NCAA XC Regionals

[DrJay]

CU's men's team 2nd to Northern Arizona, maybe a little bit of an off day. Hopefully they'll be ready next weekend. Ok St's top 5 were within 6 seconds of each other, maybe they're rounding into form, with more in the tank.

[JumboElliott]

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Villanova men and women both win their regional, finish 1-2 in both races in the Mid Atlantic. Not bad.

[no one]

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Kennedy Kithuka won easily by 16 seconds over Anthony Rotich. Very smooth running (for both). In talking to the UTEP coach (Rotich) before race (a fairly good runner in his own right) - he indicated that Rotich had come down with strep throat and that he wasn't sure how he would do. Both of them had gapped 'the pack' by 4 miles.

Jared Ward of fun run and disqualification fame got 4th - 6 seconds behind Rothich and 4 tenths behind Futsum Zienasellassie both at the front of a flurry of fast finishers. 20th place was just under 30:00 and then guys came in about a second apart through 60th place.

Weather was cold (I'm guessin low 40s maybe high 30s) with some percip just prior to the race little bit ... very little bit of snow with light light rain, flat course on grass (golf course) . NCAAs should be competitive, if this is any predictor

Northern Az - 3-9-10-11-28.

Colorad 5-7-15-16-26-27

NorthAz 61
Col = 69

New Mexico 3rd @ 79
BYU @ 109

[gh]

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CU's men's team 2nd to Northern Arizona, maybe a little bit of an off day. Hopefully they'll be ready next weekend. Ok St's top 5 were within 6 seconds of each other, maybe they're rounding into form, with more in the tank.

off-day, or were the Buffs overrated by stomping flatlanders at an altitude-killing Pac-10 meet? And now they meet another altitude bunch and the advantage is gone.

[26mi235]

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Big Ten meet almost certainly had the closest race at the top - five points separating the top four teams. Indiana rested their Number 2 guy, and ran a hard-workout type of race. Wisconsin's number 1 ran 8km with one shoe, and finished third on the team, otherwise they would have won. All four teams are in.

Michigan 70
Wisconsin 73
Notre Dame 74
Indiana 75

See LetsRun -- give them credit, they provide good service here:
http://www.letsrun.com/2013/11/2013-nca ... big-dance/
http://www.letsrun.com/2013/11/2013-nca ... big-dance/

Mens Automatic
1 michigan
2 wisconsin
3 villanova
4 princeton
5 oklahoma state
6 tulsa
7 northern arizona
8 colorado
9 syracuse
10 columbia
11 georgia
12 florida
13 arkansas
14 texas
15 eastern kentucky
16 virginia
17 stanford
18 oregon
At large:
19 portland
20 new mexico
21 byu
22 north carolina state
23 north carolina
24 notre dame
25 indiana
26 air force
27 colorado state
28 iona
29 providence
30 dartmouth
31 harvard
2013 NCAA Women’s Cross Country Teams
18 Autos
1 michigan
2 butler
3 villanova
4 georgetown
5 iowa state
6 minnesota
7 colorado
8 new mexico
9 providence
10 dartmouth
11 florida state
12 vanderbilt
13 arkansas
14 smu
15 virginia
16 william and mary
17 arizona
18 stanford
Thirteen At Large
19 michigan state
20 oregon
21 san francisco
22 washington
23 notre dame
24 syracuse
25 wisconsin
26 indiana
27 penn state
28 west virginia
29 princeton
30 cornell
31 byu

[mcgato]

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off-day, or were the Buffs overrated by stomping flatlanders at an altitude-killing Pac-10 meet? And now they meet another altitude bunch and the advantage is gone.

Since the top 6 teams from their region qualified, maybe Colorado knew that they didn't have to kill themselves this week. Their first five finished within 22 seconds of each other. From the looks of the results, Northern Arizona and New Mexico also knew that they would get through and didn't kill themselves.

[no one]

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I don't know how a team could have taken it easy in Mountain West race. After 2nd place they were coming in very fast ... a little bit iffy to be able to do that IMO. NAUs 5th guy @ 30:08, Col 5th guy @ 30:07, New Mex 5th @ 30:07, BYU 5th @ 30:18, Air Force 5th @ 30:21, Col St 5th @30:35.
Col did have their 6th @ 30:08 - didn't look like anyone from 3rd back to ??? were cruisin/easing in and there wasn't anyone lookin back. It was a pretty intense race. Maybe they'e good at knowin where they are - but that pack of about 30-40 or so was pretty impressive and the last mile didn't break it up - . The first 4 teams - especially the first 3 were very very impressive. I will be most interested how the champ race goes.

[mcgato]

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When I said "didn't kill themselves," I didn't mean that they took it easy.

