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Kanto Race
Kelly Langley and Bessie Noll win by 2-second margins
Saturday, October 3, 2009 - US Forces Tama Hills Recreation Center, Tokyo Japan
Results - Boys Varsity - Boys JV - Girls Varsity - Girls JV courtesy of athletic.net Race distance: 4,417m (boys) - 3,305m (girls)
Meet Report Courtesy of Bruce Carrick
In the final dual match-ups for the season, the final Kanto Plain team standings were sorted out (almost). Christian Academy in Japan boys finished the season undefeated, handing the American School in Japan their only defeat, 22-36. On the girls side as a result of today's matchups, ASIJ girls and Seisen girls both remain unbeaten at 7-0 and will sort out the title in their head-to-head dual during the season-final League Meet in 2 weeks.
As all the dual competitions were run simultaneously, there were tight races for individual honors at the front of both heats from the early going.
St. Mary's Kelly Langley (15:20.5) showed that he was back in good form, with a 2 second victory over Seikichi Kuma (CAJ). Kuma`s teammate Jared Johnson was 7 seconds back, ahead of ASIJ's first pair, Soren Rasmussen (5th, 15:43) and Samuel Krauth (6th, 15:51). Despite the heavy rain, Langley's 15:20.5 time was just 2 seconds off his PR last season; Kuma, Johnson and Yokota American`s Christian Heimlich (6th, 16:04.9) recorded major personal improvements on this, the league's primary course. The three have improved more than half a minute since last year.
For the women, youth surged to the front, with freshmen placing 1st, 3rd and 5th: Bessie Noll (13:54.6, ASIJ), Isabelle Ballet (13:57.2, International School of the Sacred Heart) and Megan Cooney (14:12.7, Nile C Kinnick High School, Yokosuka). Slipping into 2nd just at the line was senior Hikari Morimoto (13:56.7, CAJ); senior Emiri Dandoi (14:08.9, ASIJ) was 4th. ASIJ showed its depth by placing 5 in the top 10 and so issued a challenge to Seisen, which did not compete on this day.
Highlights
- Bessie Noll (ASIJ fr) managed to hold off Hikari Morimoto (CAJ sr) and Isabelle Ballet (ISSH fr), a mere 2.5 seconds separating the top three
- Kelly Langley (St. Mary's jr) crossed the line 2 seconds ahead of Seikichi Kuma (sr) and 9 ahead of Jared Johnson (jr) both of CAJ
- Christian Academy in Japan boys take league championship over ASIJ, beating them in a dual matchup 22-36
