Cross Country: Holy Cross Dominates Holy Cross/Dominican Boys’ Invitational Meet

The Holy Cross Dominican Invitational is always a highly anticipated event during the cross country season, with fierce competition every year.

This Saturday, however, the story was Holy Cross’ dominance of their own meet to claim the title.

Mandeville’s own junior Max Jacketti went on to win the boys’ varsity race as a whole with a time of 16:34.

The top 10 finishers in the boys’ varsity race:

Max Jacketti (jr., Mandeville, 16:34)
Enrico Tapia (sr., Archbishop Shaw, 16:50)
Eyan Calico (sr., Brother Martin, 16:55)
Cameron Loubat (sr., Holy Cross, 17:01)
Landon Davis (sr., Holy Cross, 17:23)
Luke Davis (fr., Holy Cross, 17:24)
Noah Diedrich (jr., E.D. White, 17:31)
Liam Sykes (sr., Mandeville, 17:38)
Alexander Tillero (sr., The Willow School, 17:39)
Hunter Eslick (so., Archbishop Shaw, 17:44)

With Holy Cross’s three top 10 finishers in Loubat with Landon Davis and Luke Davis, the Tigers were able to edge out Brother Martin and E.D. White. Holy Cross’s fourth-seventh performers all finished within the top 25 as well, with senior Gage Baldassaro placing 11th, freshman Keegan Martin placing 19th, freshman Gabriel Suarez placing 22nd, and senior Wyatt Audler placing 25th, propelling them to a first-place finish.

The boys’ meet results went as follows:

1st Holy Cross – 43
2nd Brother Martin – 79
3rd E.D. White – 112
4th Archbishop Shaw – 118
5th Mandeville – 136
6th Belle Chase – 150
7th The Willow School – 156
8th John Curtis – 182
9th Ben Franklin – 244
10th Archbishop Hannan – 267
11th Lutcher – 267
12th Patrick Taylor Academt – 352
13th Chalmette – 360
14th Rverdale – 467
15th Morris Jeff – 469
16th McMain – 482
17th Kenner Discovery – 532

Cameron Loubat and Keegan Martin of Holy Cross spoke on what the win meant to them and the school.