Girls Regional Rankings - 10/20/2022By Erik Boal, DyeStat EditorWith the regular-season invitational schedule having been completed and elite teams preparing for or already embarking on their postseason runs, the state and re...
JSerra ahead of LosAltos. Seems like they flip the order of actual finishes so many times. Seems that they like to make upset picks for the reasons we don’t know
I agree that it doesn't make sense since in their most recent meeting (Clovis Inv.) Los Altos won over JSerra by 30 points. I don't care who you are missing results are what should create the rankings.
The rankers should know that Los Altos is not at full strength, still missing this pass springs 3200 state qualifier Fadil and they still won Clovis. When Clovis merged the results Los Altos expanded their lead to 50 points.
Seems like the rankers rank the teams on how they would like the rankings to be in stead of head to head competition.
I like Buchanan, they probably are the best team in the country but after the stunt they pulled at Clovis I am not sure I can keep them as the #1 in the country. From the notes on there: Did not score at the Clovis Invite after Sundgren did not race and the team's fifth runner did not finish.
They could have easily fielded a team at Clovis but chose not to to preserve the ranking and not lose to someone else.
Check out these merged Clovis results. Buchanan was 4th when including the girls that didn’t race varsity. https://www.finishedresults.com/files/2022/XC/10-08-2022-Clovis-Invitational/girls-merge.pdf Saratoga top 5 speed ratings: 145 133 133 119 (one of the Wheelers who finally opened up her season. Probably will be with their 2/3 at the end of the season). 113. There is one junior who probably would have been around 133 but didn’t finish the race. http://tullyrunners.com/XC2022/BurntHillsInv2022.htm#Girls Saratoga could win another NXN title if their top 5 are on. they are really good but aren’t as deep as they were in 2019
Don't count out Campolindo, they are rounding into form. Los Altos beat them at the start of the season but they've been getting better every week. The team has won 6 state titles so they're gonna be a force at state. Could easily be a top 4 team.
Yeah I think Trabuco Hills and Ventura will be better than San Clemente next year. TH and Ventura will autoqualify and San Clemente will get 3rd in the merge and will get an at-large if an at-large does come from California.
Trabuco Hills returns 5 of their top 6. Ventura loses no scorers. Even though San Clemente returns more than Great Oak, Granada and Newbury Park, they still lose their #1, #3, and their sometimes 5 or 6. Their #1 placed 8th at Clovis so losing someone like that can hurt a team.
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1- Newbury Park 10- San Clemente 19- Granada They are doing regional rankings now too. Crescenta Valley is ahead of Great Oak here. Not that GO will make NXN this year, but I disagree with CV being ahead of GO.
I tried to do the team times, only including returning runners. I did it all by hand so I may have had a mistake (or two), but my results were:
Trabuco Hills: 76:33 San Clemente: 76:50 Dana Hills 78:00 Tesoro: 79:12 El Dorado: 79:59 JSerra 80:16
JSerra's boys are interesting because they have three really good fr. and a really good soph. Looking at how they built their girls program, and that they had 4 boys run 4:10 in the 1600m from 2011-2019, they could be an emerging top team.
Yeah I think Trabuco Hills and Ventura will be better than San Clemente next year. TH and Ventura will autoqualify and San Clemente will get 3rd in the merge and will get an at-large if an at-large does come from California.
Trabuco Hills returns 5 of their top 6. Ventura loses no scorers. Even though San Clemente returns more than Great Oak, Granada and Newbury Park, they still lose their #1, #3, and their sometimes 5 or 6. Their #1 placed 8th at Clovis so losing someone like that can hurt a team.
Well, the Mt. Sac results changes things. Not only did San Clemente's full squad crush it, but their returning 5 man team time was better than anyone else. What I came up with:
San Clemente: 78:11 Dana Hills: 79:39 Trabuco Hills: 80:01 (was missing #2 returner, could have been 50 seconds faster) Great Oak: 80:11 Millikan: 80:15 Yosemite: 80:33 Cathedral: 80:38 Crescenta Valley: 81:10
I might have missed some teams, I didn't do them all. Tried all the obvious suspects.
Millikan was a real surprise, because that team time does not even count some more sophomores at 17:02, 17:02, 17:15, 17:17, 17:22 and a freshman at 17:18. I didn't know they were that deep.
Left out LB poly, Loyola, and Palisades from D1D2 individual sweeps ahead of Millikan if making a team time ranking. Palisades time of 80:23 with a 2 juniors, 2 sophomores, and 3 freshman.
Sorry didn't realize just did it from teams of returning times. Palisades team time from today still stands up though since they lose no one next year.
Sorry didn't realize just did it from teams of returning times. Palisades team time from today still stands up though since they lose no one next year.
Thanks, I did miss Palisades. Wow, there are just too many teams in California. I thought I followed this stuff pretty closely, but I was honestly totally unaware of their team makeup.
It seems like Whitney has some guys missing from last year. Senior jamieson was their #1 last year but hasn’t run a race. Tajiri had a 16:27 PR but here he ran a 17:30. And Olivera from Oakdale went from 16:49 last year / sub 10 in track to a 18:24 this year. Shame to see talent disappear like that.
Mason Oliveira was in a pretty bad accident over the summer. I know he’s working to get back into shape at the moment. If the accident didn’t happen he’d probably be fast than his twin and Oakdale would be a really solid team this year.