- American School in Japan girls' multiple dual victories on this day leave them in a tie (7-0) with Seisen for the league title
Results
| Boys Varsity
1 Kelly Langley 15:20.5 StM 11 2 Seikichi Kuma 15:22.6 CAJ 12 3 Jared Joh 15:29.3 CAJ 11 4 Soren Rasmussen 15:42.9 ASIJ 12 5 Samuel Krauth 15:51.5 ASIJ 12 6 Ch He 16:04.9 YHS 12 7 Jimmy Niescier 16:12.3 YHS - 8 Tsubasa Kan 16:24.1 CAJ 9 9 Tanjib Hasan 16:25.6 StM 11 10 Taro Saw 16:31.9 CAJ 11 11 Ben Smith 16:35.5 ASIJ 12 12 Jesse Arnold 16:42.3 Kinn 12 13 Marcus Boehler 16:43.8 Kinn 10 14 Yohei Onda 16:44.9 SMI 12 15 David Bailey 16:47.3 Kinn 11 16 Nicholas Osb 16:53.0 CAJ 10 17 Jonathan Bartsch 16:55.3 CAJ 11 18 Kai Layden 16:55.8 ASIJ 9 19 Adam Wahid 17:04.5 SMI 11 20 Da Re 17:04.7 YHS 11 21 Mike Faulkner 17:05.9 YHS 10 22 Koji Matsumoto 17:13.7 CAJ 12 23 Eugene Smith 17:14.1 ASIJ 12 24 Jin Marks 17:21.8 StM 11 25 Zach Smok 17:25.8 CAJ 11 26 Ghi Chong Lew 17:29.2 StM 10 27 Koh Terai 17:30.0 StM 9 28 Marlowe Gonzalez 17:31.5 Kinn 12 29 Julian Watanabe 17:36.0 ASIJ 12 30 Eric Rogan 17:37.8 ASIJ 9 31 David Van 17:39.2 CAJ 11 32 Justin Arrington 17:40.1 Edgr 11 33 Devin Lewis 17:41.9 Kinn 12 34 Braxton Smith 17:42.2 Kinn 10 35 Sean Dolan 17:43.4 YIS 9 36 Aaron Cotts 17:48.2 Edgr 12 37 Shin Doi 17:48.7 StM 12 38 Albert Takagi 17:52.7 StM 10 39 Ryan Kingshepard 17:53.2 YHS 12 40 Richard Dromerhauer 17:54.1 Kinn 10 41 Kevin Pinchart 17:58.6 Kinn 12 42 Blake Mori 18:00.4 StM 10 43 Kevin Gallagher 18:01.2 ASIJ 12 44 Shige Suzuki 18:02.6 StM 12 45 Christopher Del Toro 18:04.5 Kinn 11 46 Jacob Wint 18:05.6 CAJ 11 47 Graeme Lorimer 18:05.9 YIS 9 48 Wataru Kay 18:15.1 ASIJ 12 49 Kevin Drake 18:20.2 EJK 12 50 Cole Miller 18:20.9 MCP 12 51 Taiki Hirata 18:23.0 StM 11 52 Marcus Crawford 18:26.0 MCP 10 53 Kohei Hara 18:34.4 SMI 9 54 Noah Swygert 18:39.2 YHS 10 55 Travis Long 18:40.3 EJK 11 56 Patrick Riordon 18:41.9 Edgr 12 57 Johnny Cope 18:43.9 YHS 10 58 Ian Shimizu 18:46.5 StM 12 59 Jacob Sterry 18:48.2 Edgr 10 60 Bob Novak 18:49.2 Zama 12 61 Ken Tanaka 18:53.1 StM 12 62 Rye Sperl 18:53.7 Edgr 12 63 Trenton Adamson 18:54.4 Edgr - 64 Kai Yasutomi 19:06.1 ASIJ 9 65 Gilles Meunier 19:07.6 StM 11 66 Lawrence Brown 19:11.0 Edgr - 67 Brent Robbins 19:12.3 SMI 11 68 Shogo Mori 19:20.3 StM 9 69 Evan Bowers 19:32.2 MCP - 70 Nukui Sato 19:34.7 SMI 12 71 Fumitaka Soh 19:36.8 StM 12 72 Victor Reynolds 19:55.3 EJK 11 73 Taku Kitamura 19:56.6 StM 10 74 Sho Nakayama 20:08.5 YIS 12 75 Nick Krenek 20:15.9 MCP 10 76 Aaron Roman 20:19.0 MCP - 77 Sung Min Kim 20:19.3 