Monday, August 15, 2016

Mendoza and Golden make it a Tift County sweep at the Run For Love

Tifton GA Run For Love 5KThe open of cross-country season was still a week away for the Tift County High Blue Devils on Saturday, 13 August 2016. Nevertheless, it was two Tift County harriers who came up winners that evening at the 27th annual Run For Love 5K. Blue Devil senior Eliud Mendoza was the overall winner, covering the 3.1-mile course around the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in 19:31. Emily Golden, a frosh on the Tift County team, won the women's title for the third year straight, running 21:29.


Mendoza and Golden weren't the only cross-country runners in the race. Cameron Watson, an eighth-grader on the Coffee Middle School team, took second in 19:55. Matthew Fisher, an alumnus of the the Tift County High program, ran 20:39 for third. Mitchell Sinyard was the top master in the race, placing eleventh overall in 21:48.


Gracie Woods, another Coffee Middle School eighth-grader, was second in the women's standings and twelfth overall in 22:13. 2013 Run For Love women's champ Ashlee Golden, a junior on the Tift County cross-county squad, took third in the women's standings, placing seventeenth overall in 23:24. Penny Peters of Tifton was the first woman master and fifth female finisher, 21st overall in 24:28.


111 athletes finished the 2017 Run For Love 5K and another 39 completed a one-mile fun run. Proceeds of the event benefit the Tift County High cross-country team.


Top Ten Men, 2016 Run For Love 5K
  1. 19:31, Eliud Mendoza (M, 18) Tifton, GA
  2. 19:55, Cameron Watson (M, 13) Douglas, GA
  3. 20:39, Matthew Fisher (M, 18) Tifton, GA
  4. 20:48, Tommy Dorminy (M, 18) McDonough, GA
  5. 20:50, Brent Johnson (M, 16) Baconton, GA
  6. 20:57, Beau Bengston (M, 13) Tifton, GA
  7. 21:04, Jacob Stinson (M, 26) Tifton, GA
  8. 21:08, Connor Watson (M, 16) Douglas, GA
  9. 21:14, Lehi Larger (M, 16) Chula, GA
  10. 21:48, Mitchell Sinyard (M, 55) Hawkinsville, GA

Top Ten Women, 2016 Run For Love 5K
  1. 21:29, Emily Golden (F, 14) Tifton, GA
  2. 22:13, Gracie Woods (F, 13) Broxton, GA
  3. 23:24, Ashlee Golden (F, 16) Tifton, GA
  4. 23:28, Haley Stinson (F, 25) Tifton, GA
  5. 24:28, Penny Peters (F, 49) Tifton, GA
  6. 24:34, Harley Stephens (F, 17) Tifton, GA
  7. 25:04, Rebekah Larger (F, 14) Chula, GA
  8. 25:13.13, Ainsley Toews (F, 12) Tifton, GA
  9. 25:13.38, Karoline Ponder (F, 13) Tifton, GA
  10. 25:52, Bonnie Evans (F, 64) Tifton, GA

Recent Run For Love 5K Champions, 2001 - 2016
DateMenWomen
4 August 200116:57, Buddy Clark22:19, Angie P. Brandenburg
3 August 200217:00, Buddy Clark23:32, Jana Murkerson
9 August 200314:56, Alan Black19:53, Angela Cobb
14 August 200416:43, Prichard Kelly19:03, Angela Cobb
13 August 200517:21, Roberto Bonilla19:36, Angela Cobb
12 August 200617:22, Derek Storbeck17:45, Michelle Lafleur
11 August 2007William AndersonKristen Ray
9 August 200816:48, Buddy Clark20:59, Alice Smoot
8 August 200917:54, Jacob Kennedy22:48, Katie Utley
7 August 201016:29, Hunter Honeycutt21:29, Katie Utley
6 August 201117:53, Adam Ross22:28, Melissa Tronolone
4 August 201216:19, Hunter Honeycutt21:44, Madison Honeycutt
10 August 201320:07, Joshua Curry22:46, Ashlee Golden
2 August 201416:49, Hunter Honeycutt23:03, Emily Golden
1 August 201517:58, Dayton Cannon22:07, Emily Golden
13 August 201619:31, Eliud Mendoza21:29, Emily Golden
Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007!


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