Who will win the Showdown at Pre Nats?

To all those OVC runners, you all are welcome to the party. There will be some beverages as in the past and lots of laughs. If you do come, we can make accomodations so that you could stay the night if you'd like. I recommend bringing a custome if you can. This invite is to the girls teams as well. Good luck to all the teams these next few races and at conference.

Anyone inquiring about what the former MSU stud Paul Gilvin has been up to since his completion of college may look at the website he has made for our team.

www.angelfire.com/sports/msuxc

If you have ever been to our school site you have noticed they still have a picture of Tony Teats up. Our media guy is a real slacker. Consider Gilvin our media guy.

I will have to go with kyle over horton. Lets have more predictions on conference. Individual and team?

1. EKU

2. MSU, murray state

3. EIU

1. Kyle

2. Horton

3. Jonaitis

4. phil scott

5. burkeen

6. davis

7. Vanostrand

8. Lancaster

9. tanz

10.bradley

Maybe a Morehead guy somewhere in the mix. Hard to predict the rest.

I would be very surprised if Murray beat EIU. I would be even more surprised if murray put 4 in the top 10! Let me guess, you are from Murray! Must be if you truly believe what you just posted.

Throw Chris Kennedy from TN Tech into the mix. He's always a contender for OVCs.

I don't think Kennedy will be in the mix. He ran a good race at UT-Martin this weekend but the comp. was not the greatest. I see him around 10-14th. Murray State is strong but can't handle EIU or the Great one EKU. I guess we will see in 9 days.

Cheers.

racerjb, your predictions are pretty bold. It should be a good race this weekend at Pre Nats. Surely it will be a totally different type of race than the OVC Championship race. I'd like to see both Kyle and Alan run a fast race and represent the OVC well. The match-up probably could go either way on any given day. How they plan for nationals can be a factor in the showdown.The OVC course is flat, fast, and accurate. JC and I made sure it was exactly 8k. If it is a fast race at OVC, the winner will go under 25 minutes. I believe last time we hosted the meet John Nganga from EKU won by 50 seconds in a time of 24:27. I'll get to see all of you the morning of November 2, and hopefully I'll see some of you that night.

I don't really see his race at UT-Martin as really a good one. He's run 25:18 so he just seems a possible contender. He redshirted last year and has put in some good miles since then supposedly.

We've heard alot about the men now what about the women? Who is going to take the individual and team titles this year. Morehead has had the individual champ the last two years. Some contenders I've seen so far are: Stephanie Bone, Tiffany Cartwright, Kelly Austin, and Sheena Gooding. Any others? Team wise, here are my predications:

1. EKU

2. EIU

3. SEMO

4. Morehead

5. Murray

From what I've seen so far, I've got to give Cartwright the edge right now for the individual title.

Every year, I notice one thing....the OVC runners of the week always perform well enough at OVC's to at least be top 14. Each year there is someone I overlook and say well that was just a small meet, but every year they manage to prove me wrong...lesson: Don't count out-

ALAN HORTON - SR. - MARYVILLE, TN - EASTERN KENTUCKY

RYAN DAVIS - SR. - MEMPHIS, TN - MURRAY STATE

JEFF JONAITIS - JR. - TINLEY PARK, IL - EASTERN ILLINOIS

PHIL SCOTT - SO. - OSHAWA, ONTARIO - EASTERN KENTUCKY

KYLE O'BRIEN - SR. - DANVILLE, IL - EASTERN ILLINOIS

J.C. CHIRGWIN - SR. - HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRIGINA - MOREHEAD STATE

CHRIS KENNEDY - SR. - BRENTWOOD, TN - TENNESSEE TECH

Throw in two more guys from EIU, Two more from EKU, One from Murray, One from SEMO, and one more from Morehead and there is your top fourteen roughly. Maybe this year it will be proven wrong, but usually it is pretty close.

GilvinXC

I guess this is paul gilvin. I thoughsomeone sad you only run 26's on the OVC course? It can't be that flat and fast then.

My predictions for Women's OVC's thus far:

1. Tiffany Cartwright

2. Molly Datillo

3. Kelly Austin

4. Angie Simone

5. Sheena Gooding

6. Wendee Embry

7. Kris Wolf

8. Nicole Milici

9. Kaci Pilcher

10.Laura Schutte

11.Katie Springer

12.Erica Nichols

13.Megan Walker-Richards

14.Deb Tygrett

Not sure if Stephanie Bone is running or not, if so she would be in the mix for top 5.

Yeah, I am Paul Gilvin. I ran 26:23 on the Morehead course. It was a pretty small meet. I wish more OVC teams could have made it. There were about 20 runners in the race. It was basically a time trial for the team. I didn't get a good base in this summer after my surgury, so I haven't ran that fast this fall. I'm just working out with the team and will graduate this fall. This winter I'll do a lot more base training and get ready for a track/summer season. Last Friday I ran 26:37 on EKU's course where I ran 25:19 last year. Most of our guys ran pr's at our home meet. It's comparable to Louisville's course if you've ran there. It's a flat course. I think sub 25:30 is capable for a few guys on the course.

When has Chris Kennedey been a contender at OVC's?

I will tak a stab at it:

1. Horton

2. O'Brien

3. Scott

4. Jonaitis

5. Van Ostrand

6. Mackey

7. Davis

8. Reiter

9. Atkins

10.Landre

11.Jackson

12.Lancaster

13.Chirwin

14.Jackson

1.EKU

2.EIU

3.Murray

1-bialka EIU

2-horton EKU

3-mackey EIU

4- derks EIU

5-nicholas EIU

6-hall EIU

7- sipple EIU

8- gruberman EIU

9-joniatis EIU

prenats doesnt mean anything as you will all find out this week when trying to determine the ovc leaders. and ovc wont mean jack when everyone is sitting home while the bigdogs are racing on after districts. aim higher.

Walk the walk talk the talk . Pretty bold Mr. Hall. I hope EKU and Murray runners see this. I guess we will see in 7.5 days. I hope your smack hold up.

Go EKU

Doesn't Bialka run for the indiana invaders now?

its not bold if you can back it up. which we did... 2 years ago. damn near all those guys are out of eligibility including myself.