StM 12 78 Patrick Marshall 20:26.5 StM 9 79 Joseph Schmieley 20:29.0 EJK 11 80 Taihei Hara 20:39.4 SMI 12 81 Harjas Sahni 20:50.3 StM - 82 Jo Tanaka 20:52.8 SMI 10 83 Brycen Lee 20:58.0 Edgr - 84 Eugene Talmadge 21:02.7 YIS 12 85 Shusaku Matsuda 21:06.4 StM 12 86 Takahiro Abe 21:22.5 SMI 10 87 Nathan Farley 21:29.1 EJK 11 88 Jac Harris 21:31.1 Zama 11 89 Treavor Wentling 21:52.6 MCP - 90 Jacob Garner 22:06.1 MCP 9 91 Kevin Schulze 22:15.0 StM 10 92 Ichiro McOrmie 22:17.0 YIS - 93 Youta Bae 23:49.0 StM 11 94 David Kong 23:50.9 SMI 11 95 Sujay Parakkel 25:38.0 StM 10
| Boys JV 18 Miles Mil 17:35.7 CAJ 9 19 Max Ueda 17:44.9 ASIJ 10 20 Yuki Hirasawa 18:07.9 ASIJ - 21 Raphael Angeles 18:13.4 Kinn 10 23 Jared Nelson 18:20.0 ASIJ 9 24 Robert Luton 18:20.7 ASIJ - 26 Ko Yaijima 18:26.0 ASIJ 10 27 Nick Spivey 18:39.3 Kinn - 28 Eugene Temlock 18:48.2 ASIJ 10 29 Joseph Dantay 18:51.2 Kinn 10 30 Nathan Eckstein 18:53.4 ASIJ 10 31 Keigo Agata 19:03.4 ASIJ - 32 Einar Horn 19:15.5 ASIJ 9 33 Takuma Jenkins 19:18.0 CAJ 9 34 Eliot Reasoner 19:25.3 CAJ 9 35 Yuki Riches 19:28.1 ASIJ 12 36 Sam Newsome 19:30.1 CAJ 10 37 Abe Nak 19:32.8 CAJ 11 38 Thomas Dahlke 19:33.7 Kinn 12 39 Jay Schlessinger 19:34.5 Kinn 10 40 Thor Hoff 19:35.8 ASIJ 11 41 Bryce Yazzie 19:38.3 YHS 9 42 Glenn Newbins 20:08.6 Kinn 11 43 Jonathan McClure 20:17.7 Kinn 12 44 Wesley Belleman 20:20.7 Edgr 9 45 Jack Miller 20:28.3 ASIJ 10 46 Yuki Nielsen 20:30.6 YIS - 47 Paulo Santos 20:32.8 Kinn 12 48 Desmond Tillmon 20:33.2 Kinn - 49 Garth Balmforth 20:37.8 Edgr 12 50 Kenjiro Kanamaru 20:39.5 ASIJ 10 51 Kentaro Okazaki 20:46.3 ASIJ 10 52 Sam Callon 20:46.9 ASIJ 11 53 Shoma Yamanouchi 20:53.4 ASIJ 10 54 Derek Hsu 20:53.6 ASIJ 12 55 Haruka Earney 20:55.6 Edgr 9 56 Yuta Kasai 20:56.5 ASIJ - 57 Chris Thomson 20:58.1 CAJ 9 58 Cyrus Ordoobadi 21:03.2 ASIJ 10 59 Paddi Loughlin 21:10.2 Kinn 11 60 Walker Cleary 21:34.2 Kinn 9 61 Stephen Chen 21:34.4 ASIJ - 62 Yasu Murata 21:37.0 ASIJ 9 63 Martin Carlson 21:42.6 ASIJ 10 63 Laszlo Cservak 21:42.6 Kinn 10 64 Josh Adair 21:52.6 Kinn 11 65 Philip Worshek 22:03.0 Kinn 9 66 Niqel Shah 22:05.4 Kinn 9 68 Miguell Malacad 22:06.6 ASIJ 10 69 Eito Okino 22:12.5 CAJ 9 70 Chris Carlson 23:05.9 Kinn 10 71 Takuya Wakayama 23:13.0 ASIJ - 72 Akio Yahiro-Korte 23:13.4 YIS 12 73 Karlo Mangubat 23:14.2 Kinn 12 74 Jake Aldridge 24:41.3 Kinn 12 75 Paul Jalink 24:42.2 YIS 11 76 Quentin Kingshepard 25:24.0 YHS 10
| Girls Varsity
