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SPORTSwww.TheNewsHerald.comSection C Wednesday, October 17, 2012

News-Herald Cross Country Invitational

Photos by Dave Chapman.

The Roosevelt boys cross country team celebrates with the first-place trophy after winning the News-Herald Cross CountryInvitational at Young Patriots Park in Riverview Saturday morning. The Bears beat runner-up Riverview by 23 points and third-place Woodhaven by 26.

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Three top-10 individuals power Bears to all-area title

Grosse Ile

claims topspot in N-Hgirls race

Woodhavens Conrad Schultz was thetop individual runner Saturday.

Dominic Davis was the top runner toteam winner Roosevelt

Sabrina Wiilliams was the top girls run-ner for the third straight year.

Freshman Sydney Kreger led Grosse Ileto the girls team title.

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By Shane PrestonThe News-Herald

Roosevelts dominant seasoncontinued on Saturday as theBears won The News-HeraldCross Country Invitational onSaturday at Patriots Park in

Riverview.The win marked the 12th

News-Herald championship forRoosevelt and its second win in

the last three seasons.Its the third biggest meet

of the year with states first andregionals second and the onlyreason those two are ahead isbecause you prove yourselfagainst people who arent fromaround here, Roosevelt Coach

Justin Keyes said. This was ahuge deal for us to keep the his-tory going.

All five of Roosevelts point

scorers placed inside the top-20and secured the Bears a first-place finish with 46 points.

Riverview top four runnersran nearly neck-and-neck withthe Bears and the Bucs took sec-ond with 69 points. Woodhavenfinished third with 72 points, just

two points ahead of fourth-placeTrenton.

Roosevelts Dominic Davis wasone of three top-10 finishers for

the Bears and finished secondwith a time of 16:19.47.

Cameron Herron (fourth), JakeCoulter (eighth), Danny May(15th) and Ryan Kusibab (17th) alsoscored points for the Bears.

These guys have always beenable to get up for the race, Keyes

said. Regardless of the circum-stance, they all seem to step up atthe right time.

All seven Roosevelt runners

placed inside the top-25 as team-mates Austin Rice (20th) and SeanPearce (22nd) also medaled for theBears.

We want to prove that oursixth and seventh guys wouldscore for other teams and we didthat, Keyes said.

Riverviews Jonathon Houdekled the Bucs with a third-place

By Samantha ElliottThe News-Herald

The Grosse Ile girls cross country teamcontinued its strong season on Saturdaywith a first-place finish at The News-HeraldCross Country Invitational.

The win was Grosse Iles first News-Herald championship since 1996.

We knew we could do it race to win

and that is what the team did, CoachLarry Swick said. The ladies were deter-mined to get Grosse Iles name back in thestatistics this year.

The Red Devils effort was helped bythree top-10 finishers.

Freshman Sydney Kreger led theway with her second-place finish timeof 19:33.29. She was followed closely byChristina Hoelzle, who finished third andsixth-place Maria Gedris.

Catherine Polgar (21st) and CarolineFleming (23rd) also contributed to GrosseIles 55-point finish.

Our top three runners ran a smartrace, Swick said. They are gaining moreconfidence and gaining more strength toconquer all three miles.

Grosse Ile finished the race with eightpersonal records, five of them coming fromtheir top five runners.

Grosse Ile has shown continual improve-ment all season long and still have theirsights set on a state-meet berth.

We have the talent, but staying consis-tent and still improving times is what wevebeen working on, Swick said.

Although she is just a freshman, Kregeris turning into the runner the Devils lookto as the on-course leader.

(Sydney) is a phenomenal runner,Swick said. She is a hard worker anda determined athlete, as are Christina(Hoelzle) and Maria (Gedris).

Kreger is not a big fan of running sec-ond, according to Swick, and he said hewas proud of her discipline to maintainher pace behind Allen Parks first-placefinisher, Sabrina Williams.

Swick said he constantly encouragesall of his girls to push each other and helpmake each other strong.

If number eight pushes number sevenand she pushes number six all the wayup to the number one girl, we cant help but

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