From the results, it looked to me that the top three teams were all in a big pack. They were probably looking at each other and assessing the situation. They all had at least 5 runners there who were running within themselves. The 5th runner from the top 3 teams finished within a second of each other. All three teams easily qualified for nationals. That is how a qualifying race should be run.

[Bruce Kritzler]

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[quote="no one"]Kennedy Kithuka won easily by 16 seconds over Anthony Rotich. Very smooth running (for both). In talking to the UTEP coach (Rotich) before race (a fairly good runner in his own right) - he indicated that Rotich had come down with strep throat and that he wasn't sure how he would do. Both of them had gapped 'the pack' by 4 miles.

UTEP xc coach is Paul Ereng.

[Bruce Kritzler]

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The men's Mountain Regional is the strongest (with 6 qualifiers), and the top 4 teams know going in that they have enough head-to-head wins, at previous meets, to get in to Nationals.
Colorado was very impressive on the women's side, and look to finish way ahead of their ranking at NCAA.
Eastern Kentucky men had a very low point total at SE Region.

[DrJay]

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Note the at-large bids in 26mile235's post above are predictions from a letsrun thread. Official at-large bids will be announced by the NCAA Sunday.

[Jnathletics]

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Place Bib Name Yr Team Time Pace
===== ===== ===================== == ================== ======= =====
1 315 Juli Accurso SR Ohio U. 19:59 5:22
2 261 Erin Finn FR Michigan 20:08 5:24
3 288 Kelly Curran SR Notre Dame 20:13 5:26
4 125 Katie Clark SR Butler 20:19 5:27
5 277 Leah O'Connor JR Michigan State 20:22 5:28
6 266 Shannon Osika SO Michigan 20:25 5:29
7 262 Brook Handler JR Michigan 20:26 5:29
8 282 Rachele Schulist FR Michigan State 20:30 5:30
9 128 Mara Olson JR Butler 20:33 5:31
10 200 Samantha Ginther SR Indiana 20:35 5:32

1. Michigan = 48
2. Butler = 67
3. Michigan State = 73

Read more: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read. ... z2kp4fHtjQ

Erin Finn proving the rankings wrong from last year.
With her Big Ten win and 2nd at Regionals is there any doubt she was the best X-C runner last year in High School? If she doesn't get sick before Foot locker regionals she would have won Foot Locker Nationals.

[Jnathletics]

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Great Lakes men

UNOFFICIAL MEN'S SCORES
1. Michigan = 70
2. Wisconsin = 73
3. Notre Dame = 74
4. Indiana = 75

UNOFFICIAL MEN'S RESULTS

Place Bib Name Yr Team Time Pace
===== ===== ===================== == ================== ======= =====
1 516 John Mascari SO Indiana State 30:05 6:04

9 688 Malachy Schrobilgen FR Wisconsin 30:38 6:10
10 577 Morsi Rayyan SR Michigan 30:38 6:10
11 502 Evan Esselink JR Indiana 30:39 6:10
12 686 Alex Hatz JR Wisconsin 30:40 6:10
13 501 Jason Crist FR Indiana 30:40 6:11

14 600 J.P. Malette SR Notre Dame 30:42 6:11
15 511 Carl Smith FR Indiana 30:42 6:11

21 687 Jacob Naylor SR Wisconsin 30:55 6:14
22 596 Michael Clevenger SO Notre Dame 30:55 6:14
23 575 August Pappas SO Michigan 30:57 6:14
24 682 Alex Brill SR Wisconsin 31:00 6:15
25 505 Robby Nierman SR Indiana 31:03 6:15


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How intense was this finish with 4 different pairs of runners finishing in the same second on teams within 1 , 2 or 3 points. Talking about missing or making a free throw with no time on the clock. 8-) and it's like 5 guys have to shoot FT at the end not just one.

[booond]

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Place Bib Name Yr Team Time Pace

Erin Finn proving the rankings wrong from last year.
With her Big Ten win and 2nd at Regionals is there any doubt she was the best X-C runner last year in High School? If she doesn't get sick before Foot locker regionals she would have won Foot Locker Nationals.

Since you are so sure of these prognostications, what are the winning lottery numbers tonight? I'd like to buy a ticket.

[no one]

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[quote=Bruce Kritzler]

Kennedy Kithuka won easily by 16 seconds over Anthony Rotich. Very smooth running (for both). In talking to the UTEP coach (Rotich) before race (a fairly good runner in his own right) - he indicated that Rotich had come down with strep throat and that he wasn't sure how he would do. Both of them had gapped 'the pack' by 4 miles.

UTEP xc coach is Paul Ereng.

[/quote:368jk3no]

oops - I knew that - just constructed the sentence very poorly/inaccurately. my bad. thanks for correcting