IF it's a tactical 1500 then I think Windle will still have enough to win the 800. Now if someone forces a hard pace in the 1500 it might be another story. But who is going to do that? Julson still seems out of top form. If Baum is Windle's primary competition I don't see the teammates hammering out a hard pace. Sit and kick benefits them and the team more. This is assuming, of course, that both guys double.
WOW. from the looks of it this weekend coach mack at ashland has his middle distance team on fire. Conference will be interesting but no doubt dominated by purple in the 15.
After looking at both Baum/Windle's twitter after Friday night, Baum was in fact on the injury train. But from the looks of it, 3:47 is solid after two weeks of cross training. Look for another AU mid-D guy to join the 3:44 or faster realm soon.
MightyMiddies wrote:
WOW. from the looks of it this weekend coach mack at ashland has his middle distance team on fire. Conference will be interesting but no doubt dominated by purple in the 15.
Nobody cares about mid-distance running! #5k&10kFoLyfe #TracksMostExcitingEvent
team title - ashland university by a hair
Is the entry list up yet? It wasn't last I checked. The chapionship manual said it would be up by 5.
What will happen?
http://lightningtiming.com/results/20140430/PerfList.htm
At a quick glance. 5k will be 1 heat. GV left a guy out of the 10k. Windle doubles 15/800. Baum doubles 15/5k. Williams doubles 15/3k steeple.
Not a ton of provisionals this year, which makes it harder for grand valley to win simply on volume. Should be a close race for the team title.
I see Baum getting crucial points in that 5k for the eagles. XC runner up, I dont see why he can't go out there and win from the slow heat, kids an animal. Obviously I'm bias but I also see Peterson picking up some pennies in the 15 for gv
Only way Baum will even run the 5k is if AU needs the points at that stage in the meet. The meet will be over at that point either AU has it locked up or they are out of it. They did the same thing last year look up the results, don't think he even started last year. Just a back up plan by AU; on top of that no one will score out of the slow heat in the 5k. One guy did indoors but that's because the ferris guys all tanked.....like usual.
Agreed. I doubt Baum will run 5k unless the team competition still in question. But I think the meet program on the spire website has 2 5k heats so Baum would be in the slow heat. I'm a little surprised GVSU elected to double Peterson and run Flores in the 5k instead of the 10k. I suppose they feel they have a strong enough group in the 10k already and this gives GV their best possible 5k group. Here are my predictions:
800- 1. Windle Ash 2. Webster Fin 3. Barnes GV
1500- 1. Windle Ash 2. Baum Ash 3. Pulley GV
5k- 1. Bradley GV 2. Peterson GV 3. Flores GV
10k- 1. Mirth Hill 2. Moskalewski GV 3. Duff GV
3k SC- 1. Williams Mal 2. Routledge GV 3. Hunter Tif
Overall, team competition should be real close. Can't pick between GV and Ashland.
Actually, I don't see Mirth's name in the 10k either. So I'll go:
5k- Bradley Mirth Peterson
10k- Moskalewski Duff Silversmith
Results:
Event 14 Men 10000 Meter Run
1 Roush, Ryan SO Malone 30:39.48 30:17.31 10
2 Cini, Chad SO Grand Valley 30:47.58 30:47.31 8
3 Moskalewski, Josh SR Grand Valley 30:38.73 30:53.83 6
4 Duff, Joe SO Grand Valley 30:39.96 30:55.21 5
5 Fresenko, Nick SR Malone 31:00.63 31:17.65 4
Event 20 Men 3000 Meter Steeplechase
1 Williams, Mitch SR Malone 9:09.41 9:12.22 10
2 Hickman, Luke JR Hillsdale 9:48.59 9:16.31 8
3 Routledge, Casey JR Grand Valley 9:28.42 9:22.08 6
4 Saliga, Jason FR Michigan Tec 9:38.52 9:22.88 5
5 Gose, Gareth JR Saginaw Vall 9:41.15 9:22.99 4
Overall team points after day one: GVSU 77, Tiffin 42, Ashland 40. That would be a lot for Ashland to make up.
MCCMightyMouse had some "shots-fired" comments towards the GVSU team and their coach the other day.
Anyone else get the chance to read?
Who's MCCMightyMouse? BTW, the GVSU coach wouldn't care. They run a classy program and do things the right way.
Roush... on Running 2 Win. Sounds arrogant.
Ryan Roush. Winner of the 10k. Basically mid 5k he through up the #1 to the GV cheering section. His log also had some pretty interesting comments. Just tasteless, classless behavior from a young, immature runner. I don't care who you are. You just don't do that. Especially if you're not gonna back up your actions and win the race. MCC has a strange history of pulling bush league stuff like this over the past two years though so it wasn't surprising. More of just a shock. Seemed like the 3 GV guys and Mirth from Hillsdale handled the situation with class though. Hats off to them. With that being said, what a great 3 days of track and field that meet was!
Completely agree. You wanna chuck up the #1? You do it when you've crossed the finish line. It's not to be utilized as a mid race taunt.
If true, that's ashame... But oh well. Looking forward to seeing how the Ashland mid-D and GV 5kers do at Nationals.
