lets give them a chance wrote:
I agree with you. I can realistically see Lock Haven and Shippensburg in the top 10. It's not necessarily crazy to say both teams could have multiple All-Americans and their entire top five in the top 60. Remember Edinboro at spokane having 2 guys in the top 50, and deibel and dustin thomas being top 60. If that edinboro team, (who was also very good) can do it I have a lot of faith one of the two this year can do it. Since we are talking about nationals, and all agree that neither team should be overly concerned with conferences and regionals, I am going to say what I truly believe the performances at paul short would convert to if both teams could replicate those performances again.
Ship:
1) Keiran- finished second later in the day so he could potentially have gone faster, and the course was a touch sloppier I would assume, also I believe he just stayed with the front pack and left it to a kickers finish. With this being said I think he can turn in a top 20-30 finish at nationals (refer to Matt Gillette his senior year)
2)Balla- may have exerted more of his potential than Sutton but nonetheless still turned in a top 40-60 effort
3) Bruning- same as Balla
4)Conrad-Kline- assuming still 10 seconds behind his teammates still leaves him in the top 65-80
5) Bernard England- had what appeared to be an off day at paul short even so would be a top 100 finisher at nationals, but I would be inclined to say he's capable of much greater assuming good health, I'm predicting he will be among Balla and Bruning rounding out the top five with conrad cline and undoubtedly giving shippensburg a phenomenal chance to be top 10.
Haven:
1)Mountain- I don't think it's so hard to say he has an opportunity to be in the top 5, I don't want to say he's a contender because other individuals in d2 are difficult to read thus far.
2)Monroe- showing shades of his older brother, his performance could leave him close to sutton somewhere in the top 30-40
3)Robinson- 3 seconds behind Monroe
4)Giuod- 5 seconds behind robinson
5)diltz-3 seconds behind Giuod
top 5 could be interchangeable at nationals judging by paul short, but their performance (if replicated) I think definitely could put their 2-5 among the top 70 at WORST and top 40-55 at best.
also it would be disrespectful to leave out elliot from edinboro who will bring the edinboro national effect and be in the top 50 along with steve maine, Corey wefing, and jeremy parsons who should be top 100 finsihers
I understand more than likely at nationals this will all not happen on the same day, but it's exciting to think of the opportunity the psac has this year. Although if even half of these turned out to be true it's still going to be a great year.