Rush Hatcher and Emily Golden win Tifton's Run For Love 5K

You'd have to think that Rush Hatcher and Russ Benton would be seeing a lot of each other during Georgia's 2024 high school cross-country season. After all, Hatcher was a junior on the Worth County High cross-country team, and Benton a junior on Tift County High's squad of harriers. But on Saturday morning, 3 August 2024, days before the season opened, Hatcher and Benton met on the roads of the Tifton, Georgia campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at the 35th annual Run For Love 5K. Hatcher edged out Benton for first place, both athletes clocking 17:07. On the women's side, Emily Golden won for the ninth time, placing thirteenth overall in 19:30.


Not far behind Hatcher and Benton's duel, Brookwood School sophomore Wesley Warren took third in 17:18. The top master runner in the race was Russell Coleman, ninth overall in 18:45.


Emily Golden's Run For Love women's title was her ninth in eleven years and her third in a row. Golden had first won in 2014 as a Tift Middle Schools cross-country runner, then added more wins as a Tift County High Blue Devil, and even more as an Anderson University Trojan. This was her first Run For Love as an Anderson alum.


Melissa Luke was the first woman master in the 5K, finishing runner-up to Golden in the women's standings and twentieth overall in 21:23. Kali Nicholson, a senior year cross-country runner at Lee County High, took third in the women's division and 25th overall in 22:29.


160 athletes finished the 2024 Run For Love 5K. The races are a fundraiser for the Tift County High and Tift Middle Schools cross-country program.


Top Ten Men, 2024 Run For Love 5K

1. 17:06.31, Rush Hatcher (M, 16)
2. 17.06.59, Russ Benton (M, 16)
3. 17.17.02, Wesley Warren (M, 15)
4. 17.35.84, Canaan Ponce (M, 18)
5. 17.38.50, Owen Davies (M, 16)
6. 17.49.59, Sawyer McGinnis (M, 17)
7. 18.06.80, Noah Coleman (M, 16)
8. 18.36.31, Jaxson Hughes (M, 16)
9. 18.44.19, Russell Coleman (M, 46)
10. 18.54.25, Sergio Martinez (M, 19)

Top Ten Women, 2024 Run For Love 5K

1. 19.29.28, Emily Golden (F, 23)
2. 21.22.25, Melissa Luke (F, 42)
3. 22.28.48, Kali Nicholson (F, 17)
4. 23.13.58, Katherine Currie (F, 14)
5. 23.35.95, Maria Kilheffer (F, 18)
6. 24.55.69, Ava Wilson (F, 18)
7. 28.13.65, Kynslee Collins (F, 13)
8. 28.40.25, Anna Kale Miller (F, 16)
9. 28.41.49, Lisa Dix (F, 12)
10. 28.47.25, Bailey Brock (F, 14)

Recent Run For Love 5K Champions, 2001 - 2024
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
4 August 2018	20:00, Dan Hobby	20:10, Emily Golden
10 August 2019	18:39, Cameron Kaltschnee	20:17, Emily Golden
31 October 2020	18:57, Jared Hammond	21:58, Sidney Steele Flores
14 August 2021	18:55, Blair Golden	22:58, Ava Wilson
6 August 2022	17:52, Eyan Zupko	21:12, Emily Golden
5 August 2023	18:00, Blair Golden	19:34, Emily Golden
3 August 2024	17:07, Rush Hatcher	19:30, Emily Golden
Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007!

Links

• Complete results of the 2024 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS1KKUmxlqSWL1uuYM0T3jKxd_zkUYjOwUpeyRErPyzbmbdvKD2KqUzS79Thg4tBz46d-AuacpMGOCa/pubhtml
  
  
• 2019 story, “Cameron Kaltschnee wins, Emily Golden gets a sixth-straight women's title at Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2019/08/run-for-love-2019.html
  
  
• 2018 story, “Dan Hobby wins and Emily Golden makes it five in a row at the Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/08/run-for-love-2018.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “A win for Watson and a fourth title for Golden at Tifton's Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/08/run-for-love-2017.html
  
  
• 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
  
  

#3087

Emily Golden wraps up her sixth straight Tift Invitational victory

724 high school and middle school athletes came to the Tifton, Georgia campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on Saturday morning, 28 September 2019, to compete in one of the four races of the 18th annual Tift Invitational Cross-Country Meet. The Coffee High Trojans put three runners in the top ten of the high school girls' 5K to take the team title in that event, but it was Tift County senior Emily Golden who took individual honors, winning the race in 19:52. Lowndes High was the top team in the high school boys' 5K for the third time in five years, led by their ace, junior Alec Munger, who won the race in 17:09.


Competition opened at ABAC with the high school girls' 5K. You could argue that Emily Golden only visits Abraham Balwin to win races. Each August starting in 2014, Golden has won the women's title of the Run For Love 5K, held at ABAC. Golden also won her first Tift Invitational race that year, the middle school girls' 3200-meter run. She won that race again as an eighth-grader in 2015, then in 2016 she graduated to winning the high school girls' 5K. At the 2019 Invitational, Golden ran the Tift Invitational for the final time in her high school career, collecting a fourth-straight win in the 5K. Maybe she also drops by to take the SAT or something, but for the past six years her main business at ABAC has been winning.


Coffee High senior Abby Arnett was second in the high school girls' 5K with a 21:15. At 21:24, Brianna Zupko, a Worth County senior, was third in 21:24.


Arnett was just the first of three Coffee High runners in the top ten. The other two were sophomore Brayden Bailey (6th, 22:11) and frosh Kate Merritt (10th, 22:46). They were joined by Coffee scorers Zulmia Tapia (36th, 25:22) and Ellie Perkins (57th, 26:47), giving the Trojans 94 points and first place in a field of fifteen teams.


Lowndes High was a close second with 99 points, led by the seniors Tanija Turner (15th, 23:29) and Alexandra Sayre (16th, 23:33). Lee County placed third in the team standings with 109 points; their top runner was sophomore Emily Phillips, who finished fourth in 21:46.


Team Standings, High School Girls, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. Coffee, 94
2. Lowndes, 99
3. Lee County, 109
4. Perry, 115
5. Tift County, 148
6. Berrien County, 162
7. Valdosta, 191
8. Westover, 202
9. Colquitt County, 216
10. Cook, 229
11. Baconton Charter, 266
12. Trinity Dublin Christian, 268
13. Fitzgerald, 381
14. Bainbridge, 399
15. Wilcox County, 421

Emily Golden

Top 10 High School Girls, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. 19:52.00, Emily Golden (Tift County)
2. 21:15.00, Abbey Arnett (Coffee)
3. 21:24.00, Brianna Zupko (Worth County)
4. 21:46.00, Emily Phillips (Lee County)
5. 22:05.00, Janie Samson (Trinity Dublin Christian)
6. 22:11.00, Brayden Bailey (Coffee)
7. 22:12.00, Brenna Clark (Valwood)
8. 22:18.00, Hannah Dodd (Berrien County)
9. 22:37.00, Jadon Osei (Westover)
10. 22:46.00, Kate Merritt (Coffee)

The high school boys' 5K followed, the largest race of the morning. Alec Munger of Lowndes had placed third in the 2018 Tift Invitational; he improved on that to win the 2019 race in 17:09. Coffee High junior Cameron Watson took second behind Munger with a 17:23, another improvement--Watson had finished fourth in 2018. Westover senior Henry Plowden ran 17:38 for third; Plowden had won the race in 2017.


