Preps
Jesuit up to challenge
The boys team makes it look easy despite long bus ride to district meet.
By JOHN SCHWARB, Times Staff Writer
Published October 26, 2003
SPRING HILL - Ah, the adversity of districts.
With the Class 2A, Region 3 and state meets at Ed Radice Sports Complex in the next two weeks, the district was going to be the tough one for Jesuit.
The bus would have to be at the school early, and the team would have to handle that hour-or-so trip to Anderson Snow Sports Complex.
Mentally, the squad would be tested. Physically, the Tigers would have to fight off pre-race fatigue ... oh, never mind.
Saturday's District 5 event looked like a Jesuit practice, with the first four finishers in the boys race wearing Tigers blue. Junior Andy Biladeau, ranked third in 2A by flrunners.com, led the way by winning in an easy 16 minutes, 22 seconds, 1:11 ahead of his closest teammate.
"It was a controlled effort, it wasn't all out," said Biladeau, as business-like as a downtown Tampa banker. "I had a game plan going in and just tried to execute the game plan. It ended up working pretty well."
The highest finish among Jesuit's scored five was eighth place, and its team mark was 17 points, 40 ahead of second-place Hernando. It could not have been more of a Tigers day unless their large pack of non-competing runners jogged around the complex on their own after the race. Actually, they did.
On the girls' side, Academy of Holy Names turned in a perhaps more subtle but nearly equally impressive performance, winning with 34 points. Aileen Fletcher (20:48) and Sara Petrick (21:18) finished first and second, and three more Jaguars placed in the top 12. For Fletcher, it was an especially notable effort considering the sophomore took up the sport just this year. She claims to have "barely got on varsity," but a strong run over what was widely acknowledged as a difficult course perhaps proved that to be a bit of an exaggeration.
The top eight teams advance to Friday's region meet at Ed Radice, and first-year Newsome qualified its girls teams (eighth place) and boys (fifth). In the boys competition, Tampa Catholic (sixth) and Robinson (seventh) advanced.
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