Jesuit beat Bellarmine College Prep in the D1 race for 2nd by 1 point. Let’s see how that shakes out in the merge.
Great Oak boys was missing Christian Simone
Jesuit beat Bellarmine College Prep in the D1 race for 2nd by 1 point. Let’s see how that shakes out in the merge.
Great Oak boys was missing Christian Simone
Dana Hills boys got 3rd in the merge behind NP and GO, and well ahead of Jesuit and BCP.
No seniors in BCP. Things are looking good for them next year
Unofficial girls merge
1. Buchanan
2. Great Oak
3. Newbury Park
4. Sage Creek
Bang Bang wrote:
Jesuit beat Bellarmine College Prep in the D1 race for 2nd by 1 point. Let’s see how that shakes out in the merge.
Fun facts:
Bellermine’s coach is a Jesuit alumnus.
Michael Stember is a Jesuit alumnus.
Can anyone explain how qualifying out of California for NXN works?
They take the top 20? (some number around that) teams in an overall merge and then merge them against each other for the top 2 who go automatically, then the 3rd & 4th teams are in the pool for an at large.
Thank you. What about individuals?
fastTuohy wrote:
I think Newbury Park wins the merge over Great Oak 91 to 112 by my count.
for clarity, I merged all of the teams, which apparently is not the right way.
Just top 5 individual times. excluding those who qualified on teams
Bang Bang wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Strangio will keep up with Young long enough to get out kicked.
Strangio and Young aren’t racing in the same division
Yeah, I realized that until later. It's a shame they didn't face off.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Yeah, I realized that until later. It's a shame they didn't face off.
They will at NXN. Strangio will get owned.
34 girls sub 18, 183 boys sub 16. Why spread the talent out so thinly between five races of each gender. Make it one of each. I know that you can't have 1,000 girls in one cross country race (the total girls finishers were close to 1,000; there were 1,004 boys finishers). Back in my day it was near impossible to get to the state meet but that made it special. Five divisions? That is craziness. Much better to have guys like Strangio and teams like Great Oak duking it out with Aschenbrenner and the Youngs of Newbury Park. In retrospect, that Newbury Park coach did a great job in the short-term with his teams, both boys and girls.
Tough to get many teams in if you limit the field to say 200 runners. I think 7 teams may have had 5 runners in the top 200. to get more teams, you would have to limit individuals to guys under 15:30 or so I bet. Maybe 15 teams and around 100 individuals might work?
zxcvzxcv wrote:
34 girls sub 18, 183 boys sub 16. Why spread the talent out so thinly between five races of each gender. Make it one of each. I know that you can't have 1,000 girls in one cross country race (the total girls finishers were close to 1,000; there were 1,004 boys finishers). Back in my day it was near impossible to get to the state meet but that made it special. Five divisions? That is craziness. Much better to have guys like Strangio and teams like Great Oak duking it out with Aschenbrenner and the Youngs of Newbury Park. In retrospect, that Newbury Park coach did a great job in the short-term with his teams, both boys and girls.
Back in my day it was tougher to make state.....BS.
Look up team times from when the state meet started (3 divisions) and come back and tell us again how much weaker the competition is now.
Nico Young just got his speed rating up to a 202.
MSA wrote:
How muddy is the course today?
Not at all. The course actually runs faster when it’s had some rain. The decomposed granite paths can be kind of loose when they are dry. Today, the course was wet but firm. It didn’t start raining until after the meet and there was very little wind.
Great Oak, Bellarmine, Dana Hills, Jesuit, and Newbury Park will all be strong next year on the boys side.
Great Oak is losing a ton, but they always reload and has some people go from JV to their #1 or 2 runner in a year.
Jesuit is losing Strangio but returns the rest of their top 5. Also heard him say in his Dyestat interview that they have a transfer that’s ineligible until next year.
Wouldn’t be surprised if 2 at large bids next year come from that region. And it’s going to stink for a team that gets 5th in the merge, and for a 4th place team if CA doesn’t get an at-large.
Stacked region wrote: And it’s going to stink for a team that gets 5th in the merge, and for a 4th place team if CA doesn’t get an at-large.
I mean if CA doesn’t get a second at-large
Strangiowned wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Yeah, I realized that until later. It's a shame they didn't face off.
They will at NXN. Strangio will get owned.
Already raced this season at Clovis, same course they just ran
1. Young-14:28
2. Daschbach-14:30
3. Strangio-14:48
This is exactly the reason NY has Feds and NJ the MOC. The state meet provides the equal playing field for all the different sized schools, and the championship meet narrows it down to only the highest quality. If there was an extra week in the calendar, Cal could add a meet of champions.
Of course these meets are now in danger of being replaced by the NXR meets, but an NXR Cal would have the same result.