Girls

Vs. Holliston (scrimmage)

9-4-09

@ Holliston HS - 2.8 Miles

Time Athlete/School

18:21	Cole - FHS
18:21	Ross – FHS
18:21	Giese – FHS
19:02	Piepmeier – FHS
19:48	Holliston
20:18	Dowd (Laura) - FHS
20:29	Stickles – FHS
20:31	Shaw – FHS
20:45	White – FHS
20:59	Flynn – FHS
21:14	Solomon – FHS
21:29	Holliston
21:31	Hagan – FHS
21:33	Anselmi – FHS
22:01	Holliston
22:07	Lavoie – FHS
24:33	Moynihan – FHS
25:25	Rodgers – FHS
26:11	Petit – FHS
26:34	Swanson – FHS
27:20	Withers – FHS
27:31	Ostrow – FHS
28:30	Danz – FHS
30:09	Ioccabucci - FHS
30:26	Linne – FHS
30:43	Byrnes

Score Franklin (1-2-3-4-6) V. Holliston (5-8-9-10-11)

16 43

Meet Summary

The 2009 FHS Girls Cross Country Team began its’ season with a scrimmage against Holliston High School. The girls were very impressive finishing in the top 4 spots and many of the runners improved on their previous times at the Holliston Course. The trio of Cole, Ross and Giese ran as a pack and were able to build off of each other. Senior captain,Aubree Piepmeier, finished in fourth place and also looked very impressive in the win. This season a number of Franklin runners will be in contention for the 5^th spot on the varsity team. Laura Dowd, Emily Stickles, Megan Shaw, Samantha White and Rachel Flynn will be called on to provide scoring in that important 5^th spot. One of the outstanding performances of the meet was turned in by freshman, Lauren Hagen. Lauren finished 13^th overall. The Panthers next meet is at the “Sheep Pasture” in Easton next Wednesday as the Hockomock league will hold its’ league jamboree.

Boys

FHS vs. Holliston (scrimmage) 9/4/09					points
Name			Time	Place	Holliston	Franklin
Holliston			1	1
Hood		15:55:00	2		2
Holliston			3	3
Gutkowski		15:59:00	4		4
Henry		16:22:00	5		5
Holliston			6	6
Butera		16:37:00	7		7
Holliston			8	8
Holliston			9	9
Holliston			10		10
May		17:02:00	11	27	28
Dowd		17:23:00
Melfi		17:42:00
Lewin		17:46:00
Smith		18:20:00
O’Donoghue		18:46:00
Hamlin		18:49:00
Roy		19:12:00
Dutton		19:21:00
Cannon		19:59:00
Lewin		22:02:00
Gutkowski		20:09:00
Cotter		20:13:00
Shropshire		20:29:00
Klingenstein		20:35:00
Ohnemus		20:37:00
Pisani		21:10:00
Wiech		21:23:00
Pryhoda		21:25:00
Wilson		21:25:00
Herlitz		21:33:00
Stankard		21:46:00
Ward		21:57:00
		22:02:00
Birenbaum		22:05:00
Shen		22:20:00
Sameski		22:45:00
Cooke		21:50:00
Melfi		23:00:00
Noorian		23:02:00
McCusker		23:03:00
Platner		23:07:00
Griffin		23:38:00
Ryan		23:45:00
Tusia		23:55:00
Doyle		25:11:00
McIntyre		25:23:00
Donkas		25:23:00
Malonson		26:35:00
Shen		26:45:00
Conyers		26:46:00
Chang		29:10:00

Meet Summary

The boys cross country team kicked off their season with a scrimmage meet at Holliston. The weather was typical fall weather – hot sun cool shade. Franklin’s 55 member boys team fielded 46 runners.

Apropos for such a hot day, Franklin’s Henry, Hood and Gutkowski took the early lead into the first mile with a blazing pace of 5:12 at the mile mark. But, the heat and the pace were too much for the Franklin frontrunners as they were slowly over taken by some of the Holliston runners.

Commander Hood, fresh from special training ops, hung on and finished in a close 2nd, as Holliston took 3rd. Captain Gutkowski, also back from elite training ops, raced in for 4^th, with Junior Henry right on his tail for 5^th. Holliston snuck in a 6^th place, as senior Butera, with another Holliston runner hot on his tail, charged in for 7^th place.

It looked like Franklin would pull out a hard fought win until Holliston took 8^th, 9^th and 10^th places, displacing Franklin’s 5^th and last scoring runner, junior May, who strided in for 11^th place.

Holliston pulled off an upset, winning 27 to 28. If any of the 5 scoring Franklin runners passed a Holliston runner, the meet would have gone Franklin’s way. But, with the heat how could they have run any faster? Questions arise: where was Lazzeri? Would he have made a difference? How do we get May to sprint? Is Dowd really getting faster than captain Melfi? Like the Franklin girls team, the boys need to have a 5^th runner right up there with Butera. Let’s see who will step up and be that 5^th runner.

The boys Panthers meet next at the “Sheep Pasture” in Easton next Wednesday as the Hockomock league will hold its’ league jamboree – refer to the Cross Country web page located in the high school public web page.