your team has some hot moms.
your team has some hot moms.
Wow, that's very close amongst those 4 teams. It's nice that all four have a crack at each other the next week too. It goes to show you than anybody can win on any given day. Which IS what sort of happened at Groups the next week.
Hoping the formatting works, check this out. This is the Missouri Class 4 (biggest class) girls' results for 2016. The top 5 teams were all clustered within 13 points, with only 9 points separating the top 4. Crazy that 13 points was the difference between state champ and finishing off the podium. I know it is not as close as the one you describe, but given that it was state and it was for the podium spots, it's pretty nuts.
1 Jackson 134 10 19 32 35 38 42 104
Total Time: 1:38:48.93
Average: 19:45.79
2 Lee's Summit West 138 14 23 29 33 39 56 74
Total Time: 1:38:57.67
Average: 19:47.54
3 Washington 142 1 3 7 51 80 99 105
Total Time: 1:37:15.99
Average: 19:27.20
4 Park Hill South 143 12 13 31 43 44 68 73
Total Time: 1:38:39.11
Average: 19:43.83
5 Blue Springs South 146 2 4 34 40 66 79 84
Total Time: 1:38:03.75
The 1995 Massachusetts State Meet had a tie on the girls side, again with fairly low scores, 68 to 68. The two high schools in question were actually from the same town (Newton North and Newton South).
In 2014 my old high school team tied for 1st at both the MA d5 meet and again at the all-state meet losing on the tiebreaker both times. About as brutal as things can get.
I was involved in 1989 NCAA 2 regional XC meet and the top 6 teams had scores of 84-85-86-86-98-115-138. Order of teams was Cal State Northridge, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal State LA, Humboldt State, UC Riverside with 98, and UC Davis 115, Cal Poly Pomona 138. Top 3 were autos, but NCAA accepted at least top 5 bc I know NCAA 2 champs had SLO in 3rd, UCR 4th, CSN 5th, Humboldt 6th, and CSLA in 8th.
Anyhow, 4 teams separated by 2 points, 5 teams by 12
The 2003 Maine class A Boys state championship saw the top four teams two points apart. Fun fact race winner Eric Giddings ran 31:17 the summer before at Beach to Beacon at age 16.
http://www.sub5.com/wp/wp-content/xcresults/results03/stateboysa.txt
Perfect scores come but once in a lifetime, like in '92' when Adams State pulled off the ultimate scoring parfait - 15 points total. Almost, if not ever possible in this day and age much less high school XC. Although I have head of whole teams finishing in a close spread but usually not the the first 5 spots. There was one invitational back in the day where the teams were misguided during the walk through by an assistant 'F-Tard' who didn't know the course personally and the home team ended up finishing 1st through 5th while the rest of the squads ran an extra 1/3 mile by accident - at a NJ high School.