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BV Cross Country - Brush Preseason Invitational
Sat, 09/18/2010 - 2:00pm
Various
On a beautiful September afternoon , sixteen members of the NMH Cross-Country Team traveled to Deerfield Academy for the Brush Invitational which was being held for the first time. The meet was divided into four races: two for boys and girls in the ninth and tenth grades and two for boys and girls in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The Boys' team entered 7 runners in the 9-10 race and 9 runners in the 11-12 race. There were 65 runners entered in the younger boys' race and 73 in the older boy's race. Besides NMH and Deerfield, Cushing Eaglebrook, Groton, Taft, Williston and Worcester were represented. There was one runner from Bement.
NMH had a very fine first meet of the year. It was the first competitive x-country race for nine NMH runners. In the Younger Boys' race ,Henry Colt '14 finished in 4th place in an impressive time of 17:58. This time would have placed him in 8th place in the Older Boys' race. Henry had the fastest time for a ninth grader. Yihao Yang '14 finished second for NMH and 19th in the race in 21:04. The rest of the results for the race are: Charles White '13 24th-21:40, Noah Gamble '14 37th-23:11, Charles Son '14 40th-23:32, Caleb Lee '14 57th-25:11 and Ryder Moriarty '13 58th in the same time.
In the Older Boys' Race, NMH really showed great depth and much potential for the coming season. Even without Co-Captain Ian Hatch '11 and two other older runners who were out due to injuries, the NMH contingent really gave an excellent account of themselves The coaches were impressed with JV Captain, Daniel Kang '11, who finished in 43rd place with a time of 21:15. This was a great start for the four year senior. Two other JV boys completed the race with true grit. Harry Zeng '12 and Michael Hung '11 finished 69th and 70th in 24:29+30. The Varsity boys were led by a 5th place finish by returning Letter winner Jeff Simmonds '12 in the strong time of 17:46. He was followed by Juan Gallardo '12, who is new to the sport, in a remarkable 10th place finish of 18:06. Co-Captain Cam Kelleher '11 was 16th in 18:47, new to the sport, Marty Jaffe '12, 19th in 19:08, Nate Rehm-Daly '12, 22nd in 19:21 and Nayan Ghosh '11, 34th in 20:20.
The event was well-run by our hosts at Deerfield and the boys look forward to racing there twice more this year. They are also eager for their first home meet against Williston-Northampton next Saturday. Coach Simon should be really proud of this fine beginning to the season. Her plans and the boys' hard work were rewarded and give the team confidence for the remainder of the season.
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BV Cross Country
Sat, 09/25/2010 - 2:00pm
Williston Northampton
NMH Wins Big at Home Against Williston; NMH Record Shattered by Three Runners
NMH hosted its first dual meet of the season, welcoming the Williston squad we saw last week at the Deerfield invitational. The Hogger Harriers had a great day, breaking out on their home course, and winning at both the Varsity (17-45) and JV level (15-46). Additionally, three runners broke the previous NMH record of 18:56.
First across the line was first year runner, Juan Gallardo ’12 shattering the previous NMH best with an 18:37. Jeff Simmonds ’12 (18:43) and Henry Colt ’14 (18:48) stuck with Gallardo until the exit at the woods (approximately 2.5 miles), when they started separating, pushing each other to grab that record.
Captain Cameron Kelleher ’11, finished a second behind the first Williston racer, running a 20:02.Rounding out our scoring top five finishers was Marty Jaffe ’12 with a time of 20:10 at 6th place overall. Nate Rehm-Daly ’12 took off 37 seconds from his previous best on the course, with a 20:18. Nayan Ghosh filled out the Varsity squad, coming in with a solid 21:00.
On the JV level, NMH secured a sweep, demonstrating our depth in the program. Freshman Yihao Yang came in at 21:50 in his second ever race, followed by PG Brendan Perry with a time of 22:00. Running their first races for NMH were Edwid Hidalgo ‘13 (22:03) and PG David Donzanti (22:30) who finished 3rd and 4th for JV overall. Next was Jacob Goldman’12, who put up a 22:33 in 5th overall. JV Captain and four year runner Daniel Kang finished 7th overall for the JV, while rookie Christian Hidalgo ’13 came across 8th overall.
Congratulations to the other Hogger Harrier rookie racers - Lucas Yoon, Diesel Sim, David Chardack, Ricardo Tarraf, Caleb Lee, Nirin Kulvanit, and Bank Jitprasert.
