In retrospect, it was predictable.Andre Williams took the lead at the Georgetown 10K just as he
approached the
finish line on M Street and the Georgetown Running Company,
where he is the
store manager. No one as competitive as Williams was going to do
anything
but win on his home turf. He sprinted away from Peter Sherry to
win in 30
minutes 23 seconds. Sherry finished four seconds back.
Atalelech Ketema turned the women's contest into a rout, winning
easily in
33:30. Ketema, 19, came from Ethiopia to the District of
Columbia two months
ago, and already has won a handful of area events. Lithuanian
Zivile Balciunaite of Gaithersburg, finished 42 seconds behind.
Lee DiPietro
was the top master and third overall; Casey Smith was fourth and
Kristin
Pierce Barry fifth.
"It was easy," Ketema said through a translator.
Not so the men's race. Williams, who won in 1995 and finished
second last
year, Sherry, Edmund Burke from Burtonsville, and Nigusu Urge
from Ethiopia
ran in a pack of four until five miles, when Williams and Sherry
surged and
made it a two-man race. Sherry, who dropped out of the Twin
Cities Marathon
in Minneapolis with hamstring problems on Sept. 29, said he felt
much better
in Washington.
"For the first five miles, it was a lot of cat and mouse,"
Sherry said. "I
just couldn't stay with Andre at the end." Still, both men ran
the final
mile faster than 4:40.
Williams chided his longtime training partner: "If I can't
outkick a
marathoner, then I don't deserve to win."
Urge took third in 30:42; Burke was fourth in 30:53.
Williams and Ketema each earned $500 at Georgetown Park for
their efforts.
A field of 2,558 finished under excellent weather conditions.
The race
featured a masters championship with prize money five deep and
starting at
$500. DiPietro, 44, from Ruxton, Md., took home the cash with a
time of
36:19; Jim Hage, 44, ran 32:41 to win the men's masters division.
OVERALL MALE (GUN TIME)
Place Num Name Age City Time
===== ===== =================== === ===================== =======
1 2 Andre Williams 30 Arlington VA 30:24
2 1 Peter Sherry 34 Great Falls VA 30:29
3 31 Nigusu Urge 36 Washington DC 30:42
4 23 Edmund Burke 33 Burtonsville MD 30:53
5 16 Erik Kean 25 Washington DC 31:58
6 20 Craig Morrell 30 Baltimore MD 32:01
7 22 Joel Brusewitz 23 Baltimore MD 32:11
8 2668 Richard Cochrane 29 Annapolis MD 32:14
9 2770 Eric Desautels 30 Arlington VA 32:16
10 2586 Jerome Ross 27 College Park MD 32:27 OVERALL FEMALE (GUN TIME)
Place Num Name Age City Time
===== ===== =================== === ===================== =======
1 28 Atalelech Ketema 19 Washington DC 33:30
2 24 Zivile Balciunaite 23 Gaithersburg MD 34:13
3 21 Casey Smith 23 Arlington VA 35:29
4 7 Kristin Barry 28 Vienna VA 36:40
5 11 Lory Gray 22 Arlington VA 37:24
6 3 Heather Hanscom 24 Alexandria VA 39:22
7 2816 Katie Filipczyk 26 Chevy Chase MD 39:23
8 2988 Kerry Rodgers 34 Washington DC 39:23
9 2146 Meredith Faulkner 20 Williamsburg VA 40:42
10 3097 Keren Claney 20 Berwyn MD 41:04
OVERALL MASTERS (GUN TIME)
Place Num Name Age City Time
===== ===== =================== === ===================== =======
1 6 Jim Hage 44 Kensington MD 32:41
2 14 Dave Berardi 42 Baltimore MD 33:44
3 10 Ted Poulos 40 Mclean VA 34:18
4 27 Steve Ward 47 Reston VA 34:33
5 4 John Tuttle 43 Douglasville GA 35:09
OVERALL MASTERS (GUN TIME)
Place Num Name Age City Time
===== ===== =================== === ===================== =======
1 5 Lee Dipietro 44 Ruxton MD 36:19
2 18 Maria Spinnler 40 Hagerstown MD 38:36
3 15 Laura Freix 41 Centreville VA 38:44
4 25 Linda Wack 46 Germantown MD 40:26
5 9 Debi Bernardes 44 King George VA 40:54
MALE AGE GROUP: 5 - 19 (NET TIME)
1 1569 Joseph Nuffer 19 Columbia MD 34:42
2 256 Dustin Sweeney 19 Berryville VA 34:56
3 1780 Max Werner 13 Sterling VA 39:44
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 5 - 19 (NET TIME)
1 1161 Erin Conroy 18 Hawthorne NY 41:00
2 2777 Kezi Barry 19 Washington DC 43:53
3 1430 Meg Rorison 19 College Park MD 46:14
MALE AGE GROUP: 20 - 24 (NET TIME)
1 2798 Patrick Dudley 24 Washington DC 33:21
2 1875 Michael Donohue 21 Washington DC 34:22
3 2200 Michael Lally 24 Arlington VA 35:08
