Melbourne’s Butler wins Dodger Dash again 
July 22, 2001

By Mike Connors
News staff writer 


Doug Butler’s entire body was soaked as he crossed the finish line Saturday. 
A little sweat was to be expected for a runner who completed the Dodger Dash 
in 16 minutes, 52 seconds to win the overall title. What Butler couldn’t 
prepare for before the race was that his shoes, shirt and hair would also 
be soaked from the steady rain that saturated the Dodgertown course. "It 
was real slow," Butler said with a smile that suggested slow was more than 
an understatement. "It took a lot of hard work." Butler, 38, a Melbourne 
resident, had won the Dodger Dash three times before Saturday. In an attempt 
to gain his fourth title, he brought 15 members of his Holy Trinity cross 
country team to the race as added incentive. The plan worked, as Austin 
Joiner, an eighth-grader at Holy Trinity who won the 14-and-under division 
and finished third overall with a time of 17:33, remained with Butler for 
the early part of the race. "I didn’t really push the pace until after the 
first mile," Butler said. "Then I took off and relaxed from there." The 
steady rain and puddles that covered the course took more than a minute 
off Butler’s usual time for a 5K race, he said. But the dreary conditions 
seemed to provide a surge for Joiner, who recorded one of his best times. 
"There’s nothing you can do about the conditions," Joiner, 13, said. "Just 
try to get better grip and work around the puddles." Trying to remain with 
his coach was not Joiner’s lone goal for the race. He was also trying to 
push his sister, Chelsey Joiner. Chelsey, 12, a seventh-grader at Holy 
Trinity, said she runs daily with her brother, sometimes for as many as 
eight miles. "It’s always great running with him," said Chelsey, who won 
the 14-and-under girls division with a 22:51 in her first Dodger Dash. 
"It makes me want to go harder." One runner who had no one to push her was 
Artemis Saridakis, overall winner of the female division with a 20:25. 
Saridakis, 16, a junior at Palm Beach Lakes in West Palm Beach, was able to 
pull away from the rest of the female competitors, despite the fact that she 
had abandoned running for a year before the start of the summer. Though she 
had not run the Dodger Dash course in several years and battled therain 
throughout the run, Saridakis was disappointed with her finish. "I was hoping 
to do better timewise," she said. "But I guess the weather wasn’t too good." 

Dodger Dash Men Overall
 Doug Butler 16:52 

14-and-under 
Austin Joiner 17:33; Peter McLean 18:23; Keith Potter 20:00; Kyle Sheehan 
20:28; Steven Halz 20:55; Jonathan Amgott 20:58; Kyle Butler 21:24; Chris Sorenson 
21:30; Will Terry 22:48; Zach Morgan 24:35; Michael Preston 24:51; Kevin Harris 
27:07; Carson Banov 28:14; Austin Moore 28:15; Christopher Clifton 28:49; 
Michael Terry 33:02; Ryan Dugan 33:03; Jimmy Kouns 36:02 

15-20 
Scott Keattley 17:24; Peter Kaus 18:12; Mark Kaus 18:21; Austin Boyle 19:06; 
Thomas Barcus 19:57; Mike Mead 20:00; Phil Jones 20:20; Ricky Johnson 20:24; 
Randy Preston 22:08; Andrew Hendley 22:50; Brandon Ricker 26:18; R.S. Cobb 30:02; 
Randy Smith 31:39. 

21-30 
Ramesar Daren 19:56; Walter Bloom 22:57; Barry Alto 23:09; Bob DeCourcey 27:02; 
Ish Rehsi 28:46 

31-40 
Sean Black 18:39; Barry Jones 18:54; Jim Bauman 19:58; Dave Hernandez 20:16; 
Scott Waymire 20:26; Steve Sheehan 21:00; Cliff Norris Jr. 21:29; Dominick 
Darcangelo 23:28; Bob Stomboli 23:40; Nigel Mann 24:11; Adam Hile 24:17; Brian Stone 
24:38; Scott Evans 24:48; Johnny Simpkins 24:54; Steve Shaulis 25:33; Rich 
Viggiano 26:04; Lance Glaab 28:11; Greyson Conroy 29:41; Dave O’Brien 30:17 

41-50 
Rich Paperno 17:56; Mark Yochum 19:04; Chuck Sullivan 19:13; Glenn Reed 19:26; 
Pete Putnam 19:29; Gary Bartlett 20:29; Mark Taylor 21:18; Charlie Meyer 21:20; 
Herbert Valdes 21:27; Joe Dibenedetto 21:53; Bob Keating 22:16; Kevin Sullivan 
22:32; Hank Lobe 22:34; Steph Stone 23:24; Rich Cobb 23:25; Dessie Bell 24:05; 
Timothy Collins 24:20; Bill Morgan 24:43; Duane Dilling 24:50; Bob Gibson 
25:32; Roger Walker 26:55; Bob Sherry 29:02. 

51-60 
David Compton 20:29; Mike McLaughlin 20:56; Gary Castner 22:02; Ed Ruby 22:46; 
Bob Bond 24:18; Mark Ashdown 26:22; Bela Kovag 26:53; Eugene O’Neil 27:27; 
Ralph Mulden 29:53; Ned Smith 32:08; Gary Buchanan 32:17; George Johnson 33:44; 
A.J. Russo 36:15. 

61 plus 
R. Graves 27:18; Bill Robinson 30:56; Marth Russ 31:19; Don Palinkas 32:52. 

Women Overall 
Artemis Saridakis 20:25 

14-and-under 
Chelsey Joiner 22:51; Stephanie Jones 24:23; Marie Kasprzyk 24:29; Lindsey 
Putnam 24:45; Kayla Hale 24:57; Melissa Jones 24:58; Katherine Putnam 26:19; Julie 
Johnson 26:30; Jackie Potter 27:05; Sarah Ingraham 32:23; Maura Jordan 32:55; 
Heather Driscoll 33:00; Kristina Kirby 34:09; Audrey Johnson 35:58; Emily 
Johnson 36:35. 

15-20 
Aundrel Robinson 32:10; Sarah Hendley 32:14; Porsha Ellis 35:16; Magen 
Strickland 36:51; Shanin Patterson 36:52; Michelle Johnson 37:29; Claudia Burgalin 
37:30; Ruth Kennedy 37:42; Anne Best 37:43. 

21-30 
Francesca Sanders 22:06; Mirja Heide 25:35; Rachel Niemath 26:07. 

31-40 
Jackie Clifton 20:37; Sherri Glaab 23:32; Sue Hale 23:29; Karen Hill 28:17; 
Holly Stone 28:40; Amy Banov 30:27; Annette Soldini 31:43; Ann Taylor 39:24. 

41-50 
Susan Sheehan 23:42; Dawn April 23:54; Barbara Meyer 24:39; Mary Hatch 25:41; 
Patricia Taylor 26:36; Audrey Joiner 26:39; Gracie Cole 26:52; Joanne Posten 
28:47; Janet Reed 28:58; Becky Johnson 30:04; Lynne Morgan 31:09; Janet Miller 
32:51; Judith Valdes 34:29; Jean Cornelisse 41:16. 

51-60 
Annette Hibler 34:11; Stephanie Castner 34:57. 

61 plus 
Susan Manson 31:26; Billie Jane Schwartz 36:18. 

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