Battle Of Ocean County Park

On Friday, the boys and girls teams traveled to Ocean County Park for the first time ever.

Leading off in the boys freshman race, Dan Helfand ran a very impressive 11:19 which got him 5th place. Not far behind him was Christian Mele in 8th with a time of 11:30. Finally, Zach Goldstein had a solid as well.

In the sophmore race, Ben Dillon and Jared Dashevsky battled with the lead pack of CBA runners, finishing in 17:04 for 7th, and 17:16 for 11th. Also, John "kennedy" Warkala broke 19 and got himself a medal. Aaron Zucker and Bobby Zografos also improved a lot and raced very strong.

The Juniors brought home an outstanding 7 medals. Leading the way in 7th was Mike Bruce with a time of 17:11, and battling him for most of the race was Mike Wang in 8th running a 17:16. Capturing the rest of the medals was Chris Arnold 14th, Jack Fiedler 18th, and Matt Burt and Sean Taylor in 20th and 21st. Arjun Nanavaty also improved his time running a 23:09.

Finally, it was the senior boys turn. The seniors were the only group today to win its race (top 3 scored). Crossing the line first for east with a very impressive time of 16:13 and taking 2nd place was Zach Ianarelli. Then Ricky Zhao had a steller race running 16:38, and right behind him in 7th place was DJ Rodriguez. Ben Helfand had a strong race coming 14th followed by Russell Beatty who after missing some time due to an injury had a great race and coming 16th. Tyler Russ (20th) and Adam Rosenthal (25th) got the last two medals for the senior class. Brad Krell had a amazing race and almost killed a guy when he outkicked him at the end. Kevin Walder had a break out race, dropping his time a lot, by about 3 minutes from last race. Adam Green had a solid race as well after missing some time due to injury.

Cherry Hill East brought home 19 medals, and 1 team trophy. Very impressive day. The 2nd batch meet is on Tuesday, September 20th at GCC "c". Lets keep this positive energy going.

As always, keep on runnin'