Flash Results!

Hey guys, so sorry about the lack of posting! I wrote up a XC Talk about Great Valley if you guys would like me to post that today or tomorrow let me know, if not I'll keep it in the word document.

This will be a quick flash results page that I'll update a bit and then tomorrow I'll be putting up a Weekend Discussion post where I'll analyze the races and such. I may do some updates after this weekend on the Top 50 Individual list and Top 10 Teams list. I also just got a Journal Entry from our 3rd and final writer that I will be posting up tonight.

Also while writing up summaries for the Results I've thought of "People Who Stood Out" This will be 1-3 people every week from a few of the meets who really stood out. They'll usually be individual sleepers that are glanced over or 4-5 guys of teams who ran really well and deserve some recognition. Just trying to constantly throw some names out there of people who raced well :) Hope you guys enjoy the new feature!

RW&B Results: http://www.runhigh.com/2013RESULTS/R090713BA.html (thanks for whomever posted this link!!) 
Wow, I almost just cried looking at these results, good lord NA is crushing it. I wanted to dream they'd have 5 in the top 10, but I didn't think it was possible. So they roll 4-8 with a 20 second spread  (15:45-16:05) lead by McGoey tailed by Hunter Wharrey (a man whom I have never head of). They are stacked this year to the teeth.Top 7 in the top 16. Nice running by Mt Lebo behind them. They did reload quite well and should make it out of the WPIALs if they keep improving, but they'll need to show more if they want to compete with the top 7 teams in the state.


 RW&B winner was Colin Martin in 15:18. I've personally never seen the course, but that's a really great time for this early in the season against some great competition. Kennedy came in second with 15:25, and Ethan Martin in 3rd with 15:35. Just some fantastic results to see so early in the year. Aaron Benka has a nice start to the season with a 13th place showing.
I made a terrible mistake saying Ethan won the race. Colin came up huge today and I believe this is the first time he beat his brother. This time last year he got beat by 45 seconds, and this year he beat his brother by 17. Just an incredible turn around by this young man and I'm really happy for him now that he's taken that step. Don't think that Ethan will just fall over. This brotherly battle should be wonderful to watch going forwards.

People who stood out: 
Anton Martinez of North Hills (9th). This squad continuously produces state medalists, and I'd love to see him join the group. They've got to have a really solid coach over there so watch to see him improve as the season goes on.
Elias Graca of Fox Chapel Area. FC needs at least a 3-4 to step up this season into a solid role for them to make it to the state meet. Graca has taken up this role already, hopefully at least one of the 3 juniors behind him can jump up and start running with him.


Abington Invitational Results: http://runccrs.com/results/abvarb2013/
 Just a quick summary, but wow the team battle was really fantastic. If you give Ross Wilson a 1 that puts CRN at 115 points right in the mix with Penncrest, WCE, and DTW during their down week. Dougherty has really stepped into the spotlight for WCE right now, if they can get a 5th runner 30 seconds behind him instead of a minute they'll be in a great position to make states. DTW looked solid with a 45 second spread 1-5, but they're going to have to cut it down to 30 if they want to really compete well at the district level. Also major points for GV in my mind. Willig places 20th and they've got their 2-4 guys not racing and place 4th and not too far behind these other squads.

There were rumors that WCE was putting in good miles this summer and their fitness was really proven at the Abington Invitational where Chris Cummings dropped a HUGE PR with a win in a 15:31 effort. He was followed by the Kazanjian Brothers who suck together this time to run 15:41 and 15:42 respectively. Ross Wilson (CRN) is off visiting Michigan this weekend, but CRN came back strong today. Arita led the charge in 16:20, Griswold-16:47, Simmons-16:52, Profy-17:20. Wilson is off on college visits, but with him leading this team they're back where I had them as a solid 5 man squad. They really drop off after Profy, so depth is an issue for this team. I'm not sure how the rest of WCE finished, but I'll be posting more as I get information. It was slightly slow due to rain last year, but Emery won in 15:59.

People who Stood Out: 
Josh Smith of Avon Grove: I've never heard of this young man until todays race where he breaks 16 minutes and places 5th over all. Hopefully we'll keep seeing fast stuff from him late into the season, cause he could be a lock to the state meet.
Ellis of Great Valley would make the jump after his 17:20 showing at districts last year as a soph, and he PR's by 20 seconds in his first race. Really good stuff.

PTXC 5- 
First thoughts on the race is LD impressed but didn't. How is that? Well their 1-4 ran fantastic, Groh once again proved his dominance on the course with a second place finish. Hopefully he'll continue to run well this season. They didn't impress because I had assumed they'd have depth, but their 5-7 didn't look great. It's early in the season though, so I'm not worried about them as a squad.
Red Land greatly impressed me. Lauer ran a very solid race and their team looked very good behind him. I think I'm going to do an XC talk on them later in the week.
Dominic Deluca came up with the win which isn't too surprising. He's a total stud.

I'll put up more on this meet tomorrow, I got a concert to attend in Philly! Wonderful racing to everyone this weekend though, just some fantastic results.
 That's all I got for now :)

--ForrestCRN