Munger had the company of three Lowndes teammates in the top ten--frosh Aaron Munger was sixth in 18:10, junior Cody Galloway was eighth in 18:19, and junior Andrew Caruana was ninth in 18:22. Once Lowndes junior Andrew Francis had crossed the finish line 22nd in 19:16, the Vikings had 46 points and the team title.


Starting with junior Seth Tomlinson (14th, 18:57), Lee County bunched five scorers between 18:57 and 19:15 to take second with 83 points. Perry was a close third in the seventeen-team field with 88 points, led by frosh Dylan Coleman (12th, 18:46).


Team Standings, High School Boys, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. Lowndes, 46
2. Lee County, 83
3. Perry, 88
4. Coffee, 110
5. Westover, 137
6. Bainbridge, 208
7. Berrien County, 216
8. Valdosta, 227
9. TiftCounty, 242
10. Colquitt County, 244
11. Fitzgerald, 270
12. Worth County, 383
13. Baconton Charter, 415
14. Thomasville, 420
15. Cook, 431
16. Trinity Dublin Christian, 434
17. Wilcox County, 465

Top 10 High School Boys, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. 17:09.00, Alec Munger (Lowndes)
2. 17:23.00, Cameron Watson (Coffee)
3. 17:38.00, Henry Plowden (Westover)
4. 17:47.00, John Morgan Bolmer (Berrien County)
5. 18:08.00, Stokes Moore (Bainbridge)
6. 18:10.00, Aaron Munger (Lowndes)
7. 18:17.00, Parker Jackson (Valdosta)
8. 18:19.00, Cody Galloway (Lowndes)
9. 18:22.00, Andrew Caruana (Lowndes)
10. 18:23.00, Nevin Swanson (Coffee)

Ava Garrett, a Perry Middle eighth-grader, wen 13:21 to win the middle school girls' 3200 (the distance formerly known as "two miles). Lee County eighth-grader Trace Bridges took second in 13:29, and Berrien County eighth-grader Sadii Davis was third in 13:36. The 2018 Tift Invitational defending champion, Lee County eighth-grader Alma Ostrander, placed fourth in 13:46.


After Bridges and Ostrander, Lee County had scoring performances by eighth-grader Tori Bridges (10th, 14:19), seventh-grader Olivia Vaderwalt (17th, 14:41), and eighth-grader Cadence McClung (18th, 14:45). Once McClung had finished, Lee County had 48 points and the team was taking the trophy back to Leesburg. Ben Hill was second in the fourteen-team field with 105 points; their top runner was eighth-grader Abbie Brown (9th, 14:18).Tift edged Perry for third, 127 to 132, led by the sixteenth-place, 14:39 finish of Tift seventh-grader Grayson Anne Day.


Team Standings, Middle School Girls, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. Lee County, 48
2. Ben Hill, 105
3. Tift, 127
4. Perry, 132
5. Berrien County, 140
6. Valwood, 149
7. Terrell, 212
8. Cook, 224
9. Baconton Charter, 225
10. Seminole County, 238
11. Colquitt County, 246
12. Wilcox County, 270
13. Tiftarea, 284
14. Coffee, 357

Top 10 Middle School Girls, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. 13:21.00, Ava Garrett (Perry)
2. 13:29.00, Trace Bridges (Lee County)
3. 13:36.00, Sadii Davis (Berrien County)
4. 13:46.00, Alma Ostrander (Lee County)
5. 13:56.00, Emma Burnett (Valwood)
6. 13:58.00, Geisha Smith (Seminole County)
7. 14:07.00, Destiny Love (Merry Acres)
8. 14:17.00, Addie Gregory (Cook)
9. 14:18.00, Abbie Brown (Ben Hill)
10. 14:19.00, Tori Bridges (Lee County)

Trinity Dublin Christian seventh-grader Nolan Lane was the only athlete to crack 12:00 in the middle school boys' 3200, winning the race in 11:51. That's not to say that no other runner was close to breaking 12:00; Tift eighth-grader Blair Golden was second in 12:02. Tiftarea` sixth-grader Jude Bailey placed third in 12:21.


Berrien County put two runner in the top ten--sxith-grader Brady Solomon (6th, 12:35) and eighth-grader John Carter (10th, 12:51)--but so did Seminole County--seventh-grader Matthew Smith (8th, 12:47) and sixth-grader Zach King (9th, 12:48)--setting up a fight for the team title. Berrien County brought eighth-graders Carlos Valaquez (16th, 13:11), Zachary Davis (23rd, 13:26), and Oseil Rodriguez (29th, 13:37) to that fight, scoring 76 points and taking placing first among fifteen teams. Seminole County was second with 101 points. Coffee, led by eighth-grader Will Bagwell (7th, 12:40), was third with 125 points.


Team Standings, Middle School Boys, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. Berrien County, 76
2. Seminole County, 101
3. Coffee, 125
4. Colquitt County, 128
5. Lee County, 132
6. Cook, 143
7. Tiftarea, 181
8. Tift, 185
9. Wilcox County, 200
10. Perry, 243
11. Ben-Hill, 253
12. Valwood, 374
13. Bainbridge, 383
14. Baconton Charter, 384
15. Highland Christian, 394

Top 10 Middle School Boys, 2019 Tift County Invitational

1. 11:51.00, Nolan Lane (Trinity Dublin Christian)
2. 12:02.00, Blair Golden (Tift)
3. 12:21.00, Jude Bailey (Tiftarea)
4. 12:28.00, James Fagan (Colquitt County)
5. 12:32.00, Landon Dale (Lee County)
6. 12:35.00, Brady Solomon (Berrien County)
7. 12:40.00, Will Bagwell (Coffee)
8. 12:47.00, Matthew Smith (Seminole County)
9. 12:48.00, Zach King (Seminole County)
10. 12:51.00, John Carter (Berrien County)

