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White Plains Middle School X-Country Girls Win Sectional Crown over 20 Teams
Posted on Saturday, October 26 @ 01:10:05 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR PRESS BOX. By John F. Bailey October 25, 2002: A season of consistency of performance paid off for Coach John McGee's White Plains Middle School Cross Country Girls Friday as the nine White Plains Middle School 8th and 7th grade girls outran 20 other teams in Westchester and Rockland Counties Friday at the Rye Sectionals, finishing with 102 points. To Coach McGee's memory this is the first middle school cross country Sectional Championship White Plains has won. McGee praised the girls as a team with "a lot of talent," great to coach.
PRELUDE TO SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: At Harrison Tuesday, the White Plains Middle School Cross Country team finished 1-2-3 at Harrison to win their fifth meet of the year. The trio of Jill Gordon, finishing first by 1 second over hard-driving Kaylin Gilmartin-Donohue, is welcomed by Coach John McGee at the finish. Juliana Bailey is third in the distance.
Photo by WPCNR Sports
"Usually, it's very hard to win a sectional, you usually have one good runner on a team. This year we have three," He said. That consistency has shown itself all season long with times getting better and better on the part of all the girls. "If the girls stay together they're going to be great in the years ahead."
Tiger Pack fills up the top 10
On a good cool day to run, Jill Gordon finished the 1.2 mile course in 9 minutes flat, finishing 5th of 162 girls running. Kaylin "K.K." Gilmartin-Donohue was sixth, good for first among the seventh grade girls. Juliana Bailey finished 9th in the top 10 of the field of 162 with AkiYoung and Kirsten Smayda, Abby Franco just behind. Corrine Leary, Shir Livine, and Mitalee Chawda, completed the drive for the Sectional title.
McGee said every member of the team contributed to the win, because the win was only by 5 points over Port Chester, which he said was one person. When Port Chester was announced as second, the girls started screaming and jumping up and down, because they knew "White Plains" was the only school name left, meaning they had won the Sectional.
It was Gordon's second great finish in five days. Gordon won Tuesday's race in Harrison with a time of 9:07, 1 second better than Kaylin with Juliana third.
The Tiger Trio finished first second and third among the three teams at the Harrison meet. The Middle School Cross Country Boys said they contributed to the girls' win by "being supportive" at the Sectional, but the finish of the boys teams was not statistically completed by the end of the meet.
The White Plains anchor trio of Jill, "K.K." and Juliana said they push other every race. Gilmartin-Donohue and Gordon have each individually won cross country meets this season.
WIRE TO WIRE: The White Plains "Traveling Trio" at the start of the Harrison meet Tuesday: L to R., right in the middle, Juliana Bailey, Kaylin "K.K." Gilmartin-Donohue, and Jill Gordon. The trio lead the race from wire to wire.
Photo by WPCNR Sports
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