Jesuit XC Sprints to Second at Regionals and Qualifies for State

Posted November 6, 2018 / Last updated November 12, 2018

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Jesuit’s cross country team left it all on the City Park course at the Regional 3-5A championship meet on Friday, Nov. 2. All seven runners qualified for state with four of them striding to a new personal best. Out of the 111 runners that competed at regionals, five of the seven Jesuit runners placed in the top 25. The remaining two placed in the top 35. This solid team effort landed the Blue Jays a second-place finish. Holy Cross took third place, 17 points behind Jesuit; and Brother Martin claimed the regional title undercutting Jesuit by 47 points.

Through the Lens…

The team’s hard work paid off for a second-place finish at Regionals.

View the Photo Gallery of the Region 3-5A Championship

By the Numbers…

Each team ran its top seven runners. The first five runners from each team to cross the finish line receive the points that correspond to their place. The first place runner receives one point, the second place runner two, and so on. The team receiving the lowest score wins. The sixth and seventh runners on a team, although they don’t receive a score, can also be important, in that they can “displace” scoring runners from the other team.

Individual Results

EVENT PLACE / PTS. EARNED BLUE JAY GRADE TIME
3Mile 7 Jack Wallace 10 15:59.49 (PR)
3Mile 10 Luke LaCour 11 16:33.54
3Mile 13 Morgan Hebert 9 16:35.46 (PR)
3Mile 19 Cameron Cancienne
11 16:59.25 (PR)
3Mile 22 Harrison Leblanc 12 17:04.03
3Mile 26 Griffin Winn 11 17:14.07 (PR)
3Mile 35 Scott McKeough 11 17:41.58

Team Results (Top 10 Teams)

PLACE TEAM AVG. TIME TOTAL PTS. TOTAL PTS. BREAKDOWN BY RUNNER
        R-1 R-2 R-3 R-4 R-5 R-6* R-7*
1 Brother Martin 15:49.88 24 1 2 4 6 11 15 21
2 Jesuit 16:38.35 71 7 10 13 19 22 26 35
3 Holy Cross 16:47.16 88 3 12 18 27 28 30 51
4 John Curtis 16:51.12 101 5 8 24 25 39 57  
5 Hahnville 17:51.10 186 14 34 36 46 56 60 89
6 Archbishop Rummel 17:53.61 188 20 23 38 42 65 67 71
7 Terrebonne 18:00.63 205 29 33 41 48 54 59 75
8 Archbishop Shaw 18:07.79 216 31 32 43 52 58 72 101
9 Thibodaux 18:28.55 242 9 45 47 64 77    
10 Chalmette 19:01.31 295 44 49 50 62 90 98 99

[* denotes not included in overall team score]

In His Words…

“I knew in my gut that they would qualify for state as a team and as individual runners, but even so I wanted to put together a better race than district,” reflected Coach Rudy Horvath ’86. “Which we did. It was our best race of the year! We had four guys PR!”

On the Horizon…

Next up for the Jays is the state meet on Tuesday, Nov. 13. Race time is 2:45 p.m. at Northwestern State University’s Walter Ledet Track Complex course in Natchitoches, LA.

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