Seymour runners earn all-state honor

November 04, 2009 12:30 AM

TRIBUNE REPORTS

Seymour High School seniors Nolan Fife and Zach Toppe received academic all-state honorable mention from the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches.

Fife and Toppe were members of the Owls cross country team.

Cross Country Awards Banquet

The boys and girls cross country teams will be having their awards banquet on Thursday, November 19th at 6 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Drinks will be provided and each family member should bring table service and the following dishes:

Freshman: Main Dish & Vegetable or Salad

Sophomore: Main Dish & Vegetable or Salad

Juniors: Main Dish & Dessert

Seniors: Main Dish & Dessert

Please plan to join us as we look back at our season and recognize the accomplishments of our runners.

If you have any questions please contact Coach Fife or Sunbury.

Photos

From Coach Fife: Team pictures were taken last night. Parents can purchase a copy.

$10.00 for a team picture ( 8 x 10 )
$7.00 for an individual picture of their son ( 5 x 7 )

Have parents or runners let coach know if they want to place an order. Checks can be made to Seymour Cross Country.

Any questions - contact Coach Fife

Seymour Owls XC

Runners compete at state

November 02, 2009 12:34 AM

TRIBUNE REPORTS - Tribtown.com

TERRE HAUTE — The cross country season came to an end on Saturday for Seymour senior Nolan Fife and Brownstown Central sophomore Hope Lockman.

Fife placed 45th out of 196 boys with a time of 17:13.1, while Lockman was 64th out of 187 girls with a time of 20:51.6 in the state finals at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course at the Wabash Valley Sports Center in Terre Haute.

Columbus North claimed the boys and girls team titles. It was the school’s third boys cross country state championship and first for the girls, and it was the eighth time a school swept the boys and girls meets. Carmel did that last year.

North Central sophomore Futsum Zeinasellassie was the overall boys winner in 15:51.6. He was last year’s state runner-up.

Terre Haute North freshman Tapring Goatee was the overall girls winner in 19:07.9.

Results

State Finals at Terre Haute

Boys team scores: Columbus North 63, Chesterton 131, North Central (Indianapolis) 189, Carmel 203, North Harrison 212, Noblesville 218, Zionsville 251, Hamilton Southeastern 253, Huntington North 284, Terre Haute North 299, LaPorte 305, Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger 307, Concord 320, Culver Academies 332, Martinsville 358, South Bend St. Joseph’s 360, Pendleton Heights 387, Fort Wayne Snider 390, Valparaiso 407, Bloomington South 442, West Lafayette 475, Perry Central 480, Lake Central 488, New Albany 534
Top 10: Futsum Zeinasellassie (NC) 15:51.6, Chris Walden (Carmel) 16:01, Scott Vicenzi (Brownsburg) 16:02.5, David Osborn (Chesterton) 16:06.1, Tyler Byrne (NH) 16:14.6, Alejandro Arroyo Yamin (CA) 16:18.3, Nathan Hendershot (PH) 16:20.4, Tom Ohlman (Carmel) 16:20.8, Andrew Diehn (CN) 16:23.5, James Martin (Carroll-Fort Wayne) 16:27
Seymour: 45-Nolan Fife 17:13.1
Girls team scores: Columbus North 96, Carmel 178, Franklin Central 183, Noblesville 186, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 186, Crown Point 206, Bloomington South 233, Valparaiso 238, Terre Haute North 251, Huntington North 257, West Noble 270, Northridge 318, Brownsburg 323, DeKalb 325, Lake Central 330, Columbia City 351, Portage 358, Indianapolis Cathedral 376, Culver Academies 410, Tri-County 423, Heritage Hills 579, Bloomington North 581, Evansville Memorial 586, Bedford North Lawrence 616
Top 10: Tapring Goatee (THN) 19:07.9, Dana Payonk (LC) 19:15.8, Laicee Pierce (CP) 19:33.2, Katelyn Devries (V) 19:36.6, Sarah Bennett (Carmel) 19:37.1, Laura Bess (Harrison-West Lafayette) 19:42.5, Waverly Neer (CA) 19:42.8, Nicole Lucas (BS) 19:43.1, Jessica Richardson (CN) 19:48, Dani Sullivan (FC) 19:49.7
Brownstown Central: 64-Hope Lockman 20:51.6

Fife qualifies for state

October 25, 2009 8:23 PM

By ARV KOONTZ - TRIBTOWN.com

NASHVILLE — Nolan Fife of Seymour and Hope Lockman of Brownstown Central will have the experience of running in the state cross country meet for the second time as a result of turning in strong performances Saturday at the Brown County Semistate.

