The third meet of the season had a lot going on. With more than a few members of the team dealing with illness it was a select group of WHS runners who made the trip to Boston's Franklin Park to face Boston Latin. The boys varsity race was a lopsided affair in favor of the hosts, who are among the top teams in the state for Division 1 (large) schools. Will Jackson led the way for Wayland followed closely by Luke Chisum making his season debut. After captain Daniel Narvaez came through Matthew Tan was next with a strong charge over the last mile followed very closely across the line by Leo Ciccarelli to round out Wayland's scoring five. Adrian Narvaez and Ben Caddoo completed the top seven. Many of these runners will be racing again this Saturday and wanted to leave something in the tank for that effort.
In the girls varsity race things took a turn. Latin had only three runners on the starting line, meaning they wouldn't have enough finishers for a scoring team. Regrettably, multiple Wayland runners either took a wrong turn by mistake or inadvertently omitted a portion of the course. As a result Wayland didn't have enough runners complete the course to have a scoring team either. When this many athletes experience problems navigating the course the issue can sometimes be down to the marking of the course. However, I can vouch for the time and effort that the Latin coach puts into getting the course marked and flagged. In the end the issues Wayland runners experienced on the course were a failure of coaching. Seeing important parts of the course beforehand was de-emphasized in hopes that having access to a course map ahead of time would suffice. This won't be repeated on the team's next visit to this venue in a month's time for the DCL Championship.
The final race of the day was a combined JV race on a shorter course 3 km in length. Edge Wheeler led the way for the Wayland boys while Anna Munford ran well in representing the girls team.
We're on to Wrentham Saturday.
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