Varsity:
NMH: 1 2 3 5 6 (7) (9) = 17
Williston: 4 8 10 11 12 (13) (14) = 45
JV:
NMH: 1 2 3 4 5 (8) (9) = 15
Williston: 6 7 10 11 12 (13) (14) = 46
First five score for each team, next two can displace opponent. Lowest team score wins.
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BV Cross Country - Andover Invitational
Sat, 10/02/2010 - 3:30pm
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On a beautiful Fall afternoon the Boys' Cross Country Team traveled to Phillips Andover Academy for their annual invitational. This is a premier event featuring the top three teams from last year's Division I Championship Meet --Loomis, Andover and Exeter, as well as fifth place finisher, Deerfield , who brought several of their top runners. Cushing, Kimball Union and Dexter also sent runners. Last year, while two of our novice runners had top ten finishes in the race designed for those who had not run below 19:00 minutes for a 5k course, our veteran runners were nearly shut out. This year was a different story. Although depleted by several injuries and the absence of another key runner, the five boys who competed in the sub nineteen race performed admirably. Henry Colt '14 led the way with an impressive personal best of 17:34 good for 18th place. Right behind Henry in 19th place came Jeff Simmonds '12 in 17:35. These two ran together and gained strength from their mutual determination. In a most inspirational performance, Co-Captain Ian Hatch '11 ran his first race of the year after suffering an injury which had kept him from running or hard training for three weeks. He wanted to run, and run he did! Ian's time of 18:05 was good for 29th place and gave NMH a lift as he ran through discomfort and gave us high hopes for future meets when he is fit again. Nathaniel Rehm-Daly '12 and Co-Captain Cameron Kelleher 11' finished 36th and 38th in times of 18:42 and 18:47 respectively. It was a personal best for Rehm-Daly. There were 44 runners in today's race. While this was not a scored meet, NMH would have scored some points against Loomis and Deerfield and soundly beaten Cushing and KUA. We will look forward to Loomis, Hotchkiss and Taft next weekend.
In the + 19:00 minute race, 107 runners of various abilities and experience lined up with nine harriers representing NMH. Though there were several runners whose coaches must have surely known that they were sub-nineteen quality runners, there were still plenty of great efforts to mention. Nayan Ghosh '11
led NMH with a 14th place finish of 19:02. We were particularly pleased with his effort and believe he can lower this time in future races. First year NMH runners, Edwin Hidalgo '13 in 19:52, Charlie White '13 in 19:55, Christian Hidalgo '13 in 19:59 and Yihao Yang '14 in 20:00 finished 33rd, 37th, 38th and 39th respectively. The talent of these young runners bodes well for the success of the JV this year and the Varsity in years to come. Rounding out the solid NMH contingent were Jacob Goldman '12-54th-20:48, Dave Donzanti '11-57th-21:06, JV Captain Daniel Kang '11-59th-21:21 and Lucas Yoon '12-71st-22:04. A great job by all!
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BV Cross Country
Sat, 10/09/2010 - 4:00pm
Loomis Chaffee
Hotchkiss School
Taft School
Despite a beautiful day and a variety of fine individual performances, Boys' Cross-Country lost a quad meet at Loomis-Chaffee by the scores of 23-36 to Loomis, 22-35 to Hotchkiss and 22-35 to Taft. The team had gone into this race with high expectations. Our opponents ran well and one of out top runners was unable to run at the last moment due to a painful infection in his foot. His participation would certainly have tightened the scores and given the team a lift. There were some significant personal highlights. Jeff Simmonds'12 finished in 17:02 for 7th place. This was 1:04 faster than his time on this course last year. Henry Colt '14 finished 9th in 17:14 taking 20 seconds off his personal best time. Captain Ian Hatch '11 was 15th in 17:58 and our other Captain, Cameron Kelleher'11, ran a pr of 18:13 to finish 20th. Finally, Marty Jaffe '12 ran a pr of 18:41 to place 26th. These were goods times against a very competitive field.
