Illinois High School XC 2022

Richard springs
https://results.shazamracing.com/meets/18105
Hinsdale central was missing Watcke and lost this meet. Also needs a fifth
OPRF, Wheaton Warrenville south and Sandburg looked good
OPRF won and bring so many guys back next year

If Watcke won this race, HC still would have lost

On paper. You can't tell how much his presence in the race would've given his mates more confidence.

What about the girls? Looks like MP and York really slugged it out. Judging by the splits MP had a decent lead at two miles but York made a push and it ended up a one point difference.

I'm saying:

Plainfield South

Downers Grove North

Oak Park River Forest

Hinsdale Central

Neuqua Valley

Plainfield North

Lyons

Wheaton Warrenville

Sandburg

Oswego East

Disclaimer, it's close between 2,3 and 4

Palatine was missing one of their scorers Cassassio, and a scorer Alex Krieg ran in the 9/10 race. They seemed to do much better last meet.

i think at state, palatine will do better than some of these polls show

Palatine has the 5th fastest group of 3 mile times

5
Palatine (H.S.) (IL)
378
1) Mason Krieg
14:55.90
17
2) Alexander Krieg
15:19.60
53
3) Jack Casaccio
15:21.20
58
4) Owen Elliot
15:38.50
104
5) Carter Hayes
15:48.10
146
Average Time: 15:24.66 Total Time: 1:17:03.30 1-5 Split: 52.20
6) Christian Keller
15:58.90
194
7) Jacob Tallian
16:22.40
33

Palatine also has Andy Hansen (junior). He actually ran a 15:34 at Richard springs last year, and was their 6th guy at the state meet.

In yesterday’s meet, York was missing their #1 guy Aidan Hill and another one of their scorers - Jack Carroll.

Actually Carroll was there but was not with the top guys like they were in the last meet

Palatine
14:55 Krieg 1- 12
15:19 Krieg 2 - 9
15:38 Elliott - 12
15:48 Hayes - 10
15:58 Keller - 12

Sandburg
15
15:09
15:40
15:51
16:00

I actually see that Palatine is better than Sandburg at every position except #2. Palatine ran 2 scorers in the 9/10 race. That is also without one of their top guys Casasio.

So they have depth outside of top 5 which Sandburg doesn’t.

Sandburg only has 5 studs and they all ran in the V race, including the sophomore who scores

Great news for Plainfield south!
they are #2 in the Midwest behind Carmel IN cased on speed ratings!
Mason OH’s top returner from last year didn’t race yet. At least they are very deep.
Center Grove IN has been very underwhelming all season so far

the chances of the Midwest being represented by Illinois looking good so far!

Also worth mentioning that:

plainfield south’s 5th in this race (Boerger) was their #3 at state meet. Very far ahead of their 4th. So he probably has more to give.

his pr from last year was a 15:20. If he closes the 4-5 gap they should be able to make NXN unless Center Grove finds their groove at NXR.

It’s Hinsdale Central that lacks a number 5.

Does anyone find it annoying when freshmen and sophomores (like the ones from Palatine) that would constantly score for their team constantly get put in the 9/10 race when they should clearly be running varsity? I find this very odd, especially if it’s done in big meets. It really worsens the score in varsity races, the races that matter.

You can look at it two ways, using your Palatine example.

1. It shows confidence in your varsity guys that they can do the job without underclassmen and you can still bring them up for the state series.

2. In this case, however it's obvious scoring over 400 points shows they are an average team without them and in fact it's a dicey situation going into sectionals/state relying on more than one underclassman to score. Any coach would rather rely on seniors being their top guys.

There are only two races that matter. Conference and State (or sectionals if making state is the goal).

Couldn’t give a crap about the varsity scoring in random Saturday invitational #4

Sandburg’s 6-10 in the 3-mile time rankings consists of 1 sophomore and 4 freshmen

il.milesplit.com

Illinois High School Boys Rankings | Cross Country 2022Three Mile Run

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Let the kids be kids. They get to experience controlling/winning a race in a lower pressure race at the same course they'll be contending for an all-state or top 5 position at in a year or two.

None of these meets mean anything anyway. It's all practice until late October.