  BCS
on to State Again
With the exception of the
Emerald City League
Championships (where the BCS
girls took 3rd), Jeannie Beth
has improved with every race
this season. She ran a great
race at Lincoln Park on the 14th
and followed that up at the end
of the month with a
23:32.9 at the
Tri-District Championships in a
heavy rain on the American Lake
Veterans Golf Course. Jean saved
the day for BCS last year with a
23:32.1 and a
5th place team finish that
earned the team a trip to State.
This year she ran in 7th place
for BCS and the girls again
captured the 5th and final
qualifying team spot at State.
The BCS
girls will be joined at State by senior
Michael Milbank and sophomore
Daniel Nortz .
Once again I
will represent the Bellevue
Reporter newspaper as their
photographer in Pasco. The
end-of-season banquet is just
three days after the State race
so I'll be hard pressed to get
my photographic work done in
time.
Nathanael Peaks at Just the
Right Time
Nathanael
has had solid races all season,
finishing as a scorer in each
race except Sundodger. His
breakthrough race was the long
10K race at Bellingham described
at the right. His finish
places on the SPU team this
season have been 2nd, 6th, 1st,
3rd, 3rd, and 1st. The
GNAC Conference Championships
are on November 6th.
Here is his
record so far this season:
9/11
Apple Ridge Invite, Yakima
2nd team/28th overall 6K
21:10
9/18
Sundodger, Lincoln Park
6th team/69th overall 8K
26:59.27
9/25
Saint Martins Invite, Lacey
1st team/24th overall 8K
28:24
10/2
Charles Bowles Invite,
Willamette 3rd team/124th
overall 8K 26:31.37
10/9
WWU Preview, Bellingham
3rd team/26th overall 8K
27:24
10/23
Pre-Regionals, Bellingham
1st team/43rd overall 10K
33.57.4
 The
SPU athletics website used
my photo (right) of Nathanael
from two weeks earlier on the
same course.
And on
October 30th, at he SPU XC
Halloween dash, Nathanael won (again)
for "Most Original Costume." He
dressed up (and ran as) the
Witch-king
of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgul.
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As
early as Johnson vs. Goldwater
(1964, age 9), I have enjoyed
election night. At age 5,
I probably watched the
Kennedy-Nixon returns but was
too young to care.
I remember watching Chet Huntley and David
Brinkley on ABC, until their
team reporting ended in 1970.
But with the advent of mail-in
ballots, I wonder if election
night will have the same feel?