On the JV front, while the team did not garner a victory, most of our runners achieved personal records. Of note: Christian Hidalgo '13-19:36, Edwin Hidalgo '13- 19:37, Yihao Yang '14 -19:56, Captain Daniel Kang '11-20:09 and Lucas Yoon '12-21:09. We were also happy to see Brendan Perry '11 run his first race for NMH in 20:36
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BV Cross Country
Sat, 10/16/2010 - 3:30pm
Exeter
On a cooler, overcast day the Hogger Harriers hosted a top Exeter squad, one of the favorites for the New England Championship. While we did not emerge with an upset win, our boys demonstrated some great racing against this formidable squad. Of the 18 runners NMH put to the line, 11 finished with course personal bests, including all of our top seven Varsity runners. Special mention should be given to Juan Gallardo ’12, who in only his third competitive XC race, lowered his own course record for NMH boys by nearly a minute! Juan came across the line 4th overall, in an amazing time of 17:41 on New England’s toughest course. Second across the line for NMH was junior Jeff Simmonds, who brought down his course PR more than thirty seconds. Jeff was two seconds and a couple strides away from nabbing two Exeter runners; he will look to exact revenge at New Englands. Freshman Henry Colt was next, bringing his down twenty seconds to 18:27. PG Ian Hatch ran his third race for the Hoggers, and while still fighting off a knee injury, came in fourth for the team. Marty Jaffe ’12, Captain Cameron Kelleher ‘11, and Nate Rehm-Daly ’12 all finished within four seconds of each other in rounding out the Varsity squad.
Charles White ’13, led home the JV squad and pushed aside any doubts of tiredness from a mid-week race in bringing down his time by almost thirty seconds. The amazing Hidalgo '13 twins, Edwin and Christian worked together and brought down their course times by two to three minutes! Lucas Yoon '12 was the 11th NMH runner of the day with a course PR, bringing his time down by fifty seconds!
Come out to McLamore next week, to see the last home race of the year against Andover. Varsity Captain Cam Kelleher and JV Captain Daniel Kang will be looking to say goodbye to the course on a high note. Jeff Simmonds and Henry Colt will attempt to go sub-18 on the ‘Gill Hill’ for the first time. And who knows what Juan Gallardo has in store for us, as he makes his presence known across the league.
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BV Cross Country
Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:45pm
Andover
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On a cool,sunny but blustery afternoon the Hoggers hosted one of the finest and deepest teams in New England. While receiving the news that our #3 runner, Henry Colt '14, would not be available to run an hour before our scheduled start is not uplifting, NMH was not deterred from making a strong showing. Andover's first runner came within 13 seconds of tying the course record with an outstanding time of 16:54. Three other Andover runners would finish before Juan Gallardo '12 came in with a new NMH record for our course of 17:40. He was followed in 7th and 9th place by Jeff Simmonds '12 and Ian Hatch '11. Hatch is beginning to round back into shape after more than a month of rehabilitation from a knee injury. He took 22 seconds off last week's time to finish in 18:30. Had Colt been able to run, NMH would have had 4 top ten finishers. Nevertheless, the outcome of the meet was not in doubt due to the talent and the depth of our visitors. Co-captain Cameron Kelleher '11 finished 14th with a personal best of 19:24. Cam's hard work and dedication are paying off and truly making a difference for the spirit and success of this team. NMH next sent a crew of five straight runners across the finish line in 19th,20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd places. Nate Rehm-Daly, Marty Jaffe, senior Nayan Ghosh in his last race on our course, Christian Hidalgo and Edwin Hidalgo all gave excellent efforts. Christian took 14 seconds off his personal best and Edwin took off an impressive 37 seconds off of his. There were several other performances worthy of mention: Dave Donzanti took a full minute and 10 seconds off his previous best time in finishing 30th; senior and JV captain, Daniel Kang missed his personal best by 1 second; Noah Gamble, David Chardack and Jerry Wang lowered there previous best times by 12, 42 and 15 seconds respectively. We are proud of them. Next week the challenge is Choate.
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BV Cross Country
Sat, 10/30/2010 - 2:30pm
Choate Rosemary
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In by far the best showing of the past two years, the Boys' Varsity Cross Country team finished third, fourth, fifth and sixth in the Varsity race on a difficult Choate course. Choate's excellent top two runners and a very deep second part of their team helped Choate to a tight 27-30 victory over NMH. This was our best result against a top opponent in some time. The veteran Choate coach was impressed when our top four runners came down from the hill feeding on each other's determination to fend off the rest of the Choate pack of runners.
Jeff Simmond'12 returned to the scene of his first x-country success last year to lead NMH with a 17:34 third place finish. Finishing on Jeff's heels was Juan Gallardo '11 in 17:36. In his best race of the season, Co-Captain Ian Hatch '11 came in with a strong 17:47. Hatch seems to be peaking at just the right time for the Hoggers. Another excellent result was turned in by Henry Colt '14 who returned from a week off due to injury to gamely outsprint the next Choate runner by 3 seconds in a time of 17:53. Cameron Kellher '11, Nate Rehm-Daly '12 and Marty Jaffe '12 rounded out the varsity runners with gritty performances turned in when none of them was feeling at peak form. This was our first time this year that all four of our top runners actually ran somewhat near their top form. With Deerfield next week and New England's the following week at Deerfield ,
the Hoggers are rounding into form at the right time. With some trainiing tailored to make the team ready in two weeks, the rest of the varsity should be ready to challenge their New England counterparts.
