MARYSVILLE — Amy-Eloise Neale makes running and winning look easy.
Neale won the Hole in the Wall Invitational on Saturday, beating her nearest competition, teammate Katie Bianchini, by 31 seconds.
Neale, who finished the race in 17 minutes and 45 seconds and broke her own course record, and Bianchini, who finished in 18:16, easily led the No.1-ranked Grizzlies to the girls team title. The Grizzlies finished with 42 points. Their nearest competition, Redmond, had 83.
“This was a tough week for us training,” Glacier Peak coach Dan Parker said of the girls. “We went easy the last two weeks because we had Stanford then we had Sunfair. But this week was a hard week because we knew this was going to be a difficult meet and next week is going to be a real hard week. They came in here tired, but they still ran well.
Parker was happy with his entire team’s performance.
“We had some good performances particularly by — not so much Amy-Eloise and Katie, we knew what they would do — but Marlee Rothschild and Megan Davis ran really well today,” Parker said. “And Marren Haneberg keeps moving up for us.”
Davis finished eighth in 19:11, Rothschild finished 12th in 19:16 and Haneberg 19th in 19:45.
Parker said that Neale can run much faster than she showed on Saturday.
“She will probably go 30 seconds under that two weeks from now,” Parker said, referring to how he think she will do at the league championship meet.
Lakewood was well represented as the host school by Rachel Cundy, who finished 14th with a time of 19:31.
“I was real pleased with Rachel’s run,” Lakewood coach Jeff Sowards said.
The highest local finisher in the boys race was Cascade’s Steven Statham, who finished in 10th place (16:21).
Glacier Peak’s highest boys finisher was Michael Matwichuk in 25th place (16:55). Despite the lack of Grizzlies near the top of the leaderboard, Glacier Peak earned fourth place as a team with 183 points. Sehome won the team title with 94 points, Redmond finished second with 108 and Ballard third with 174.
“My guys are really young,” Parker said. “Super young and inexperienced. But there is a good core and they run well as a team. If they keep going like they are going we could possibly win the league, district and go to state, which would be amazing.”
Redmond won the overall championship, which combines the girls and boys scores with 191 points. Sehome finished second with 212 and Glacier Peak was third with 225.
It was the biggest Hole in the Wall invitational it the event’s 28 years. Runners from 29 different schools were represented in the varsity boys division, while 27 different schools were represented on the girls side.
Sowards was happy with how the event came off.
“Overall I thought things went really well,” Sowards said. “Whoever ordered up the sun and brought that was awesome. That always makes for happy faces and happy people. The course stayed, even though we had a little rain this week, the course stayed pretty firm.”
At Lakewood H.S.
Boys team scores–Sehome 94, Redmond 108, Ballard 174, Glacier Peak 183, Capital 218, Peninsula 232, Roosevelt 236, Bainbridge 251, Newport-Bellevue 253, Charles Wright Academy 284, Anacortes 314, Lakewood 320, Mt. Vernon 339, Sammamish 359, Iolani 380, Mt. Baker 391, Cedar Park Christian 396, Issaquah 399, Bothell 480, Enumclaw 520, Juanita 550, Nooksack Valley 577, Federal Way 585, Overlake 619, Seattle Academy 641, Granite Falls 648, Chelan 706, Marysville Getchell 708, Foster 747.
Local finishers–10. Steven Statham (Cascade) 16:21, 25. Michael Matwichuck (Glacier Peak) 16:55, 29. Kris Mugrage (Lakewood) 16:57, 30. Colin Wiedmer (Cascade) 16:57, 34. Keagan Smith (Glacier Peak) 17:03, 38. Sam Juozapaitis (Glacier Peak) 17:13, 46. Alec Northrop (Glacier Peak) 17:24, 54. Erik Knudu (Marysville Getchell) 17:34, 59. Blake Forkey (Glacier Peak) 17:39, 60. Peter Espinoza (Lakewood) 17:40, 61. Douglas Davis (Lakewood) 17:40, 62. James Horne (Glacier Peak) 17:41, 84. Drew Cabales (Lakewood) 18:00, 90. Ryan Nash (Granite Falls) 18:03, 92. Alex Ashenbrener (Lynnwood) 18:04, 93. Cannon Counsellor (Marysville Pilchuck) 18:06, 95. Connor Zurcher (Marysville Pilchuck) 18:07, 100. John Patterson (Lynnwood) 18:10, 110. Garret Gebhardt (Cascade) 18:15, 112. Mitchell Darrah (Lakewood) 18:18, 124. Will Zink (South Whidbey) 18:25, 128. Addison Buchholz (Granite Falls) 18:28, 138. Ryan Whitehead (Lakewood) 18:37, 146. Jacob Mack (Lakewood) 18:44, 152. Jhamil Bader-Jarvis (South Whidbey) 18:49, 154. James Nelson (Sultan) 18:51, 164. Mitch Ryiter (Marysville Getchell) 19:01, 166. Josh Short (Granite Falls) 19:02, 167. Adam Gibson (Granite Falls) 19:03, 169. Riley Hansen (Granite Falls) 19:04, 170. Jake Shearer (Marysville Getchell) 19:04, 174. Ryan McArthur (Lynnwood) 19:09, 177. KC Spencer (Granite Falls) 19:11, 178. Jessey Lian (Marysville Pilchuck) 19:12, 187. Ben Sheppard (Granite Falls) 19:25, 189. Jason Barrus (Sultan) 19:28, 202. Garrett Westover (Marysville Getchell) 20:09, 204. Cameron Carter (Marysville Getchell) 20:17.
