New England DIII XC

Preliminary results on men's side:

MIT team winner

Dan Harper (MIT) individual winner

http://www.newmacsports.com/sports/mxc/index

(see twitter feed on right side)

Stride 2 wrote:

Kid might be a boss but rumor has it he hasn't stayed up later than 10:30 all year except to play Starcraft. Including the summer.

Actually he prefers a game called Rome: Total War, a far gayer and less fun version of Starcraft. It's actually pretty analogous with Dilts' relationship to Gimli: gayer, and less fun.

Funny you mention that because Dilts actually prefers to sit in his bed and listen to "Light Yo' Ass on Fire" and "Laffy Taffy" on repeat while playing Shogun: Total War (because he is half asian (his better half, that is)). he utilizes a character named spoink, a faster but more ginger version of the romans in R:TW ; also analogous to Dilts' relationship to Gimli

Jim Henson wrote:

Stride 2 wrote:

Kid might be a boss but rumor has it he hasn't stayed up later than 10:30 all year except to play Starcraft. Including the summer.

Actually he prefers a game called Rome: Total War, a far glayer and less fun version of Starcraft. Because Starcraft is actually a sweet game that I love, a competition of life's champions, and I will not have you twerps insulting my Starcraft and tarnishing its sterling reputation. It's actually pretty analogous with Dilts' relationship to Gimli: glayer, and less fun.

This thread seems to have been taken over by Bates kids talking about their Dilts. Let's get back to regional predictions instead

globalrunner wrote:

Have got to give Dilts some serious credit, I mean some guys fell and schmidt won with one shoe lost in the 3-4th mile, but to come in 19th at NESCAC's and run most of the race with one shoe in those conditions is unheard of, I see him coming back very STRONG at Bowdoin and hopefully caring the team with him.

Dilts was prepared to do this BECAUSE of R:TW

Dilts didn't even get all-NESCAC. What a waste of your life to wait a whole semester, stave off your graduation, and come home empty handed. HAHAHAHAHA

Also Connor Rose is the most inconsistent runner of all time.

1. def not a bates kid, those kids just smoke peyote, sketch nudes of each other,and have serious gambling issues

2. dilts actually told me last year "the only reason i am coming back to bates for another semester is to get all-nescac. anything else will be nothing other than an empty handed failure, like the alliance between suaron and suaramon, only to be destroyed by the ents of fanghorn forrest." so yeah, really sucks to be him

3. Connor Rose is inconsistent, but the award for most inconsistent runner of all time goes to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB4Z0LNGBPY

buckFATES wrote:

Dilts didn't even get all-NESCAC. What a waste of your life to wait a whole semester, stave off your graduation, and come home empty handed. HAHAHAHAHA

Also Connor Rose is the most inconsistent runner of all time.

Why graduate?

I heard Devin Dilts once won a game of Connect Four in 3 moves.

The Virgin islands are the only place on earth that Dilts hasn't visited

devin dilts secretly sleeps with every woman in the world once a month. they bleed for a week as a result.

Dilts has already run to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life there.

Dilts isn’t hung like a horse. Horses are hung like Dilts.

wi|fredo wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSgpykbBXfk

so he has inconsistent music selection?

Some kids piss their name in the snow. Devin Dilts can piss his name into concrete.

For individuals I'd say look for Kevin Hoyt(Keene) and Alex Gomes(Salem) as they should be locks for nat's(If we can even call anyone from Keene a lock). Also depending on which John Vallo(USM) shows up he could be a factor. Could be the Vallo who finished 4th at Maine State ahead of Dilts and Wortham or the one who didn't look so good last weekend losing to a few kids from Bridgewater St.

I think Williams is the favorite, and if anyone is going to beat them it's going to be Bates or Middlebury. That being said, I could also see Tufts, Bowdoin, or maybe even MIT taking Bates or Middlebury if either has an off day. So, an attempted regionals prediction, with the possible places I could see the team finishing in parentheses:

Williams (1-3)

Bates (1-5)

Middlebury (1-5)

Tufts (2-6)

Bowdoin (3-6)

MIT (3-6)

Brandeis

Conn

USM

Wesleyan

Very decisive, I know.

Brandeis hasn't raced incredibly well but you have to remember they have made it to past three nationals (Williams is the only other team to do that). Losing Norton and the depth from the recent graduating class will definitely hurt them but Brown and Boutin (2-3 from those three qualifying teams) have been all-region every year since they were freshmen so you know they will be ready to go. Their 3-5 pack (Colvin, Kramer, Dundas) can contend with the other packs, but it is true that if not one them fails to perform they are in deep s%^#. So yes, they have a very thin margin for error, but you can't count them out just yet.