The Milton Cross Country teams traveled to Conyers and the Olympic International Horse Park to compete in this yearly invitational meet formally called the Patriot Invitational, hosted by Heritage High School. Note: the meet named changed this year to commemorate the sad death of Heritage cross country runner Aubrea Gunderson who lost her life in 2005 when she was struck by a car while running, near her school during practice. Milton’s fast completion of their cross country course (finished in just 1 year) was strongly influenced by this tragic event.

Varsity Boys
Freshman Tyler Tomy led Milton to a strong 9th place finish (out of 24 teams) in the championship division. Tyler’s 17th place finish was followed by Mitchell Foley (43rd) and Seth Tomy (60th). There were 219 finishers.

Varsity Girls
In a close team battle, the Lady Eagles placed 8th out of 22 teams in the championship division. Megan Hirschi again led Milton with her outstanding 5th place finish (192 runners finished). Her season best time was followed by Sarah Foreman (19th) and then the “pack” followed: Jamie Chandler (64th), Susannah Hardy (68th) and freshman sensation Steph Butzer (69th). The varsity girl’s time spread between our runners #3 to #9 was an outstanding 36 seconds!!

JV Girls
The Lady Eagles ran some amazing individual times and came away with a 3rd place team finish. No official team results were tabulated, so unofficial:

Harrison-21
Lakeside/Dekalb-86
Milton-96
Grady-128
Blessed Trinity-139
Mill Creek-171
17 full teams finished

Outstanding and personal record races were turned in by many and the Lady Eagles were paced by Carly Randolph (11th), Kristina Brown (13th) and Maggie Shawcross (15th). There were 297 finishers.

JV Boys
Due to the large amount of entries, the JV boys in 2 races (our top-10 JV boys ran in the JV race and the remainder ran the Open race).
Milton scored a big win in both races!! Alex Keeter won the JV boys race and paced the Eagles to a team victory!! Again, no official team scores were tabulated, so unofficial:

Milton-48
Harrison-53
Blessed Trinity-124
Chamblee-140
Mill Creek-140
Lakside/Dekalb-164
22 full teams finished

Following Alex Keeter’s win, strong performances were run by Ryan Thurman (4th) and Morgan Spartz (9th). Also contributing to the team victory were Erik Farnsworth (14th), Will Anderson (20th) and Taylor Early (24th).

In the Open race, the wins kept on coming!! Never headed, Brian Parsons led from the start for a wire-to-wire victory over approx 125 runners!
Strong individual performances were recorded by Jamar Jeter, John Britt Easterling, Jack Welborn and Travis Turner.

The Eagles compete next at the Fulton County Cross Country Championships, Oct 14th at Webb Bridge Park in Alpharetta.

The Milton Cross Country team returned to the Great American Cross Country festival on September 23rd after a long absence and came a way with some impressive results.
The festival, now being hosted by Hoover HS in Birmingham, AL, provided a wonderful but tough course and Milton showed it was up for the challenge!

The varsity lady Eagles were never headed as they went on to WIN the White Invitational division with a low score of 70 points to defeat a field of 11 schools. Led by the strong front running of Megan Hirschi (7th), Sarah Foreman (14th) and Jamie Chandler (21st) Milton was in command early. Milton’s team win also came with strong performances by the entire team: Stephanie Butzer (27th), Susannah Hardy (28th), Maddie Cook (30th) and Laura Randall (32nd).

The varsity boys team ran a strong race and finished a close 2nd! out of 16 schools in the White Invitational division. Led by Christian Scholz exciting come from behind 2nd place finish, Milton put 3 runners in the top-20 overall finishing positions. Strong and gutsy performances were also turned in by Tyler Tomy (7th), Mitchell Foley (15th) and Ryan Price (29th).

Both junior varsity races ending up being the most competitive fields the Milton Eagles had faced all season. With schools from all over the southeast and eastern US entered, the competition for the JV team was stout!

Led by Cori Deutsch’s 36th place, Milton finished 12th out of 25 teams! Other Lady Eagles that ran strong included Chelsea Weiermiller (40th) and MC Durham (78th). There were 178 finishers in the JV girls race.

Milton’s Junior Varsity boy’s team had similar results. A very strong performance by senior Drew Norris (49th) paced the Eagles to a 15th place team finish out of 27 schools. Milton’s team finish was helped out by Curt Ellison (72nd) & Josh Witkowski (78th).

