Perfect Score! Randolph Girls Sweep Greystone! Meet Recap!

Carole Harsch running at the Bowdoin Classic earlier this season. / Photo by Aaron Laserna for MileSplit

Friday - October 10th, 2014 - Central Park of Morris County, Parsippany, NJ

Full Results

Girls - The Randolph girls swept places one through five in the girls varsity large school race! They would also still have the five fastest times of the girls meet when combining all the races! The girls were led by senior Carole Harsch who won the race with a time of 18:39. That time ranks third all-time for the meet, only a few seconds off the meet record set by Tara Hanley of Chatham back in 2010 with an 18:37. Carole has ran 18:16 here before during the 2013 Morris County Championships when she placed fifth, Liz Lansing who did not run this meet ran 18:12 for third that day. 

Margaret Thompson and Brooke Olson brought in second and third right next to one another at 18:53 and 18:54. Rounding out the top five for their impressive performance was Nora May McSorley and Kate Girhorski in fourth and fifth with 19:19 and 19:24. 

This team effort brought home the rare perfect score of 15 points and they only had a 45 second split between 1 and 5! Randolph posted a team average of 19:02. The next best in the Large School race was JP Stevens who had 67 points with a 20:57 team average led by Molly Ryan in tenth overall at 20:50. 

In the small school race Ramapo took the top spot as a team led by Alexandra Harris in second but scoring number 1 with a time of 19:54. Ramapo posted a team average of 21:36 and 39 points. The race was won individually by Yaminah Harris of Weequahic who ran 19:35. 

Boys - Wayne Hills won the boys large school race with 54 points and a team average of 16:52. The score line went 2-6-13-14-19 and it was led by Rishi Jashnani in second with a time of 16:24. George Galkin scored sixth for the team with a top ten time of 16:37. Their top five was rounded out by Joseph Zisa 15th at 17:03, James Brennan 16th at 17:04, and David Talerico in 21st with 17:11. 

The large race was won individually by Jenks Hehmeyer of Montville Twp who clocked a time of 16:21, good for the second best time in meet history. Josiah Hanko of Trinity Christian School ran a 16:15 to win in 2012, he now runs for Duke University. 

In the small school race Walter Tarr of Ramapo High School won with a time of 16:57.43 just out leaning Andrew Vita of Oratory Prep who took second with a time of 16:57.88. The Oratory Preparatory School boys would win the team battle however scoring 2-7-11-12-14 for 46 points and a team average of 17:38. Vita led the way for Mike Cantaluppi in 7th with 17:29, Brendan Mairs 12th 17:50, Max Hubbauer 13th 17:54, and Doug Degolyer 15th with 18:00.