Seniors Finley Smith and Ethan Taylor and junior Zander Kane all ran within 1 ½ seconds of each other to lead a Moorestown sweep of the top eight places in an Olympic Conference batch meet Tuesday at DREAM Park in Logan Township.
Smith and Taylor ran 18:36.30 and 18:36.94 and Kane ran 18:37.61 to lead the Quaker pack.
Freshman Alexander Gubanov [4th in 18:46], sophomores Ryan Callahan and Braden Castner [5th and 6th, both 19:07] and juniors An Zheng [7th in 19:25] and Hunter Glenn [8th in 19:58] rounded out Moorestown’s top eight.
Also finishing in the top 10 were Winslow senior Cody Lam [9th in 20:11] and Winslow sophomore Devon Kozak [10th in 20:13].
In a separate race, senior Kyler Johnson led a 1-5 Seneca sweep in 18:54 with freshman Douglas Umbehauer [2nd in 19:02], sophomore Tyler Levondosky [3rd in 19:05], junior Jonah Schmitz [4th in 19:05] and senior William Emmons [5th in 19:10].
Others in the top 10 were Cherokee senior Jonathan Merkel [6th in 19:27], Lenape senior Aaron Smith and junior Jayden Carn [7th and 8th, both in 19:28], Cherokee sophomore Gavin Quinn [9th in 19:28] and Lenape junior Jake Haskins [10th in 19:29].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 