As the season has wore on, the Jamesville-DeWitt cross country teams have continued to build confidence – not to mention the win streaks they have accumulated as rulers of the OHSL Freedom division.
Those streaks continued in last Wednesday’s meet against Phoenix, where the Red Rams made it 27 in a row on the girls side by prevailing 16-47 and the boys got its 23rd straight league win by topping the Firebirds 17-45.
Sweeping the top four girls spots, J-D saw Ameena Dye prevail in 19 minutes, 49 seconds, nearly a minute ahead of teammate Rebecca Bergman (20:33) in second place. Katie Pinkes was third, in 20:38, and Laura Wengert (20:44) snagged fourth place.
Avery Share, who finished sixth in 21:32, led the next quintet of Rams. Amber Blom was seventh, in 21:40, with Shelby Weinstein eighth (21:47), Shelby Leavitt in ninth (21:56) and Rebecca Doss taking 10th place in 22:10.
Over in the boys race against Phoenix, a close individual battle saw J-D’s Dan Driscoll prevail in a time of 17:02, four seconds ahead of Jack Healy and seven seconds clear of Will Hohreiter in third place.
Much further back, Austin Davis landed in fifth place in 17:42. Isaac Tupper was sixth (18:05), with Alex Wilmot seventh in 18:28 and the trio of Nick Harron (18:46), Tom Wilson (19:05) and Adam Doss (19:06) also reaching the top 10.
All this followed J-D’s work in the Oct. 2 Whitesboro Invitational, where the girls Red Rams beat seven other entries, earning 45 points as Remsen (62 points) finished second.
Dye, among individuals, finished third in 21:33. Rebecca Bergman was seventh, in 22:17, just ahead of Pinkes in eighth (22:22) and Wengert in ninth (22:36) as Share, who took 18th place in 23:19, clinched the victory.
By contrast, the J-D boys only managed a fourth-place finish at Whitesboro with 105 points, though top runners like Driscoll, Healy and Hohreiter did not run. Doss, in 17th place (20:26), had the Rams’ best effort.
In yet another big event, J-D went to Saturday’s Manhattan Invitational at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The Rams ran in the boys Varsity C race, where Davis finished 24th in 14:13.46, while in the girls C race Bergman was 55th in 17:43.23 to lead her side.