Ethan Crockett shattered his own personal best at Taylor’s Saturday 5K, breaking the 17-minute mark by a wide margin to finish in 16:33 to lead Adams Central to a 14th-place finish in a talented 20-team field.
Crockett ran a 17:06 last season at the same event and was between 17 minutes and 17:10 two other times in 2024, but a time of 16:33 shows just how improvement he has made this season as the team’s new leader.
Ethan also cut 53 seconds from his time at last week’s race at Taylor.
Adams Central also got a career best from Trevor Chamberlain, who came in under 21 minutes for the first time in his career.
Phillip Bayer was the biggest surprise of the day, however, for Adams Central. Bayer had never gone below 25 minutes in his career and he finished in an astonishing 21:52.5 to finish up the team scoring for AC.
The Jets will be back in action in Tuesday’s Bi-County Conditioner at Bellmont on Tuesday.
Team Scores: 1st-Homestead 43, 2nd-Yorktown 77, 3rd-Zionsville 85, 4th-Western 138, 5th-Wasbash 148, 6th-Norwell 188, 12th-Jay County 346, 13th-Southern Wells 376, 14th-Adams Central 408
Top Ten Individuals
1st-Jace Trevino-Homestead 15:24.9
2nd-Wyatt Turner-Yorktown 15:26.3
3rd-Camden Raab-Western 15:39.0
4th-Cooper Knoblauch-Homestead 15:45.6
5th-Miles Rudy-Western 15:56.3
6th-Elijah Weaver-Zionsville 16:04.0
7th-Cooper Gage-Kokomo 16:05.6
8th-Caidan Burchett-Wabash 16:06.7
9th-Kyler North-Mississinewa 16:07.4
10th-Isaiah Loney-Yorktown 16:09.3
Adams Central Times: 24th-Ethan Crockett 16:33.0; 111th-Tyler Schwartz; 18:49.5; 194th-Preston Hoffman 20:49.3; 199th-Trevor Chamberlain 20:53.2; 237th-Phillip Bayer 21:52.5;
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