Avenger not just blowing smoke at VSU Thanksgiving 5K

I don't think anyone in Valdosta is going to want their turkey smoked this year.


Five days before Thanksgiving, South Georgia is in the second week of being enshrouded in smoke from fires smoldering in the Okefenokee. In Valdosta you can see it and you can smell it. There's no break in the smoke when you go out for a run and there was no break for the 102 athletes who went out to race the Valdosta State University Relay For Life Thanksgiving 5K on Saturday morning, 20 November 2010. When the leader emerged from the haze it was the Masked Avenger, picking up his second win on the VSU campus in as many weeks. Seven days earlier the Avenger had won the Blazer Corps 5K. On this Saturday he ran 18:16 to win by almost 300 meters over Dodge Tomlinson's 19:22. Tomlinson is a sophomore at Lowndes High School, where just two weeks earlier he had been the fourth man on his school's cross-country team at the GHSA state championships. Tommy Willis of Snellville was third in 20:52 while Valdosta's Alice Smoot placed fourth in 21:04 to finish as the top woman and top master. Maggie Lane-Powell (8th, 21:49), another sophomore cross-country runner from Lowndes High, was the women's runner up. Valdosta's Hank Santicola (20th, 24:21) was the first male master.

VSU Relay For Life Thanksgiving 5K Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia Saturday, 20 November 2010 PLACE ATHLETE S AGE CITY ST TIME ===== =========================== = === ================ == ======= 1. Masked Avenger M 31 Valdosta GA 18:16 2. Dodge Tomlinson M 15 Hahira GA 19:22 3. Tommy Willis M 22 Snellville GA 20:52 4. Alice Smoot F 53 Valdosta GA 21:04 5. Chris Miller M 22 Valdosta GA 21:14 6. James Tray M 28 Valdosta GA 21:27 7. Tyler Thurman M 15 Valdosta GA 21:40 8. Maggie-Laine Powell F 16 Hahira GA 21:49 9. Andrew Yorkie M 17 Valdosta GA 22:04 10. James Gattis M 20 Valdosta GA 22:22 11. Matt Nicholson M 25 Valdosta GA 22:51 12. Michael Willis M 26 Nashville GA 22:55 13. Emily Sing F 15 Valdosta GA 23:04 14. Jonelle Jimison M 22 Wilkes-Barre PA 23:12 15. Stephanie Boulware F 20 Buford GA 23:20 16. Paul Gnglonea M 22 Staten Island NY 23:28 17. Thomas Ganas M 21 Tifton GA 23:56 18. Ryan Bradshaw M 13 Valdosta GA 24:01 19. Hope Moore F 25 Moulrie GA 24:20 20. Hank Santicola M 48 Valdosta GA 24:21 21. Bolen Holman M 51 Moultrie GA 24:33 22. Bob Moon M 56 Valdosta GA 24:39 23. Jonathan Bryant M 28 Valdosta GA 25:10 24. Matthew Powell M 11 Hahira GA 25:35 25. James Ezra M 21 Hahira GA 25:51 26. Chris Rawson M 23 Valdosta GA 26:28 27. Christie Thom F 18 Valdosta GA 26:29 28. Jacob Chandler M 13 Hahira GA 26:47 29. Zachary Nelson M 11 26:50 30. Clayton Chandler M 44 Hahira GA 27:01 31. Janis Lee F 55 Hahira GA 27:08 32. Tyler Donald M 20 Valdosta GA 27:11 33. Corey Schultz M 22 Valdosta GA 27:12 34. Eddie Paramore M 64 Camilla GA 27:16 35. Rec