Lockman finished ninth in the girls race with a time of 20:48.1 to earn her second straight trip to the finals.

Fife finished 10th in the boys race at 17:07. He helped the team qualify for state two years ago.

Terre Haute North made a clean sweep of the team honors, as the girls placed first with 37 points, Bloomington South was second with 60 points and Bloomington North was third with 174 points.

Evansville Memorial, Heritage Hills and Bedford North Lawrence also qualified for the finals.

The Brownstown Central girls were 20th with a team score of 461, and Taylor Royalty of Trinity Lutheran finished 42nd with a time of 22:10.

Terre Haute North boys edged North Harrison 55-56 for first place, while Bloomington South was third with 124 points and Perry Central, Martinsville and New Albany also advanced. Seymour placed 14th with a score of 357.

The runners had to run through mud throughout the course, and they had to run through a puddle of water that covered the entire width of the course near the finish line.

“The first mile I felt real good, and when I got to one and a half miles, my legs started feeling heavy,” Fife. “I don’t know if it was the mud and the water. It was really slippery.”

Fife was in fifth place after the first mile.

“From the two-mile on, one-by-one, people started getting me,” he said.

Fife, who has also qualified for the state track meet twice, said, “I’m going on to the state meet, and I can’t be disappointed with that. I’m looking forward to the next week, and hopefully I can race better than I did today.”

Owls coach Randy Fife said, “The first part of the race, Nolan said he felt pretty good, he felt relaxed, and all of a sudden his legs just felt heavy and he started to fade. He said he was a little bit worried during the race about how bad he felt, and he was worried that a lot of guys could get him. But only four or five moved up and got him.

“He finished 10th, which is not where we wanted him. He probably should have been top five, but 10th does move onto next week and you get a new race, and hopefully he’ll do a little better there.”

Zach Toppe was Seymour’s second finisher, 72nd at 18:30.

“We knew it would be a tall order for us to make the top six,” Fife said. “We just didn’t get the job done today. We finished 14th, and a few years ago we’d have been OK with that. We’ve steadily moved up over the years. We just have our goals set a little higher. Nowadays, we’re trying to get to the state meet, and we just weren’t as competitive today as we needed to be.”

“When you come over here, you have a lot of quality teams, and if you have two or three kids that don’t have their best effort as far as placing, you end up 14th.”

The state meet is Saturday at Terre Haute.

Results - Brown County Semistate

Top 10 teams: Terre Haute North 55, North Harrison 56, Bloomington South 124, Perry Central 136, Martinsville 169, New Albany 182, Evansville Memorial 186, Bloomington North 250, Brown County 284, Castle 323; 14-Seymour 357
Top 10 individuals: Tyler Byrne (NH) 16:15, John Mascari (THN) 16:35, Josh Genet (Northeast Dubois) 16:42, Jace Lowry (M) 16:49, Drew Gambill (Shakamak) 16:54, Ryan Foster (NH) 16:55, Jon Reynolds (NH) 16:58, Milton Brinza (THN) 17:00, Johnnie Guy (NH) 17:01, Nolan Fife (S) 17:07
Other Seymour: 72-Zach Toppe 18:30, 78-Joe Trueblood 18:36, 96-Luke Tormoehlen 18:53, 103-Kyle McCauley 19:04, 107-Mitchell Reutter 19:07, 108-Ryan Emigh 19:07

Seymour Owls XC are headed to Semi-State

County cross country runners headed to semistate

From tribtown.com


Cross country coaches at Seymour, Brownstown Central and Trinity Lutheran high schools are hoping their runners come up with their best races of the season on Saturday when they compete in the Brown County Semistate.

The Seymour boys team, Brownstown girls team and Taylor Royalty of Trinity Lutheran will be among the competitors.

The Seymour boys won the sectional and regional at Bedford, the Brownstown girls placed fifth in the regional and Royalty placed 14th in the regional.

