Milton's Nathan Reich makes a late surge powering to a 2nd place finish Image by Pinion Photography
I don't rank All-Class or 6A but word is this meet is going to shake the Rankings up on the upper echelon. I have no inside information on what squads ran full strength, but Marietta's Boys brought it as a team scoring 111 points to seize the Championship trophy over top ranked Mill Creek, St.Pius and many others. Ben Pleak and Jake Bagwell ran together across the line placing 9th (15:58) and 10th (16:00) to lead the Blue Devils to the win. It was an intense battle for the individual title as Austin Sprague of St.Pius emerged victorious with a sharp 15:44 holding off Milton's Nathan Reich in 15:47 followed closely by Drew Kelly of Roswell in 15:50 and Arman Rehmann from Norcross who led their squad's charge to a 3rd place team effort. Mill Creek came out on top of Norcross by one point with Eric Westog leading the Hawks placing 8th overall in 15:58 St.Pius and Brookwood (who continues to improve every race) were both within hailing distance of 2nd/3rd grabbed 4th and 5th in the team scoring. Other individuals cracking sub 16 on a course that ran much faster than last year were Daniel Navarro of Marist placing 5th in 15:57 and Newton's Alex Grady .06 back as they crossed the mat almost simultaneously with Parkview's Nick Schofer a couple strides back in 15:58