1 Bessie Noll 13:54.6 ASIJ 9 2 Hikari Morimoto 13:56.7 CAJ 12 3 Isabelle Ballet 13:57.2 ISSH 9 4 Emiri Dandoy 14:08.9 ASIJ 12 5 Megan Cooney 14:12.7 Kinn 9 6 Keleka Mobley 14:30.5 YHS 10 7 Kana Maeji 14:38.0 ASIJ 12 8 Arisa Ishikawa 14:42.2 ASIJ 10 9 Rickey Fukazawa 14:46.4 ISSH 10 10 Aki Bowers 14:47.9 ASIJ 10 11 Alexandra Taylor 14:59.0 YIS 10 12 Hannah Sehl 15:16.2 YIS 12 13 Gabrielle Baker 15:25.0 YHS 10 14 Ashley Hawkins 15:30.9 Edgr 12 15 Emmy Takakura 15:36.7 ISSH 12 16 Miyuki Sekimitsu 15:41.0 ASIJ 12 17 Anneke Heimlich 15:41.6 YHS 10 18 Rei Morikawa 15:42.9 ASIJ 10 19 Reina Iwase 15:45.6 SMI 9 20 Victoria Hardebeck 15:47.2 Kinn 9 21 Tamami Niwa 15:53.9 ISSH 11 22 Jaimie Cass 15:54.4 ASIJ 10 23 Julie Kinoshita 15:54.9 YIS 11 25 Lexus Perez 16:06.2 YHS 11 26 Kiara Fresinger 16:06.6 Edgr 10 27 Callie Godfrey 16:07.0 YHS - 28 A Range 16:07.3 Zama 12 29 Sarah Witmer 16:07.5 ASIJ 9 30 Eika Webb 16:09.6 YIS 11 31 Michelle Haglund 16:14.2 YIS 32 Momoko Mochizuki 16:17.1 SMI 11 33 Kiyoka Yasuda 16:17.7 SMI 11 34 Ria Kitaura-Rachmin 16:20.3 CAJ 9 35 Emily Miller 16:20.8 Kinn 9 36 Rika Akimoti 16:24.0 SMI 10 37 Jordan Schwartz 16:26.8 Edgr 10 38 Julia Farry 16:29.7 YIS 11 39 Georgia Loughlin 16:30.5 Kinn 10 40 Mari Kobayashi 16:36.7 SMI 10 41 Mai Gozu 16:38.8 SMI 12 42 Kassandra Samuel 16:39.3 YHS 9 43 Miki Maruyama 16:40.9 ASIJ 12 44 Katelyn Sult 16:41.7 YHS 9 45 Marisa Jensen 16:42.0 YIS 12 46 Kathryn Perkins 16:48.9 YIS 11 47 Heidi Griffen 16:58.8 ISSH 11 48 Brianna Wor 16:59.1 CAJ 10 49 Lena Asai 17:20.2 YIS 11 50 Janelle Patterson 17:24.9 Edgr 11 51 Ashley Barnes 17:29.0 Kinn 10 52 Nakaya Whaley 17:35.6 Kinn 10 53 Olivia Crumpacker 17:50.0 Kinn 10 54 Leianne Jacob 18:08.2 Kinn 11 55 Chigusa Morioko 18:22.5 SMI 10 56 Carolyn Patton 18:27.9 Edgr 10 57 Allyssa Pinard 19:49.6 Edgr 10 58 Luli Aihara 20:42.9 SMI 12 59 Lisa Auclair 24:59.2 CAJ 11 60 Kimberly Haskins 25:34.3 MCP -
| Girls JV 1 Alyssa Turner 16:10.5 EJK 9 2 Christin Florenzie 16:12.9 ASIJ 11 3 Marina Ericson 16:44.8 YHS - 4 Sophia Krauth 16:54.8 ASIJ 10 5 Sofi Estay 17:14.7 ASIJ 10 6 Rachel Poluhowich 17:17.5 EJK 10 7 Emi Kusanyanagi 17:34.9 YIS 11 8 Kay Degraw 17:35.6 ASIJ 9 9 Lillian Noah 18:24.4 EJK 10 10 Yuka Goode 18:29.5 EJK 10 11 Jasmine Plant 18:29.7 EJK 11 12 Cecilia Haglund 18:55.0 YIS 10 13 Shu Basu 19:19.5 ASIJ 10 14 Jenny Rha 20:35.6 ASIJ 10 15 Jackie Perez 21:21.4 Kinn 11 16 Kenisha Greenwood 23:09.3 Kinn - 17 Daena Koreen 24:00.8 YHS -
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