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Hero Hope Garden Update | 2021 XC season starting in 25 Days

7-28-2021 update So much to say and try to catch you up.

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XC season starts in 25 Days what’s your short term and long teen goals ?

Hatim Jean-Louis Founder of Dreams Are Tangible Goals

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Brianna Duncan @UsainBree Former Cambridge Rindge & Latin Star/Oregon Duck

Special salute to our audience, supporting BSR. Thank you to everyone who is support BSR by heading to the #PopUpStore: https://shop.marathonsports.com/colle... Today BSR had an opportunity to sit down with Cambridge Great.. Brianna Duncan current Oregon Duck, on her quest to break 11 Secs.

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Cape Ann League 2019 XC Championship Recap via Bay State Running

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I was very fortunate to be assigned the 2019 Cape Ann League Cross Country Conference Championship. For starters, I got to jump in the back of the lead cart, and utilize the IG features of going Live and utilizing the story options to upload some footage of the races. The second highlight was that the driver of the cart was Legendary CRLS (Cambridge Rindge & Latin School) Hall Fame Coach Bob Maquire, He said "Were going to get the right angle". At this point I felt confident on what was going to transpire in delivering the BSR audience what they wanted with our coverage. 

As the legendary starter Tommy Meagher raised his gun to start the girls race, Coach Maquire align the cart in position right before the high rise; BOOM the gun goes off, an athlete that I can't see right away gets out aggressive from the start, as the group of runners clustered together raising the first rise, I saw the singlet of North Reading, two triton singlets, and a familiar face in talented sophomore from Pentucket Phoebe Rubio and senior Lucy Gagon from Newburyport. I am not familiar with the leader and the duo from Triton but this is are lead pack after a mile.

Entering the second loop at Wrentham, and approaching the rolling hills area of the course the athlete who took it from the gun, who has know been surging around these tight turns was Lindsay Maclellan from North Reading. I later discovered was the Defending Div 3 Outdoor 2 Mile Champion.

The Triton duo of Ellie Gay-Killeen & Sarah Harrington were still tuck in to a pack with Newburyport's (Gagon) & Pentucket's(Rubio)(Conover) & Triton's third runner (Lorenzo). The team battle was starting to commence just as well as Maclellan started to winding up and extending to her lead and a run away victory of 18:58.  Second place went to Triton's (Killeen) with a time of 19:15 and third place went to Pentucket's (Rubio) with a time of 19:25. From there, the real battled started heating for team; the Triton girls over the last 1k landed their top 5 in the top 14 scoring 38 points. Newburyport was second as team overall scoring 70 points led by Lucy Gagon finished fourth overall with a performance 19:36, Hamilton Wenham was third scoring 79 points.

The Boy's Varisty race was up next and Coach Maquire pulled the cart toward the finish line.  I was in the back of the cart saving and uploading content to the iG account, when out of nowhere the BOOM of the gun went off, and I scrambled and got the angle of the boys zooming past.

The lead pack was being dictated by Senior John Lucey from Newburyport, Peter Lopata from Pentucket, Sebastian Gilligan from Masco, Manchester Essex's William Kenney & Triton's Graham Steadfast.  In the near distance was Dresse Faldi from Newburyport trailing the pack. Entering the second loop at Wrentham, Newburyport's (Faldi) made a strong move entering the rolling hills, the team battle heated up between, Newburyport, Triton & Pentucket.

As John Lucey methodically stretching out his lead, I started sharing with audience same singlet different runner. What I meant by same singlet different runner, over the years I watched the older brothers (Nick, Jack) Carleo dominate this league, then the torched was passed to Sam Acaquaviva now John Lucey cruising to a run away clocking a blistering time of 15:51. The battle for second place and team scoring was heating up, Masco's (Gilligan) and Triton's (Steadfast) were battling all race long, stride by stride into the finish, with Steadfast getting the nod (16:29) to Gilligan's (16:30). Pentucket's (Lopata) was fourth 16:40 and Manchester Essex (Kenney) was 6th overall with 16:53

In the end it was the Newburyport dominance over the last half of the race which sealed the deal for the team title. Thomas Jon Carleo (Yes Another Carleo) crossed the line as Newburyports fifth runner and 21st Overall with a time of 17:30 in the team hunt wining another league title finishing with 41 Points.  In a very tight team battle Triton and Pentucket tied with 69 Points

John Lucey leads Newburyport to League Title: Post Race Interview

Post Race Reaction with BSR and Newburyport Don Hennigar


I was very fortunate to be assigned the 2019 Cape Ann League Cross Country Conference Championship. For starters, I got to jump in the back of the lead cart, and utilize the IG features of going Live and utilizing the story options to upload some footage of the races. The second highlight was that the driver of the cart was Legendary CRLS (Cambridge Rindge & Latin School) Hall Fame Coach Bob Maquire, He said "Were going to get the right angle". At this point I felt confident on what was going to transpire in delivering the BSR audience what they wanted with our coverage. 


As the legendary starter Tommy Meagher raised his gun to start the girls race, Coach Maquire align the cart in position right before the high rise; BOOM the gun goes off, an athlete that I can't see right away gets out aggressive from the start, as the group of runners clustered together raising the first rise, I saw the singlet of North Reading, two triton singlets, and a familiar face in talented sophomore from Pentucket Phoebe Rubio and senior Lucy Gagon from Newburyport. I am not familiar with the leader and the duo from Triton but this is are lead pack after a mile.