The Milton Cross Country teams travel to the GA International Horse Park in Conyers, GA for the Aubrae Gunderson (Patriot) Invitational next weekend where the Eagles have had much success in the past few years.

The Milton Eagles Cross Country team traveled to southeastern Georgia for their annual overnite trip and meet at Magnolia Springs State Park in Millen. The 4th annual Ray Miller Invitational was held Sept 16th and Milton again dominated the competition, sweeping all 4 races.

The varsity boys avenged their loss in 2005 to Hephzibah by winning the meet convincingly by scoring a low 28 points to outdistance both Statesboro and Hephzibah. Leading the boys again was Christian Scholz with a second place finish. Milton placed all 7 of their runners in the top-15!

The varsity girls again dominated the event with all 7 runners finishing in the top-10. Paced by Megan Hirschi’s new course record (20:51), the Lady Eagles scored a near-perfect 18 points and were never threatened. Former course record holder Sarah Foreman (21:19) was 2nd and Jamie Chandler finished 4th.

The JV races were nothing short of amazing. With awards going to the top-7 finishers in both the boys and girls JV competitions, Milton swept the competition! Milton runners finished in the top-10 OVERALL positions in the boy’s race, paced by up and coming Brandon Halls. The girl’s were also just as impressive with Laura Randall leading from start to finish to get the win with Milton runners in the next 6 OVERALL positions.

The top 7 runners in both varsity and JV will travel to Birmingham, AL for the Great American cross country festival where the eagles will face their strongest fields & schools this season.

Milton Cross-country had a remarkable performance at the Clemson Invitational Cross Country Meet this past Saturday. The meet was held on the Clemson University campus with numerous schools from Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina in attendance. The Milton JV girls swept the competition by achieving the first five places in their race scoring a perfect 15 points. The JV Lady Eagles were led by the freshman duo of Anika Scholz and Stephanie Butzer, and were followed closely by Mary-Chrislyn Durham, Jennifer Hawe and Carly Randolph. The team was thrilled with their perfect 15 score, a rarity in the sport.

The Milton varsity Lady Eagles finished a strong 2nd place out of 10 schools. Pacing Milton with a great race was Megan Hirschi who finished 4th. Also placing in the top ten were Jamie Chandler (8th) and Sarah Foreman (10th).

A successful season continued for the Milton boys’ varsity cross-country team with an impressive 2nd place finish out of 14 teams. Led by Christian Scholz (6th), Tyler Tomy (10th), Seth Tomy (18th) and Ryan Price (19th), the Eagles continue to build momentum and improve.

For the second straight week, Mitchell Foley finished second in the JV boys’ cross-country race. With over 120 runners, the Eagles ran to a 2nd place team finish. Contributing to the Eagles runner-up finish were Ryan Thurman (8th), Thomas Monette (9th), Brian Parsons (12th) and Curt Ellison (14th).

Milton Cross Country had a strong early season showing at the Clara Bowl Invitational Meet this past Saturday at Berry College. The Milton varsity boys came in 6th out of 79 teams. Strong running up front with a great pack of four, led Milton to the 6th place finish at this early season competitive meet. Lead by Christian Scholz (13th), Seth Tomy (27th), Tyler Tomy (37th) and Ryan Price (47th), Milton put four runners in the top fifty to improve 14 places from their 2005 finish at the Clara Bowl.

For the Milton varsity girls, solid pack running pushed Milton to a 7th place finish out of 71 teams. The team was led by Sarah Foreman (30th), Megan Hirschi (37th) and Jamie Chandler (57th), all top sixty finishers. This put Milton ahead of many strong cross-country programs. Next week, the Lady Eagles will compete at the Clemson Invitational where they finished 2nd in 2005.

With five runners in the top 20, the Milton JV boys dominated the race and took 1st place. Let by Mitchell Foley’s 2nd place finish and strong finishes by Curt Ellison (8th) and Alex Warner (11th), Milton was the team up front at the start and remained that way throughout the race.

Milton’s dominance was clearly evident as Lady Eagle racers placed two JV girls in the top 20 to lead Milton to a 2nd place finish. The Lady Eagles eventually had 5 runners in the top-30 and were led by Cori Deutsch (13th), Anika Scholz (15th), Jennifer Hawe (22nd), Kelsey Campalong (24th) and senior newcomer Carly Randolph (27th). Milton had the majority of the runners in the race that had 275 finishers! Most Lady Eagle runners ran their best & fastest race of the season at this very competitive and early season meet.