Sectional Results

The women’s cross country team (led by Corinne Butler’s top 15 performance) easily advanced to Saturday’s Rushville Regionals by placing 5th in last night’s New Palestine Sectional. Butler grabbed the last spot in the automatic qualifying top 15 with a time of 20:53. Kara Purvis was 19th at 21:09, followed by Molly Locke’s career-best time of 21:49 for 28th place. Mickey Bishop and Shelbi Goble finished the GC scoring with 36th and 37th places. The team will run at 11:00 AM on Saturday. The team has a chance of making it out of the Regionals, so please head east on Saturday to encourage the Cougars.

Top 5 scores-
Franklin Central 25
New Palestine 57
Warren Central 60
Roncalli 121
Greenfield Central 124




The men’s team was a disappointing 5 points out of the last qualifying spot. Darren Wise ran his best-ever time on this course finishing in 20th place at 17:56 to lead the Cougars. Christian Howland was 27th, and Jayke Thompson ran a career-best 18:45 for 32nd place. Trey Hinds ran his best time of the season to finish in 37th place as did Ben Vowell, who ran a 19:23 for the 42nd spot. Greenfield was 6th at 158 points.

Top 5 scores-
Warren Central 25
Franklin Central 38
Roncalli 104
Shelbyville 135
Scecina 153

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Expecting great weather Saturday. This really is a great course for spectators. It will have a VERY large field, so get there early. See ya there, GO COUGARS

SECOND HOME MEET

Tonights meet is again at the Cougars home course. Guerin beat us on their course, it is payuback time. Starts at 5, We need a big crowd there to cheer on the G-CHS runners.

Cougars Run Wild on Home Course

We had a nice crowd at the Home meet yesterday. Both the boys and girls had great showings. The girls swept the top five spots. Congratulations to Corinne Bulter on a great win. Way to go. The boys had five of the top 10 in their race. What a finish we had in the boys race. Christian Howland and Darren Wise racing for second place, ran nearly identical times, with second going to Chriatian.

Saturday the team travels to Cascade. Meet starts at 8 AM. See ya there.

HOME MEET

We have Scecina coming to our house today. Starts at 4:30, be sure to be there.

Friday Night Under the Lights

Let's don't forget Friday night Sept 4th, the team runs at halftime of Guerin's Football game. You know there will be a big crowd there supporting Guerin, we need as many Cougar supporters as we can get, to be there yelling.

As I understand it as of now, Cougar fans will not be charged admission. The girls race will begin with approxiately 8 minutes left in the first half have of the ballgame. The boy will start with 4 mins left. The race will include portions of the high school track, with the runners finishing in front of the football crowd.

Rushville Invitational

The women's team placed just out of the top 5 in the 16 team invitational at Rushville. Corinne Butler came in 24th of 114 runners. Her time was 21:53. Kara Purvis was just 10 seconds behind Butler for 29th place. Sydney Pennybaker was 45th, Kristina Youngkin 47th, and Mickey Bishop was 48th. Fifth ranked Columbus North was first with 17 points, followed by Zionsville and Southport. The Cougars finished ahead of #20 Pike High School.


The team will be at Butler University on Wednesday for the Chatard Invitational.

The boys came in 11th of 14 teams as they are still running without the services of Ben Vowell and Trey Hinds. Christian Howland was 29th of the 94 runners to lead G.C. His time was 18:26. Darren Wise was 49th, Seth Revolt was 60th, Austin Gossett was 61st, and Jayke Thompson was 65th. #6 Columbus North won the event. The boys are also at Butler on Wednesday.

**Directions to Cascade**

Take 70-West to S.R. 39 (west of Plainfield). Go north on 39 to U.S. 40. Go west on 40. Go about three miles to the school. There will be a flashing light. Turn right on John Mitchell Road. You will actually pass the school before turning right. You should be able to see the cross country course from the road.

Meet added to Schedule

The meet with Scecina has been made official.

Please Mark the Time and Date on Your Calendar


9/9/09 G-C vs. Scecina @ G-C @ 4:30 pm


This will be a home meet, so let's try to get a big crowd to show up to support our runners !!!!!!!

**Possible New Meet added to Schedule **

"We are awaiting an answer from the Scecina AD, but it appears we will add a home meet on 9/9 at 4:45 vs. Scecina.

It would be two races. All girl runners in one race, and all boys in another. Maybe we’ll get finished before GYFL."

Coach Hacker

Richmond Invitational

Well, the weather wasn't beautiful at Earlham College, but it could have been worse. Anyone attending the Greenfield-New Castle Football game Friday night can attest to that. At Richmond, the boys were sporting their "Retro" uniforms. They were led by Christian Howland's 14th place finish. The Boys finished 7th as a team. The Girls did a little better finishing 3rd. They were led by Corinne Butler's 4th place finish.

Next up is the Pendleton Heights Invitational. This is always a tough meet, with a lot of State Ranked teams participating. It also gives the teams a change to go head to head against conference and county foes. See you all there.

One Down

First meet at Beech Grove is past us now. Team looked strong in both Girls and Boys. It was a seven team field, and unofficially (meaning this is what my son tells me) the Girls won their team competition, and the Boys finished second in theirs. All-in-all, a good showing for the first time out the gate.

I will post results as soon as I can get them.

See you all at Earlham College, Saturday, for the Richmond Invitational.

New Season is about Here

First meet of the year is tonight (Tue. Aug 18). I know the members of the team have worked hard this off season. GO COUGARS See ya at the meet!!!