Jordan-Elbridge Cross Country

October 15, 2011                                                                                Edition - No. 9

The Eagle Harrier

Sectional Prep! 

Jamesville, New York - The state-ranked Eagles from J-E took proved to be worthy of the competition on the course that will host this 

year's Sectionals in three weeks.  In Saturday's Chittenango Invitational, the Boys Varsity took sixth out of 20 squads; the Junior Varsity 

Team was third out of 10. Definitely a day that the Eagles shone brightly despite the contrary weather that central New York was having.

Senior Stephen Slonosky continued his quest for a state meet birth as he was the top Eagle finisher for the eighth-straight race in 2011.  

Slonosky finished in fifth place in the Varsity ‘1' Race in a time of 17 minutes and 37.3 seconds.  Slonosky's time was the 20th fastest on 

the day compared to 742 boys who competed on the 3.1 mile Jamesville Course.  Even better for Stephen is that only class C runners 

Brendan Smith (16.47) from CBA, Sam Anderson (17.15) from South Lewis, Alex Mirra (17.33) from Tully and Hannibal's Ben Griffin 

(17.21) were faster.  Slonosky was the 10th-ranked Class C runner entering into Saturday's race, and he beat four harriers ranked above 

him.  "Stevie really got out and mixed it up today" said J-E Coach Roman, "he got our hard for a change (5.09 1st mile) and raced." 

     J-E finished sixth with 179 points behind Baldwinsville (71), Tully (92), Ilion (153), J-D (158), and Utica Proctor (162). In the merged 

results, J-E was the 18th fastest squad out of 60 that competed.  The Eagles got a bit of redemption by beating Solvay in the merged 

results.  Solvay had defeated J-E just last week in their dual meet.  The rest of the scorers for J-E were senior Mitch Alpha 

(21st place - 18.12), sophomore Dylan Whittico (48th place - 19.09), freshman Nathan Hollis (54th place - 19.19), and junior 

Christian Marrero (69th place - 19.55.3).  This was Marrero's first opportunity to score in a varsity race.  "I felt bad for senior 

Ben Cheney would was racing on a very sore hip today" said Roman, "Christian edged him at the finish line for top-five honors." 

Ben Cheney and fellow senior Eric Gross were 70th (19.55.7) and 91st (21.05) respectively.  "We raced today minus three of our 

normal scorers" said Roman, but all three should be back in the lineup soon."  "Most of my scorers had their best speed rating of 

the season as a result of their efforts, Steve's was 161, Mitch got his up to 151, Dylan's rose to 132, Nathan's went up to 128, and 

Christian's rose to 117."  

     The Junior Varsity Squad was third with 96 points, only trailing class A powers Central Square (34) and Baldwinsville (40).  

Jacob Patterson led the squad by finishing 12th in 20.01.  Patterson got out quickly off the starting line and just missed a top 10 finish.  

Jared Bard was 14th (20.10),outkicking Coach Roman's son Ryan down the last 50 meters of the race, Nick Parkolap was 21st (20.31), 

Jay Paquette was 28th (20.47), and David Fixler was 29th (20.48).  This was the first time that Paquette and Fixler ever scored for the 

J-E Junior Varsity.  Also racing for the Eagles were Austin Milton (33rd place - 20.58), Bill DiRenzo (47th place - 21.42), Dean 

Comstock (54th place - 21.55), Nick Muehlberger (58th - 22.09), Gunnar Ferris (83rd place - 24.14), Tyler May (95th place - 27.29), 

and John Winkler (97th place - 28.09).

     J-E travels to Marcellus on Wednesday for its final dual meet.  "We are fine-tuning for Sectionals as we now only have four more 

races to go" said Coach Roman.  "We should be healthy and hungry come November and today's Sectional prep should prove valuable.