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1986 Groundhog Gallop 4 Mile Run
Jackson, Michigan
Date: February 8, 1986
Distance: 4 Miles
Race-Directors: David Swarts & Wayne Mollitor
Top 20 Finishers (118 finished)
1. John Cross 21:36
2. Mark Devereaux 22:00
3. Scott Cole 22:18
4. Duane Daugherty 22:47
5. Tim Anuszkiewicz 23:02
6. Bob Russell 23:36
7. Jim Wildt 23:47
8. Rob Skittenhelm 24:21
9. Gary Gloden 24:25
10. Mike Kieme 24:37
11. Dan Coleman 24:37
12. Steve Mather 24:38
13. Robert Byers 24:56
14. John Stover 25:08
15. Scott Allen 25:14
16. Douglas Pierce 25:26
17. Tim Kelly 25:27
18. Bruce Barton 25:29
19. Jim Crouch 25:33
20. David Ambs 25:54
First female
Kellie Wright 27:34.
Age-Group Leaders
(overall male and female winners excluded from age-group competition)
14-and-under boys: 1. Terry Webb 27:32, 2. Trevor Boys 32:52, 3. Aaron Childs 36:15.
14-and-under girls: 1. Ruth Gillentine 33:51, 2. Jennifer Bryja 35:27, 3. Grace Masters 40:46.
15-18 boys: 1. Tim Anuszkiewicz 23:02, 2. Dan Coleman 24:37, 3. Scott Allen 25:14.
15-18 girls: 1. Becky Frederick 30:59, 2. Krissy Hively 31:42, 3. Karen Anderson 31:48.
19-23 men: 1. Scott Cole 22:18, 2. Rod Skittenhelm 24:21, 3. Mike Kieme 24:37
19-23 women: 1. Ann Baughman 38:40.
24-29 men: 1. Mark Devereaux 22:00, 2. Bob Russell 23:36, 3. Steve Mather 24:38.
24-29 women: 1. Connie Russell 28:06, 2. Pat Sharp 28:40, 3. Sally Hendershot 29:36.
30-34 men: 1. Duane Daugherty 22:47, 2. Gary Gloden 24:25, 3. Randy Harris 26:12.
30-34 women: 1. Rose Rybicki 33:11, 2. Sue Hooper 37:42.
35-39 men: 1. Jim Wildt 23:47, 2. Robert Byers 24:56, 3. Dave Medley 26:06.
35-30 women: 1. Garnet Hauger 32:54, 2. Chris Lake 42:35, 3. Sue Wood 42:50.
40-49 men: 1. John Stover 25:08, 2. Dave Schupbach 26:41, 3. Ernie Davis 27:15.
40-49 women: 1. Lois Kelly 32:14, 2. Linda Gillentine 34:47, 3. Sandra Tesch 36:28.
50-59 men: 1. Charles Miller 27:42, 2. John Daley 29:42, 3. Ralph Often 30:40.
50-59 women: 1. Dorothy Bodde 34:10, 2. Mary Burdette 37:26, 3. Marge Muhick 42:51.
60-and-over men. 1. Bill Cooks 37:35.
Team: 1. Jackson Trailpacers (1. John Cross, 4. Duane Daugherty, 10. Mike Kieme, 22. Dave Medley, 32. Steve Wallenwine).
Jackson Citizen Patroit
Bandits can't stop 2 run stars
By Larry Edsall, Sports Editor
Bandits couldn't steal the spotlight Saturday morning from John Cross and Kellie Wright in the eighth annual Groundhog Gallop, a four-mile running race sponsored by the Jackson Trailpacers running club.
The race originally was scheduled Feb. 1, but was postponed because of an icy rain that morning that made it hard to stand up, let alone run.
Part of the course on streets around the Cascades falls was slippery again Saturday morning, when brothers Bill and Steve Hubbard slipped in as what runners term "bandits" since neither of them registered for the race by paying the $4 entry fee.
"I didn't think I'd win and I don't need another medal," Bill Hubbard said in his decision to save his money.
Ironically, Hubbard, who did win the race in 1980 and 1984, would have again won had he not been a bandit.
Striding between the Hubbards, both former Concord High School runners, as they turned off short of the finish line was Cross, the official winner of the race in 21:36.
Wright, an eighth grader at Western Middle School, was the first female finisher, in 27:34.
The Hubbards, Cross, Mark Devereaux, Scott Cole and Duane Daugherty pulled from the pack at the start of the race and ran together for nearly two miles before Bill Hubbard broke away.
"I didn't know he was a bandit," said Cross, who chased Hubbard without knowing Cross himself was the official race leader.
Cross was an all-state runner at Jackson High School, where he was third in the state in the two-mile run. He won All-America honors at Dowagiac Southwestern Michigan Community College, where he finished fourth in the nation in the three-mile run.
He is in his junior year at Eastern Michigan University, for which he ran this fall in the NCAA national cross country championships.
Saturday was the first time he'd run in the Groundhog Gallop, the first major running race of the year here.
Devereaux finished 24 seconds behind Cross with Cole 18 seconds back. Daugherty, who recently won the Fun Ski cross country ski race for the second year in a row, was fourth with Lumen Christi High School student Tim Anuszkiewicz fifth.
Sixth was Bob Russell, whose wife, Connie, an accomplished kayak and canoe racer, was runnerup to Wright, a remarkable 13 year-old who has been running competitively for only a year but who already has won four races and been no worse than second in her age group in her other three starts.
"She'd come home from grade school saying she'd beaten all the boys in races," said Kellie's mother, Bonnie Wright. "Last year, she went out for track in seventh grade and the first time out broke the school record in the two-mile (12:48)."
Wright lowered her two-mile mark to 12:31 in the Foote Race last fall, was fifth among all females in the 5-mile Stroh's Run for Liberty and was runnerup in the Ultimate Runner 7-kilometer race. Saturday, Wright was 38th overall among the 119 finishers. More than 170 runners registered for the race.