Cross Country Update....Week One, Moeller "Primetime" Invitational

The Moeller “Primetime” Invitational was contested on August 23rd, 2024, for the eighth year at our home location at the Christ’s Church Mason.   The church has been an outstanding partner in hosting this event, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with them in years to come.  
 
It is a huge amount of work to put on this event and Moeller Cross Country wishes to thank Course Manager Charlie Lytle, Coach Jerry DiCristoforo, and Coach Frank Russo, and all the parents who worked the turf crew, lights, finish-line, crowd control, first-aid, parking, cleanup, and other assorted odd jobs.   Finally to Gavin Gray, Anthony Corder, Emma Stiver and their crew for the outstanding live streaming production.  This has become a great event because of all of you…thank you!
 
Also a special “shout-out” to all others outside of cross country who provided a helping hand with this huge undertaking, including the Moeller Swim Team. Thank you very much!
 
In addition, we especially want to thank our corporate sponsors for supporting our Primetime event, especially presenting sponsor Tri-State Running Company.  

 
Please continue to support those businesses throughout the year and at other meets they may happen to visit.   For more information and links to those sponsors, visit: https://www.moeller.org/PTI 
 
The Crusader Cross Country Team opened the season under the “Friday Night Lights” on August 23rd, 2024 hosting the Moeller “Primetime” Invitational presented by Tri-State Running Company at the Christ’s Church Mason in Mason, Ohio, finishing 4th of 7 teams with 76 points. 
 
This year’s top finisher for Moeller was Junior Preston Wesley in 7^th place with a time of 16:15 (out of 93 runners).   Also scoring for Varsity: Junior Owen Speed (8^th – 16:21), Junior Brock Gruber (11^th – 16:37), Junior Zach Lazor (23^rd – 17:04), and Freshman Paul Eckstein (39^th – 17:52).   Finishing out Varsity were Jacob Jankowski, Carson Todd, Steve Schuette, Jake Allen, Max Herzog, Finn Taylor, Garrett Keller, Hayden Sorg, Murphy Maynes, Zach Guthrie, Sam Bokelman, Jacob Staples, Jacob Scott, Andrew Angeles, and Alex Kanyuck. 

 

The JV squad finished 2nd out of 6 teams with a score of 74.  Top finisher for that race was Junior Keegan Hantak in 18^th place with a time of 20:14 (out of 101 runners).  Also scoring for JV were Luke Zielinski, Xavier Ferguson, Archer Beckstedt, and Charlie Meyer. 

 

Complete meet results can be found here:   Track Scoreboard

For the upcoming meet, the team travels to Lebanon, Ohio on August 31st, 2024, to compete in the Lebanon Warrior Invitational at Lebanon High School.
 
Thanks to all who support the Crusader runners for this outstanding primetime event!   We greatly appreciate it.