RMAC Champs

That's what happens when you put most of your scholarships in distance, you get clobbered at the track and field conference championship.

WOMEN'S TEAM SCORES

1 UC-Colo. Spgs. 118

2 Western State 117

3 Adams State 102

4 New Mexico Highlands 99

5 Chadron State 51

5 Colorado Mines 51

7 CSU-Pueblo 45

8 Colorado Mesa 44.5

9 Black Hills St. 18.5

10 Colo. Christian 5

11 Metro State 4

11 South Dakota Mines 4

11 Westminster (Utah)

MEN'S TEAM SCORES

1 Colorado Mines 151.5

2 UC-Colo. Spgs. 90.5

3 Western State 86

4 Adams State 72

5 CSU-Pueblo 63

6 Chadron State 58

7 Black Hills St. 52

8 Colorado Mesa 32

9 South Dakota Mines 29

10 Metro State 14

11 Colo. Christian 13

12 Westminster (Utah) 1

It seemed like the Adams team came to golden with the sole purpose to try and show that the conversions in Golden were nonsense. Damon chose to load up the mile and 3k with all the heavy hitters to try and make a mockery of the track and its owners. They really didn't succeed.

In the 5k it was led by Colligan for the entirety of race until 4200 meters when Sevick took off dropping Colligan and a western runner. Colligan ended passing the western runner and coming in second mines went 1-2-4-6-7 scoring 28 points. The only scoring adams runner was Dalton Graham who actually ran pretty well coming in 5th.

The Adam's DMR demolished mines over the mile leg but mines was running a guy who had already run the 5k the same day against Sydney. So that went well into Adam's favor.

The mile was won by a great performance by George Kelly who ended up breaking the field house record. This was a win for adams but they really lost the event as they needed to at least have 3 in the top five to make up points. The worst just was that of Elias Gedyon who didn't even score. Adams scored 18 points but mines sneaked in 9 points without one of their national caliber runners.

The 3K was probably the most entertaining race to watch as Verbal clipped Sydney at the line to give him his second loss in the 3k of the year by a D2 athlete. This was another event that adams really should have run away with by the talent in the field and they ended up just 2-3-8 scoring 15 points and allowing mines to go 4-5-7 scoring 10.

Overall Adams came in trying to embarrass the mines field house and really didn't succeed and when your entire team is based in distance and can't match your seeds the success won't follow.

You mean mines blew out adams at a conference meet!?

Lol we know how this story is gonna end...

This was posted originally due to my surprise when I read the team scores at RMAC.

I still believe Adams Men and Women will sweep Indoor Nationals.

Mines has a strong shot to win it all.

UCCS has done a great job and will only get stronger as a team.

Appreciate the recaps RMAC guy and RMAC Historian. Always fun to hear about the Mines / Adams Hooplah.

Did anyone attended/watch the meet? Love how rowdy the Adams State fans/athletes were. Also interesting to see the Mines, Pueblo & Western fans/athletes cheering hard for Verbal in his win over Sydney; Adams clearly aren't everyone's cup of tea.

Adams had some...interesting chants for sure. Nationals will be fun, especially in that 5k where it’s basically Ngandu vs mines adams and Grand valley.

Honestly, I don't quite get your post. "make a mockery of the track" and "trying to embarrass the mines field house"?

The Adams program has never been based entirely on distance. Let's not let facts get in the way of a good argument.

Congrats to UCCS and Mines for winning RMAC titles. FWIW, winning RMAC titles is important to Adams. Maybe not at the expense of using an athlete that needs to get healthy for nationals, but Adams has always taken great pride in winning conference titles in XC, indoor, and outdoor and we've doubled and tripled to help make it happen. We've also prided ourselves in being a complete track & field program. We're a distance school, but success across the board has been a great source of pride. Can't win them all though.

Best of luck to all the RMAC athletes at nationals.

No. Adams has given up on having an overall track program. They have definitely changed the past 2 years and are putting all their eggs in the distance basket. That being said...its going to work. The triple crown looks promising.

Pts on paper for ncaa

51- Tamu commerce

49- ashland

47- mines

41- adams

Conference is overrated wrote:

You mean mines blew out adams at a conference meet!?

Lol we know how this story is gonna end...

I'm with this guy. Adams doesn't give two sh*ts about conference anymore and Mines will show once again that they can't race at sea level.

Well Sydney is certainly back after beating ngandu and ribich. Just curious, what happened to verbal?

The correct way to say that is SYDNEY'S BACK BABY!

What happened to Verbal? He anchored their DMR with a 3:56 split.

Verbal got beat in the 3k by an outstanding runner in Sydney G. What a double for Sydney.

His team mates let him down though. Another title left on the distance oval (again) by Adams.

Iron Maiden wrote:

What happened to Verbal? He anchored their DMR with a 3:56 split.

Verbal got beat in the 3k by an outstanding runner in Sydney G. What a double for Sydney.

His team mates let him down though. Another title left on the distance oval (again) by Adams.

Realistically Adams lost the title by only having one sprinter/field eventer (who placed 6th in the SP, bettering his projection).

It's tough to match your projections in the Mid D races but overall Adams needs a more rounded program to win.

Adams State Men

ranked 2-3 in the mile (14 points) scored 10 (-4)

ranked 1 in the DMR (10 points) scored 5 (-5)

ranked 2,5,8 in the 3k (14 points) scored 11 (-5)

ranked 1 in the 5k (10 points) scored 10 (+0)

difference of minus -14 points

ranked 8 in Shot Put (1 point) scored 3 points

difference of + 2 points

No 800m male qualifiers FYI.

I can keep doing this all day. I’ll post 2017 Outdoor if you want. Men AND Women.

Yes Adams needs more horses in more events but they had the team to win.

YOOOOOO