TUPATALK: Reminiscing on cross country tradition
LAST FROM THE PAST: Following is a 2002 article about the Bartlesville High cross country team.
Five Lady Bruins posted top-50 finishes at Friday’s crowded cross country Hugh Pierce Chandler Park Run in Tulsa.
Cari Griffin and Tera Hughes paced the Bartlesville High varsity girls to fourth place in the team standings out of a field of 20 schools.
Griffin finished the two-mile race in 18th in 14:17. She was followed two seconds later by Hughes, who took 19th in 14:19.
In the varsity boys three-mile race, Jordan Hughes shattered the 18:00-mark for Bartlesville.
He finished 11th overall in 17:47. Bartlesville finished sixth as a team in the varsity boys division.
Bethany Tyndall claimed the highest finish for all Bartlesville runners.
She won the junior high girls division with a time of 8:20 for the one-mile race.
Overall, it was a challenging day for the Bartlesville runners, first-year head coach Daisy Rogers said.
“Friday-the-13th loomed in on us,” she said. “This hilly, extremely lengthy course seemed to be a nosebleed run for our Bruins. It was a massive race.”
Following are summaries:
Lady Bruin varsity
The veteran (junior) Griffin led the way with freshman Hughes coming in next.
Rounding out the squad’s results were: Ashley Enderline, 25th, 14:41; Lindsey Rickards, 37th, 15:04; Neala Ball, 43rd, 15:22; Brandi Rogers, 58th, 15:43; and Rachel Daake, 76th, 16:25.
Bruin varsity
Hughes, a junior, motored to 11th place with an impressive race.
The next group of four Bruins were tightly grouped from 39th through 47th places.
They included: C.J. Black, 39th, 18:48; Joseph Powell, 40th, 18:50; Paul Remson, 42nd, 18:56; and Sage Lane, 47th, 19:05.
Michael Fooshee came in next in 57th at 19:25 and Robby Pinnick followed in 70th at 19:45.
Bruin junior varsity
Bartlesville entered 14 athletes in this race.
Ryan Thompson posted the only sub-20-minute race for Bartlesville. He finished in 19:57.
Adam Romines came in next-fastest for the squad in 20:55.
Matthew Morrison and Christopher Clayborn cross the finish line shoulder-to-shoulder.
Morrison was clocked less than a-quarter-of-a-second faster at 21:23.71. Clayborn came in at 21:23.94.
Michael Wolfe rounded out the top five Bruins at 21:38.
This article originally appeared on Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: TupaTalk column
