Cross Country: Lely teams both advance

For the Lely boys cross country team, Friday was a day to remember.

For the Lely girls, it was a day to forget.

Still, both teams did what they needed to do at Class 4A Region

3 meet, dvancing to next Saturday's state meet in Tampa.

Running at Boynton Beach's John Prince Park, the Lely boys

finished second behind South Plantation, led by Joel Gascon's

ninth-place finish.

"The guys had a great effort," Trojans coach Mark McGarity said.

"They proved that they can pull together and go for the big time.

It was a phenomenal day, the best they've run all year."

Heidi Miller placed sixth for the Lely girls, who took third

place behind Spanish River and Cooper City.

But McGarity expected more, and says he hopes Friday's

lackluster effort will inspire them to perform better at state.

"The girls had a very eye-opening experience," he said. "They

realize they have to get their focus on running the kind of race

they need to run next weekend.

"Maybe this will wake them up and bring them together."

Class 4A Region 3 Cross Country Meet at John Prince Park,

Boynton Beach

Boys Team Results: 1. South Plantation 50, 2. Lely 63, 3.

Cypress Bay 104, 4. Boyd Anderson 146, 5. Cooper City 164, 6.

Deerfield Beach 184, 10. Gulf Coast 227.

Boys Individual Results: 1. Wilke (Tara Vella) 16:38, 2. Bonille

(S. Plantation) 17:10, 3. Woodhouse (Spanish River) 17:18, 4.

Calabro (S. Plantation) 17:19, 5. Mottola (S. Plantation) 17:22, 6.

Funzora (Spanish River) 17:23, 7. Herfield (Santaluces) 17:25, 8.

Ramsaran (Cypress Bay) 17:28, 9. Gascon (Lely) 17:30, 10. Petersen

(McArthur) 17:37, 11. Dutter (Lake Worth) 17:45, 12. Gazvina

(Cooper City) 17:54, 13. Moreno (Lely) 17:55, 14. Mato (Lely)

18:03, 15. Paul (Deerfield Beach) 18:07.

Lely (63): 9. Joel Gascon 17:30, 13. Carlos Moreno 17:55, 14.

Zach Mato 18:03, 17. Danny Leonard 18:13, 21. Ismael Santiago

18:28, 32. Taylyr Hamernik 18:49, 48. Jaeden Hamernik 19:14.

Gulf Coast (227): 19. Kenneth Minke 18:18, 38. Scott

Story-Llewellyn 18:56, 52. Zachary Batcho 19:24, 66. Garrett Leon

19:52, 76. Larry Hayes 20:32, 89. Kevin Snyder 21:49.

Girls Team Results: 1. Spanish River 34, 2. Cooper City 63, 3.

Lely 72, 4. Douglas 137, 5. Cypress Bay 160, 6. Coral Springs 165,

11. Gulf Coast 269.

Girls Individual Results: 1. Kruzel (Cooper City) 19:27, 2.

Muntz (Spanish River) 19:47, 3. Gabrielle (Spanish River) 20:13, 4.

Polhemus (Spanish River) 20:31, 5. Sturdy (Cooper City) 20:40, 6.

H. Miller (Lely) 20:45, 7. Popova (Coral Springs) 20:49, 8. A.

Miller (Cypress Bay) 21:04, 9. Neptune (Douglas) 21:05, 10. Menzel

(Boynton Beach) 21:09, 11. James (Everglades) 21:13, 12. Almeida

(Spanish River) 21:15, 13. Jefferson (Spanish River) 21:23, 14.

Salinas (Lely) 21:26, 15. Segura (Lely) 21:31.

Lely (72): 6. Heidi Miller 20:45, 14. Laura Salinas 21:26, 15.

Ana Segura 21:31, 16. Allysson Walling 21:33, 21. Michelle Miller

22:08, 29. Jessica Raymond 22:52, 33. Kim Gallagher 22:59.

Gulf Coast (269): 26. Jamie Navarro 22:44, 50. Kayla Dunfee

24:44, 57. Kelsey Demott 25:31, 60. Elizabeth Kocses 25:39, 76.

Lenka Kollar 28:19, 79. Sarah Hough 30:29.