Cross Country Update....Week One, Moeller "Primetime"

The Moeller “Primetime” Invitational was contested on August 22nd, 2025, for the ninth year at our home location at the Christ’s Church Mason.   The church has been an outstanding partner in hosting this event, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with them in years to come.  
 
It is a huge amount of work to put on this event and Moeller Cross Country wishes to thank Course Manager Charlie Lytle, Coach Jerry DiCristoforo, and Coach Frank Russo, and all the parents who worked the turf crew, lights, finish-line, crowd control, first-aid, parking, cleanup, and other assorted odd jobs.   Finally to Gavin Gray, Anthony Corder, Emma Stiver and their crew for the outstanding live streaming production.  This has become a great event because of all of you…thank you!
 
Also a special “shout-out” to all others outside of cross country who provided a helping hand with this huge undertaking, including the Moeller Swim Team. Thank you very much!
 
In addition, we especially want to thank our corporate sponsors for supporting our Primetime event, especially presenting sponsor Tri-State Running Company.  

 
Please continue to support those businesses throughout the year and at other meets they may happen to visit.   For more information and links to those sponsors, visit: https://www.moeller.org/PTI 
 
The Crusader Cross Country Team opened the season under the “Friday Night Lights” on August 22rd, 2025 hosting the Moeller “Primetime” Invitational presented by Tri-State Running Company at the Christ’s Church Mason in Mason, Ohio, finishing 2nd of 18 teams with 50 points. 
 
This year’s top finisher for Moeller was Senior Preston Wesley in 3rd place with a time of 16:20 (out of 184 runners).   Also scoring for Varsity:  Senior Brock Grubert (7^th – 16:46), Senior Owen Speed (8^th – 16:50), Sophomore Hayden Sorg (12^th – 17:13), and Sophomore Paul Eckstein (21^st – 17:27).   Finishing out Varsity were Zach Lazor, Duncan Shirley, Sam Sharpshair, Murphy Maynes, Luke Long, Logan Todd, Max Herzog, Zach Guthrie, Andrew Angeles, and Nick Nedzel.  

 The JV squad finished 7th out of 14 teams with a score of 186.  Top finisher for that race was Sophomore Charlie O’Connor in 59^th place with a time of 20:28 (out of 272 runners).  Also scoring for JV were Lucas Thompson, Gabe Angeles, Henry Tincher, and Charlie Meyer.

Complete meet results can be found here:  Track Scoreboard

For the upcoming meet, the team is doing a split squad with Varsity “Blue” going to the Hot Summer Bash at Hilliard Davidson High School and Varsity “Gold” going to Lebanon, Ohio on August 30th, 2025, to compete in the Lebanon Warrior Invitational at Lebanon High School.
 
Thanks to all who support the Crusader runners for this outstanding primetime event!   We greatly appreciate it.