Tift County cross-country hosted the 28th annual Run For Love 5K at the Tifton, Georgia campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on Saturday evening, 5 August 2017. The event isn't quite 30 years old yet, and the top runners in the race are even younger. Nineteen-year-old Caleb Watson of Douglas, Georgia, an Armstrong State University cross-country runner, won the 5K in 18:31. Tift County High cross-country runner Emily Golden took the women's title for the fourth year in a row, placing tenth overall in 21:37. 110 athletes finished the 3.1-mile race.The Run For Love 5K course starts and finishes on the ABAC campus, with the middle portion of the race taking the runners past the cattle farms next to the college. The cows got to see quite a race in 2017, as Caleb Watson, J. D. Bengston, and Cameron Watson battled up front for the win. It was still close at the finish line, but Caleb Watson, a runner on the Armstrong State University cross-country team, grabbed the win in 18:31. A few steps back, Bengston edged Cameron Watson for second, 18:33 to 18:34. Bengston and Cameron Watson are both frosh cross-country runners, Bengston at Tift County High and Watson at Coffee High. Tifton's Bret Wagenhorst was the fastest master runner in the race, placing seventh overall in 20:56.
Including the women's winner, sophomore Emily Golden, most of the top ten women were Tift County cross-country runners. Second in the women's standings, however, went to a Coffee High harrier, sophomore Abbey Arnett. Arnett was sixteenth overall in 23:21. Tift County senior Ashlee Golden, women's champ of the 2013 Run For Love 5K, was the third woman and eighteenth overall in 23:38. Tift Middle Schools eighth-grader Ainsley Toews was the fourth woman and twentieth overall in 23:52. Penny Peters of Tifton was the top woman master and fifth female finisher, 27th overall in 25:32.
Proceeds of the Run For Love benefit Tift County cross-country. Tift County's harriers open their 2017 season with the Winnersville Cross-Country Meet in Valdosta, Georiga on Saturday morning, 19 August 2017.
Top Ten Men, 2017 Run For Love 5K
- 18:30.92, Caleb Watson (M, 19) Douglas, GA
- 18:32.77, J D Bengston (M, 14) Tifton, GA
- 18:33.53, Cameron Watson (M, 14) Douglas, GA
- 19:53.20, Christopher Beil (M, 27) Valdosta, GA
- 19:53.43, Beau Bengston (M, 14) Tifton, GA
- 20:43.90, Dan Hobby (M, 33) Tifton, GA
- 20:55.33, Bret Wagenhorst (M, 51) Tifton, GA
- 21:20.91, Bryce Stephens (M, 14) Tifton, GA
- 21:32.74, Joseph Knoll (M, 39) Tifton, GA
- 21:41.23, Mitchell Sinyard (M, 56) Hawkinsville, GA
Top Ten Women, 2017 Run For Love 5K
- 21:36.10, Emily Golden (F, 15) Tifton, GA
- 23:20.74, Abbey Arnett (F, 15) Douglas, GA
- 23:37.74, Ashlee Golden (F, 17) Tifton, GA
- 23:51.43, Ainsley Toews (F, 13) Tifton, GA
- 25:31.84, Penny Peters (F, 50) Tifton, GA
- 25:38.39, Harley Stephens (F, 18) Tifton, GA
- 25:43.31, Katie Kaiser (F, 17) Tifton, GA
- 25:45.29, Ellie Perkins (F, 15) Ambrose, GA
- 25:51.06, Rebekah Larger (F, 14) Tifton, GA
- 25:58.41, Katie McMillan (F, 13) Omega, GA
| Recent Run For Love 5K Champions, 2001 - 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Men | Women |
| 4 August 2001 | 16:57, Buddy Clark | 22:19, Angie P. Brandenburg |
| 3 August 2002 | 17:00, Buddy Clark | 23:32, Jana Murkerson |
| 9 August 2003 | 14:56, Alan Black | 19:53, Angela Cobb |
| 14 August 2004 | 16:43, Prichard Kelly | 19:03, Angela Cobb |
| 13 August 2005 | 17:21, Roberto Bonilla | 19:36, Angela Cobb |
| 12 August 2006 | 17:22, Derek Storbeck | 17:45, Michelle Lafleur |
| 11 August 2007 | William Anderson | Kristen Ray |
| 9 August 2008 | 16:48, Buddy Clark | 20:59, Alice Smoot |
| 8 August 2009 | 17:54, Jacob Kennedy | 22:48, Katie Utley |
| 7 August 2010 | 16:29, Hunter Honeycutt | 21:29, Katie Utley |
| 6 August 2011 | 17:53, Adam Ross | 22:28, Melissa Tronolone |
| 4 August 2012 | 16:19, Hunter Honeycutt | 21:44, Madison Honeycutt |
| 10 August 2013 | 20:07, Joshua Curry | 22:46, Ashlee Golden |
| 2 August 2014 | 16:49, Hunter Honeycutt | 23:03, Emily Golden |
| 1 August 2015 | 17:58, Dayton Cannon | 22:07, Emily Golden |
| 13 August 2016 | 19:31, Eliud Mendoza | 21:29, Emily Golden |
| 5 August 2017 | 18:31, Caleb Watson | 21:37, Emily Golden |
| Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007! | ||
Links
- Complete results of the 2017 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lemxv7LoFDCVPbuxrpejDbAcS-37zGB_86rVxeNZDsk/pubhtml
- Photos of the 2017 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
https://goo.gl/photos/5roe3hb2p1KsybHs9
- 2016 story, “Mendoza and Golden make it a Tift County sweep at the Run For Love”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/08/run-for-love-2016.html
- 2015 story, “Cannon wins and Golden repeats at Tifton's Run For Love”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/08/run-for-love-2015.html
- 2014 story, “Third time is as charming as ever for Honeycutt at the Run For Love”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/08/run-for-love-2014.html
- 2010 story, “Honeycutt and Utley take titles at rainy Run For Love 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/run-for-love-2010.html
- Find more lovable races in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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