D3 Atlantic Region 2014 XC

Rumor has it Mike spewed all over at SUNYACS after only 11 snackpacks? Ya hate to see something like that happen on your own home turf.

Let's give credit where credit is due: I think it was 16 snackpacks.

Still pretty weak, though. I believed in him and he let me down.

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Re: What have they done this year?

Individuals: A classic battle between Marcantonio, Miles-Rath and Karten last year at Letchworth. But what have they done this track season? Karten is out of eligibility I believe? Marcantonio and Miles-Rath appear to be very injury prone and will be probably be on thin ice before they are injured again. I’m expecting someone from the underclassmen will take the title this year.

Karten has run 14:09 for a top-10 finish in the Penn Relays 5K and also has a few 3:54 1500s to his name.

Sources say that Vassar's Alfredo Mazzuca (35th @ Regionals last fall) is transferring to SUNY Geneseo. They'll be deep

Christopher Sprague of RPI has recently broken 6 minutes in the burrito mile. This includes the time it took him to eat the burrito. Look out for him

Slade wrote:

Re: What have they done this year?

Individuals: A classic battle between Marcantonio, Miles-Rath and Karten last year at Letchworth. But what have they done this track season? Karten is out of eligibility I believe? Marcantonio and Miles-Rath appear to be very injury prone and will be probably be on thin ice before they are injured again. I’m expecting someone from the underclassmen will take the title this year.

Karten has run 14:09 for a top-10 finish in the Penn Relays 5K and also has a few 3:54 1500s to his name.

Pretty sure Karten is out of xc eligibility so his accomplishments this outdoor season are decidedly unimportant to this discussion. He is running very well though.

Looks like the team battle should be pretty exciting this year. Cortland loses a few but brings back Marcantonio. Genny keeps all of their depth and all get older (and maybe a transfer if that is true). Nyu loses Karten but brings back Oja, Kadiyal and Lake. Slu loses a few but brings back most of their depth. Rpi came on strong last year and brings back a few of their guys, they could do some things this year. Rochester looks to rebound after last year but only returns a few + Rollfs who had a nice 10k this year.

Should be a fun year in the AR.

I'm calling the individual winner is going to be a senior, the top 7 returners from regionals are all seniors (Marcantonio, Miles-Rath, Moynihan, Kadiyal, Oja, Bibb, Iacovell)

NYU distance guys can always figure out how to put it together on the track in the Spring. Cortland usually can early on (minus NickMark) but then doesn't hold it, and Geneseo never seems to. Like ever. Strange, that.

[quote]Slide wrote:

NYU distance guys can always figure out how to put it together on the track in the Spring. Cortland usually can early on (minus NickMark) but then doesn't hold it, and Geneseo never seems to. Like ever. Strange, that.

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Maybe a down year this year for Geneseo but...

Alex Brimstein running 14:27/3:54 last year, Eddie Novara running 29:32/14:25 and Lee Berube running 29:48/14:21 the year before. I'd say they hold their own on the track compared to most of the teams in the AR.

However, absolutely an excellent track season for Karten. 14:09 is legit and let's hope he does something big at outdoor nationals.

The Italian Job wrote:

Sources say that Vassar's Alfredo Mazzuca (35th @ Regionals last fall) is transferring to SUNY Geneseo. They'll be deep

There is truth to this statement.

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1.Geneseo

2.SLU

3.NYU

4.Cortland

5.RPI

6.Rochester

Heard it here first. Real question is how many spots will AR get after the last two years of abysmal performances at nationals? The selection committee isn't supposed to take that into consideration but sorta hard to ignore. Hopefully teams can perform well at some inter-region meets and give the region a fighting chance for selections.

I thought Marcantonio might run the Lake Placid Half again this year but it looks like he decided not to as he wasn't in the results.

He has been already running a few road races....

http://www.sisuracingevents.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/13087117/overall.pdf

http://www.adirondackrunners.org/images/2014_PMRR_Results.pdf

I hear Rowan is putting a monster team together

FYI

Comcast wrote:

I hear Rowan is putting a monster team together

FYI

men's or women's?

The only way Rowan is assembling a "monster team" is if they sew all their current runners together to combine one giant runner. That wouldn't be all that efficient though, because they wouldn't have enough runners left over to complete a scoring 7. And it probably would heel-strike and whatnot, which we all can imagine as being quite a mess.

You missed this one.

http://www.bestroadraces.com/middletown/orange

And this one:

http://funnystack.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Funny-Squirrel-123.jpg

Agree with this for all their runners except for Sewnig (and Rawls if he is still running). Sewnig ran 14:36 at Penn this spring and went to xc nats individually his sophomore year.