The York boys cross-country team, in a familiar refrain, is heading back to the state meet.
The Dukes won the Class 3A Lake Park Sectional title on Saturday, Oct. 31, to advance to this weekend’s IHSA Class 3A state meet at Detweiller Park in Peoria.
At Lake Park’s Roselle campus, where the temperature was 59 degrees with 7 MPH winds, the Dukes finished with 61 points. Chicago Lane Tech was second with 72 points.
York junior Patrick Hill was fifth in the sectional with a time of 14:42.5 on the 3-mile layout, while senior Harrison Manternach was ninth at 15:06.9. Junior Michael Gurgone was 11th at 15:09.7, while junior George Knott was 22nd at 15:21.0. Senior Anders Dochoff rounded out the Dukes' scoring. He was 23rd with a personal-record time of 15:24.5.
York junior Jackson Bohlin was 24th with a personal-record time of 15:25.6, while sophomore Jacob McKillop was 46th in 15:40.4.
York’s spread from its first through fifth scoring runners was 42 seconds.
York took fifth at the Class 3A state meet a year ago after winning the Lake Park Sectional and St. Charles East Regional titles.
On Oct. 24, the Dukes, who also won the West Suburban Silver Conference Meet title, won the Class 3A Glenbard West Regional held at Camera Park in Glendale Heights.
York finished with 57 points. Wheaton-Warrenville South was a distant second with 97 points.
Hill was fifth in the regional with a time of 15:38.64 on the 3-mile course (59 degrees at race time with light winds). Gurgone finished sixth with a time of 15:38.92. Manternach was ninth in 15:43.48, while Dochoff took 17th in 15:53.04. Knott was York’s final scoring runner with a 20th-place time of 15:57.25. Bohlin was 25th in 16:03.57 and sophomore Joseph McKillop was 36th in 16:26.70. York’s pack time (time between its first and fifth scoring runners) was 18.6 seconds..
Timothy Christian boys cross-country
Timothy Christian sophomore Drew Bemister also is headed to Peoria. Bemister earned one of 10 individual state-qualifying spots at the Kaneland Sectional in Maple Park on Saturday, Oct. 31.
Bemister finished 39th on the 3-mile track at Kaneland High School (58 degrees with wind gusts up to 14 miles per hour at race time) with a personal-record time of 16:17.10. He was the eighth individual runner not on a sectional-qualifying team to cross the finish line.
Fellow sophomore Peter Azzinaro finished 52nd at the sectional with a time of 16:39.60.
On Oct. 24, the Trojans took seventh at the Kaneland Regional (63 degrees and overcast at race time). The Trojans had 186 points. Dixon won the regional title with 26 points.
Bemister qualified for the sectional after taking 29th with a personal-record time of 16:27.54. Azzinaro also earned a sectional berth after finishing 31st with a time of 16:32.04. Bemister and Azzinaro were two of five runners who were not on sectional-qualifying teams to advance to the sectional round.
Sophomore Luke Cudney finished 35th with a time of 16:38.90, while senior Joshua Kooy was 47th with a time of 17:16.81. Junior Ryan VanderWal was 50th with a time of 17:34.46. Freshman Jackson Plasman was 55th with a time of 17:46.85 and freshman Benet Hoogstra was 65th with a time of 18:25.33.
IC Catholic Prep boys cross-country
A pair of IC Catholic Prep runners competed in the recent Class 1A Westmont Regional at Westmont High School.
Junior Javan Sanchez took 35th with a personal-record time of 19:03.0. Sophomore Nacho Gildea was 60th at the regional with a personal-record time of 22:02.0 on the 3-mile Westmont layout.