A depleted JV squad faced the deepest team NMH has faced this year to date. The score was a predictable 15-50 in favor of Choate. There were some good results, however. Edwin Hidalgo '13, running without the companionship of his brother Christian, led NMH with a great time of 19:53 to finish 10th. Next for NMH was David Donzanti '11 in 20:28 which was good for 20th place. David continues to impress in his first year of running. Yihao Yang, Jacob Goldman, Brendan Perry, Daniel Kang and Tyler Copeland finished 23rd, 25th, 29th, 30th and 40th respectively. There were 43 runners entered in the race. The coaches were proud of their efforts today
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BV Cross Country
Sat, 11/06/2010 - 3:00pm
Deerfield Academy
The Varsity lost to Deerfield 18-41. The loss of Juan Gallardo before the race changed the score, but not the outcome. Deerfield took the first four places in the race before Henry Colt '14, Ian Hatch '11 and Jeff Simmonds '12 came in 5th, 6th and 7th. Henry's time of 17:35 was most impressive. Nate Rehm-Daly '12, Cameron Kelleher '11 and Marty Jaffe '12 completed the varsity effort with game performances. We look to have everyone back rested and healthy for the N.E. Championship held at Deerfield next Saturday.
The J.V. were beaten by a deep Deerfield squad by a score of 15-45. They did, however, prevail against Eaglebrook School by a score of 17-42 for their 5th win of the season. There were many praise-worthy efforts.
The Hidalgo twins '13 finished 6th and 7th in 19:32 and 19:34. Yihao Yang '14 placed 9th in 19:52. Finishing in 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 20th and 22nd were Jacob Goldman '12, David Donzanti '11, Charlie White '13, Andrew Catalano '11, Daniel Kang '11and Brendan Perry '11 all coming in under 21 minutes. We expect even better times next week.
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BV Cross Country - New Englands
Sat, 11/13/2010
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On a gorgeous late Fall afternoon, the NMH Varsity and Junior Varsity Cross-Country teams traveled down the Valley to Deerfield Academy to compete with ten other schools for the N.E. Championship. The Hoggers well remembered last year's 10th place finish and the last place finish of the year before. As the year progressed it seemed as if NMH would never have a fully healthy team. Maybe we didn't have one today, but we came as close to one as we have had all year. The results demonstrated that NMH pretty much reached their potential. With a strong seventh place finish out of eleven teams the Hoggers had reason to be proud. Further demonstrating how in the"mix" NMH was, is the fact that the Harriers were a scant 2 points behind 6th place Loomis and 7 points behind 5th place Taft. The rest of the scores speak for themselves.
Andover 33, Deerfield 53, Exeter 67, Choate 112, Taft 174, Loomis 179, NMH 181, Avon Old Farms 198, St. Paul's 200, Trinity Pawling 244 and Hotchkiss 264 represent the final totals, but individuals working as a team provided the results that provide both satisfaction and optimism for the future.
Sam Belcher of Deerfield broke the course record by finishing first with a time of 15:52. Juan Gallardo '12 finished 23rd in 17:17. He was followed by Jeff Simmonds '12 29th--17:24, Henry Colt '14 33rd--17:27, Ian Hatch '11 35th--17:30, Nate Rehm-Daly '12 61st--18:27, Marty Jaffe '12 75th--18:59 and Cameron Kelleher '11 77th--19:06. Of particular note are the serious improvements on this course that most of the NMH team made both on the Varsity and JV levels. Juan lowered his time by 52 seconds, Jeff by 23, Henry by 7, Ian by 14, Nate by 31 and Marty by 9 seconds. This was a fine showing by a dedicated group.
The JV faced an even deeper group of runners. The depth and talent of the Division One Junior Varsities are staggering. NMH was not skunked this year beating out Trinity Pawling for 10th place. All of the NMH runners who finished broke their own personal records except Brendan Perry, who was injured ,but raced gamely, and Charles Son '14 who was well on his way to breaking his pr when he twisted his ankle and fell and was unable to continue. The excellent results are as follows:
Christian Hidalgo '13-19:04
Edwin Hidalgo '13-19:18
Jacob Goldman '12-19:28
Yihao Yang '14-19:51
Dave Donzanti '11-19:52
Daniel Kang '11-19:58
Andrew Catalano '11-20:00
Noah Gamble '14-20:54
Lucas Yoon '12-21:01
Brendan Perry '11- 21:28
Caleb Lee '14-22:20
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