ILH Intermediate and JV Cross-Country Championships

The weather was excellent at CORP on Saturday afternoon for the finals of the Intermediate and JV ILH Championships. There were 6 races held as there also was an Open race for boys and another for girls to give everyone a chance to run before next week's Varsity championships.

In the girls' intermediate division, Brie Adams (Maryknoll) reasserted her position as the top intermediate runner of the season with a 14:01 winning time. Teammate Allison Calabrese was about 5 seconds back. Unfortunately, Maryknoll does not have enough runners for a scoring team, which allowed Punahou to dominate in the team competition. Punahou had a tremendous score of 21 points, placing all 5 scoring runners in the top 10.

In the boys' intermediate, Alex Ortega from Kamehameha came from behind to take the title with a superb time of 11:31. Borys Pleskacz of Iolani was second about 5 seconds behind. In a very close finish, Iolani took the boys' title 39-40 over Kamehameha.

In the girls' JV race, Punahou again dominated the race. Megan Steele (Punahou) ran a very strong 20:45 to place first, with all 7 Punahou runners finishing in the top 10. Punahou won with a score of 19 points. Iolani was quite a bit back with 57 points.

Kevin Donahue of St. Louis returned to the winner's circle with a great run of 17:39. St. Louis, though, does not have a scoring team. So, although Iolani took the next 2 spots, Punahou's depth and quality allowed Punahou to almost sweep all the races. Punahou had 27 points to Iolani's 40 points.

Congratulations to Punahou for taking 3 out of 4 races. Very impressive indeed.