Senior Andrew Blum and junior Connor Brand both broke 17 minutes on the Pennypacker Park 5,000-meter course Tuesday to lead a Haddonfield sweep of the top nine places in a five-team batch meet.
Blum and Brand each ran 16:49 – 16:49.20 specifically for Blum and 16:49.64 for Brand – for the Bulldogs.
Sophomores Lucas Larson [3rd in 17:04] and Logan Tripician [4th in 17:11] were next, followed by junior Graham Dodson [5th in 17:13], senior Luke Patterson [6th in 17:22], junior Luke Lindner [7th in 17:27], junior Ian Rodriguez [8th in 17:32] and sophomore Nathan Bollard [9th in 17:36].
Paulsboro senior Jeffery Taylor was 10th in 17:50. Audubon’s top finisher was junior John Robinson [14th in 18:09] and Haddon Heights’ first across the line was junior Henry Platt [17th in 18:18]. Lindenwold’s first runner was junior Xander Gomez-Rhodes [21st in 19:39].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 