The South Lyon High School boys cross country team finished 5th of 9 teams

in the Lakes Valley Conference championship meet yesterday.

 

The Lakeland boys took first place with a score of 35, followed by Milford 52, Walled Lake Northern 63 and Walled Lake Central 100. 

 

South Lyon finished in the middle of the league standings.  Four teams beat South Lyon and South Lyon beat four teams. 

 

South Lyon had 141, East had 167, Walled Lake Western had 189, Waterford Mott had 203, and Kettering was unable to finish five runners.

 

In the JV race, South Lyon finished 4th beating five teams.  Lakeland had 22, Milford had 53, Northern had 57, South Lyon had 84, Central had 154, East had 201, Mott had 208, Western had 217, and Kettering was unable to finish five runners.

 

The varsity field went out very fast, and the South Lyon runners were showing the strain by the 2 mile mark.  Reiner Kandt was first for the Lions with a time of 1823.  He was closely followed by Steven Bosworth at 1828. Miles Albert finished at 1836. Alex Jowett 1857, Gavin Howell 1905, Nico Sobczak 1918, and Luke Heisel 1958 rounded out the Lion top seven.

 

In the JV race, Alex Mueller was the Lion top finisher, placing 9th overall with a time of 1901.  He was followed by the remainder of the Lion top seven JV including Avian Valencia-Moore 1911, Logan Duncan 1936, Ethan Showek 1952, Shane Jowett 2005,  Logan Edwards 2016, and Antonio Sobczak 2021.

 

Christian Mueller was the only Lion to set a PR on the difficult (and arguably long) Possum Hollow course.  His time of 2332 was a 9 second PR and a whopping 2:09 course best.

 

Other course bests were marked by Ian Maltarich 1:13, Dan Balestrieri 1:08,

Ashton Kandt :51, Graydon McIntosh :46, Alex Mueller :42, Tommy Lykins :39, Alex Bransch :26, Gavin Howell :26, Logan Duncan :19, Miles Albert :13, Nico Sobczak :11, Brady Little :11, Avian Valencia Moore :07, Cam Hain :09, and Shane Jowett :01.  Logan Edwards tied his course record.

 

Here is the order of finish in the combined races:

Reiner  1823

Boz     1828

Miles   1836

AJ      1857

Mueller  1901

Gavin  1905

Avian   1911

Nico    1915

Duncan 1936

Showek  1952

Luke     1958

Shane   2005

Edwards 2016

Antonio  2021

Brady    2033

A Kandt 2044

Maltarich 2104

Vince     2117

Hain       2124

T. Lykins 2130

Owen      2140

Stec       2144

Josh       2145

Nielson   2205

Graydon 2213

Fletcher  2215

Foley     2219

Reid      2227

Grazioli 2227

Lewis   2228

Wallis  2238

Dan     2301

Bransch 2304

Duke   2326

Christian 2332

Scheels  2341