Souderton's Connor Linse (3rd, 17:27) and Quakertown's Colin McLaughlin (4th, 17:35) were able to get away enough in the middle miles to stay away from the hard-closing Bucks' 2-6 pack on their heels: AJ Morgan (5th, 17:38), Baylor Griffin (6th, 17:41), Rock Fortna (7th, 17:41), Brian Iatarola (8th, 17:46), and Will Bone (9th, 17:54). On Saturday, Linse won the Souderton Invite in 16:16, while McLaughlin placed 4th in 16:41. Souderton's Dan Bedell (10th, 17:58), who placed 6th in the Souderton Invite on Saturday in 16:57, finished just behind Bone.
Jimmie Kilgannon (11th, 18:08) and Ian Davies (12th, season-best 18:17) finished next, just ahead of Souderton's Bobby Greve (18:23) and Mitchell Schlegel (18:35), who ran 17:52 and 17:41, respectively, on Saturday.
Also setting season-bests for the 4-3 Bucks were
Tyler Press (39th, 19:55), Jake Doherty (53rd, 20:17), Liam Hay (63rd, 22:50),
and Matt Young (72nd, 26:46).
Wednesday marked the best 2-5 gap for the Bucks all season, a scant EIGHT seconds. The pack running sealed the wins: 19-43 over Souderton and 23-38 over Quakertown. Souderton (1-6) narrowly defeated Quakertown (0-7) by a score of 25-30.
Elsewhere in Suburban One Continental Conference action, East (6-1) narrowly defeated South (3-4) with a score of 25-31, and North Penn (7-0) and Hatboro-Horsham (3-4) defeated Pennridge (4-3).
A three-point penalty is assigned to each team for each regular season loss. Thus, heading into the Suburban One League Championship Meet: North Penn brings 0 points, while East brings 3, Pennridge and West bring 9, South and Hatboro-Horsham bring 12, Souderton brings 18, and
Quakertown brings 21. These points will be added to each team's invitational score when the eight teams go head to head at Lehigh on Friday, October 19th at Lehigh University. The 2012 SOL Continental Conference Team Champion will be determined by each team's total score once these regular season penalty points are added in.
The Bucks return to action on Saturday afternoon at their final invitational of the season at William Tennent. The Bucks placed 3rd last year in the varsity race, 4th in the JV, and 2nd the freshman race.