Thursday, October 19, 2006

SAC Women win Gold in Saratoga

Shore AC 40-49 women take the Gold and SAC men’s 70 win silver.
USATF Masters 5 K XC National championships. Sunday October 15, Saratoga Springs,
46 degrees.
Course; rolling hills,grass start,pavement,and large gravel.

Chris Harkins (48) only SAC competitor in the 40-49 category. Harkins runs 17:22 in 23 place. His race had the first six competitors go under 16:00. Seventh place was 16:00 flat in a tough 5K.
SAC men’s 50-59 team with medal hopes slips when Harry Nolan loses his shoe in the race. Running in the front pack someone stepped on his heel. After attempting to run without a shoe, the gravel was too painful and he went back for his shoe.After retrieving his shoe,Harry finished in 22:31. Bill Butler on the 70-79 team took a bad fall at the 2 mile got up and finished for the team. Only SAC runner to make top 50 age graded results was Bill Scholl (55) in 18:04 for 5th place. Best place performance was Dick Hill, 4th 70-74 in 22:45.
SAC 50-59 team results 5th place. Mike Mooney (50) 17:54, Dave Hoch (51) 18:00, Bill Scholl (55) 18:04, Tony Plaster (54) 18:47, James Segal (56) 19:04, Bob Haithcock (51) 19:07, Dave Zurheide (50) 19:08, Rich Henderson (54) 19:26, Harry Nolan (59) 22:31.
SAC 60-69: John Kuhi (62) 21:20, John Leonard (69) 22:08, Hector Roche (63) 22:35
SAC 70-79: Dick Hill (70) 22:45, Ralph Garfield (71) 23:14, Bill Butler (73) 24:28.
SAC women 40-49: Jill Evarts (41) 19:07, Lauren Rhatigan (43) 19:37, Christine Gaeta (40) 19:57, Liz Ludwigson (41) 20:00, Liz Zebuth (42) 21:39, Christine Murphy (49) 21:43, Theresa Marciani (49) 22:09, Wendi Glassman (51) 23:32.

Wayne Baker notes that an earlier post about the women's team including photos can be found here.

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