Conard's Gavin Sherry won his first cross country race of the 2020 season on Saturday, taking down the championship boys section of the Northeast HS Club Cross Country Championships in Montgomery, New York, in a winning time of 15:13.7.
In previous weeks and months, Sherry ran 14:30.37 for 5K in October and went 14:43.15 in September in two independently-produced outdoor races.
But Saturday presented Sherry with his first opportunity to stack up against high school athletes on the cross country course. After cruising through the first mile with Fayetteville-Manlius' Peyton Geehrer in 4:39, Sherry held on for ensuing mile splits of 5:03 and 5:30 to take the win.
Geehrer was second overall in 15:23.7, while Wolcott's Nicholas Bendtsen was third in 15:27.0, Albany's Getachew Hayes was fourth in 15:28.3 and Exeter's Varun Oberai was fifth in 15:30.2.
A total of 13 boys broke 16 minutes on the course.
Boys Champ/Seeded Merge (Champ & Seeded Merge) =========================================================================================== Pl Athlete Yr # Team Score Time Gap Speed Rating =========================================================================================== ------------ 1 SHERRY, Gavin 11 249 West Hartford-CT 15:13.7 --- 193.43 193 **** 2 GEEHRER, Peyton 12 241 Manlius-NY 15:23.7 10.0 190.10 190 *** 3 BENDTSEN, Nicholas 12 233 Wolcott-CT 15:27.0 13.3 189.00 189 * 4 HAYES, Getachew 11 243 Albany-NY 15:28.3 14.6 188.57 189 * 5 OBERAI, Varun 12 245 Exeter-NH 15:30.2 16.5 187.93 188 * 6 SHERRY, Callum 11 248 West Hartford-CT 15:33.4 19.7 186.87 187 * 7 FRANJIEH, Julian 11 240 Niskayuna-NY 15:35.0 21.3 186.33 186 8 GOREVIC, Jonah 12 298 Tailwind XC Club-NY 1 15:46.0 32.3 182.67 183 9 BRUTVAN, Riley 12 159 New Paltz-NY 15:46.2 32.5 182.60 183 10 EHLERS, Gavin 11 238 East Hampton Beach-N 15:52.2 38.5 180.60 181 11 NAMIOT, Charles 12 309 Unattached Ridgefiel 2 15:52.4 38.7 180.53 181 12 DEMO, Cory 12 183 Beaver Dam XC TC-NY 3 15:57.8 44.1 178.73 179 13 BENDER, Caleb 12 232 Skaneateles-NY 15:57.8 44.1 178.73 179 14 BURKE, Eamon 11 216 South Farms TC-CT 4 16:03.1 49.4 176.97 177 15 HADLEY, Jonathan 12 167 Delhi-NY 16:04.9 51.2 1