference runners at the meet for the first time. The boys were led by Ben Payton who received a medal for his 4th place finish. Freshman Logan Pietrzak backed up his strong performance at the Grand Prix with another impressive time on a difficult course.
September 5
Harrison Invite
Boy's- Caleb Phillips ran course career best with a 17:47, Logan Pietrzak was our second leading finisher right behind him with a 17:48, Xander Carson was our third finisher at 20:04, and first year runner Chris Walden was fifth with a 25:09.
Girl's- Bailey Hoffa ran a course career best time 21:44, Hannah Gayler ran a 22:20, and Mackenzy Linville came in with a 23:52 good for 15th out of all freshman girls at the meet, Megan Johnson ran a course career best time of 24:07, and Kaiti Krout finished 4th for our Mustangs with a time of 24:34.
Ben Payton ran at the State Preview Meet in Terre Haute to prepare for his goal of reaching the state meet. He was narrowly beaten by WRC rival Conner Million and ran a time of 17:13. Both the boys and girls teams had strong performances on our regional course. We look forward to doing some real damage when we return there following our sectional.