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Donna on the Side - in New York - 35 pictures
Coming Friday: Mt. SAC Preview, new Leader Lists
Latest Cross Country Highlights
OR BorderClash Favorites - The 2nd running of the Washington-Oregon post season tussle will be November 11 at Nike World Headquarters in Portland. Here are the favorites - BorderClash home page
MA One Month until Grafton - with the state meet a month away, Jake Klim sizes up Mass harriers and sees St. John's, Josh Palazola, Neil Graves, and Mohawk at the head of the 2000 class. Details
SC Furman Inv - South #4 Mt. Tabor NC boys 127; South #10 Brookwood GA girls 101 (South #4 Mt Tabor NC 110); Laura Stanley, Carolina Day 18:33 5k; Brandon Bartholomew, J.L. Mann SC 15:52. Complete Details
MI Gabriel Richard Inv - 1-2-4 punch of Chris Toloff 15:00 5k, Tim Moore 15:20, and Mark Avenius 15:55 leads US#8 Novi MI over Saline MI, 51-54 Complete Results
VA 9th Glory Days Inv - Oakton VA sr Matt Maline 15:25 5k is 2nd best ever on this course. Centreville fr Dacie Barr 18:36 is 9th best girls time. US#24 Good Counsel MD boys win with 64 points. Details
OH Great Catholic League South - Xavier Cincinnati beats US#11 LaSalle Cincinnati, 23-46, as four of Ohio's top 10 teams meet in a conference championship. Details
TX Conroe Inv - US#6 The Woodlands boys 22 for easy win; Luis Bordes and Steve Magness 1-2 in same time: 15:37 5k. Details
PA 45th Wm Tennent Inv - Virginian Bryce Ruiz invades PA and leaves with big 14:57 5k win -- 12 seconds better than PA #1 Karl Dusen and the 2nd fastest time ever on this course (Dan Coval 14:47, 1999). Details
AR Chile Pepper Festival - Edmonds Memorial OK spots Mountain Home AR the first 3 places (Eric Gross 15:26 5k) and then unleashes 52-second 1-7 pack before Mtn Home's 5th for a 50-52 victory at the University of Arkansas. Perennial AR champ Rogers was a distant 3rd at 137. Amanda Jordan, Bishop McGuinness OK, captured her third Chile Pepper title in 11:36 2mi. Complete Results
CA Crystal Springs Inv - Ale Barrientos showed she is returning to last year's form by kicking to an 18:06 victory (hilly 2.95-miles) over front running Gunn soph Ruth Graham. Barrientos, the leading US miler and 2-miler before suffering a stress fracture last June, led US#6 San Lorenzo Valley to a decisive 28-76 victory over Buchanan. SLV packed its first five in a 52-second span, adding 5-6-7-9 (Raquel Barrientos, Jenny Lewis, Shiloh Whiting, and Hilary Schwartzbach) to go with Ale's first place. In the boys race, St. Francis sr Eric Chaves 15:01 won a great 3-way race with Bellarmine sr Neil Davis 15:06 and Logan jr Giliat Ghebray 15:13.
CA Orange County Championships
- Fountain Valley jr Julia Allen 17:22 beat
Newport Harbor sr Amber Steen by 5 seconds in a duel of
nationally ranked runners.
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NY's Manhattan Invitational calls itself "the biggest and the best" HS cross country meet and almost proved it Saturday 10/14 at venerable Van Cortlandt Park on Broadway in the Bronx. On a glorious sunny
autumn day, the starters sent off a record 9,900 runners from 15 states
and 321 schools. Biggest headlines of the day were earned by US#1 Saratoga
Springs NY girls, but shining almost as bright were Danbury CT
boys, Julia Pudlin, Austin Smith, and Charles Millieon.
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Pennsylvania undergraduates will be able to compete in the Foot Locker cross country championships this year. Don Rich reports on PIAA ruling in DyeStatPA
DyeStat XC Leader
Lists
Now 707 times from 153 meets!
Boys 5k -
Dathan Ritzenhein MI 14:31 - no change
Boys 3 Mile
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John Jefferson FL 14:23 - fast
Florida courses take 5 of top 6 places this week.
Girls 5k
- Alicia Craig WY 17:30 - no change
Girls
3 Mile - Anita Siraki CA 16:44 -
no change; Saratoga ace Danielle Coon flirts with sub-17:00 in big
Baldwinsville Inv victory.
Coming up on DyeStat . . .