Anderson M 56 Marietta GA 27:18 36. Molly Fowler F 19 Valdosta GA 27:22 37. Anna-Leigh Powell F 18 Hahira GA 27:24 38. Katie Perkins F 19 Valdosta GA 27:28 39. Claudia Utesch F 19 Valdosta GA 27:52 40. Lucas Cameron M 26 Valdosta GA 27:56 41. Michelle Godwin F 32 Pelham GA 28:42 42. Jean Harris F 34 Valdosta GA 28:43 43. Logan Dinkins M 16 Cairo GA 28:59 44. Ray Leavell M 38 Valdosta GA 29:14 45. Laura washnook F 39 Valdosta GA 29:25 46. Robin Cobb F 52 Valdosta GA 29:51 47. Steve Coyne M 60 Valdosta GA 30:06 48. Cathy Rogen F 44 Valdosta GA 30:25 49. Elizabeth Hattermann F 19 Valdosta GA 30:29 50. Kaitlyn Roulerson F 9 30:36 51. Anna Bush F 26 Valdosta GA 30:43 52. Jane Holman F 43 Moultrie GA 30:53 53. Kim Hu F 34 Valdosta GA 31:06 54. Taylor Ehrardt M 21 Marietta GA 31:29 55. Travis Sexton M 22 Valdosta GA 31:36 56. Anna Ison F 20 Valdosta GA 31:36 57. Tiffany Saggus F 19 Valdosta GA 31:37 58. Aulsea Allen F 24 Valdosta GA 31:44 59. Michael Mulligan M 37 Valdosta GA 31:55 60. Whitney Brack F 21 Valdosta GA 31:56 61. Brandon Corley M 24 Valdosta GA 32:22 62. Sam Giddens M 22 Valdosta GA 32:58 63. Sam Showppe M 20 Valdosta GA 33:56 64. Meghan Reyes F 25 Valdosta GA 33:57 65. Susan Santicola F 47 Valdosta GA 34:20 66. Bryan Layton M 45 Valdosta GA 34:21 67. Stephanie Byington F 19 Stockbridge GA 35:26 68. Elizabeth Peterson F 19 Waycross GA 35:30 69. Dana McCallam 21 Valdosta GA 35:34 70. Holly Peterson F 18 Valdosta GA 36:22 71. Diane Blunt F 47 Lake Park GA 37:12 72. Stephaine Roy F 25 Valdosta GA 37:35 73. Brenda Humphrey F 54 Valdosta GA 39:17 74. Keith Sayre M 8 40:00 75. Tammy Leavey F 51 Valdosta GA 40:18 76. Bunmo Aarrbn F 48 Boston GA 40:46 77. Cristobal Serran-pagan M 42 41:08 78. Ellie Paschal F 20 Valdosta GA 41:14 79. Carolyn Blunt F 22 Lake Park GA 42:05 80. Jan Holmes F 44 Valdosta GA 43:15 81. Robert Dupus M 52 Bonaire GA 43:21 82. Michelle Dupus F 52 Bonaire GA 43:21 83. James Blunt M 54 Lake Park GA 43:55 84. Melissa Gyles F 35 Valdosta GA 45:53 85. Madison Gyles F 9 Valdosta GA 45:53 86. Richard Lee M 58 Hahira GA 46:10 87. Whitney Harrell F 14 Valdosta GA 46:21 88. Tammy Bailey F 40 Valdosta GA 46:21 89. Ashley Thomas F 21 Valdosta GA 46:22 90. Courtney Carino F 18 Valdosta GA 46:22 91. Ashley Powell F 20 Valdosta GA 47:19 92. Taylor Stone F 19 Valdosta GA 47:20 93. Kelly Day F 22 Valdosta GA 47:25 94. Laramee Nicholson F 22 Cairo GA 47:25 95. Tanysha Campbell F 20 Valdosta GA 47:48 96. Christina Adams F 22 Valdosta GA 47:48 97. no card 52:31 98. Justin bobo brazil M 22 52:32 99. Marlene Peeples F 55 Boston GA 54:45 100. Jadine Murphey F 56 Valdosta GA 54:46 101. Michelle Maercer F 27 Valdosta GA 54:47

Links:

• Valdosta State University Relay For Life
  http://www.relayforlife.org/vsu
  
  
• Find your next race in Valdosta on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
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