Hinsdale Hornet-Devil Invitational Snap Recap

Mother Nature showed a variety of attitude on the dawn of Saturday morning. She heaped thunder, lightening, rain, humidity, and other maladies that can impact cross country races. But the shows were able to go on as they say.

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Boy's results

The boys led off at 9am to beat the heat and humidity which in turn was supposed to produce some great times for the fans. Apparently, the lead pack of runners did not get the memo. The first mile featured about 15+ runners who trotted through in 5:10. The tempo type effort evoked a comment from New Trier coach Dave Wisner who said, "is the mile marker in the right spot?" The markers were indeed in the correct spot as the pace was about 10 seconds faster a year ago. Hinsdale Central junior Blake Evertsen and his teammate senior Chris Brenk would trade blows with Neuqua Valley's Connor Horn and Scott Anderson. At 2m, it was still a sizable pack but the team battle was set in stone it appeared with Neuqua Valley positioned with all of their scorers and then some within the top 20 runners. Not much changed over the final mile other than Evertsen pulling away for the comfortable victory in 15:00. Brenk finished ahead of Horn and Anderson by a few ticks to take second. Despite going 1-2, Hinsdale Central finished a very distant second place to Neuqua Valley. The Wildcats scored 33 points to the delight of coach Paul Vandersteen. On a sour note, #2 man Anderson broke his fibula with 600 meters to go when he fell in a ravine. It was amazing that he even finished with power.

Girls results

The girls race was a meat grinder in that 7 of the top 8 teams in the state were entered. Sophomore Lindsey Payne of Glenbard West did her best impression of fallen teammate senior Lindsay Graham when established herself very quickly out of the gate. Payne hit the first mile in the lead but at a very conservative 5:46. The chase pack featured three runners from Minooka (Emily Shelton, Ashley Tutt, Mackenzie Callahan) who kind of stayed together several seconds back. Payne hit the gas in the second mile and never was challenged again- pushing past 2m in 11:25. The end result was a meet record 16:40 and the second fastest time ever run at KLM. Graham has the all-time mark. As for the team tally, Minooka won on the strength of their dominant trio in holding off Glenbard West 72-75.

###Full recap coming Sunday morning of Hinsdale Invite and the rest of the state!!