Saturday\u2019s Ben Blackgoat Memorial Race turned out 68 people in a downpour on Perseverance Trail. Course options were for 2, 4 and 7 mile distances.<\/p>\n
Race proceeds benefit the Ben Blackgoat Memorial Scholarship, which the Southeast Road Runners award every year to high school winner of an essay contest.<\/p>\n
Ben Blackgoat, a former Juneau-Douglas High School track and cross country standout, passed away on Thanksgiving Eve 1996 while running on Perseverance Trail.<\/p>\n
Seven mile race<\/strong><\/p>\n Top five women<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Maddie Hall 52:42<\/p>\n 2. Meryl Ellefson 53:13<\/p>\n 3. Sue York 57:53<\/p>\n 4. Suzy Pothier 1:00:22<\/p>\n 5. Amanda Blackgoat 1:02:26<\/p>\n Top five men<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Jesse Miller 41:19<\/p>\n 2. Joshua Musson 42:08<\/p>\n 3. Greg Frank 45:38<\/p>\n 4. Hiram Henry 46:14<\/p>\n 5. Dewey Peacock 46:58<\/p>\n Four mile race<\/strong><\/p>\n Top five women<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Jennifer Thorsteinson 39:10<\/p>\n 2. Kristin McTague 39:22<\/p>\n 3. Meghan Johns 41:42<\/p>\n 4. Maisy Morley 42:31<\/p>\n 5. Serena Crupi 42:34<\/p>\n Top five men<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Arne Ellefson-Carnes 25:47<\/p>\n 2. Clem Taylor-Roth 27:52<\/p>\n 3. Shafer Suzuki 28:52<\/p>\n 4. John Waight 39:58<\/p>\n 5. Steven Morley 42:36<\/p>\n Two mile race<\/strong><\/p>\n Top five women<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Lindsay McTague 17:55<\/p>\n 2. Bridget McTague 18:23<\/p>\n 3. Lucrecia Meryine 19:48<\/p>\n 4. Stephanie Gustafson 21:12<\/p>\n 5. Piper Blackgoat-Diehl 22:13<\/p>\n Top five men<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Benjamin Blackgoat 21:08<\/p>\n 2. Kwame Diehl 22:19<\/p>\n 3. Craig Thorsteinson 23:44<\/p>\n 4. David McGrath 23:47<\/p>\n 5. Kirk Thorsteinson 23:49<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday\u2019s Ben Blackgoat Memorial Race turned out 68 people in a downpour on Perseverance Trail. Course options were for 2, 4 and 7 mile distances. Race proceeds benefit the Ben Blackgoat Memorial Scholarship, which the Southeast Road Runners award every year to high school winner of an essay contest. Ben Blackgoat, a former Juneau-Douglas High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":34412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34411"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}