Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Lowndes harriers Rogers and Morse get wins at Quail Trail Invite

Quail Trail InvitationalCall it the Thomasville High Invitational, or call it the Quail Trail Invitational, or cover all bases and call it the Thomasville High Quail Trail Invitational. The name keeps changing, but since 2009 it has been consistent that on the final Saturday of September, Thomasville High hosts a large cross-country meet at Pebble Hill Plantation, just south of Thomasville, Georgia. The course is also consistent, a mix of meadow and forest and magnolia-lined avenues and red clay hills. But isn't that a recipe for cross country?


After a community race, the sixth annual Invitational got started at 9:00 AM on Saturday morning, 27 September 2014, with the high school girls 5K. Lowndes High sophmore Mackenzie Morse won that race, running 20:39 to pick up her fourth win of the season. Lowndes also picked up second place, with frosh Makenzee Page running 21:27. Rebekah Smith, a junior from host school Thomasville, placed third in 21:56.


Having the first two runners wasn't enough to get Lowndes to the top of the team standings, though. Tift County answered with three runners in the top ten--sophomore Sloan Fletcher (4th, 22:48), junior Madison Honeycutt (8th, 23:12), and frosh Ashlee Golden (9th, 23:12). The next two Tift girls, seniors Blakeley Bergeron (11th, 23:37) and Sarah Willis (16th, 23:50), finished before Lowndes' fourth scorer, giving Tift 47 points and the team title. Lowndes was second with 69 points and Valdosta edged Thomasville for third in the 14-team field, 104 to 106.


Team Standings, High School Girls
  1. Tift County, 47
  2. Lowndes, 69
  3. Valdosta, 104
  4. Thomasville, 106
  5. Lee County, 129
  6. Berrien County, 144
  7. Thomas County Central, 180
  8. Bainbridge, 200
  9. Pelham, 270
  10. Worth County, 294
  11. Early County, 311
  12. Seminole County, 325
  13. Cairo, 332
  14. Baconton Charter, 348

Top Ten High School Girls, Quail Trail 5K
  1. 20:38.72 ~ MacKenzie Morse (Lowndes) 10
  2. 21:26.82 ~ Makenzee Page (Lowndes) 9
  3. 21:55.34 ~ Rebekah Smith (Thomasville) 11
  4. 22:47.80 ~ Sloan Fletcher (Tift County) 10
  5. 22:51.49 ~ Monica Webb (Pelham) 10
  6. 23:08.24 ~ Ansley Cain (Lee County) 10
  7. 23:09.11 ~ Ramsay Miller (Lee County) 9
  8. 23:11.05 ~ Madison Honeycutt (Tift County) 11
  9. 23:11.32 ~ Ashlee Golden (Tift County) 9
  10. 23:24.88 ~ Leah Michael (Valdosta) 12

In the next race, the Lowndes boys did the Lowndes girls one better by taking the first three places. Dylan Rogers won the race in 17:22, followed by runner-up Chance Roe in 17:30, with third-place occupied by Andrew Elam in 17:38. All three runners were Lowndes juniors. The first non-Lowndes runner in the race was Rickards junior Solomon Stevens. Up from Tallahassee, Florida, Stevens was fourth in 17:48. Rickards had three runners in the top ten, but once freshman Elijah Boyd (12th, 18:26) and junior Will Smith (13th, 18:27) came home for Lowndes, the team competition was over. Lowndes had 31 points, winning their first boys' team title ever at Quail Trail. Rickards went home to Tallahassee with second place, and Thomas County Central was third with 129.


A few of these teams will be back at Pebble Hill Plantation on Wednesday morning, 29 October 2014, when Thomasville High hosts the GHSA Region 1-2A championship meet.


Team Standings, High School Boys
  1. Lowndes, 31
  2. Rickards, 118
  3. Thomas County Central, 129
  4. Bainbridge, 138
  5. Lee County, 143
  6. Chiles, 163
  7. Thomasville, 184
  8. Valdosta, 200
  9. Berrien County, 232
  10. Tift County, 246
  11. Cook, 352
  12. Seminole County, 354
  13. Cairo, 358
  14. Pelham, 383
  15. Baconton Charter, 393
  16. Fitzgerald, 429
  17. Albany, 478
  18. Early County, 512
  19. Worth County, 572

Top Ten High School Boys, Quail Trail 5K
  1. 17:21.14 ~ Dylan Rogers (Lowndes) 11
  2. 17:29.36 ~ Chance Roe (Lowndes) 11
  3. 17:37.83 ~ Andrew Elam (Lowndes) 11
  4. 17:47.57 ~ Solomon Stevens (Rickards) 11
  5. 17:52.82 ~ Sam Gelabert (Thomas County Central) 11
  6. 18:03.48 ~ Matthew Baun (Valdosta) 10
  7. 18:12.57 ~ Abraham Grandison (Rickards) 12
  8. 18:14.15 ~ Robert Grooms (Lee County) 11
  9. 18:16.23 ~ Travet Witherspoon (Thomasville) 12
  10. 18:21.48 ~ Evan Garrison (Rickards) 11

Katherine Resavage, an eighth-grader at Tallahassee private school powerhouse Holy Comforter, outran Tift County's Emily Golden 11:40 to 11:46 to win the middle school girls' 3K. Holy Comforter also put scorers Hannah Hosay (5th, 12:40), Elizabeth Calabro (7th, 12:45), and Ella Thames (8th, 12:50) in the top ten. When Holy Comforter's fifth runner, Emma McGibany, finished 12th in 13:06, the Crusaders had a winning score of 33 points. Tift was second with 86 points. Led by Kelsey Morse's ninth place 12:53, Valdosta's Viking Runners Club took third with 133 points.


