The Crusaders won all three divisions in convincing fashion, saw numerous personal bests throughout the day, and we even had more records fall as Marco Perez ’18 set a new Junior High record for 2 miles as well as a City Park course record (10:29) at this weekend’s Jack Schommer Invitational. The Crusaders put 11 runners in the Top 20 and 7 in the Top 10 with Cody Dick, Cade Litolff, Zachary Stolberg, Matthaeus Dischner, Ethan Meydrich, Jack Rau, Connor Damare, and Jeremy Baier following Marco Perez to take places 4-6 and 8-12.
In the Junior Varsity race, Ian Sigl etched his name as a two-time winner of the Jack Schommer Invitational in 17:38. The JV recorded a perfect score, and the top 8 finishers ran within a 50 second split of each other. Bradley Spinnato, Niels Dickson, Zander Hildreth, and Joseph Porche’ finished in the Top 5 to complete the perfect score for the Crusaders.
In the Varsity competition, Freshman Tyler Epps made his three-mile debut and finished 4th overall in a time of 16:55 to lead the Crusaders to victory. Jonathan Henneberg ran yet another solid race to finish 6th, and Logan Betzer, Grant Belsome, and Andre’ Roevens all finished in the top 10 to help the Crusaders to a low score of 37 points.
