Novi Men's Cross Country Dominates WLW Invitational
Wildcats looking strong today, and for the future too!
9/19/2005 by Scott Olson


The Walled Lake Western Invitational is something the Novi Wildcats look forward to every year. For six years in a row, Novi has taken as least one of the two top slots: freshmen/sophomore and junior/senior. Last year, Novi won both classes. This year was no exception, as the Wildcats again came home with first place honors in both classes.

In the junior/senior race, the top three Wildcats were the same three who finished at the front of last year's freshmen/sophomore race: Mike Wheat, Alex Prasad, and Scott Wagner. Kenny MacDonough rounded out the top ten overall. Not too shabby - four guys in the top ten - of eight teams!

The freshmen/sophomore race was also glorious for the Wildcats. Josh Lumley won that race in a field of 7 teams. Very impressive Josh! He was followed by Luke Barnes, Aaron Croad and Mike Place - all in the top ten.

From the looks of things, Coach Robert Smith has the guys running well this year as usual. He told the Detroit Free Press last week, "They don't want to be the team that lets our tradition down, and so far they've exceeded all expectations."

It would appear these 'Cats are continuing to exceed expectations, Coach. Or should we say, continuing to meet our high expectations?

This week's trivia point: Alex Prasad was the second Cat across the line at last year's WLW Invitational, and the second Cat across the line this year too. OK Alex, what you gonna do next year?

This week, the 'Cats take on Lakeland Tuesday at Novi's Cass Benton Park. Next week Wednesday, the guys travel to Brighton for a dual-meet.

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Editor's Note: Sports reporter Alex Prasad is Captain of the Men's Cross Country Team. As such, he will be contributing to their coverage, but Coach Smith and Scott Olson will be writing the meet reports.