Kevin Pool debuted and Team CMAC member Sherry Esposito continued to

perform at a high level as winners of the Pleasant Valley

Four Mile Run, the second 2002 Twilight Series run, held

in and around Pleasant Valley on June 20.

 

Pool and Rick Kern of Frederick blasted to the front

of the sixty runner field, with Pool's 4:50 first mile time

giving him a ten second lead over Kern, with Paul Miller

and Michael Replogle another thirty seconds behind.

 

Although the uphill second mile slowed Pool to a 5:35

pace, he continued to increase his lead over Kern.  At the

three mile point his time of 15:50 led Kern by twenty seconds,

with Miller and Dave Griffin, who had passed Replogle, almost

two minute behind.

 

At the finish Pool's time of 21:22 was good for a thirty-eight

second win over Kern.  Two minutes later Miller finished just ahead

of first masters runner Griffin, with Replogle another twenty seconds

back.  Gary St. Onge finished tenth as the first senior runner, and

Jacob Vigeveno rallied to finish as fifteenth male and seventeenth

overall after arriving late, with no warmup and the entire field

headed down the road.  

 

As the head female of the field headed down the road, 

Esposito, whose winning streak in local races has now reached double

digits, saw only male runners, as her 5:45 first mile time placed her

thirty-five seconds ahead of Tina McCubbin, with Colleen Lawson,

CMAC's Becky Alvarez and Jill Krebs,  bunched behind McCubbin.

 

At the three mile mark, passed in 18:35, Esposito's lead was

well over a minute, and she finished two minutes ahead of Krebs,

who passed several runners on the return portion of the out-and-back

course.  McCubbin finished comfortably ahead of Alvarez, with

Suzanne Ripley capturing fifth.  CMAC charter member Mira Foote finished ninth as the

first masters runner, and Dee Nelson finished eleventh as the first

senior runner.

 

The next Twilight Series Race will be the Camp Hashawa Three

Mile Trail Run, to be held at 7:00 pm on Thursday, June 27, at

Camp Hashawa, off Route 97 north of Westminster.  The Trail Run will

be preceded by two CMAC cross-country runs, starting at 6:30 pm.  For

more information about the Trail run, contact Gary Honeman at 410-848-2118,

and for more information about the CMAC runs, contact Doug Renner at

410-756-9976 or 410-857-2581.