NEW Atlantic Region XC *2009* thread

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Results from women's race up anywhere yet?

SLU women won, guess they smashed Geneseo. Not sure on actual times and places yet tho.

SLU won over w/ 4 runners in the top ten (1,3,5,9) still dont know times

From what I just got over the phone looks like Cortland takes it with 6 in top 12-15. Then Geneseo followed by NYU. Kosgie won with Mike in second. Like I said they haven't put out official results yet but this is what I just heard over the phone. Once I hear more I'll post them.

RIT is 4th over SLU by three points.

Complete results here:

Men:

http://www.leonetiming.com/2009/XC/D3Regional/Men.txt

Women:

http://www.leonetiming.com/2009/XC/D3Regional/Women.txt

Men:

1. 49 Cortland

2. 64 Geneseo

3. 79 NYU

4. 147 Rochester Inst. Of Technology

5. 150 St. Lawrence

6. 188 Plattsburgh

7. 233 Fredonia

8. 269 University of Rochester

9. 280 Oneonta

10. 297 TCNJ

Women:

1. 43 St. Lawrence

2. 74 Geneseo

3. 138 NYU

4. 163 Ithaca

5. 181 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst

6. 191 Plattsburgh

7. 208 Brockport

8. 212 Cortland

9. 274 University of Rochester

10. 291 Rowan

Some very interesting results. Big props to the RIT men for getting 4th and to the RPI women for running great to get 5th.

At this point, looks like the men have a good chance of getting 5 teams. I'd guess that the women will once again only get 4 teams. Based on this, these are the at-large people:

Men:

1 Peter Kosgei

2 Michael Heymann

16 Abad Akhtar

18 Brian Lang

20 Ben Flanagan

22 Eddie Novara

24 Tom Bocchino

Women:

2 Jena Peacock

7 Jenny Schaffhouser

8 Michelle Wallace

11 Stefanie Braun

12 Lauren Norton

14 Jouhan Allende

15 Lauren Mesi

If the women get 5 teams, then it would still be the above individuals.

Now important poll:

Which team's crew had the best school spirit/outfits

1. RIT

2. TCNJ

3. SLU

4. Geneseo's

Also have to give props to the Plattsburgh men. After looking pretty out-of-it the last month, they really put it together at regionals.

after such discussion, the bombers really dropped the ball today. not even in the top 10 after so many picked for 6-7?

looks like their normal 1,5,6,7 guys all had awful days. Usually that 4-5 gap has been 20-30 seconds, not the entire minute it was today. And Bell? Not even top 30?

Who was that doofus SLU kid who was filming the start and didn't move off the course? He got a knocked over by a group of geneseo guys and hit newell of cortland pretty hard. He's lucky he didn't f*** up the race, SLU could have been DQ'ed.

So now is about the time everyone should cream for john lynch

aboutthat wrote:

Who was that doofus SLU kid who was filming the start and didn't move off the course? He got a knocked over by a group of geneseo guys and hit newell of cortland pretty hard. He's lucky he didn't f*** up the race, SLU could have been DQ'ed.

If he posts that video, I will forgive him. It has to be absolutely hilarious.

Yeah that SLU kid knocked down Jesse Berube and fell into Jared Newell... luckily it didn't really change the outcome of the race, but still, that kind of crap should not happen.

I would hope that both the men and women send 5 teams. I think it's more likely on the men's side, as RPI was really surprising. Those girls ran great; hopefully they'll be rewarded.

Men's race was interesting with Cortland dominating, and having Seth as their #6. RIT ran great, and even though SLU ran poorly they were still strong enough to take home 5th. Plattsburgh pulled together nicely, and Fredonia also ended their season strongly. Eddie has made great strides since last season.

The women's race was an XC clinic by SLU. Before the race I figured they would win, but never imagined they would do that well. Geneseo, NYU, and Ithaca all did what they had to do. I was surprised at RPI (who wasn't??), Platt ran well, and Cortland and TCNJ did a bit worse than I expected. I don't think the Clarkson women have ever gotten DFL before.

Now the real question... will Mike 'the Tully Hammer' Heymann take down Mike 'the Spaniard' Spain at nationals? They have raced each other 4 times at nationals, for a combined total of 28k, and Spain has come up victorious each time. They have been narrow victories, and I would guess the total margin is under 60 seconds.

1) Kosgei

2) Flynn

3) Heymann

4) Spain

In case anyone wants to check out other regional results (the will have them up on the NCAA website but who knows how long that will take):

(I'm only listing the men but women can be found at the same websites obviously)

NE:

http://usm.maine.edu/athletics/Men%27s_Cross_Country/mxc_ncaaregionalresults09.txt

MW:

http://www.titans.uwosh.edu/2009NCAAMidwestCCRegional/

C:

http://www.stolaf.edu/athletics/crossctry/men/media/2009-10/results/2009-11-14.htm

W (women and men):

http://www.willamette.edu/athletics/teams/cross_country/results/2009/Nov%2014%20-%20NCAA%20West%20Region%20Championships%20.htm

(Had to post in two pieces because letsrun thought it was spam... too many links)

ME:

http://www.muhlenberg.edu/sports/fall09/ncaa_mxcresults.html

GL:

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/ncaacross/pages/09mxc-greatlakes.htm

S:

http://www.emoryathletics.com/sports/mxc/2009-10/files/2009-SSE_Men-Team.pdf

A:

http://knights.geneseo.edu/xcountry/Atlantic09Men.htm

Hopefully those all work for everyone. What does everyone think? 3 or 5 teams to NCAAs?

Also, kind of crazy MW results... UW-Stevens Point was ranked 5th in the country and placed 6th at regionals, and Wash U. was unranked nationally and got 3rd. Looks like they'll still get 5 teams in, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Here's a reasonable prediction. I gave the south and west benefit of the doubt, either or both could definitely be 2.

A:5

MW:5

NE:5

C:5

W:4

ME:4

S:2

GL:2

I really hope that they don't give the south 3 based on the fact that the 2-3 team gap was only 8 points. Trinity (Tex.) only had 2 under 28, and their 5th was 28:55. There's no way that they should go.

My only worry is that they will decide that our gap between 3 and 4 was too large and only give us 3 teams (they won't take RIT and not SLU). That would bump W up to 5 and either the ME up to 5 or the S up to 3. First, it would be ridiculous if Trinity tex went, and second, they can't say that our 3-4 gap is too large and then take Etown (5th ME by a lot).

Thoughts?

Big Will wrote:

I gave the south and west benefit of the doubt, either or both could definitely be 2.

Thoughts?

Ignore that part.