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Lomong was left off their NCAA squad last year and said that motivated him to train hard this year. He was top 10. Unreal.

Here are the top 10 team scores.

1. N Arizona 74

2 Matthew Baxter 29:00.78

3 Tyler Day 29:04.55

8 Peter Lomong 29:33.09

35 Andy Trouard 29:58.07

40 Geordie Beamish 30:01.12

60 Luis Grijalva 30:19.32

102 Cory Glines 30:44.54

2 Portland 127

11 Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse 29:38.90

14 Jeff Thies 29:40.62

26 Nick Hauger 29:46.69

46 Matt Welch 30:09.62

54 Caleb Webb 30:14.39

64 Logan Orndorf 30:20.83

148 Noah Schutte 31:06.95

3 BYU 165

24 Casey Clinger 29:46.32

30 Connor McMillan 29:52.29

39 Rory Linkletter 29:59.04

42 Daniel Carney 30:03.50

65 Kramer Morton 30:21.64

71 Jonathan Harper 30:27.38

105 Clayton Young 30:47.36

4 Stanford 221

5Grant Fisher 29:12.06

16Alex Ostberg 29:41.66

17Steven Fahy 29:42.07

83Tai Dinger 30:31.08

138Callum Bolger 31:00.66

145Alek Parsons 31:05.56

155Blair Hurlock 31:11.64

5 Arkansas259

13Jack Bruce 29:39.49

43Austen Dalquist 30:04.75

51Alex George 30:11.12

86Cameron Griffith 30:32.85

116Matt Young 30:52.70

166Andrew Ronoh 31:16.41

225Ethan Moehn 32:05.35

6 Oregon

5 / 5 scorers 274

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41Tanner Anderson 30:01.34

44Cooper Teare 30:06.77

78Reed Brown 30:30.04

81Austin Tamagno 30:30.47

84Blake Haney 30:31.66

117Sam Prakel 30:52.73

7 Iowa St279

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15Andrew Jordan 29:40.65

53Stanley Langat 30:14.21

68Dan Curts 30:24.70

97Nathan Rodriguez 30:41.13

98Thomas Pollard 30:41.38

147Milo Greder 31:06.63

214John Nownes 31:51.44

8 Colorado

5 / 5 scorers 294

33Eduardo Herrera 29:55.41

57Ryan Forsyth 30:15.77

67Joe Klecker 30:24.40

89Adam Peterman 30:34.70

107Zach Perrin 30:48.01

177Ethan Gonzales 31:23.30

200Christian Martin 31:37.99

9 Colorado St 318

32Cole Rockhold 29:54.05

58Grant Fischer 30:16.17

90Eric Hamer 30:35.04

93Wayde Hall 30:36.60

111Carson Hume 30:49.40

169Jerrell Mock 31:18.02

175Trent Powell 31:22.50

10 Michigan 328

20Ben Flanagan 29:44.01

48Connor Mora 30:09.94

73Aaron Baumgarten 30:27.86

122John Aho 30:54.82

124Isaac Harding 30:55.81

139Billy Bund 31:02.10

186Ben Hill 31:27.63

Crazy thing is Trouard may not have been an All-American . They are listing him as 35 for the team scores which wouldn't be in the top 40 normally. But when I look at individual scores he also is 35th so something is off.

rojo wrote:

Crazy thing is Trouard may not have been an All-American . They are listing him as 35 for the team scores which wouldn't be in the top 40 normally. But when I look at individual scores he also is 35th so something is off.

No he was 35th overall. You can tell those aren't the team scores because NAU's places don't add up to 74.

Princeton wind their region *(I know it was nit strong region) then does WHAT in the final?

BYU's Linkletter and Young didn't have good races. If they would have had good races, BYU may have beat Portland. Young fell off badly at Regions also, so I think he must not be feeling well. NAU was the class of the field today though. They did great. BYU's Clinger was the top freshman in the race and is All-American. BYU fan.

Wait...new rivalry...Colorado vs. Colorado State..CSU has come on big time this season.

NAU team averaged a time that only one BYU runner barely squeaked under. Two years in a row they have been rock solid every race, by especially nationals. Impressive.

CSU almost beat CU, despite their top guy Moch not scoring for CSU

In the Workout Wednesday video, Linkletter looked like someone who is prone to overtraining. Clinger just chilled in the pack while Rory "won" the workout. Also, coach Ed was a bit too "rah-rah" for that session for my taste, but I have never gotten anyone to the Olympics lol. It will be interesting to see how they adjust for next year.

Anyone else realize NAU is only losing their number 4 guy for next year. So they will return their top three, number five then number six. Mix the scores from today around and they still win after losing him. This team is no doubt the favorite to repeat barring injury.

CanDoGuy wrote:

Princeton wind their region *(I know it was nit strong region) then does WHAT in the final?

They finished where they should have. Mid Atlantic was really bad this year. Was any team ranked in the top thirty?

Just wondering how Baxter is only a junior when he is already 23?

Anyone think NAU might win a bunch of these in the next decade?

How do the big schools like Oregon not compete?

george oscar bluth wrote:

[quote]rojo wrote

NAU's places don't add up to 74.

Rojos results don't show the adjusted placing after removing the runners not on teams.

Because they are a sprint school now

Couldn't get on yesterday, but I'll come out and say I was wrong, huge Kudos to their top 2 guys balls out running, and Lomong never ever expected that

Great job to NAU showing up huge when it mattered

The LetsRun.com running expert poll does it again:

BYU Men and Colorado Women are Your New NCAA #1s in LetsRun.com Cross Country Fan Polls

By LetsRun.com

November 10, 2017

The fans have spoken and the BYU men and Colorado women are your new #1 teams in the 2017 LetsRun.com NCAA Cross Country Super Fan Polls.

On the men’s side, BYU after a perfect 1-2-3-4-5 finish at the West Coast Conference meet that included #6 Portland, is your new number one, by the slimmest of margins. BYU and defending national champion Northern Arizona both got 28 first place votes, but BYU had 6 total more points in the poll to take the top spot. Syracuse picked up a few first place votes as well and is a strong #3.

Let's take a look at the actual results:

1. N Arizona 74

2 Matthew Baxter 29:00.78

3 Tyler Day 29:04.55

8 Peter Lomong 29:33.09

35 Andy Trouard 29:58.07

40 Geordie Beamish 30:01.12

60 Luis Grijalva 30:19.32

102 Cory Glines 30:44.54

3 BYU 165

24 Casey Clinger 29:46.32

30 Connor McMillan 29:52.29

39 Rory Linkletter 29:59.04

42 Daniel Carney 30:03.50

65 Kramer Morton 30:21.64

71 Jonathan Harper 30:27.38

105 Clayton Young 30:47.36

In conclusion:

1) Matthew Baxter and Tyler Day from NAU finished ahead of the 'golden boy' Grant Fischer from Stanford.

2) NAU had 3 guys in the top 10. They all finished before the fastest runner for BYU finished the race.

3) NAU had an average time of 29:31.5 for their top 5 finishers...which is faster than the fastest runner for BYU... by about 15 seconds.

4) NAU DESTROYED BYU... BY 91 POINTS.

ha ha ha

Baxter and Day were phenomenal. They had already showed their hand (along with Trouard) at Nuttycombe, but they seemed to take it to a new level yesterday. Smith was pretty intensely emotional after the meet, but I can see where it helped these guys step it up.

Dscott1995 wrote:

Anyone else realize NAU is only losing their number 4 guy for next year. So they will return their top three, number five then number six. Mix the scores from today around and they still win after losing him. This team is no doubt the favorite to repeat barring injury.

And maybe Knudsen can produce?