Girls team scores–Glacier Peak 42, Redmond 83, Sehome 118, Peninsula 120, Issaquah 123, Capital 253, Roosevelt 257, Lakewood 292, Marysville Getchell 305, Newport-Bellevue 305, Cedar Park Christian 311, Mt. Baker 384, South Whidbey 392, Enumclaw 401, Federal Way 409, Sammamish 420, Bainbridge 443, Ballard 468, Mt. Vernon 490, Nooksack Valley 491, Charles Wright Academy 562, Anacortes 616, Chelan 627, Overlake 630, Cascade-Everett 663, Seattle Academy 692, Everett 729.
Local finishers–1. Amy-Eloise Neale (Glaicer Peak) 17:45, 2. Katie Bianchini (Glacier Peak) 18:16, 8. Megan Davis (Glacier Peak) 19:10, 12. Marlee Rothschild (Glacier Peak) 19:16, 14. Rachel Cundy (Lakewood) 19:31, 19. Marren Haneberg (Glacier Peak) 19:45, 23. Rachael Lefstad (Marysville Getchell) 19:48, 28. Katherine Dittman (Glacier Peak) 20:07, 34. Samantha Northrop (Glacier Peak) 20:19, 36. Lillianna Stelling (South Whidbey) 20:20, 47. Darby Throndsen (Lakewood) 20:33, 59. Rachel Sowards (Lakewood) 20:56, 65. Carly McCartney (Marysville Pilchuck) 21:17, 69. Briaunna Heacock (Marysville Getchell) 21:25, 71. Hannah Fink (Marysville Getchell) 21:29, 72. Jessica Cary (South Whidbey) 21:29, 75. Nicole Buell (Marysville Getchell) 21:32, 77. Amanda Redford (Cascade) 21:34, 78. Rachel Mow (Granite Falls) 21:35, 81. Nora Felt (South Whidbey) 21:38, 91. Alissa Belan (Marysville Getchell) 21:52, 93. Mikaela Skiles (Lakewood) 21:53, 100. Sara Newman (Lakewood) 22:04, 104. Bonnie Klamm (South Whidbey) 22:15, 110. Drew Williams (Everett) 22:27, 112. Sam Gibson (Marysville Getchell) 22:29, 113. Hailey Zurcher (Marysville Pilchuck) 22:31, 115. Lindsey Atterbury (Marysville Getchell) 22:32, 130. Christel Schaefers (Cascade) 22:56, 131. Emyly Hall (Marysville Pilchuck) 22:58, 133. Emma Lungren (South Whidbey) 23:00, 137. McKenna Slack (Everett) 23:09, 142. Alisa Smith (Lakewood) 23:18, 143. Marina Kovic (South Whidbey) 23:20, 147. Courtney Conaway (Granite Falls) 23:27, 150. Anna Hood (South Whidbey) 23:33, 156. Celine Espinoza (Lakewood) 23:44, 159. Hannah Allen (Cascade) 23:52, 177. Eleanor Wgishofski (Everett) 25:04, 179. Courtney Croft (Cascade) 25:16, 181. Jill Needham (Cascade) 25:45, 182. Jennifer Christenson (Marysville Pilchuck) 25:46, 185. Kim Tran (Cascade) 26:32, 188. Elayna Sams (Everett) 26:52, 191. Enrica Gregori (Everett) 27:39.
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