Team Standings, Middle School Girls
  1. Holy Comforter, 33
  2. Tift, 86
  3. Viking Runners Club, 133
  4. Berrien County, 151
  5. Lee County, 162
  6. Bainbridge, 230
  7. Cornerstone Learning, 236
  8. Valdosta, 259
  9. Cook, 261
  10. Worth County, 261
  11. MacIntyre Park, 267
  12. Thomas County Central, 303
  13. Christ Classical, 317
  14. Seminole County, 318
  15. Ben Hill, 344
  16. Early County, 360
  17. Whigham, 446

Top Ten Middle School Girls, Quail Trail 3K
  1. 11:39.30 ~ Katherine Resavage (Holy Comforter) 8
  2. 11:45.14 ~ Emily Golden (Tift) 7
  3. 12:27.98 ~ Karen Garcia (Ben Hill) 8
  4. 12:35.37 ~ Brianna Zupko (Worth County) 4
  5. 12:39.92 ~ Hannah Hosay (Holy Comforter) 7
  6. 12:41.95 ~ Caroline Vickers (Tift) 7
  7. 12:44.82 ~ Elizabeth Calabro (Holy Comforter) 7
  8. 12:49.37 ~ Ella Thames (Holy Comforter) 8
  9. 12:52.96 ~ Kelsey Morse (Viking Runners Club) 6
  10. 12:53.92 ~ Macy Williams (Seminole County) 7

2014 was the third year in the Quail Trail middle school boys' race for Bainbridge's Caleb Harris, It was the eighth-graders first Quail Trail win, though, as Harris blew away the field with a 10:35. It was his fifth win in five races this season, with earlier wins coming at the Pelham Hornet Invitational, the Cougar Challenge, the Lee County Invitational, and the Bearcat Invitational.


Behind Harris, Carson Locke of the Viking Runners Club was runner-up at 11:22, and Holy Comforter's Bryce Valveri edged Bryce Stephens of Tift for third, 11:29 to 11:30.


Seminole County's Aubry Johnson was the only runner on his team to break into the top ten, placing tenth in 11:49. But Seminole County also had Taylor Garrett (13th, 11:59), Logan Jones (21st, 12:20), Zane Widner (23rd, 12:21), and Payton Price (25th, 12:27). The five together gave Seminole County 92 points and the middle school boys' team title. Bainbridge was second in the 18-team field with 109 points, and Berrien County placed third with 116.


Team Standings, Middle School Boys
  1. Seminole County, 92
  2. Bainbridge, 109
  3. Berrien County, 116
  4. Holy Comforter, 130
  5. Valdosta, 147
  6. MacIntyre Park, 154
  7. Lee County, 165
  8. Viking Runners Club, 182
  9. Tift, 242
  10. Thomas County Central, 304
  11. Worth County, 311
  12. Cook, 317
  13. Baconton Charter, 326
  14. Ben Hill, 351
  15. Early County, 359
  16. Christ Classical, 410
  17. St. John Catholic, 438
  18. Whigham, 511

Top Ten Middle School Boys, Quail Trail 3K
  1. 10:34.50 ~ Caleb Harris (Bainbridge) 8
  2. 11:21.76 ~ Carson Locke (Viking Runners Club) 7
  3. 11:28.87 ~ Bryce Valveri (Holy Comforter) 8
  4. 11:29.17 ~ Bryce Stephens (Tift) 6
  5. 11:34.39 ~ Joseph Ashebo (Holy Comforter) 7
  6. 11:36.89 ~ Caleb Smith (Christ Classical) 8
  7. 11:39.98 ~ Reese Fye (Lee County) 7
  8. 11:42.08 ~ Nathan Smith (MacIntyre Park) 6
  9. 11:45.86 ~ Ladarius Dumas (Berrien County) 7
  10. 11:48.25 ~ Aubry Johnson (Seminole County) 8

Quail Trail Invitational team champions, 2009 - 2014
DateMenWomen
26 September 2009Maclay, 40 pointsMaclay, 34 points
25 September 2010Maclay, 40Lowndes, 56
24 September 2011Tift County, 66Tift County, 29
29 September 2012Maclay, 35Lowndes, 36
28 September 2013Bainbridge, 71Thomas Country Central, 43
27 September 2014Lowndes, 31Tift County, 47


Quail Trail Invitational individual champions, 2009 - 2014
DateMenWomen
26 September 200917:39, David Daniel (Thomasville) 1218:43, Jana Stolting (Maclay) 12
25 September 201017:28, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift) 1120:20, Stefanie Kurgatt (Maclay) 10
24 September 201116:59, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift) 1222:35, Anna Lee Atwater (Tift) 10
29 September 201217:10, Travis Covert (Maclay) 1220:26, Alison Peters (Lowndes) 11
28 September 201316:29, Chase Harris (Bainbridge) 1120:33, Paige Braswell (Bainbridge) 12
27 September 201417:22, Dylan Rogers (Lowndes) 1120:39, MacKenzie Morse (Lowndes) 10


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