With more rain forecast for the Nashville area, leaving the course wet and muddy, coaches Randy Fife of Seymour, Derrick Koch of Brownstown and Jay Cherry of Trinity are more concerned with where their runners’ placings than they are about times.

Competing for Seymour will be seniors Nolan Fife, Zach Toppe and Kyle McCauley, junior Mitchell Reutter and sophomores Joe Trueblood, Ryan Emigh and Luke Tormoehlen.

Reutter replaces Steven Tanner, who became academically ineligible this week.

“We’re going to be a little short-handed and we’re looking for people to step up and run well,” coach Fife said.

Seymour and Trinity Lutheran ran in the Eagle Classic Sept. 12 at Brown County. Fife had his best time of the season in that race at 15:34.

“I think Nolan, at the front, is going to get us a low number, hopefully one through five,” Fife said. “We need another solid number, and three, four and five have to be in the middle.”

Fife figures his team will be in a battle for fourth place.

“There are probably three teams that are a lock to go on, Terre Haute North, North Harrison and Bloomington South,” he said. “Martinsville has some nice front runners and is probably looking at fourth place. Then, there are two other spots left to go to state and teams competing for those spots are us, New Albany, Perry Central, Castle and Evansville Memorial.
“We’re going to have to have good efforts out of our three, four and five runners. That is where the meet will be lost or won as far as advancing to state. In a meet like that, you can’t have your fourth and fifth runners coming in 100th place.
“The thing I like about our team is we’ve got some kids there that I don’t know which one will actually run well. It’s not like we have to count on that guy as our fourth runner or this guy as our fifth runner. If our fifth man doesn’t run well, our sixth guy could get the job done.

“We were real happy with our times over there (in the Eagle Classic). I think that will be good a motivator for us and give us a little confidence. The times may not be good Saturday because it is going to be wet.”

Running for Brownstown will be seniors Brianna Toppe and Darcey Fritz, juniors Victoria Ollo and Destinie Staley and sophomores Hope Lockman, Jenna Hackman and Maria Allen.

Lockman will try to qualify for the state meet for the second straight year. She finished 12th in the semistate last year at 19:52, which is the best time of her career.
Her best time this year has been 20:07 at the sectional, and she ran 12:12 in the regional.

“She’s running a little bit stronger than she did last year,” Koch said. “We’re going in there with a goal of her finishing in the top 10. If she gets in the top 10, I’ll be happy. The competition is going to be pretty tough. She has to go out and run a smart race. If she is in the top 15 at the start of the race, I think she has a good chance to get out.”

The Brownstown girls placed 20th in the semistate last year, and Koch said he would like to see his team move up several places in the team standings.

“I would really like to see them all go out with their best times of the year, but if the course isn’t in good condition, I don’t know if they’ll be able to do that or not,” he said. “Our goal is to absolutely run their best times that they can, and we’ll let the places take care of themselves. Destinie has the capability of running under 22 and Jenna under 23, and the rest of them in the 23s.”

Royalty, a sophomore, became ill during the regional and fell three times during the final 50 yards and crawled across the finish line.

“She didn’t feel well Monday,” Cherry said. “She ran Tuesday and looked a little sluggish. Wednesday I thought she looked like her old self.”

Royalty finished 21st at semistate last fall.

“I just hope she is feeling well,” Cherry said. “If she runs her race like she has been running most of the year, I think she’ll do fine. I think the goal just has to get in the top 15. That’s what we’re looking at. She has raced against quite a few of the girls she’ll be running against.”

Royalty had her best time of the season in the Eagle Classic at 19:15, and she finished sixth individually.

“There was a lot of competition that day,” Cherry said. “She was right up with the leaders.

The boys race will begin at 10:30 a.m., with the girls race to follow. The top six teams and top 15 individuals will advance to the state meet Oct. 31 at Terre Haute.

The purple pack is back! Seymour Owls XC

Another Reminder

AGAIN - Just a reminder to all parents, runners and runners families . . .

Photos for the end of the year slide show are still being accepted. Quite a few have been received already but I know there are still more out there.

Runners brought home a letter and jump drive a few weeks ago with information. If you haven't seen it, ask your runner.

A laptop will be brought to SEMI-STATE on SATURDAY if you want to bring your camera/card(s)/jump drives/cds or whatever else you have with photos on it, to be downloaded. I have a card reader that should read any and all camera cards.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Thanks - Lis