Monday, September 29, 2008

East Peoria Invitational

East Peoria Invitational at ICC College, East Peoria, IL

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Congratulations to the varsity girls on their third place team finish and to the Fresh/Soph JV girls on their first place team finish! All girls ran well at this meet! Congratulations to Sophmore Diane Frese on her first place individual finish in the fresh/soph. race! Great Job Diane!

Varsity Race - Senior Courtney Smith was the top finisher for Edwardsville with a 17th place medal and a 19:07 time. Lizzie Anderson (21st), Briana Chamberlain (23rd), Alex Wever (26th) and Courtney Lybarger (32nd) all ran strong races. These four girls all finished withing 33 seconds of Courtney Smith keeping our pack tight and close together. Great job girls! We need to keep up this good work and contiue to make the pack even tighter! Juniors Stephanie Dalla Riva and Megan Ruddy finished as the Edwardsville 6th and 7th runners with identical times of 19:56. Megan, I am very proud of your efforts this year. Stephanie, you will run varsity at Peoria this Saturday, I am so happy for you!!! I am very proud of your race at E.Peoria. Thankyou for all of your hard work and team leadership!!

Fresh/Soph JV Race - Medals were given to the top 15 individual finishers. Edwardsville finished with five girls medaling!

Diane Frese (1st place medal) 20:29
Katie Speicher (4th place) 21:10
Sierra Goldsmith (6th place) 21:17
Courtney McCarty (9th place) 21:33
Emily Laurent (11th place) 21:46

Emily, congratulations on your second high school medal, you are SUCH a hard worker! In the JV race freshman Kelsea Lavelle ran her Best race of the season with a three mile time of 25:35 , Great Job Kelsea!! Sophmore Emily Robbs ran a very good race with her time of 23:25, Great job Emily!

For complete individual and team results please visit the East Peoria High School website. Just Google East Peoria High School and then click on athletics.

Good luck to all girls at Jerseyville and Peoria this week!