Tift High School Blue Devil Cross Country Invitational Winners, 2008 - 2019
High School Girls 5K
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
6 September 2008	Westover, 48 points	21:52, Alexis Skiles (Lee) 9
12 September 2009	Tift Country, 47	21:19, April Thomas (Bainbridge) 11
11 September 2010	Lowndes, 25	21:22, Ashley Powell (Lowndes)
8 October 2011	Lowndes, 22	19:14, Anna Leigh Nix (Veterans)
13 October 2012	Lowndes, 34	19:49, Jacki Pinkerton (Lowndes)
12 October 2013	Camden County, 42	19:47, Paige Braswell (Bainbridge) 12
11 October 2014	Tift County, 23	19:14, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 9
10 October 2015	Lee County, 59	20:15, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 10
8 October 2016	Tift County, 41	20:44, Emily Golden (Tift County) 9
30 September 2017	Tift County, 87	20:07, Emily Golden (Tift County) 10
29 September 2018	Lee County, 74	19:27, Emily Golden (Tift County) 11
28 September 2019	Coffee, 94	19:52, Emily Golden (Tift County) 12
High School Boys 5K
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
6 September 2008	Tift County, 40 points	17:25, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 9
12 September 2009	Tift County, 30	17:09, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 10
11 September 2010	Valdosta, 40	17:48, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 11
8 October 2011	Tift County, 50	16:24, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 12
13 October 2012	Lowndes, 65	16:20, Dale Pate (Worth County) 11
12 October 2013	Worth County, 69	16:28, Chase Harris (Bainbridge) 11
11 October 2014	Lee County, 55	16:46, Robert Grooms (Lee County) 11
10 October 2015	Lowndes, 35	16:17, Kaleb Wolfenden (Lowndes)
8 October 2016	Lowndes, 22	16:07, Kaleb Wolfenden (Lowndes) 12
30 September 2017	Valdosta, 60	17:22, Henry Plowden (Westover) 10
29 September 2018	Deerfield Windsor, 53	16:39, Porter Hill (Deerfield Windsor)
28 September 2019	Lowndes, 46	17:09, Alec Munger (Lowndes) 11

Links

• Complete results of Tift County's 2019 Blue Devil Cross Country Invitational
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRFNG78dYNxLhD02-0kTSq4s57VNJd_0MF4wWWbhxtmr6rALLUBNYUzMTEUSeZ2YpfyzwbA8610PGX1/pubhtml
  
  
• 2015 story, “More wins for Funderburk and Wolfenden at the Tift County Invitational”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/10/tift-invitational-2015.html
  
  
• Find an upcoming event to run on the Trouble Afoot! race calendar
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2614

Cameron Kaltschnee wins, Emily Golden gets a sixth-straight women's title at Run For Love

Cameron Kaltschnee was in Tifton, Georgia on Saturday evening, 10 August 2019--the eve of cross-country seasons. For the two years prior, Kaltschnee had spent cross-country season racing for the Beavers of Buena Vista University, a Division III school in Storm Lake, Iowa. Before that, he had worn the colors of Algona High School. In Tifton, though, Kaltschnee was racing on the roads in the 30th annual Run For Love 5K. He won the race by over 400 meters, covering the course around the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in 18:39. Emily Golden, a senior on the Tift County High cross-country team, won the women's title, placing second overall in 20:11.


Bonaire, Georgia's Jared Hammond was runner-up to Kaltschnee in the men's division, placing third overall in 20:13. Blair Golden, an eighth-grader on the Tift Middle Schools cross-country squad, was third in the men's standings and fourth overall in 20:55. Bret Wagenhorst of Tifton was the fastest master runner in the 5K, the fourth male finisher and fifth overall in 21:21.


On the women's side, Emily Golden's win was her sixth in a row at the Run For Love. Tifton's Penny Peters had her own streak at the Run For Love--she has been the top woman master in the race each year since 2016. In the 2019 Run For Love, Peters took top woman master honors by finishing second in the women's standings and 21st overall in 25:56. Tifton master runner Guna Chee was the third female finisher, 23rd overall in 26:26.


77 athletes finished the 2019 Run For Love 5K, with another 24 completing a one-mile fun run. The races are a fundraiser for the Tift County High and Tift Middle Schools cross-country program.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Run For Love 5K

1. 18:39, Cameron Kaltschnee (M, 20) Algona, IA
2. 20:13, Jared Hammond (M, 39) Bonaire, GA
3. 20:55, Blair Golden (M, 14) Tifton, GA
4. 21:21, Bret Wagenhorst (M, 56) Tifton, GA
5. 21:31, Will Jones (M, 17) Tifton, GA
6. 21:47, Hayden Roberts (M, 14) Tifton, GA
7. 21:50, Clay Walker (M, 17) Tifton, GA
8. 22:04, Joseph Knoll (M, 41) Tifton, GA
9. 22:13, Aidan Evans (M, 14) Tifton, GA
10. 22:18, Andrew Marzen (M, 48) Tifton, GA

Top Ten Women, 2018 Run For Love 5K

1. 20:11, Emily Golden (F, 17) Tifton, GA
2. 25:56, Penny Peters (F, 52) Tifton, GA
3. 26:26, Guna Chee (F, 67) Tifton, GA
4. 26:42, Savannah Miller (F, 18) Tifton, GA
5. 27:05, Kelly Golden (F, 49) Tifton, GA
6. 27:32, Grayson Anne Day (F, 12) Tifton, GA
7. 27:47, Elisabeth Broome (F, 28) Cairo, GA
8. 28:06, Bridgett Deen (F, 46) Tifton, GA
9. 28:54, Ava Wilson (F, 13) Tifton, GA
10. 29:23, Rebekah Larger (F, 16) Chula, GA

Recent Run For Love 5K Champions, 2001 - 2019
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
4 August 2018	20:00, Dan Hobby	20:10, Emily Golden
10 August 2019	18:39, Cameron Kaltschnee	20:17, Emily Golden
Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007!

Links

• Complete results of the 2019 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTSc7yGHECnVcY8WNWelz76UWGxRC0ejX-hMjSlQKK84tzGlM1691uoyWqcX24ya9mULVQuHmtMstBZ/pubhtml
  
  
• Betsy Jones' photos of the 2019 Run For Love
  https://photos.app.goo.gl/S7DHEWjjNEMhjrFo7
  
  
• 2018 story, “Dan Hobby wins and Emily Golden makes it five in a row at the Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/08/run-for-love-2018.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “A win for Watson and a fourth title for Golden at Tifton's Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/08/run-for-love-2017.html
  
  
• 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
  
  

#2575

Dan Hobby wins and Emily Golden makes it five in a row at the Run For Love

In the Southeast United States, you know that when the muscadines ripen its nearly time for cross-country season. You also know that it's time for the Run For Love 5K in Tifton, Georgia. Dan Hobby won the 29th annual Run For Love on Saturday evening, 4 August 2018, outrunning the field with a 20:00 effort. A top ten finisher in 2017, Hobby had never won the race before, but that wasn't the case for the women's champ. Emily Golden took the women's title for the fifth year in a row, placing second overall in 20:10.


