Sports 15 September 2016

N-P runners show mettle at Dunkerton

The idea behind getting into the Dunkerton Invitational was simple: Give the Nashua-Plainfield cross country teams a chance to be competitive in a meet with other Class 1A schools.Mission accomplished as both the boys and girls had a fourth-place individual finish and team scores that put the Huskies in the top half of the field.“We go to so many meets with 2A and 3A schools, it was a chance for our kids to go to a smaller meet and see what we could do,” Nashua-Plainfield coach Jennifer Kalainoff said, “and I was really happy with the effort and the result.”On the girls side, the Huskies finished fourth in the 10-team meet with 83 points, and a top-three finish would have been all but a certainty if Hannah Chambers hadn’t missed the meet with an illness.Freshman Faith Carpenter covered the 5,000-meter course in 22:38.7 to finish fourth while Emma Sinnwell just missed medaling with an 11th-place finish and Kaylee Eick also turned in a top-20 performance with a 19th-place finish.“Faith ran a really solid race,” Kalainoff said, “and she’s right now very much our leader. We have to get [the rest of our girls] closer to Faith, but part of that is getting healthy.”For all the N-P results, please see the Sept. 15 Reporter.

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