Entering the second loop at Wrentham, and approaching the rolling hills area of the course the athlete who took it from the gun, who has know been surging around these tight turns was Lindsay Maclellan from North Reading. I later discovered was the Defending Div 3 Outdoor 2 Mile Champion.


The Triton duo of Ellie Gay-Killeen & Sarah Harrington were still tuck in to a pack with Newburyport's (Gagon) & Pentucket's(Rubio)(Conover) & Triton's third runner (Lorenzo). The team battle was starting to commence just as well as Maclellan started to winding up and extending to her lead and a run away victory of 18:58.  Second place went to Triton's (Killeen) with a time of 19:15 and third place went to Pentucket's (Rubio) with a time of 19:25. From there, the real battled started heating for team; the Triton girls over the last 1k landed their top 5 in the top 14 scoring 38 points. Newburyport was second as team overall scoring 70 points led by Lucy Gagon finished fourth overall with a performance 19:36, Hamilton Wenham was third scoring 79 points.


The Boy's Varisty race was up next and Coach Maquire pulled the cart toward the finish line.  I was in the back of the cart saving and uploading content to the iG account, when out of nowhere the BOOM of the gun went off, and I scrambled and got the angle of the boys zooming past.


The lead pack was being dictated by Senior John Lucey from Newburyport, Peter Lopata from Pentucket, Sebastian Gilligan from Masco, Manchester Essex's William Kenney & Triton's Graham Steadfast.  In the near distance was Dresse Faldi from Newburyport trailing the pack. Entering the second loop at Wrentham, Newburyport's (Faldi) made a strong move entering the rolling hills, the team battle heated up between, Newburyport, Triton & Pentucket.


As John Lucey methodically stretching out his lead, I started sharing with audience same singlet different runner. What I meant by same singlet different runner, over the years I watched the older brothers (Nick, Jack) Carleo dominate this league, then the torched was passed to Sam Acaquaviva now John Lucey cruising to a run away clocking a blistering time of 15:51. The battle for second place and team scoring was heating up, Masco's (Gilligan) and Triton's (Steadfast) were battling all race long, stride by stride into the finish, with Steadfast getting the nod (16:29) to Gilligan's (16:30). Pentucket's (Lopata) was fourth 16:40 and Manchester Essex (Kenney) was 6th overall with 16:53


In the end it was the Newburyport dominance over the last half of the race which sealed the deal for the team title. Thomas Jon Carleo (Yes Another Carleo) crossed the line as Newburyports fifth runner and 21st Overall with a time of 17:30 in the team hunt wining another league title finishing with 41 Points.  In a very tight team battle Triton and Pentucket tied with 69 Points

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7th Annual Big Wave Recap 2019 @BpsXC_

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Summer Miles makes Fall Smiles is the cliche but looking at this picture above I believe this to be true. Here are in a new season XC, this is are fifth time attending the Big Wave Invitational. I am truly excited about the team, second time in five years of the team existence that I would be fielding a girls team. Additionally I have some young talent coming up from the 8th grade (Brandon Douglas) and 9th grader Max Barcan as well last but not least the Boy's Varsity who has been tremendous in establishing the program.

First race was the Freshmen & Sophomore (Boy's) race. Last year when Max Barcan was in 8th grade on the course he ran 18.22 for a 2.5 race and finished 100th. Fast forward to this year Max put some work over the summer during Captain's practice, stepped on a Bee's Nest that slowed him down a lil bit on training however Max still ran a personal best on the course with a time of 16:07 and finished 40th overall out of 162 runners
Brandon Douglas 8th grader started his career running his first XC race ran 18:04 and finished 124th out of 162 runners

Check out: 2019 Big Wave Freshmen & Sophomore Boys Results

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Next up was the Girls Varsity race, I was eager to see how the girls were going to due since this was going to be their first XC race ever. Proud of the resiliency and effort displayed in today's race by Grace Colon with a top 20 Performance just missing out in the medal. The junior covered the 2,5 Mile course in a time of 18:01 and finished 19th. #BrightFuture

Paola Ruiz a junior as well ran her first ever race and finished 73rd with a time of 23.35 and Senior Captain in her first race ever Samantha Wilcox ran tough race, considering she couldn't run two miles without stopping today she crushed 2.5 miles didn't stop and ran 25.17. Very proud of the girls efforts, their teammate Katherine Keating came to support.

Girls Big Wave Varsity Results:

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We end the day with Boys Varsity Race. I was unsure about where we would ended up as a team in scoring but the goal was to be in the top 5. When dust settled the Boys ran amazing very proud of their effort. The course was extended this year just tad bit so it measured 2.5 Miles. We finished second overall and be a very talented St John's Shrewsbury.

Adnan Abdi Rahman 4th overall with a time of 13:38
Johan Sepulveda 10th Overall with a time of 13:54
Joshua Joseph 14th overall with a time of 13:56
Ezra Taub 17th Overall with a time of 14:03
Cristian Novelle-Ruddy 44th Overall with a time of 15:20
Luke Harrington in his first race over very proud of the senior's effort finished 77th Overall with a time of 16:27


Boys 2019 Big Wave Varsity Race Results

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