Tifton's Bret Wagenhorst repeated as the top master runner in the race, placing third overall and second in the men's standings with a 20:55. Blair Golden, a seventh-grader on the Tift Middle Schools cross-country team, was the third male finisher and fourth overall in 21:48.


Emily Golden was also a Tift Middle Schools athlete back in 2014 when she won her first Run For Love 5K. Just a few weeks after collecting her fifth Run For Love title, Golden will start her junior year cross-country season at Tift County High. She'll be joined on the team by incoming frosh Ainsley Toews. Toews was the women's runner-up at Run For Love, coming in thirteenth overall in 22:48. Tift County High alum Ashlee Golden took third on the women's side and fourteenth overall in 23:17. Ashlee Golden was the first woman at the 2013 Run For Love, the year before Emily Golden started her five-year winning streak.


Penny Peters of Tifton was the first woman master and fourth female finisher, twentieth overall in 25:26.


Because of construction around the Tifton campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, the Run For Love 5K had to be held on a new course in 2018. 77 athletes found their way around the new route to finish the race. The event is a fundraiser for the Tift County High cross-country team. Tift County High's harriers are scheduled to open their season three weeks after the Run For Love, on Saturday morning, 25 August 2018, at the Cougar Cross-Country Challenge in Tallahassee, Florida's Phipps Park.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Run For Love 5K

1. 20:00, Dan Hobby (M, 34) Tifton, GA
2. 20:55, Bret Wagenhorst (M, 55) Tifton, GA
3. 21:48, Blair Golden (M, 13) Tifton, GA
4. 21:55, Gene Roberts (M, 43) Tifton, GA
5. 21:59, Hayden Roberts (M, 13) Tifton, GA
6. 22:02, Will Jones (M, 16) Tifton, GA
7. 22:05, Joseph Knoll (M, 40) Tifton, GA
8. 22:06, Aidan Evans (M, 13) Tifton, GA
9. 22:08, Jonathan Jones (M, 46) Tifton, GA
10. 22:10, Landon Johnson (M, 16) Tifton, GA

Top Ten Women, 2018 Run For Love 5K

1. 20:10, Emily Golden (F, 16) Tifton, GA
2. 22:48, Ainsley Toews (F, 14) Tifton, GA
3. 23:17, Ashlee Golden (F, 18) Tifton, GA
4. 25:26, Penny Peters (F, 51) Tifton, GA
5. 25:35, Alexandria Vaughn (F, 14) Tifton, GA
6. 25:40, Alexis Tucker (F, 15) Tifton, GA
7. 26:02, Guna Gunawan (F, 46) Tifton, GA
8. 26:26, Heather Patrick (F, 34) Valdosta, GA
9. 26:49, Michele Stephens (F, 51) Tifton, GA
10. 26:58, Laura Kate Wright (F, 13) Tifton, GA

Recent Run For Love 5K Champions, 2001 - 2018
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
4 August 2018	20:00, Dan Hobby	20:10, Emily Golden
Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007!

Links

• Complete results of the 2018 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRhHHF4mqwUGymZBn1efcxlCBJlKyOVfAMvp033hMvdBEtr9xvNh6IXSXv9LJb2sFR1SXrA5UCnVom0/pubhtml
  
  
• 2017 story, “A win for Watson and a fourth title for Golden at Tifton's Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/08/run-for-love-2017.html
  
  
• 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
  
  

#2313

A whole lot of Lincoln Trojan at the Bainbridge Bearcat Invitational

At the 18th annual Bearcat Invitational Cross-Country Meet, it was the second year in a row that a school from Tallahassee, Florida went home with the high school team titles. On Saturday morning, 16 September 2017, it was Lincoln High carrying home the loot to Tallahassee, as both the Trojan boys and the Trojan girls were the first team in their respective races. Lincoln senior Clayton Carlson was the fastest individual in the high school boys' 5K, but Tift County sophomore Emily Golden kept it from being a total Trojan sweep by winning the high school girls' 5K.


The high school girls' 5K was in fact the first race of the meet, starting at 8:00 AM. Improving on her 2016 Bearcat Invitational performance by eight seconds, Emily Golden toured the course around the Bainbridge High campus in 20:41, finishing nearly 70 meters ahead of the next runner. Gianna Forte, a Bishop Snyder junior, was runner-up in 20:58, and Lincoln sophomore Chase Merrick took third in 21:06.


Merrick was joined by Lincoln teammates Lexi Gray (8th, 22:19), Rylee French (11th, 22:49), Asta Hemenway (16th, 23:14), and Arianna Neely (25th, 23:44) in amassing 53 points for the Trojans, giving Lincoln the top spot in a field of fifteen teams. Lindsay James finished fifth in 21:51 for Chiles, leading her team to second place with a score of 88. Tift County was third with 144 points, just ahead of the 147 scored by fourth-place Bainbridge.


2017 Bearcat Invitational Team Standings, High School Girls

1. Lincoln, 53
2. Chiles, 88
3. Tift County, 144
4. Bainbridge, 147
5. Bishop Snyder, 161
6. Community Christian, 165
7. Lee County, 189
8. Lowndes, 194
9. Westover, 207
10. Wakulla, 233
11. Seminole County, 245
12. Dothan, 259
13. Headland, 341
14. Thomasville, 371
15. Grace Christian, 435

Top Ten High School Girls, 2017 Bearcat Invitational

1. 20:40.76, Emily Golden (Tift County) 10
2. 20:57.42, Gianna Forte (Bishop Snyder)
3. 21:05.74, Chase Merrick (Lincoln)
4. 21:11.40, Katherine Resavage (Leon)
5. 21:50.17, Lindsay James (Chiles)
6. 22:00.71, Riley O'Linn (Valwood)
7. 22:12.81, Alyssa Langston (Wakulla)
8. 22:18.50, Lexi Gray (Lincoln)
9. 22:24.54, Viviana Schuyler (Bainbridge)
10. 22:44.40, Macy Williams (Seminole County)

Like Golden, Lincoln's Clayton Carlson had also raced at the Bearcat Invitational in 2016. Carlson, though, improved more than half a minute over his previous year's performance, running a winning 17:12. Finishing some 60 meters behind Carlson, Henry Plowden of Westover was second in 17:25. David Keen of North Florida Christian took third in 17:35.


In addition to Carlson, Lincoln had two other runners in the top ten--Kevin Majano was fifth in 17:41 and Joey Jung eighth in 18:08. Charles Hruda (12th, 18:28) and Dennis Majano (17th, 18:43) completed the Trojan scoring, giving Lincoln 39 points and first place out of fifteen teams. Wakulla put two runners in the top ten--Scott Lloyd (6th, 17:54) and Chris Porter (9th, 18:13)--leading Wakulla to second place with a score of 54. Lowndes was third with 111 points behind the performance of their top runner, Brishen House (4th, 17:40).


