Russell at Manhattan, Hardy at Richland, and Haney at Clovis

The Saucony Elite 50 refers to the top-50 individual in the country (25 boys and 25 girls)

New York, New York! Manhattan was just as exciting on the boys side as three elite harriers battled to the finish.  US#14 Tony Russell (West Chester Henderson PA) - who was first at NXN Northeast last year - won with strong finish in a time of 12:20, which was good for #13 all-time on the storied course. US#16 Bryce Millar (Fayetteville-Manlius, NY) gave him a run for his money and finished second in 12:21.1 while US#18 Mickey Burke (Rush-Henrietta, NY) finished third in 12:23.8.

US#1 Blake Haney (Stockdale, CA) continues to take on all-comers, this time taking down super-soph Austin Tamagno (Brea Olinda CA), who set a soph league record, 15:01 to 15:07 at the Clovis Invitational in California.

At the Richland Invitational US#2 Joe Hardy (Seattle Prep WA) won over a DEEP field in 14:47.66 with US#10 John Dressel (Mt. Spokane, WA) second in 14:49.59.  US#13 Kai Wilmot (North Central WA) was third in 14:51.65 with teammate Tanner Anderson fourth in 14:54.27.

Sukhi Khosla makes his debut at US#25 in the rankings with a 14:59 win at the FSU Invitational. For a little comparison, Andres Arroyo ran 15:19.8 there last year! Sukhi won very controlled and it was a deep race too, with the top-6 under 15:08.5!

Note: We will have a watch list on the rankings continuing through the season as 25 is a very hard number to crack into.

Stay tuned each week as we bring you the Saucony Elite 50 Individual Boys every Tuesday morning!