Results here. Worthington boys and Murray county central girls are really good. Both teams could use a #5 though if they want to compete well at state. Murray’s 4-5 gap seems to be closing though
MileSplits official Complete Results formatted results for the 2022 Worthington Turkey Trot Invitational, hosted by Worthington High School in Worthington MN.
Becker beats Monticello again even without Ricker this time. Both teams have a large 4-5 gap. Wouldn’t be surprised if Becker beats them out at sections for state. Looks like 2 Becker freshmen are approaching one of their top senior teammates too, so that’s really good. Becker has a nice freshman trio: 17:21 17:26 18:05
Becker beats Monticello again even without Ricker this time. Both teams have a large 4-5 gap. Wouldn’t be surprised if Becker beats them out at sections for state. Looks like 2 Becker freshmen are approaching one of their top senior teammates too, so that’s really good. Becker has a nice freshman trio: 17:21 17:26 18:05
actually, accidentally looked at the team results from a different race.
He could be only running JV because of grades or something like that.
I hadn't noticed before that Sydney Drevlow's 8th grade brother is one of Hopkins' top runners now? I wonder how much more he can develop...
As for how he will develop, he will likely be one the best in the state as a senior. But a state championship? No guarantees. Probably no guarantees for all-state either.
Mitchell Grand was an insane 6th grader who would have made Hutchinson’s varsity if allowed, and scored well for them in 7th grade. But senior year he couldn’t make state as an individual. He seems to be doing fine at Sju though
Elliott McArthur used to be the best 8th and 9th grader in the state when he went to NXN but this time he can’t keep up with Breker/Gilles/Scott and if he wants to go to NXN he and his team will have to put a team together that can do it.
I would strongly suggest the Worthington course was short. Looking at the team stats, this was there 3rd 5km in 6 days - and most ran 30+ sec PR's. What is so hard about making a course accurate.
Regardless of the results here, I don’t think Worthington will win state this year if they don’t find a #5. Big Lake and Mankato East seem like the best 2 teams in AA. Highland Park could win it too if their 4/5 step up. One of their guys (Georgeson) who is their #4 was the fastest freshman on the team in 2019. So I expected him to at least keep up with Martin/Isom/Roberts this year. If that happens and they find #5 they should be able to win it by putting 5 guys in front of Big Lake’s #4. Another thing that might hurt highland park is that they lack a front runner, just like Rosemount. Como Park seems to have finished close behind highland park. HP will be racing tomorrow at the Metro invite.
Noah Breker is on the bib list for tomorrow....I can't wait to see the race. On the girls' side, Wayzata's Abbey Nechanicky should cruise to the win. HP's Luna Scorzelli & Chanhassen's Marissa Long will be dueling for the 2nd and 3rd spots, I would guess.
I would strongly suggest the Worthington course was short. Looking at the team stats, this was there 3rd 5km in 6 days - and most ran 30+ sec PR's. What is so hard about making a course accurate.
I don't think it's hard, I think it is intentional. Gets your team ranked higher when you plug numbers into mile split.
Amanda Overgaauw ran a 17:24 PR yesterday at a southwestern MN meet. She just keeps getting better & better! I really hope to see her at Nike Heartland in November. I'd like to see what she could do on the Yankton Trails course. I think Wayzata's Abbey Nechanicky is the #1 favorite, but Overgaauw would be a strong candidate for one of the top-5 spots.
For comparison, I looked back and Overgaauw ran 18:16 on this course a year ago. In 2019, Morgan Gehl (the 2019 Class A XC state champion) ran 18:06. So it doesn't appear to be a particularly fast course. Overgaauw is just that good right now!
Course was not the same. definitely shorter if you look at everyone’s times
Lakeville Applejack: 2 Lakeville North boys 8th graders finished in the JV top 7, breaking 19. Both will likely be on varsity next year. Lakeville South boys team only has 2 seniors in their top 7. In the top 13 actually. On JV, 5 of White Bear Lake top 6 are 9th graders. Prior Lake: 7 of the top 8 in the JV are 9th graders. Lakeville North wins, and it’s also kind of an early preview of the 4AAA meet. Woodbury beat White Bear lake. White Bear needs to close the 4-5 gap to get a chance to make state. Pretty much every statistic in this season has shown that Stillwater will win the section. It’s crazy how good they are after losing so many seniors. Southwest was not far behind Lakeville North. The 2-5 gap is starting to close for SW. Sam Scott had Andrew Casey trailing him, and both almost went sub-15.
Blaine Invite was basically an early preview of the 7AAA race. On the boys side, Blaine is looking to be an outright favorite in that section this year, and most likely next year too because the junior class is very strong here, which includes a stud Santiago. Duluth East beat Centennial but not by many points. The battle for the second spot in the section is looking to be very tight here. East Ridge has no seniors on the team, and it is also very deep. So next year, they are looking to maybe go to state from 3AAA after Rosemount loses a ton of guys.
On the girls side, it’s looking to be a tight battle between Forest lake, Duluth East and centennial.
Section 8AAA preview meet. The name says it all. It’s a preview of the 8aaa meet. Buffalo boys crushed it, which is exactly what’s looking to happen at sections of everything goes well for their fab 5. Bemidji was missing possibly their #1 guy, Maish. Their chances of qualifying are vulnerable if he doesn’t return. 2 other teams from their section (that aren’t Buffalo) beat them. https://live.herostiming.com/meets/18122/xc-events/657409/live Moorhead and STMA are really young this year and both have a chance to make state next year after Buffalo loses 3 scorers. Maybe both could make it at the same time next year.
I’m confused as to why PL didn’t run more guys on their varsity, particularly Gannon and Tuschen who actually took part in the sections race last year. Maybe they wanted to have a better JV race result? Might as well run everyone in the JV race then if Hootie or Simmonds weren’t going to race
Metro invite: Highland park girls not all that far behind Wayzata. I think these are the 2 teams most likely to go to NXN this year.
Nechanicky dominates
Roseville boys starting to put pieces together. Solid 1-6 not just 1-5. Pretty close to being top 10 in the state. Wayzata’s Weber was missing but next year they bring everyone back except Mohamed. Mohamed was second to Breker but way ahead of all his teammates and should be top 10 in the state now. He was very close to getting top 10 at TCRC showcase in 2020. Last year Wayzata had no front runner but this year they seem to have one.
Boys AAA rankings Teams 1. Lakeville north 2. Wayzata 3. Minnetonka 4. Minneapolis Southwest 5. Minneapolis Washburn 6. Rosemount 7. Mounds View 8. Eden Prairie 9. Stillwater 10. Edina Washburn and Southwest seem similar and I can see either team go to state. Edina was missing their 1/2 from the heartland classic but their 4/5 are better than Armstrong’s 4th.
Indviduals 1. Noah Breker 2. Nick Gilles 3. Andrew Casey 4. Sam Scott 5. Aidan Jones 6. Elliott McArthur 7. Adam Lueth 8. Nolan Sutter 9. Hootie Hage 10. Hamza Mohamed