2017 Bearcat Invitational Team Standings, High School Boys

1. Lincoln, 39
2. Wakulla, 54
3. Lowndes, 111
4. Chiles, 144
5. Tift County, 155
6. Bainbridge, 166
7. Westover, 204
8. Grace Christian, 257
9. Lee County, 258
10. Seminole County, 280
11. Thomasville, 302
12. Rickards, 313
13. Dothan, 325
14. Fitzgerald, 347
15. Jefferson County, 379

Top Ten High School Boys, 2017 Bearcat Invitational

1. 17:11.10, Clayton Carlson (Lincoln) 12
2. 17:24.10, Henry Plowden (Westover)
3. 17:34.62, David A Keen (North Florida Christian)
4. 17:39.44, Brishen House (Lowndes)
5. 17:40.57, Kevin Majano (Lincoln)
6. 17:53.90, Scott Lloyd (Wakulla)
7. 18:02.69, JD Bengston (Tift County)
8. 18:07.12, Joey Jung (Lincoln)
9. 18:12.84, Chris Porter (Wakulla)
10. 18:22.11, Efrain Diaz (Bainbridge)

The middle school girls ran two miles, and the girl who ran it fastest was Lee County eighth-grader Emily Phillips, who went 13:38. Another Lee County eighth-grader, Alea Bochette, was second in 13:50. Tift eighth-grader Ainsley Toews was third in 14:10.


While Lee County was waiting for their next scorer, Tift put two more athletes in the top ten--eighth-grader Alexandria Vaughan (8th, 15:19) and sixth-grader Amanda Tovar. Tift seventh-grader Madeline Perrin (11th, 15:31) was close behind. Tift's fifth scorer was seventh-grader Hannah Larger (17th, 16:16), giving the Tift girls 44 points and first place out of the nine middle school teams competing. Led by seventh-grader Camille Resavage (5th, 14:32), Holy Comforter was second with 58 points. Lee County took third with 64.


2017 Bearcat Invitational Team Standings, Middle School Girls

1. Tift, 44
2. Holy Comforter, 58
3. Lee County, 64
4. Trinity Catholic, 117
5. Early County, 131
6. Baconton Charter, 150
7. Seminole County, 160
8. Wakulla, 194
9. Whigham, 251

Top Ten Middle School Girls, 2017 Bearcat Invitational

1. 13:37.17, Emily Phillips (Lee County)
2. 13:49.99, Alea Bochette (Lee County)
3. 14:09.93, Ainsley Toews (Tift)
4. 14:13.33, Lily Moore (Trinity Catholic)
5. 14:31.48, Camille Resavage (Holy Comforter)
6. 14:31.74, Mary Clayton Soto (Holy Comforter)
7. 15:12.28, Madi Sims (Trinity Catholic)
8. 15:18.47, Alexandria Vaughan (Tift)
9. 15:18.62, Anika Imhoff (MacIntyre Park)
10. 15:25.59, Amanda Tovar (Tift)

Alex Collins, a Lee County eighth-grader, won the middle school boys' two mile by more than 150 meters, running 11:53. Holy Comforter eighth-grader Leo Kelly was second in 12:29, and Early County eighth-grader Mikhael Crispen placed third in 12:38.


After that it was a Lee County deluge, with Edward Ostrander (4th, 12:42), John-Robert Ellington (5th, 13:00), Wyatt Waddell (6th, 13:07), and Ryan Hicks (7th, 13:08) cascading across the finish line. Lee County also had two other runners in the top ten--Jeb Parr (8th, 13:13) and Landon Jones (9th,13:14). But five in the top seven was enough to give Lee County a mathematically unbeatable score of 23 points and first out of ten teams. MacIntyre Park, led by Matthew Lewis (10th, 13:17), was second with 69 points. Tift was third with 106.


2017 Bearcat Invitational Team Standings, Middle School Boys

1. Lee County, 23
2. MacIntyre Park, 69
3. Tift, 106
4. Holy Comforter, 121
5. Bainbridge, 123
6. Seminole County, 160
7. Trinity Catholic, 165
8. Early County, 225
9. Baconton Charter, 266
10. Whigham, 300

Top Ten Middle School Boys, 2017 Bearcat Invitational

1. 11:52.67, Alex Collins (Lee County)
2. 12:28.34, Leo Kelly (Holy Comforter)
3. 12:37.89, Mikhael Crispen (Early County)
4. 12:41.21, Edward Ostrander (Lee County)
5. 12:59.66, John-Rob Ellington (Lee County)
6. 13:06.83, Wyatt Waddell (Lee County)
7. 13:07.35, Ryan Hicks (Lee County)
8. 13:12.16, Jeb Parr (Lee County)
9. 13:13.68, Landon Jones (Lee County)
10. 13:16.13, Matthew Lewis (MacIntyre Park)

Miles and Minutes, LLC, of Tallahassee, Florida timed the 2017 Bearcat Invitational.

Bainbridge High School Bearcat Cross-Country Invitational Champions 2000 - 2017
High School Girls 5K
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
27 September 2003	Tift County, 39	22:28, Demonessa Pyle (Berrien County)
24 September 2005	Tift County, 32
23 September 2006
22 September 2007
20 September 2008	Bainbridge, 39	21:06, April Thomas (Bainbridge) 10
19 September 2009	Westover, 45	19:31, April Thomas (Bainbridge) 11
18 September 2010	Lee County
17 September 2011	Tift County, 36	21:50, Ericka Taylor (Westover) 11
22 September 2012	Thomasville, 64	21:05, Ericka Taylor (Westover) 12
14 September 2013	Thomas County Central, 55	19:56, Paige Braswell (Bainbridge) 12
20 September 2014	Maclay, 35	19:11, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 9
26 September 2015	Lincoln, 60	21:10, Juliana Krueger (Lincoln) 12
17 September 2016	Maclay, 31	18:06, Alyson Churchill (Lincoln) 9
16 September 2017	Lincoln, 53	20:41, Emily Golden (Tift County) 10
High School Boys 5K
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
27 September 2003	Westover, 41	17:47, David Marley (Westover)
24 September 2005	Bainbridge, 54
23 September 2006
22 September 2007
20 September 2008	Tift County, 37	17:13, David Daniel (Thomasville) 11
19 September 2009	Tift County, 49	16:04, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 10
18 September 2010	Westover
17 September 2011	Tift County, 55	16:48, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 12
22 September 2012	Bainbridge, 77	16:40, Josh Mason (Westover) 12
14 September 2013	Bainbridge, 65	16:15, Chase Harris (Bainbridge) 11
20 September 2014	Maclay, 51	16:59, Bryce Swindell (Lassiter) 12
26 September 2015	Lowndes, 43	16:52, Kaleb Wolfenden (Lowndes) 11
17 September 2016	Maclay, 32	16:41, Clayburn Milford (Maclay) 10
16 September 2017	Lincoln, 39	17:12, Clayton Carlson (Lincoln) 12
Additions and corrections to this table will be accepted gratefully. ~HW

