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START OF WOODBERRY MEET Hotelling in the lead, as usual.
forced to start the meet with not more than ten minutes to warm up. But once again led by Hotelling, V. E. S. won 25-31 as they took places 1-3-5-7-9. Hotelling's record-break- ing time of I I:93 reduced twelve seconds from the old record.
The Bishops were now riding high and industriously prepared for the meet with Hargrave Military Acade- my, a school that over the past three years had won twenty-two consecu- tive meets. On the Wednesday be- fore the meet Mr. Finlay took five of the top boys to Chatham to inspect the difficult, hilly course. However, the arduous preparation and the trip were to little ovoil as V. E. S. bowed to an obviously stronger team 24-32 before an HMA Parent's Day Crowd of 2,000. Hotelling was out- standing in the loss as he streaked over the course in another record- breaking effort. His 13:20.9 time established such a fast pace that the next four runners surpassed the old HMA record of 14:10.
The next week was V. E. S. home- coming and the Bishops hosted Col- legiate. Even without Hotelling V. E. S. easily defeated the younger Collegiate squad, 16-39. The home team victory was featured by a sweep of the first four places by Bolles, George Harris, Mike Agelasto and Peter Young.
At press time the team has three remaining meets. On November 7, V. E. S. will participate with St. Stephens, Blue Ridge, Fork Union, and Hargrove Military Academ-y, in the Hargrave Invitational. On the
14th they will be at the Randolph- Macon Invitational, and the team is optimistic as to their chances of victory in this meet as HMA will not be entered. The season's finale will be a dual meet at St. Christopher's.
J. V. CROSS COUNTRY
The J. V. Cross Country team re- deemed itself after its first meet by defeating Blue Ridge School and Woodberry Forest. Charlie Bridgers, Rick Jones and Dyke Messinger are improving steadily and should be
good varsity material for next year. John Rife, who started out well, broke his foot, but he is back and improving greatly. Joe Linker, who ran last year, is improving. Brodie Winborne and Bob Holcombe are
also coming on strong.
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CROSS COUNTRY
grader CHARLIE BRIDGERS, after leading the J. V.'s for the first part of the season, joined the varsity be- fore the Andrew Lewis meet and since then has been V. E. S.'s sixth man in each of the meets in which he has competed.
A quick summary of the season to date-the Cross Country squad opened their season on September 28 against Fork Union Military Academy and won in a runaway
15-42. V. E. S. runners, led by Jim Hotelling, captured six of the first seven places.
The fonowing weekend the squad drove to Norfolk to meet the unde- feated Norfolk Academy Bulldogs. Once agoin Hotelling blazed the way as he "broke in" the new course with a course record of I I: I0, a mark that will probably stand for quite a while.
The first real test for the Bishops came on October 17 against Wood- berry Forest. Woodberry had looked impressive in compiling an unde- feated record, and they had vet- erans F•ed Rixey and Dan Drysda le to pace their attack. However, the Bi s h o p s ' H o t e l l i n g , B o l l e s a n d A g e - lasto were equal to the challenge and they finished first, second and fourth respect vely to spearhead a 22-34 V. E. S. victory.
The fourth encounter was against another unbeaten opponent, Andrew Lewis Yigh School of Salem. In this meet •he Bishops, after being quick- ly driven around the labyrinthine and toto ly unfamiliar asphalt course, were
11 ng into the home stretch of ••e 1964 cross country season, the E. S. h o r r i e r s h a v e c o m p i l e d a oectable 5 I record. This record eflects to a greal degree the ~chevements of senior JIM HOTEL- NG and sophomore LINWOOD BO~LES. Hotelling has led the way by winning every meet in which he ~s porticipated, and in the wake of ; progress he set new course rec- •as at Norfolk Academy, Andrew .ewis. and Hargrave. In addition ':> •"e 11bove efforts, Hotelling fore- we"t t h e C o l l e g i a t e m e e t d u r i n g omecoming weekend in order to e·+er the annual Wake Forest ln- •ationol Cross Country Meet, a '!leet in which he established a o.·se record by beating eighty-one o1~er boys. Had this meet started n time and had the presentation of '11edols b e e n c a r r i e d o u t s m o o t h l y
Md on schedule, Hotelling would have c o m p e t e d in t h e C o l l e g i a t e meet, 11s he arrived on campus in tress country attire shortly after the "lee! was over.
Hotelling's understudy, BOLLES, ~liS been no slouch and has also per- formed excellently all season. In the 1xmeets Bolles has finished third on +wo occasions, second three times,
Md against Collegiate he led the V. E. S. romp.
These two stars have been ~dequately backed by veterans GEORGE HARRIS, MIKE AGE- LASTO and PETER YOUNG. Tenth
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