Junior Erik Preisner, sophomore Keenan Neuman and senior Ethan Buck all finished in the top 10 and Ocean City cruised to the Varsity A team title Sunday at the 52nd annual Manhattan Invitational.
Preisner placed 6th in 13:29, Neuman 7th in 13:37 and Buck 9th in 13:40 and Ocean City won 70-90 over St. Andrews School of Middletown, Del. (the school where Dead Poets Society was filmed).
Sophomores Nathan Aschmann and Michael Romano completed Ocean City’s top-5, Aschmann 23rd in 14:00 and Romano 31st in 14:08. Senior 6th man Zach Hutchinson wasn’t far off the pace, 39th in 14:16
That’s a 39-second gap from 1 through 5 and a 13:47 team average.
Ocean City, ranked 11th in the state, finished an outstanding 15th in a merge of 176 schools in eight varsity races and 3rd among New Jersey schools, behind the top-ranked non-public school of Lincroft and Haddonfield – the top two teams in the state.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 