Flashrock Invitational

The Flashes were 3rd in the "Green" Race and 6th "Combined" at the Flashrock Invitational on Saturday. We had a great showing from Jason Crist, who was runner-up to NC's Futsum Zeinessellassie, who posted the fastest time in the United States for the year and Indiana history.

The Flashes pack battled from behind all day, but came up just short of beating North Central and Lawrence Central. We also edged out recent rival Zionsville in the combined results.

It certainly is a close and exciting year for Indiana Cross Country. With the "regular season" over, we now enter our County, Conference, and Tournament Series season.

Here are the full results.

Ben Davis Invitational

Both Varsity and JV Boys fared well Saturday at the Ben Davis Invitational. The Varsity was edged out by Zionsville for the second week in a row. To give you an idea of how close the meet was, had our 2-3 runners run a combined 15 seconds faster, we would have won.

Jason Crist had a tough battle from Ben Davis' Luke Brahm, but managed to pull away in the closing 75 meters to get the win and new course record. Full results can be found here.

In JV action, there was a fight to the line between two Flashes: Evan Shuck (1st) and Shane Wright (2nd). Both runners broke the 17:00 barrier! Full results can be found here.

Varsity:

Zionsville 44
Franklin Central 57
Lawrence North 145

JV:
Franklin Central 29
Center Grove 64
Zionsville 76

The Flashes will see action again at the co-hosted Flashrock Invitational at Northview Christian Church in Carmel. There should be some fun and exciting races as teams are now winding down their "regular seasons" in preparation for conference, county, and the tournament. Go Flashes!

Varsity 3rd, JV Wins at Harrison (Sep. 3)

The Flashes XC team battled two top-ten teams on Saturday and were edged out for the runner-up spot by a single point on Saturday. Jason Crist continued his winning streak, breaking the course record for the second straight year, while Evan Shuck took hime the runner-up spot for the Flashes in JV action. Here are the results:

Jason Crist 1 15:30

Nick Dhadwal 12 16:16

Andrice Martin 17 16:28

Austin Presnell 18 16:29

Andy Webb 36 16:57

Evan Marrero 50 17:09

Matt Shaw 71 17:33

Team Places: BSHS: 60 Zionsville: 83 FC: 84 LaPorte: 158

JV

Evan Shuck 2 17:15

Joey Butcher 5 17:22

Shane Wright 7 17:25

Eddie Hardimon 8 17:26

Zach McCauley 9 17:31

Lake Jones 12 17:36

RJ Atwal 21 18:07

Noah Hertenstein 41 18:30

Aaron Nanavaty 49 18:40

Christian Wise 68 19:00

Chris Passios 76 19:08

Peyton Geisler 81 19:17

Michael Spoor 83 19:18

Skyler Lawrence 95 19:27

Luke Dewitte 99 19:31

Robbie Talhelm 101 19:32

Parker Lewellen 104 19:35

Brad Loeffler 109 19:40

Tristan Emminger 179 20:35

TJ Haskett 182 20:42

Andy Asher 205 21:06

Noah Smith 253 22:10

Adrian Alora 272 22:40

Noah Bousom 297 23:57

Slater Garner 308 25:05

Charles Robson 316 27:17

Jonathon Young 322 28:55

Team Scores: FC: 31 BHSS: 32 Zionsville: 126

Black and Gold Relays (Aug. 27)

The Flashes XC team ended up 2nd to a tough Lawrence Central squad at the Black and Gold Relays at Noblesville in a stellar time of 90:18. In third place was the team of Jason Crist and Matt Shaw, and in fifth Nick Dhadwal and Austin Presnell. Here are the mile averages for the pairs race:

Crist 4:44.7

Presnell 4:57

Dhadwal 4:58

Shaw 5:03.3

Webb 5:07

Shuck 5:11

Marrero 5:11

Wright 5:13

Martin 5:15

Nanavaty 5:20

In the JV 3200 we had some incredible efforts, with Joey Butcher taking home the win and Eddie Hardimon being runner-up:

Joey Butcher 10:14

Eddie Hardimon 10:15

Peyton Geisler 10:30

RJ Atwal 10:32

Zach McCauley 10:35

Lake Jones 10:37

Noah Hertenstein 10:43

Luke Dewitte 11:05

Skyler Lawrence 11:10

Josh Minnis 11:11

Chris Passios 11:12

Parker Lewellen 11:13

Robbie Talhelm 11:14

Michael Spoor 11:20

Christian Wise 11:34

Tristan Emminger 11:35

Brad Loeffler 11:55

TJ Haskett 11:56

Andy Asher 12:00

Noah Smith 13:02

Noah Bousum 13:09

Charles Robson 14:35

Jonathon Young 16:08

No reserve scores again this week – We did hit our goal of five in the top ten and seven in the top twenty. Franklin Central has really run well at this meet the last two years. We will need to carry on this tradition for the years to come!