The Pioneer girls’ cross country team grabbed three of the top seven spots to grab the overall top spot in Wednesday’s SEC Jamboree at Pioneer High School on a perfect day to go for a run.
The Pioneers finished with 37 points while Saline ran second with 43 and Dexter crossed third with 75. Skyline was fourth (90) and Huron fifth (137) in the seven-team race.
Senior Emily Cooper led the Pioneers with her first-place time of 18 minutes, 43 seconds. Junior Natalie Mello ran fourth in 19:23.8 while junior Sylvia Sanok Dufallo was seventh in 19:35.6.
The rest of the Pioneers:
- 11 Lydia Bowman 19:53.6
- 9 Quincy Behm 20:00.3
- 11 Katie Hume 20:20.0
- 9 Hana Boggess 20:47.0
- 12 Allison Nutt 21:19.6
- 10 Lucy Pike 21:51.5
- 10 Clara Peikert 21:53.5
Dexter had three sophomores at the top of their scorecard: Alena Blumberg was third (19:11.0), Annabel O’Haver was sixth (19:31.1) and Addison Bruckman was 18th (20:32.3)
The rest of the Dreadnaughts:
- 11 Kate Varitek 20:43.2
- 12 Antonia Bruckman 21:06.1
- 10 Olivia Shaieb 21:29.4
- 10 Addison Streetman 21:37.6
- 9 Hannah Bougher 21:38.1
- 9 Avery Hoeft 22:48.2
- 10 Rhya Wright 22:48.9
Skyline senior Natalie Kessler finished second overall with a time of 18:59.9. Junior Allison Mayer was 14th (20:05.7) and senior Leah White was 20th (20:40.4)
The rest of the Eagles:
- 12 Lydia Cocciolone 21:01.5
- 12 Annalisa DeGuzman 21:45.1
- 11 Celia Begosso 22:26.6
- 9 Grace Hopkins 23:11.6
- 11 Serena O’Brien 23:48.4
- 11 Aileen Bachrans 24:28.3
Junior Sonya Shelgikar led the River Rats with her 19th place time of 20:39.3.
The rest of the River Rats:
- 9 Leena Shelgikar 20:50.3
- 12 Emily Ma 22:01.1
- 10 Aiko Motohara 22:01.8
- 11 Sarah Conley 22:16.3
- 12 Royce Smith 22:36.7
- 12 Mia Solomon 22:37.3
- 10 Lianne Liu 24:36.5