- US Track Coaches Association series - details of a new high school outdoor meet series starting in the spring of 2001.
DyeStat
Elite - 2000
outdoor rankings - now updated to include all state
championships and major summer meets - 5600 performances from 900
meets! -
Deadline for corrections is October 20.
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The Recruiting Game |
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Karen's Diary, Part 4 - Getting to be a veteran: 2nd home visit and 2nd campus visit for California thrower Karen Freberg |
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Castro Valley CA winners:
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NV Carson
Invitational - Wolf, Sparks win
ND Regional
Meets
PA District
Championship Schedule
GA Georgia
Rankings 10/17
NM New
Mexico Rankings 10/17
NE Class
A Rankings 10/17
KS Sunflower
League - Shawnee Mission Northwest rules
SC Furman
Inv
NJ South
Jersey Open
MI Gabriel
Richard Inv
OH Great
Catholic League South
KS Conference
meets
PA 10/14
Weekend by Don Rich
NV Southern
Nevada Divisions - Cimmaron boys win when Centennial
runner's DQ breaks tie; Green Valley girls win easily with 23
points.
MO Big
Eight Conference - Lee's Summit 44; Josh
Davis 15:36 5k leads 4 under 16:00
PA Belmont
Plateau - O'Hara comes back
NJ Rankings
10/15
VA Rankings
10/15
NY Girls
Rankings 10/15 - Is there any doubt who's Number One?
NY Boys
Rankings 10/15 - Bethlehem move to top of
Fabulous 5 after good Manhattan meet.
TX Conroe
Inv - The Woodlands 22;
Luis Bordes and Steve Magness both 15:37 5k
AR Chile
Pepper Festival - Edmunds OK, Eric Gross,
Amanda Jordan.
IL West Suburban Conf - York sweep; Maria
Cicero 14:18 2.5mi to lead girls 19 to 3rd straight div
championship; Adam Roche 14:01 2.85mi leads boys over Downers
Grove N 27-36, but DGN shares div title because of win over York in
dual meet.
FL Largo Inv - Christa Benton
won in a course record 17:15 3mi
MI Girls
Top 25
MI Boys
Top 25
AR Coaches
Poll, Week 6
VA Alexandria
City Ch.
MD Mervo
Mustang Inv - Curley boys, host Mervo
girls win
GA State
Rankings 10/11 - Brookwood girls, Lakeside-Dekalb
boys are No. 1.
NE Class
A Rankings 10/11
KS State
Poll, Ballot 3, Oct 12
Prior Weeks Ticker Tapes
Last Week's Headlines
Latest information on big upcoming meets:
Mt. SAC - Biggest
meet of the season, with 90 races starting 8 minutes apart over a day and a half
- Entries postmarked after 9/29 require a $40 late fee.
see
DyeStat Mt. SAC home page - 10/21 at Mt. San Antonio College,
Walnut CA
Foot Locker Championships - Regional
entry deadlines are looming for the post-season meet that crowns the king and
queen of high school cross country at Disney World in December. see
DyeStat Foot Locker 2000 home page for information and prior year
results. Also see separate region pages: Northeast
- South
- Midwest
- West
Regional meets are 11/25 except the West (12/2)
Georgetown Prep - Schedule
revised because of PSAT test day. 10/21 at Rockville MD
Question
of the Week Summary
Results of all the weekly questions on the DyeStat front page this
year. See how well you predicted big meets.
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DyeStat's UPCOMING FEATURED MEETS
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* = DyeStat On-Site
10/20-21 * CA Mt.
SAC
10/21 FL Billy
Mills Classic
10/21 MD Georgetown
Prep
11/12 * OR Nike
BorderClash
11/25 Foot
Locker regions
Midwest, * Northeast, South
12/2 * CA Mt SAC Foot
Locker West regional
12/9 * Orlando FL, Disney World - Foot
Locker national finals
Texas reported near Girls PV
Perhaps inspired by Stacy Dragila's gold at Sydney, the Texas UIL is
reported to be ready to vote for girls pole vault at its October 15
meeting (David Butler)
Eugene OR 8th grader
Erin Gray,
competing in the big Willammette Inv 10/7 against 255 collegiate and
adult runners, finished 37th with a time of 18:54 5k.
Foot Locker Cross Country Championships
What does it take?
