Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Verzbicas: Stranger No More
Lukas Verzbicas, the runner I didn't know, causing me to call him the runner "in the yellow singlet and green shorts" as I did the play-by-play from the lead car at the 4 on the 4th race, is tearing up the local prep cross-country scene. The Lincoln-Way Central sensation has won three straight invitationals, including the Argo Invite on Saturday, Sept. 20. Verzbicas, a 15-year-old freshman of Lithuanian extraction, showed he is destined for greatness, smashing the Argo meet's 22-year-old record of 15:00 by almost 21 seconds with a 14:39.3. It had been held by former Niles Notre Dame great Len Sitko. Verzbicas, who finished a very strong fourth on July 4 at the 4 on the 4th, won the Argo meet by 59 seconds over Martin Grady of Fenwick, which has a very powerful team this year. He is a resident of New Lenox.
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3 comments:
The course has changed greatly since 1986. Still, a great run by L.V.
Thanks for the update. So it really isn't a course record, but rather, an event rescord? Are you Len, as In Len Sitko?
Course has changed?..Mike Burke himself couldn't have been less gracious, lenny.
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