XAVIER CROSS COUNTRY NEWSLETTER  10/27/97

            Over the weekend, the team competed in the NYCHSAA Championships.  As a team we did very well.  The Freshman finished 2^nd, the best finish in all my years of coaching.  The Varsity and the JV all ran very well..  Here are the results:

NYCHSAA SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AT VCP 10/25/97

FROSH A                                                       FROSH B

Harmon            9:02 pr ** 2^nd                           Dwyer              10:58 pr

Fedders            9:18 pr ** 7^th                           Twomey          11:03 pr

Nolan               9:25 pr ** 12^th                         Alcoser            11:37

Sullivan             9:44     **                                Wong               14:32

Messina            9:46     **

Napolitano            10:14  *

Dougherty            11:10   *

2^nd Place Team

VARSITY

Traugott            14:05 pr*                               Duvert              15:01pr

Caraballo            14:33 pr*                               C Brunetti            15:04pr

Simko              14:39            *                                  Carrihill            16:03

P McGoldrick            15:01pr                                    6^th Place Team

JUNIOR VARSITY

Gochal             15:16 pr*                   McMahon       17:10pr            Chow      18:32pr

Periera             15:34 pr*                   Smith                17:15               Dabagh   18:45

French              15:41 pr*                   Ramerez           17:16               Romano  19:01pr

Donahue            16:02                           Lettieri              17:17               Lunny      19:04

Joe Alcoser            16:05                           A Brunetti            17:23               McGoldrick 19:47

Aleksey            16:11 pr                     Beklemishev     17:28pr            Camberio  23:08

Errante             16:45 pr                     Rosado            17:39pr

Mangino            16:53 pr                     Jeff Alcoser            17:58               4^th Place Team    

Wojo               16:59 pr                     Anderson        18:12pr

Keane              17:02                           Morillo            18:22

MEDAL COUNT:  With these 18 medals the season total rises to 147.

MOST IMPROVED:  This week’s award goes to Steve Caraballo, Pat McGoldrick, Dabir Duvert, Chris Brunetti, and Emrick Twomey  for some great pr’s this week.

BEST PERFORMANCE:  This week’s award goes to Ryan Harmon, Vin Fedders, John Traugott, Nick Nolan, Alex Gochal, Lee French,  and Peter Periera.  They all came up real big this weekend.