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Boys Athlete

of the Week

IAN SANCHEZ

Richmond-Burton, senior

Sanchez and teammate Matt Lytle won the Harvard Repeat Relay race Saturday with a time of 34:42, leading the Rockets to first place with 16 points. Each runner does 1 ½ miles twice in that race.

On Tuesday, Sanchez took second place in the Johnsburg Pumpkin Run, which was held at McHenry Township Park.

He ran the course in 16:54, leading the Rockets to first place in that meet.

Girls Athlete

of the Week

SKYLAR BAYER

R-B, freshman

Bayer led the Rockets to first place in the Johnsburg Pumpkin Run Tuesday with 34 points. Bayer won the race at McHenry Township Park in 19:34.

Bayer also ran with Sami Wilkins on Saturday at the Harvard Repeat Relays and took first place among the two-person teams in 42:22.

Each runner does 1 ½ miles twice in that race.

Noteworthy

Manfrin gets relief: Dundee-Crown’s Anthony Manfrin discovered what the problem was in his right calf last week.

An MRI revealed a cyst under his calf muscle that a doctor drained.

Manfrin has been nagged by the leg most of the season. He was running at the Palatine Invitational a few weeks ago when he planted on a turn and felt more sharp pain in the muscle, so he dropped out of that race.

“There was old blood there from where I first got hurt,” said Manfrin, a junior who is one of the area’s top runners. “The cyst was pretty big. I’m still a little sore from where they went in with the needle, but there’s not the shooting pain I had. Now I know it’s out of my calf, so that’s a big mental thing for me.”

Manfrin likely will be the top challenger for Cary-Grove’s Phil Fairleigh in the Fox Valley Conference Meet on Saturday.

Fairleigh is the defending FVC champion; Manfrin finished second last year.

This Week’s

Top Meets

Fox Valley

Conference Meet

10 a.m. Saturday, Veteran Acres Park

Cary-Grove’s boys are three-time defending champions and a heavy favorite to again bring home the title. The boys race will run first this year.

Big Northern

Conference Meet

10 a.m. Saturday, Fuller Forest Preserve

Winnebago

Richmond-Burton’s boys won last year’s championship, but will get a stiff challenge from Burlington Central this time.

Suburban Christian

Conference Meet

9:30 a.m. Saturday Oakhurst Community

Association, Aurora

Marian Central is the lone local school in the first meet for the refigured conference.