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 20 - 24 (NET TIME)
1 1039 Molly Schmelzle 22 St Louis MO 41:42
2 1005 Sarah Marquis 23 Washington DC 42:14
3 2717 Colleen Kilcullen 21 Washington DC 43:23
MALE AGE GROUP: 25 - 29 (NET TIME)
1 2944 Robert Schneider 26 Berwyn MD 33:24
2 3044 David Ohara 26 Springfield VA 35:11
3 1878 Eric Rodkin 29 Burtonsville MD 35:29
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 25 - 29 (NET TIME)
1 2307 Jill Walter 25 Chevy Chase MD 41:43
2 958 Monica Shinn 27 Washington DC 41:59
3 1418 Julia Brys 25 Washington DC 43:09
MALE AGE GROUP: 30 - 34 (NET TIME)
1 1819 Patrick Schooley 31 Herndon VA 35:14
2 2161 Michael Mullane 33 Arlington VA 35:51
3 2144 Chris Millikan 34 Johnston IA 36:07
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 30 - 34 (NET TIME)
1 2451 Laurie Dempsey 32 Alexandria VA 41:47
2 600 Margaret Gick 32 Silver Spring MD 42:21
3 1639 Christina Kichula 31 Silver Spring MD 44:25
MALE AGE GROUP: 35 - 39 (NET TIME)
1 8 Chris Chattin 38 Columbia MD 33:35
2 3047 Scott Mersiowsky 36 Fredericksburg VA 34:56
3 30 Malcolm Lester 35 Washington DC 35:24
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 35 - 39 (NET TIME)
1 2004 Laeticia Warring 39 Reston VA 41:22
2 3189 Sandra Rodgers 35 Fairfax VA 42:30
3 2801 Susan Ashcom 37 Arlington VA 43:04
MALE AGE GROUP: 40 - 44 (NET TIME)
1 791 Ronald Hess 41 Takoma Park MD 35:49
2 2008 Nelson Hendricks 41 Alexandria VA 37:37
3 255 Gregory Edwards 43 Bruxelles XX 38:56
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 40 - 44 (NET TIME)
1 190 Carla Darr 41 Vienna VA 41:31
2 17 Beth Mccann 43 Falls Church VA 42:16
3 127 Christy Dale Slavin 40 Silver Spring MD 43:35
MALE AGE GROUP: 45 - 49 (NET TIME)
1 1385 Roberto Rodriguez 46 Arlington VA 37:42
2 3137 Bruce Delaplaine 47 Bethesda MD 38:23
3 3109 Bill Osuch 49 Kearneysville WV 38:58
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 45 - 49 (NET TIME)
1 19 Betty Blank 49 Falls Church VA 41:48
2 3011 Bernadette Flynn 45 Fairfax VA 45:32
3 1862 Merrilee Seidman 47 Alexandria VA 46:31
MALE AGE GROUP: 50 - 54 (NET TIME)
1 1699 Bill Guerrant 51 Charlottesville VA 37:16
2 1936 Richard Adams Jr 51 Herndon VA 37:27
3 48 Jay Wind 52 Arlington VA 38:50
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 50 - 54 (NET TIME)
1 857 Marjorie Marque 51 Alexandria VA 47:12
2 1065 Alice Franks 54 Rockville MD 47:19
3 2185 Mary Egger 50 Fairfax Station VA 48:06
MALE AGE GROUP: 55 - 59 (NET TIME)
1 40 Patrick Griffith 57 Alexandria VA 38:01
2 1493 Jim Noone 58 Fairfax VA 41:20
3 2725 William Scott 55 Glenarden MD 41:49
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 55 - 59 (NET TIME)
1 41 Hideko Pirie 57 Leesburg VA 48:28
2 930 Lynne Hays 56 Arlington VA 50:46
3 1500 Loida Velilla 55 Falls Church VA 52:34
MALE AGE GROUP: 60 - 64 (NET TIME)
1 3169 Malcolm O'hagan 62 Chevy Chase MD 45:24
2 3146 Jim Verdier 60 Alexandria VA 47:34
3 2458 Gil Langley 60 Fairfax VA 49:29
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 60 - 64 (NET TIME)
1 754 Barbara Szorida 61 Washington DC 52:45
2 1464 Jane Metzler 61 Falls Church VA 53:27
3 1663 Sandra Lind 62 Springfield VA 1:02:50
MALE AGE GROUP: 65 - 69 (NET TIME)
1 87 Carl Cox 65 Baileys Xrds VA 45:43
2 125 Richard Williams 66 Alexandria VA 46:33
3 46 Chan Robbins 65 Arlington VA 47:21
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 65 - 69 (NET TIME)
1 178 Betty Dameron 67 Fredericksburg VA 59:52
2 2969 Ilse Brown 69 Fairfax VA 1:08:17
MALE AGE GROUP: 70 - 74 (NET TIME)
1 1868 George Yannakakis 70 Sparks Glenco MD 44:43
2 1334 Jack Mcmahon 71 Rockville MD 48:15
3 157 Donald Mccarten 73 Falls Church VA 54:31
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 70 - 74 (NET TIME)
1 2904 Jacqueline Oneil 71 Washington DC 1:08:34
MALE AGE GROUP: 75 - 79 (NET TIME)
1 91 Walt Washburn 79 Vienna VA 57:05
2 130 Bill Morrison 75 Rockville MD 1:00:10
3 758 William Daniels 75 Gardners PA 1:09:30
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 75 - 79 (NET TIME)
1 1447 Kay Morrison 76 Rockville MD 1:06:03
MALE AGE GROUP: 80 - 99 (NET TIME)
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 80 - 99 (NET TIME)
1 858 Hedy Marque 85 Alexandria VA 1:11:14
