Courtesy of Michael Veilleux:
Goffstown
cross country teams continue their strong seasons. The boys team competed (Saturday 9/13) in Durham against 22 other teams and finished 2nd only being
edged out by the host team and last years state champion, Oyster River. They
were lead by a talented top five of Jackson Brannen, Cody Murphy, Matt Shaw,
Jake Parr and Mason Foley. The boys were victorious as well last Tuesday at
Merrimack Valley High School in a four team meet against the host team and
Hanover and Lebanon. Goffstown swept the individual top three spots in that
race and won this over team competition. The boys squad hopes to continue last
years success when the GHS team made the teams first trip ever to Nashua for
the Meet of Champions or better known as MOC's. The top 7 teams and D1 and, six
teams in D2 and 5 teams in D3 all compete against each other to see who will
continue on for the New England Championships.
(Jackson
Brennan is seen below #214 sprinting towards the finish line where he finished
with the 5th fastest time of the 318 boys who raced on Saturday.)
GHS
girls squad had a great race on Saturday as well with all 7 of their varsity
runners crossing the line in their fastest times of the season. They were lead
by Junior Rebecca Zylak, who finished her 5k in 20:49 her best time ever.
Liberty Gendron also put down a strong time of 21:12. (Liberty and Rebecca
pictured below racing with each other a practice their coaches often focus on.)
The Goffstown girls team also ran well on Tuesday at Merrimack Valley High
School finishing second of four teams being beaten only by Hanover.