- to win a region
- to qualify for the national finals (8th in region)
- to win the nationals
- to make All-American (15th in nationals)
see stats for last 3 years of national finals and regionals
Molvar's List
First of John Molvar's top 100 boys rankings and Foot Locker preview
for the 2000 season - can Ryan Hall or Alan Webb keep Dathan
Ritzenhein from all-time No. 1 ranking? see Molvar's
List
CO Northglenn Inv - Alicia Craig 18:03 5k in cold-wet-mile high conditions, with Lisa Gibbs, Arvada W. CO, 2nd in 18:18, Alicia's closest race this year. Craig led The Harrier US#3 Campbell County 36 to a 73-point victory over Fort Collins CO. Midwest#7 Arapahoe CO won boys title with 61 points. Mark Tower, Arvada W. sr, was fastest boy at 15:56.
NJ Shore Coaches Invitational - Cherokee wins great duel with Christian Brothers Academy, 64-73, as fifth runner breaks a tie. Cherokee 2-8-14-17-23, CBA 6-9-10-16-32. Ty Jensen, Marlboro 15:57 wins tight 3-way battle (Marc Pelerin, Cherokee 15:59, Mike Myers, Eastern 16:02). Erin Donohue 18:42 is fastest girl on tough Holmdel Park course. Complete results
VA William & Mary Invitational - Western Albemarle boys 67; Austin Smith, Midlothian 15:16 (Jorge Ruiz, Harrisonburg 15:16; William Christian, Great Mills 15:17; L.A. Snead, James Robinson 15:19). James Robinson VA girls 133; Karen Pulliam, Quince Orchard MD 17:00. Complete Results
AZ Doug Conley Inv - Top 20 teams in AZ tangle at Tempe. The winners: Hopi boys 117, US#16 Desert Vista girls 67. Sally Meyerhoff, Mtn Pointe 16:45 2.9mi, Trevor Brown 14:24. Details
FL Disney Invitational - boys US #11 LaSalle Cincinnati OH 34, US#13 Atlantic FL 63. John Jefferson 14:23 3mi. Marilyn Ruiz, St. Thomas Aquinas 17:42 Details
VT Thetford Academy - US#20 Bishop Hendricken RI boys and Northeast #8 Concord NH girls win 10th Woods Trail Run. Details
DyeStat On-Site: MI Portage Invitational
Rockford sweeps on cold, wet day
Rockford Boys 33 led by Dathan Ritzenhein 14:42 CR and 61-second
margin - Rockford Girls 26 led by 1-2-3 finish of sr Linsey Blaisdell 17:47, sr
Kalin
Toedebusch 17:53 and fr Nicki Bohnsack 17:54
Story and photos: No
competition for Dathan Ritzenhein
Story and photos: Rockford
girls deliver 1-2-3 knockout
Donna
on the Side at Portage MI - 40 terrific photos
Complete
results and pictures - Portage
home page
NY Baldwinsville Inv - Saratoga girls 19 behind Danielle Coon's 17:01 CR run; Laurel Burdick (2nd in 17:32) is only non-Saratogan in top 7. Details
NC Hagan Stone Inv - Alan Webb's 14:37 shatters course record - "most spectacular performance in 17 years at Hagan Stone Park," says Charlie Brown. Details
CA Central Park Invitational - Julie Allen 17:31 3mi leads Fountain Valley girls; Puneet Mahan 15:16 leads Norwalk boys. Complete Results
DE Salesianum Inv - PA schools win Class A (large school) titles; Julia Pudlin 18:57, Ben Stern 16:30. Details
NC Wendy's Invitational - Julia Lassiter-Lucas flashes Foot Locker form with 17:38 5k, 3rd best ever at McAlpine by a North Carolina girl. Complete Results
FL St. Petersburg City Championship - Keswick Christian sr Christa Benton, winner of the small school race at the Great American and a 1999 Foot Locker finalist, lowered her own course record by 32 seconds to win in 17:27 for 3 miles.
College
Choices 2000
Lists now have 1,532 names as the late signing season ends and the class
reports to college. This update includes Erin Price GA -
the 6'2" athlete signed a volleyball scholarship at Alabama, but
will also high jump (5-9 PR).
First Class of 2001 choice is Kendra Wecker, of Marysville KS, the US#1 javelin thrower (169-5), who will go to Kansas State. The 5'11" Wecker will sign a basketball scholarship (she is the No. 1 rated player in Kansas) but will also compete in track. Full story on Rivals' goPowerCat.
Send college choices information to John Dye at dye@dyestat.com, giving name of athlete, home state, college choice, phone numbers, and relationship of sender to the athlete.
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