Links

• Complete results of the 2017 Bainbridge High Bearcat Cross-Country Invitational
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSDdLNuj61aP37Vsv7-N-8ENUGCVlkW64KDZaB83cedXK5JlTPKG0zEOZBikZpfCgdCkhvkYwml1lMI/pubhtml
  
  
• 2016 story, “Lincoln frosh Alyson Churchill stuns Southwest Georgia with an 18:06”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/09/bearcat-xc-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Krueger leads Lincoln and Wolfenden leads Lowndes to victories in Bainbridge”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/09/bearcat-xc-2015.html
  
  
• Trouble Afoot! coverage of running in Bainbridge, Georgia
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/Bainbridge
  
  
• Stop playing on the computer and run a race! You can find one here:
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2083

A win for Watson and a fourth title for Golden at Tifton's Run For Love

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

1. 18:30.92, Caleb Watson (M, 19) Douglas, GA
2. 18:32.77, J D Bengston (M, 14) Tifton, GA
3. 18:33.53, Cameron Watson (M, 14) Douglas, GA
4. 19:53.20, Christopher Beil (M, 27) Valdosta, GA
5. 19:53.43, Beau Bengston (M, 14) Tifton, GA
6. 20:43.90, Dan Hobby (M, 33) Tifton, GA
7. 20:55.33, Bret Wagenhorst (M, 51) Tifton, GA
8. 21:20.91, Bryce Stephens (M, 14) Tifton, GA
9. 21:32.74, Joseph Knoll (M, 39) Tifton, GA
10. 21:41.23, Mitchell Sinyard (M, 56) Hawkinsville, GA

Top Ten Women, 2017 Run For Love 5K

1. 21:36.10, Emily Golden (F, 15) Tifton, GA
2. 23:20.74, Abbey Arnett (F, 15) Douglas, GA
3. 23:37.74, Ashlee Golden (F, 17) Tifton, GA
4. 23:51.43, Ainsley Toews (F, 13) Tifton, GA
5. 25:31.84, Penny Peters (F, 50) Tifton, GA
6. 25:38.39, Harley Stephens (F, 18) Tifton, GA
7. 25:43.31, Katie Kaiser (F, 17) Tifton, GA
8. 25:45.29, Ellie Perkins (F, 15) Ambrose, GA
9. 25:51.06, Rebekah Larger (F, 14) Tifton, GA
10. 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
  
  

#2050

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

The 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
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
Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007!

Links

• Complete results of the 2016 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m4cU5CI1ul49hhZczO_XBSg53G0e_EPUa64VQ6GswbI/pubhtml
  
  
• 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
  
  

#2004

Kozma and Golden play hard to get at Tifton Sweetheart Run

Racing in his hometown, Tifton, Georgia master runner Marton Kozma won the nineteenth annual Sweetheart Run 5K on Saturday morning, 20 February 2016. Kozma ran the 3.1 miles in 20:39. Emily Golden was second over the finish line and first on the women's side, running 20:23. A Tift Middle School cross country runner, Golden had finished second in the women's division of the 2015 Sweetheart 5K.


Cooper Browning of Tifton was second in the men's standings, placing third overall in 21:24. Tifton's Joseph Knoll edged Mike Belcher of Ashburnham, Massachusetts for the third men's spot, both runners clocked in 21:31.


Ashlee Golden, a sophomore cross country runner at Tift County High, was the runner-up in the women's standings, placing tenth overall in 23:34. Tifton's Penny Peters was the top woman master and third female finisher, eleventh overall in 24:38.


77 athletes finished Tifton's nineteenth annual Sweetheart Run 5K with another 52 completing a one-mile fun "Clot Trot". Proceeds from the runs benefit Hemophilia of Georgia.


Top Ten Men, 2016 Tifton Sweetheart Run 5K

1. 20:39 ~ Marton Kozma (M, 45-49) Tifton, GA
2. 21:24 ~ Cooper Browning (M, 30-34) Tifton, GA
3. 21:31 ~ Joseph Knoll (M, 35-39) Tifton, GA
4. 21:31 ~ Mike Belcher (M, 30-34) Ashburnham, MA
5. 22:17 ~ John Hall (M, 45-49) Tifton, GA
6. 22:44 ~ James Hawke (M, 45-49) Sylvester, GA
7. 23:10 ~ Rick Register (M, 50-54) Lake Park, GA
8. 23:34 ~ Stephen Williford (M, 30-34) Ashburn, GA
9. 24:40 ~ Richard Golden (M, 45-49) Tifton, GA
10. 25:14 ~ Zach Veazey (M, 35-39) Tifton, GA

Top Ten Women, 2016 Tifton Sweetheart Run 5K

1. 21:23 ~ Emily Golden (F, 11-14) Tifton, GA
2. 23:34 ~ Ashlee Golden (F, 15-19) Tifton, GA
3. 24:38 ~ Penny Peters (F, 45-49) Tifton, GA
4. 25:29 ~ Lauren Pate (F, 30-34) Tifton, GA
5. 27:18 ~ Rosanne Lewis (F, 40-44) Lake Park, GA
6. 27:28 ~ Karen Kinard (F, 30-34) Tifton, GA
7. 28:51 ~ Jeanette Macdonald (F, 60-64) Sylvester, GA
8. 29:10 ~ April Jowers (F, 35-39) Tifton, GA
9. 29:39 ~ Sheila Oliver (F, 50-54) Adel, GA
10. 30:13 ~ Amy Hightower (F, 35-39) Chula, GA

Known Sweetheart Run 5K winners, 1998 - 2016
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
22 February 2003	16:26, Josh Myers	21:03, Angela Cobb	97
21 February 2004
11 February 2006	16:55, John Seppala	20:36, Kristen Ray	124
10 February 2007	17:16, David Marley	20:14, Brittney Skiles	128
23 February 2008		21:30, Tiffany Cochran
21 February 2009
13 February 2010	16:22, Austin McDonald	23:22, Madison Honeycutt
12 February 2011	17:00, Hunter Honeycutt	22:06, Madison Honeycutt
11 February 2012	19:38, Matthew Myers	22:54, Ashlee Golden
9 February 2013	19:31, Michael Love	21:50, Ashlee Golden	155
22 February 2014	20:35, Lorenzo Gomez	22:16, Ashlee Golden	172
21 February 2015	19:41, Kurt Anthony	19:51, Elena Oslund	132
20 February 2016	20:39, Marton Kozma	21:23, Emily Golden	77
Any help in filling the gaps for 1998-2002, 2004-2005, and 2008-2009 would be greatly appreciated.

