Gavin Sherry Connects For Northeast HS Club Champs Win


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)
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  Pl Athlete                 Yr   #  Team                      Score       Time        Gap     Speed Rating
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   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