Palmer Ridge's Ali Deitsch gaps the field en route to her third individual title of the season at Friday's Doherty Spartan Invitational. Photo by Alan Versaw.
On a day better suited to hoodies and blue jeans, the singlet-and-shorts crowd still had a very nice day. While it may have been chilly on the start line, things heated up nicely on the course, first for the girls and then later for the boys.
A pack of several girls led most of the first circuit around Bear Creek Park more or less as a unit. It was an impressive pack, composed of such notables from around the state as Amber Scott, Aubrey Till, Megan Mooney, Lauren Hamilton, Arianna Ross, Emily Bryant, and Lina Arista. While Deitsch maintained a half-step lead for most of the first mile, all seemed content with the arrangement.
Once the path turned downhill on the first circuit, however, Deitsch opened up her stride and made her break from the pack. It very quickly became a contest of who had the will to stay w...
