The Cherokee boys may have placed 2nd out of 63 schools at the RVA Relays Saturday night under the lights at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville, Va.
The results have been such a disaster that it’s hard to tell exactly what happened, but there are results of the A race that appeared more than an hour after the race ended. They don’t show any times for any runners but do show Cherokee listed just below St. John’s Boys, although I have no idea where that school is located. Doesn’t say. Doesn’t say much.
[This just in … there are still no times, but there is a “1.” before St. John’s Boys, and a “2,” before Cherokee. So it seems safe to conclude that was the order of the top two teams.]
No team scoring, of course. Why should results of a team relay show team scoring? We must be crazy to expect it!
The results show Cherokee using seniors Logan Bromley and Dominic Pileri, juniors Sean Sooy and Ben Realley and sophomore Jack Tindall.
The format of the VA Relays is that five runners per school run a 2,500-meter relay legs on a loop at Pole Green Park – with a baton – and their five splits are added up to determine the team winners.
This was the first serious race of the year for Cherokee’s top runners. Cherokee, ranked 3rd in New Jersey, won’t race a full-effort 5,000-meter course with its lead group until Shore Coaches at Holmdel County Park on Oxt. 4.
Apparently, Virginia has not yet discovered FaT timing because there were no live results, results took hours to post, times were missing for some races and it was just a complete timing disaster start to finish. We’ve had a few of those here.
Cherokee was 1st out of 65 teams in the B race, with freshman Hamza Salahuddin, sophomore Evan Amato and juniors Leo Vyvyan, Gavin Danielewicz and Maximo Harada. Incredibly, no times listed with the results. The results disappeared for a while and then reappeared, again with no times.
Welcome to cross country circa 1985. Everybody associated with this meet ought to be embarrassed. What a disaster.
The Cherokee girls also raced in Virginia. Maybe we’ll have the results by Wednesday!
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 