Links

• Complete results of the 2016 Tifton, Georgia, Sweetheart Run 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qKo7A2a_cf1U7DaACjn4s7cPZ23gGr1NVNpKX3zcOP0/pubhtml
  
  
• 2015 story, “A sweetheart of a race in Tifton for Anthony and Oslund”
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/02/tifton-sweetheart-2015.html
  
  
• 2011 story, “Honeycutt and Honeycutt break hearts at Tifton's Sweetheart Run”
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/02/tifton-sweetheart-2011.html
  
  
• Upcoming races in Tifton and other cities within 100 miles of Tallahassee at Trouble Afoot!
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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More wins for Funderburk and Wolfenden at the Tift County Invitational

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, fields teams in baseball, golf, soccer, softball, and tennis, but not cross country. ABAC would have the makings of a fine cross country team, though, if the school enrolled just a few of the distance runners that visited its campus on Saturday morning, 10 October 2015, for the 14th annual Tift County Blue Devil Cross Country Invitational. Competing in four races, there were close to 500 athletes at the meet, some of the fastest in South Georgia, representing high schools and middle schools.


Among those hundreds of athletes was Colquitt County sophomore Elizabeth Funderburk, the defending champion in the high school girls' 5K. That race was scheduled to open the meet at 8:30 AM. Just like at the Pelham Hornet Invitational in August and the Quail Trail Invitational in September, Funderburk won by a ton. Finishing more than 300 meters ahead of the second runner, Funderburk posted a winning 20:15 in the 3.1-mile race. Lowndes sophomore Makenzee Page was second in 21:44, and Bainbridge sophomore Uriyah Davis placed third in 21:54.


Funderburk was Colquitt County's only finisher in the top ten, though, while the Lee County Trojans had three--sophomore Ramsay Miller (8th, 22:46), junior Ansley Cain (9th, 22:48), and frosh Caroline Taylor (10th, 22:51). Add Lee County's next two scorers, junior Ashley Bennett (15th, 23:34) and frosh Rachel Kiesau (17th, 23:46), and the Trojans had a total of 59 points, earning first place in a field of eleven girls' teams. Colquitt County was second with 87, just ahead of the host from Tift County, third with 91.


Team Standings, High School Girls, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. Lee County, 59
2. Colquitt County, 87
3. Tift County, 91
4. Bainbridge, 114
5. Lowndes, 145
6. Tiftarea, 150
7. Fitzgerald, 181
8. Coffee, 194
9. Worth County, 200
10. Berrien County, 215
11. Baconton Charter, 235

Top 15 High School Girls, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. 20:14.12 ~ Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 10
2. 21:43.09 ~ Makenzee Page (Lowndes) 10
3. 21:53.11 ~ Uriyah Davis (Bainbridge) 10
4. 22:02.01 ~ Phoebe Bills (Lowndes) 10
5. 22:16.90 ~ Ashlee Golden (Tift County) 10
6. 22:23.05 ~ Karen Garcia (Fitzgerald) 9
7. 22:42.04 ~ Kaycee Goodman (Tiftarea) 11
8. 22:45.72 ~ Ramsay Miller (Lee County) 10
9. 22:47.53 ~ Ansley Cain (Lee County) 11
10. 22:51.00 ~ Caroline Taylor (Lee County) 9
11. 23:02.18 ~ Sloan Fletcher (Tift County) 11
12. 23:06.22 ~ Lisbeth Cortes (Tift County) 11
13. 23:28.45 ~ Justice Lucas (Worth County) 11
14. 23:29.13 ~ Kaitlyn Mitchell (Colquitt County) 9
15. 23:33.41 ~ Ashley Bennett (Lee County) 11

Kaleb Wolfenden and Poncherella Leonard have got to be tired of seeing each other, but cross country fans in South Georgia aren't tired of watching them race. The two juniors had met five times this season before the Tift Invitational--at the Cougar Challenge, the Lee County Invitational, the Quail Trail Invitational, the Bearcat Invitational, and the Westover Invitational. Lowndes High's Wolfenden had won three of those meetings, but in the other two races Bainbridge's Leonard had finished ahead of Wolfenden. Both athletes were on the starting line at 9:30 AM at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.


This meeting belonged to Wolfenden, who won the race in 16:17. Leonard was second in 16:26, just ahead of Lowndes senior Chance Roe. Roe was third in 16:27. Lowndes' remaining scorers were junior Daniel Swilley (7th, 17:36), frosh Hayden Bills (10th, 18:17), and senior Dylan Rogers (14th, 18:37), totaling 35 points for the Vikings and giving Lowndes the team title. Bainbridge was second with 83 points. Lee County's top runner Robert Grooms (4th, 16:41) outran Coffee's leader, senior Cody Reid (5th, 17:23), but in the team standings Coffee edged Lee County for third, 104 to 108.


Team Standings, High School Boys, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. Lowndes, 35
2. Bainbridge, 83
3. Coffee, 104
4. Lee County, 108
5. Tift County, 120
6. Colquitt County, 163
7. Berrien County, 187
8. Tiftarea, 243
9. Worth County, 244
10. Fitzgerald, 245
11. Dougherty, 268
12. Baconton Charter, 273
13. Cook, 340

Top 15 High School Boys, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. 16:17.00 ~ Kaleb Wolfenden (Lowndes) 11
2. 16:26.00 ~ Poncherella Leonard (Bainbridge) 11
3. 16:27.00 ~ Chance Roe (Lowndes) 12
4. 16:41.00 ~ Robert Grooms (Lee County) 12
5. 17:23.00 ~ Cody Reid (Coffee) 12
6. 17:24.00 ~ Jake Merritt (Colquitt County) 10
7. 17:36.00 ~ Daniel Swilley (Lowndes) 11
8. 17:57.00 ~ Matthew Fisher (Tift County) 12
9. 18:13.00 ~ Artavious McGowan (Dougherty) 12
10. 18:17.00 ~ Hayden Bills (Lowndes) 9
11. 18:24.24 ~ Bennett Enfinger (Bainbridge) 12
12. 18:27.48 ~ Hunter Hatfield (Lee County) 10
13. 18:30.03 ~ Jacob Blakey (Lee County) 10
14. 18:36.50 ~ Dylan Rogers (Lowndes) 12
15. 18:38.26 ~ Jose Sanchez (Coffee) 11

Before the Tift Invitational, Emily Golden had wins at the Hornet Invitational, the Lee County Invitational, the Quail Trail Invitational, the Bearcat Invitational, and the Westover Invitational. After the morning at ABAC, the Tift Middle Schools eighth-grader had added the Tift Invitational middle school girls' title to her collection. Her sixth win this season, Golden ran the 3200-meter race in 12:42. Viking Runners Club seventh-grader Eryn Wilkey was second in 13:07.42, while Worth County eighth-grader Brianna Zupko outkicked Lee County sixth-grader Emily Phillips for third, 13:33.30 to 13:34.00.


