From Coach Montijo:

Saturday, the Mercy XC team battled the heat, humidity, and hills to place second overall at the Catholic Central Invite at Cass Benton Park. The ladies did exceptionally well and overall, we had seven course PRs.

The varsity runners took second place to Allen Park, but placed fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth, and tenth for the top five runners. In fact, in order to keep the score as close as possible, Megan Mallie had to stay in front of Allen Park's fifth runner. Not only was she able to do so, but also added ground between herself and the other runner which is difficult to do in the area of the course she was in. Reagan Sullivan had a very determined run as the humidity bothered her, but she was able to regroup and rebound to finish the race as well as she did.

On the JV side, the Mercy runners dominated. Grace McBride rebounded from her challenging race on Belle Isle on Tuesday to win the JV outright by over two minutes. She was followed by Grace Martin in second, and Jaye McNeil in fifth. Paige Wiaduck and Delilah Coe also ran course PRs for Cass Benton yesterday.

Catholic Central Invite

  Cass Benton                  
  1 2 3 4 5            
Totals (Varsity) Allen Park 22 Mercy 22 Berkley 88                
                       
Totals JV                      
                       
Name Season PR/LPR/CPR Season PR Personal PR Mile 1 Mile 2 Mile 2 Split Finish Time @ Cass Benton Mile 3 split Place on Team Place overall
Katie Kim   22:04 21:00 6:49 14:52 8:03 22:51 22:37 7:59 1 4
Stella Johnson CPR 23:59:00 23:59:00 6:59 15:18 8:19 24.36 25:21:00 9:18 4 9
Liz Memmer   22:30 22:30 6:50 15:03 8:13 23:31 23:13 8:10 2 6
Maddy Kenney CPR 24:09:00 24:09:00 7:10 15:40 8:30 24:12:00 DNR 8:32:00 3 7
Reagan Sullivan   24:01:00 24:01:00 7:37 16:44 9:07 27.16 26:47:00 10:32 8 19
Megan Mallie CPR 24:49:00 22:50 7:21 16:23 9:02 25.29 26:15:00 9:06 5 10
Olivia Haass CPR 24:51:00 22:51 7:49 17:15 9:26 26.33 26:41:00 9:18 7 14
                       
Anna Jain   25:10:00 23:11 DNR DNR   DNR 26:25:00   DNR DNR
Grace Martin   24:53:00 24:37:00 8:19 18:04 9:45 27.54 26:44:00 9:50 9 2
Grace McBride CPR 25:18:00 23:53 7:52 16:43 8:51 25.54 27:12:00 9:11 6 1
Jaye McNeil   25:22:00 25:22:00 8:02 18:17 10:15 28.51 27:04:00 10:34 10 5
Paige Wiaduck CPR 28:08:00 28:08:00 9:10 21:11 12:01 32.41 33:43:00 12:32 11 11
Erica D'Souza   28:05:00 28:05:00 9:10 20:45 11:35 32.43 32:31:00 11:58 12 12
Lauren Swords   29:31:00 29:31:00 DNR DNR   DNR 32:29:00 DNR    
Delilah Coe CPR 30:59:00 30:05:00 9:14 21:06 11:52 33.08 33:09:00 12:03 13 13
                       
Lily Fromm   21:19 20:50 DNR DNR DNR DNR DNR DNR DNR DNR
Gabby Pluszczynski   23:45:00 21:09 DNR DNR DNR DNR 25:30:00 DNR DNR DNR
Mackenzie Sullivan   20:39 20:39 DNR DNR DNR DNR 21:00 DNR DNR DNR