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Paske leads Porters at Locktoberfest Invite
Randy Whalen
Freelance Reporter
Donovan Paske wasn’t too
happy with his performance
Saturday, Sept. 30, but his
coach was.
Paske, a junior standout
runner for the Lockport
Township boys cross country
team, suffered a stress
fracture in his right knee
before the season started and
sat out of the teams first few
competitions before returning
for a trio of races in September.
The most recent one of
those was right at home as
the Porters hosted their annual
Locktoberfest meet on
Sept. 30 at Dellwood Park.
There, Paske paced the
Porters with a team-best time
of 16 minutes, 55.4 seconds
which was good for 42nd
overall in the field of nearly
180 runners. But he wasn’t
happy with that result.
“It was not the best race for
me; it could have been a lot
better,” Paske said. “I didn’t
know until [Friday, Sept. 29]
that I was going to run. I just
wasn’t feeling it. I was tired
and not feeling it mentally.
“I’ve become more tired
and sore and need to pull
back a little. I’m pretty sure
that my next race is the [Minooka]
Regional [on Oct.
21 at Channahon Community
Park]. I’m just looking
ahead and that’s my main
focus.”
Lockport coach Tom Razo
agreed that Paske would
be taking some more time
off, but the veteran coach
thought he did well last
week.
“I thought he ran well,”
Razo said. “I thought if we
don’t run him [at Locktoberfest]
than it would be about
a month between races for
him. He didn’t have spikes
on [last Saturday]. He just
wore trainers. We just have
to make sure he’s healthy.
“He’s a talented kid and
looked great before the season
started. Then this [injury]
happened, but OK... We
just have to deal with it.”
As a team, Lockport (302
points) finished 12th overall
out of 21 teams. Behind
individual winner Zachary
Kinne (15:13.4) and fourthplace
finisher Ryan Kennedy
(15:58.2), defending
Class 3A state champion
Neuqua Valley (32) took
first. Plainfield South (97),
which featured third-place
individual Christian Knowlton
(15:55.3) was second.
Wheaton North (126) third
and second place individual
Clayton Mendez (15:31.9)
paced Whitney Young (146)
to a fourth place finish. Other
area teams that participated
were Lincoln-Way Central
(241, 9th), and Lincoln-Way
West (352, 14th).
Placing right behind Paske
for the Porters was senior
Cade Musich (16:58, 44th).
He was followed by junior
Marc Schelli (17:10.7,
59th), junior Alex Kistinger
(17:38.8, 80th), and senior
George Kosmowski
(17:47.1, 91st) rounded out
the top five for Lockport. The
rest of the Porter varsity runners
in the race were seniors
Dylan McCarthy (18:36.7),
Nick Sulich (18:45.4), and
David Krzysiak (18:57.7),
along with junior Kevin
Chen (22:38.1).
“I think we always do
well to host the meet,” Paske
said. “I feel like the rest of
the team has done well. They
are racing great and packing
it in groups.”
Schelli agreed with Paske.
“Overall we did pretty
well and the conditions
were great,” he said of the
Locktoberfest race. “In the
first mile we were packed in
with Donovan and I wish we
would have went out a little
faster. We’re going to need
energy and to pick it up. But
I think we can make it out
[of the regional].”
A year ago, the event was
held in rainy conditions, but
last weekend it was a beautiful
fall morning with temps
in the low 60s.
“It was a perfect day to
run and the times showed
it,” Razo said. “We reconfigured
the course some a bit
and the guys ran well.”
In the freshman/sophomore
race, the Porters
showed the future looks
bright by taking first place
with 38 points. Wheaton
North (47) was second and
Glenbard West (88) third.
John Norris (17:01.6)
from Downers Grove South
won the fresh/soph race.
But after that there was a
plethora of Porters as they
placed four in the top seven.
They were sophomores
Aidan Pajeau (17:09.9, 2nd),
Brendan Diamond (17:20.3,
4th), Ross Cronholm (17:21,
5th), and Jacob Hinchley
(17:24.1, 7th).
“We just had our freshman
and sophomore teams both
run at [the Joe Mortimer Invite
at Turtle Head Lake] on
Thursday[Sept. 28],” Razo
Lockport’s Donovan Paske pushes himself Saturday, Sept.
30, during the Locktoberfest invite at Dellwood Park in
Lockport. Photos by Julie McMann/22nd Century Media
LTHS runners Donovan Paske (370) and Marc Schelli (372)
look to separate from the pack.
said. “They both finished
second, but took home the
combined team title. I’m
not sure if we’ve ever had
an underclass team win the
title [at Locktoberfest]. If we
did it was back in the days of
[Nick] Setta and that group
[in the late 1990s].
“I’m not sure about moving
people up to the varsity
for postseason. But our
fresh/soph kids are hungry.”
Lockport will host the
SouthWest Suburban Conference
Blue Division meet for
all levels on Oct. 14 starting
at 8 a.m. at Dellwood Park.
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football
From Page 39
a 27-yard interception return
for a touchdown.
After barely running the
ball in the first quarter, the
Raiders handed it off to junior
running back Quentin
Pringle a couple of times in
the second quarter.
Pringle plunged in from
a yard out for a 42-0 lead
with 5:28 left in the first
half. The week before, in a
48-24 homecoming victory
over Bradley-Bourbonnais,
Quentin Pringle established
a new Bolingbrook school
record for most yards in a
game with 39 carries for 402
yards. The previous record
was 369 yards by Robert
Farmer in 1992.
On Lockport’s ensuing
drive, Karli hit senior wide
receiver Nick Ward (10
catches, 84 yards) with four
passes totaling 40 yards.
That helped the Porters
drive to a third-and-one at
the Bolingbrook three. From
there, Karli kept the ball and
got to the one. But he lost a
fumble there with 1:22 left
in the half. Senior Deshaun
Mallory recovered it, and the
Raiders ran out the clock.
“We moved the ball some
in the first half, but we lost
Tavares [Moore] and he’s
day-to-day,” Starkey said.
“We were just outmanned.
But the kids kept their heads
up and kept playing hard [in
the second half]. That’s a
credit to them.”
Things don’t get any easier
for Lockport as it travels
to face the state’s top-ranked
team, Lincoln-Way East,
this Friday night at 7:30 in
Frankfort.