The Lady Colonels raced to a tight third place finish in the girls’ 3A state championships, just six points behind DuPont Manual. “īethany Ward finished 74th and Abigail Fadel also finished 91st. “Melody was a little disappointed after the race, but she really ran a solid race,” Crumbo said. She ran about a 30-second PR,” Crumbo said. Janie Boyd finished 26th for the Mustangs followed by Melody Steineker and Reese Bramer in 38th and 39th, respectively.
They went in and executed their race plans.” This year, as a group, they ran really well down the line. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t.
“Our goal every year is to run our fastest at the end of the year. We had four girls PR and another finish two seconds off a PR,” NOHS coach Brian Crumbo said. The North Oldham girls’ team finished seventh in the state, edging Elizabethtown by 16 points. The championship is the Mustangs’ second in a row after they won six straight titles between 2010-15. “We felt really good about all three of those guys had a really strong chance to get in the top five.”Įvan Patel and Micah Steineker rounded out the top five for North Oldham with 25th and 33rd place finishes. We were pretty impressed with his race regardless.” Ruggles said. “I’m confident that if he wouldn’t have fallen, he would’ve finished fourth. I was happy with the way we both did.”īoth Pyles and Ransdell were followed closely by Patel in seventh who recovered from a fall in the mud early on. “We trust each other, and that’s the most important thing. “Jake and I have been running together for almost nine years now, so we know each others’ running style and the game plans that we take into races,” Randell said.
Randell took third behind Pyles after the two ran most of the race together, but Ransdell fell behind in the home stretch while dealing with side stitches. “After a mile and a half or two, we started catching up to second place, and we eventually caught second.” “The game plan going into was keeping a steady first mile and not letting the leaders get out because I knew there was going to be a handful of people who wanted to push the pace in the beginning,” Pyles said. Pyles finished just under two seconds behind first place to take second. The team, led by Jake Pyles, Ethan Ransdell, and Adam Patel, finished 44 points ahead of runner-up, Corbin. “We could tell they were running really well.” They did exactly what we thought they would, which is run to their capabilities,” NOHS coach Brian Ruggles said. “We told the guys we were confident in them, and if they ran how they were supposed to, then the we should win. North Oldham high school boy’s cross country won their second straight 2A state championship on Friday, October 29th.
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