You Have No Idea
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November 14, 2011 • Maeve Brennan, Staff Writer
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
Some people under estimate cross country, to them it’s just a whole lot of running, but to those people I say “you have no idea”. Cross country is 3.2 miles of mental toughness and athletic ability. Cross country courses are all different, some are full of hills, some have a few hills,others are flat and some are a mixture. But one thing is for sure “All that it takes is all that you’ve got. “ There are no benches and no time outs.
The boys and girls cross country team took part in 17 races this season. The Voorheesville girls cross country team has a long history of success; they made it to the state meet in the 2008 season, 2009 season and came in second at sectionals last year. This year’s team unfortunately had a slow start to the seasons; we had lost our number three runner to graduation, and two other varsity runners. Also, Hurricane Irene did no justice to the courses. Three words sum up the season: mud, mud and more mud. Cross country isn’t like most sports because the varsity teams is based purely on ability and can change week to week. On Tuesdays varsity and JV run together and the top seven from Tuesday’s race run varsity at the Saturday invitational. Also, the scoring is different; the lower the score the better and the top 5 runner’s scores add up as the teams score. But the next two runners are important because they take the place of someone having a bad day or displace otherteams.
Sawyer Cresap started the season off with a win for the blackbirds, coming in 1st out of 36 varsity division one girls at the Fonda Fultonville invitational, Labor Day weekend. The varsity girls’ team of Michelyn Little, Sawyer Cresap, Courtney Reilly, Robin Wakeley, Faith Cunningham, Carla Planz and Allegra Fasulo won the Queensbury invitational on September 24th, out of 8 teams and 68 varsity runners. This was a big win for the team, because we had won this meet three years in a row. The varsity team of Michelyn Little, Sawyer Cresap, Courtney Reilly, Robin Wakeley, Faith Cunningham, Maeve Brennan and Anna Norris, came in 7th out of 18 teams at the big Burnt Hill invitational on October 15th. Over all it was a very successful year for the Voorheesville girls cross country team, we came in fourth out of 11 teams in the colonial council meet. Also, the top 10 runners, Michelyn Little , Sawyer Cresap , Courtney Reilly , Robin Weakeley , Faith Cunningham , Carla Planz , Allegra Fasulo , Maeve Brennan , Alex Relyea and Mackenzie Powell finished the year off coming in 6th out of 15 teams at sectionals at SPAC on Friday November 4th.
The boys cross country team had a great season. This year the boys tried very hard to get as close to the top as possible. Joe Becker carried the team coming in 1st out of 97 at our home invitational on September 10th. He also won the Queensbury invitational out of 76 boys for the second year in a row. Joe would have a great year finishing strong at the end of every race. Joe came in third out of 70 at the Colonial Council meet and he would also be the fifth and final individual boy to make it to states out of 173 class C section two varsity runners. But Joe wasn’t the only one to have a great season. The entire boys’ team ran their hearts out, knowing that they would lose four out of the seven varsity boys at the end of the year. The varsity team of Joe Becker, Quinn Treadgold, Breaden Morrison, David Vandervort, Mark Dollard, Evan Treadgold and Andrew Maloney came in 4th out of 8 teams at the Queensbury invitational. The same team finished 11th out of 22 at the Burnt Hills invitational. The JV and varsity boys would combined and finish 3rd out for 6 for the colonial council league standings. Finally , the top ten runners; Joe Becker , Quinn Treadgold , Evan Treadgold, Breaden Morrison, Ben Denn, Jack Weakley, David Vandervort, Mark Dollard , Andrew Maloney and Richard
Decker would finish the year off by coming in 7th out of 20 class C schools during the sectional championships last Friday. Congratulations to both teams and good luck for those runners who qualified for States to be held on November 12.
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