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Lancer Timing Girls Results
While the weather was a topic of conversation, both the temperature and the racing was hot. When the gun went off at 11:30am, the thermometer had broken 70 degrees as the 136 girl entrants ascended the starting hill. As expected, Hopkinton’s Madeleine Lane went right to the front, shadowed by Newmarket’s Alanna Hagen. Making up the tight chase pack were the O’Shea sisters of Mascenic, Molly Ellison of Kearsarge and Jenna Fillion of Fall Mountain. Behind them was a pack of Hopkinton, Mascenic and Newfound girls, along with most schools #1 runners. By the mile Lane was still in command with Hagen in tow. Fillion and Ellison had made a small gap over the O’Sheas, with Hopkinton’s Shaylee Murdough and Newfound’s Emerald Briggs joining the chase group. The team race looked to be tight between Mascenic and Hopkinton as expected. A lot could be decided up in the woods over the next mile and a half.
As the racers descended past the tennis courts, Lane would emerge with a gap over Hagen, that would stand to the finish, with Lane, a freshman, winning in 19:30, twenty four seconds up on Hagen. Fillion would have a great finishing section for third with Ellison staying out in front of a hard charging Briggs. Murdough would hold onto a great race for sixth while Conant’s Bella Nero would race smartly, working her way through the field to finish just in front of Kaitlin and Erin O’Shea. Moultonborough’s Adah Chapmann would finish tenth.
We were looking for a shootout in the girls race between Mascenic and Hopkinton and we certainly got it. The Hawks and the Vikings traded places up and down their line ups. Hopkinton had the first two in Lane and Murdough, then Mascenic had the O’Sheas, then Hopkinton’s Elizabeth Trafton, Mascenic’s Skye Lambert through both teams top three. However, Mascenic was able to get Emma Schaumloffel and Amelia Smith in before Reece Bove and Amelia Walsh to take the title 78 to 91, with their top five finishing in the top 26. Newmarket put together a great race for third (115) with Gilford (117) and Fall Mountain rounding out the top five teams which make it to next week’s Meet of Champions.
Boys
Lancer Timing’s Results
As expected, once the gun fired, Portsmouth Christian’s Jonas Teeter would find his way to the front. Maybe less expected is he would find it occupied by Mascoma Valley’s Gunner Currier looking to upset the score card. Behind these two was Bocelli Howland-Vhalakis (BHV) of Gilford, Ben Tetu of Fall Mountain, Peyton Joslyn and Carlton “Sylvester” Lampinen of Monadnock, Elijah Bodanza of Hillsboro Deering and Matt Clarner and Ben Daniels of Hopkinton making up a huge chase pack. With the largest field behind them (178), Teeter, Currier and BHV ascended the hill after the mile within spitting distance of each other. Would we see things get shaken up on the back side of McIntyre? Chances are.
Reportedly things did, with Lampinen throwing down the gauntlet, leading at the two mile. But having been given advice by none other than the Great Gandini, BHV hit the afterburners on the long downhill, passing the tennis courts with a huge gap that would remain until the end. BHV would stop the clock at 16:14. Behind him there was a great battle for second, with Teeter leading Lampinen almost all the way to the finish line. But Teeter’s top end speed would squeak him into second, with both he and Lampinen being given times of 16:33. Bodanza would lead a gutsy Currier in with the top five all running under 17 minutes. Hopkinton’s Clarner and Daniels would start the Hawks scoring, with Peyton Joslyn following. Fall Mountain’s front man Tetu would beat Newfound’s front man Colin Foster to round out the top ten.
With the parity across the division, we saw the highest scores I can ever remember in D3, with athletes from the top competing teams stealing points from everyone else. When the dust settled, Hopkinton would take the title with 127 points with the help of their top two in 6-7. Fall Mountain would be second with 148, and Mascoma would win in a tie over Portsmouth Christian at 150. Gilford would round out the top five with 162 points.