Tift put all five of its scorers in the top ten--Golden, eighth-grader Caroline Vickers (5th, 13:44), eighth-grader Rebekah Larger (7th, 13:58), sixth-grader Ainsley Toews (8th, 13:59), and seventh-grader Noelia Sandoval (10th, 14:11). Now, a team can still lose with five runners in the top ten, but it's mathematically impossible to beat a team that has less than 28 points, and Tift had 27, putting them on top of the ten-team field. Lee County was second with 73 points, and Berrien edged the Viking Runners Club for third, 100 to 104.


Team Standings, Middle School Girls, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. Tift, 27
2. Lee County, 73
3. Berrien County, 100
4. Viking Runners Club, 104
5. Coffee, 169
6. Cook, 170
7. Colquitt County, 172
8. Tiftarea, 178
9. Baconton Charter, 219
10. Ben Hill, 249

Top 15 Middle School Girls, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. 12:41.45 ~ Emily Golden (Tift) 8
2. 13:07.42 ~ Eryn Wilkey (Viking Runners Club) 7
3. 13:33.30 ~ Brianna Zupko (Worth County) 8
4. 13:34.00 ~ Emily Phillips (Lee County) 6
5. 13:43.77 ~ Caroline Vickers (Tift) 8
6. 13:55.79 ~ Gracie Woods (Coffee) 7
7. 13:57.46 ~ Rebekah Larger (Tift) 8
8. 13:58.88 ~ Ainsley Toews (Tift) 6
9. 14:07.29 ~ Sophie Compton (Tiftarea) 5
10. 14:10.76 ~ Noelia Sandoval (Tift) 7
11. 14:26.80 ~ Katie McMillan (Tift) 7
12. 14:27.21 ~ Maddie Harper (Berrien County) 7
13. 14:47.43 ~ Alexandria Vaughn (Tift) 6
14. 15:01.19 ~ Emma Davis (Viking Runners Club) 7
15. 15:03.94 ~ Leslie Nuneez (Colquitt County) 8

A week after turning a 19:14 5K on the streets of Hahira, eighth-grader Carson Locke won the boys' 3200 at the Tift Invitational, running 11:32. Lee County runners took the next two places, with eighth-grader Ben Phillips second in 11:48 and sixth-grader Josh Macklin third in 11:50. Berrien County eighth-grader Mitchell Kallam was fourth in 11:51 and Tift seventh-grader Bryce Stephens was fifth in 12:01. Tift had four runners in the top ten, but while the Tift boys waited for a fifth scorer, Lee County put seventh-grader Seth Tomlinson (14th, 12:53), eighth-grader Noah Bain (15th, 12:58), and seventh-grader Will Tomlinson (18th, 13:14) across the finish line. After that, Lee County had 52 points and the team title. Tift was second in the field of ten teams with 60 points. Both Berrien County and Coffee had 80 points, but Berrien was awarded third-place in the team standings on the tiebreaker when their sixth runner, sixth-grader Beau Nix (28th, 13:31) finished ahead of Coffee's sixth runner.


Team Standings, Middle School Boys, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. Lee County, 52
2. Tift, 60
3. Berrien County, 80
4. Coffee, 80
5. Viking Runners Club, 109
6. Ben Hill, 180
7. Tiftarea, 203
8. Baconton Charter, 222
9. Colquitt County, 235
10. Cook, 270

Top 15 Middle School Boys, 2015 Tift County Invitational

1. 11:31.31 ~ Carson Locke (Viking Runners Club) 8
2. 11:47.71 ~ Benjamin Phillips (Lee County) 8
3. 11:49.18 ~ Josh Macklin (Lee County) 6
4. 11:50.39 ~ Mitchell Kallam (Berrien County) 8
5. 12:00.42 ~ Bryce Stephens (Tift) 7
6. 12:01.36 ~ Gaven Purvis (Coffee) 8
7. 12:03.08 ~ Beau Bengston (Tift) 7
8. 12:30.04 ~ Andrew Caruana (Viking Runners Club) 7
9. 12:40.93 ~ Jeremiah Thomas (Tift)
10. 12:41.81 ~ Lavida Hall (Tift) 8
11. 12:43.93 ~ Cameron Watson (Coffee) 7
12. 12:47.62 ~ Edward Melendez (Coffee) 8
13. 12:50.56 ~ Morgan Bolmer (Berrien County) 8
14. 12:52.49 ~ Seth Tomlinson (Lee County) 7
15. 12:57.37 ~ Noah Bain (Lee County) 8

Tift High School Blue Devil Cross Country Invitational Winners, 2008 - 2015
High School Girls 5K
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
6 September 2008	Westover, 48 points	21:52, Alexis Skiles (Lee) 9
12 September 2009	Tift Country, 47	21:19, April Thomas (Bainbridge) 11
11 September 2010	Lowndes, 25	21:22, Ashley Powell (Lowndes)
8 October 2011	Lowndes, 22	19:14, Anna Leigh Nix (Veterans)
13 October 2012	Lowndes, 34	19:49, Jacki Pinkerton (Lowndes)
12 October 2013	Camden County, 42	19:47, Paige Braswell (Bainbridge) 12
11 October 2014	Tift County, 23	19:14, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 9
10 October 2015	Lee County, 59	20:15, Elizabeth Funderburk (Colquitt County) 10
High School Boys 5K
Date	Team Champ	Individual Champ
6 September 2008	Tift County, 40 points	17:25, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 9
12 September 2009	Tift County, 30	17:09, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 10
11 September 2010	Valdosta, 40	17:48, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 11
8 October 2011	Tift County, 50	16:24, Hunter Honeycutt (Tift County) 12
13 October 2012	Lowndes, 65	16:20, Dale Pate (Worth County) 11
12 October 2013	Worth County, 69	16:28, Chase Harris (Bainbridge) 11
11 October 2014	Lee County, 55	16:46, Robert Grooms (Lee County) 11
10 October 2015	Lowndes, 35	16:17, Kaleb Wolfenden (Lowndes)

Links

• Complete results of Tift County's 2015 Blue Devil Cross Country Invitational
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fiz9y_QPUkTRz1O4Qz7L1Mu6mpO-RzYHCVSuSncoMwM/pubhtml
  
  
• Find an upcoming event to run on the Trouble Afoot! race calendar
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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