Halfway through the season

The Blackhawks are halfway through the 2011 XC season and have had much success up to this point with much more to strive toward. In their first GNL meet of the year last week with Deer Park at Medical Lake the girls showed their strength and depth taking the top six spots overall and scoring wins against Deer Park (15-49) and Medical Lake (15-49) to start the season 2-0 in league meets. On the boys side last week they raced the top team in the GNL in Deer Park and came very close to beating them, only loosing by three points (26-29). The team scored a win against Medical Lake (23-36) to start the season off 1-1 in league meets.

In their second league meet of the year, for the only home meet, the Blackhawks went against Clarkston on Wednesday at Salnave Park. Continuing their dominance the girls raced first and took the top 12 spots overall and improving to 3-0 in league meets by winning 15-50. On the boys side they showed a good pack mentality to have the top nine spots within 55 seconds of each other and taking 12 of the top 13 spots, with a Clarkston runner in 5th place overall. The final score for the boys was 16-47 to improve to 2-1 in league meets. There were a couple first time racers including Claire, Kit and Alex as well as some effort awards for Tanner, Bradley, Kali, Amanda, Mattie and Shyann for strong races and great improvements over prior races. After the races the team welcomed Clarkston for the second annual potato feed which was a great success thanks to all the parents for their organization as well as bringing all the food. 

Up next for the Hawks is the prestigious Sunfair meet on Saturday in Yakima. In this special meet the runners run in flights which places them against other similar ability athletes. For example all the # 7 runners run against each other and so on. This will be a great opportunity for the varsity teams to see how they stack up against some of the best teams in the Northwest. Information can be found here. Races start at noon (for our runners).