Norwin wins 4x8 at WPIALs and leads a crew of squads sub 8, including Penn Hills, NA, Butler, and Canon Mac
KJ runs a big anchor leg on O'Hara's winning 7:55 over LaSalle's 7:56 (James split 1:54.3). Could OH try the event at states? Also props to Bonner who got in on time at #3.
Peretta cruises to a huge margin of victory in 4:14 and is then followed by a thrilling AAA race where JVK won in 4:10.72 to Kolor's 4:11.21! Thanks Evan Hatton for the updates. Stupak, Wolk and Eric Kennedy also were are 4:22 and lock up state spots.
Cheltenham decides to do 4x8! DT West does not! I hinted that both of these were possible in my preview but didn't expect them to happen. Lewis apparently split 1:49 which is awesome but running 1:49 means that his other legs averaged just 2:01. Going to be a long weekend for Lewis. Meanwhile Pennsbury's nice and well rested.
3200m guys taking advantage of the extra day of rest between events (stealing from Paul Hayes) and making a run at the finals. Looks like Webb chose 16 over 32 because I can't imagine him going 32-4x8-16 practically back to back. That's good news for PB 4x8. Meanwhile Comber, Marston and Power make finals. Ironically Marston takes a spot from his teammate PJ Murray who is first man out in absurd 4:23.77. Welcome to district one.
DT West will have 3 in the finals and Rock Fortna (listed as not running trials of 4x8) takes advantage of the teams depth and uses the rest to make finals.
Daly cruises in the 16 and Patrick James sneaks up to surprise and take the 2nd auto for the 16. He joins his brother Kev on the state itinerary.
Lots of scratches in open 8, but still some very fast times. Sauer leads all with Eddinger also doubling back from 16 well for a spot. Huge day for the Stogs boys continues as Nelson drops to 1:55 and Cooper surprised (me at least) with another massive PR to run 1:56! Congrats to both. All CBW guys scratch from open 8, showing clear focus on relay. Lewis officially chooses the 8.
Lutzner looked solid in 1:56.10 win over 1:56 from Neumann Goretti's Gordon. JDL and co could be dangerous in 4x8 at AA states.
In AAA D12 800m, Stephen McClellan officially arrives. Wows with a 1:54 win over Sullivan's 1:55 (on the double). How high can sophomore McClellan go and I guess with two individual titles and one massive PR seems like Prep made smart choice to scratch 4x8 this go round. Pleasant surprise to see Colbert drop big 1:56.1 and get to states. Rapidly improving OH stand out Justin Jones runs 1:57.37 and barely missed the SQS. Worth asking again, does OH pursue the 4x8 at states?
McGoey solos 8:56 in the 32! Second sub 9 of the season and I believe the first time in state history we have had two guys sub 9 prior to the state meet. Unbelievable!
Also worth noting Peretta came back to solo a 1:51.5 and Graca won in about 1:52.8 according to Evan on site. Kolor capped his double somewhere around 1:53-54.
McGoey solos 8:56 in the 32! Second sub 9 of the season and I believe the first time in state history we have had two guys sub 9 prior to the state meet. Unbelievable!
Also worth noting Peretta came back to solo a 1:51.5 and Graca won in about 1:52.8 according to Evan on site. Kolor capped his double somewhere around 1:53-54.
Will continue to update as I hear more! Comment below with your thoughts!
D1 1600 trials was crazy. The last guy into the finals ran 4:22. 12 guys under 4:23 in the prelims and the big guys Hoey, Comber, Power, Marston, etc...weren't even pushing it.
ReplyDeleteWatching John Lewis run was amazing, I saw him anchor his 4x8 in 1:49 and it looked like he was jogging, and same for when he ran 1:55-1:56 in the open 8. He did not look,like he was trying at all. Not sure if that's just how he runs, but if he was taking it easy, I think Magaha's record is at stake at states (if cheltenham's 4x8 makes it that's a different story).
ReplyDeleteD1 needs to be split in half. There's 12 guys in the 1600 final and all 12 are well under the state SQL. Only 8 can go. That sucks.
ReplyDeleteEither they split it up, or they should change it so that there are XX spots at states for each classification for each event, and they take the fastest XX times from a combination all of the district meets so only the fastest runners go to states. Or just make it so that all you have to do is hit the sqs and you are qualified for states.
DeleteIn the 4x8, the second heat was way faster than the other heats. Watching Lewis split 1:49 was beautiful and he also pulled Emmanuel to something close to a 1:51-1:52 mark (couldn't tell exact). Fortna was not on CB Wests anchor and could really do some damage for them. What's weird to me is that Penncrest had 2 new guys on the 4x8 that i've never seen. Resting their legs or are they hurt?
ReplyDeleteThe Penn Track interviewer with A. Devlin in the video for the girls 3200 at the Henderson meet also used RJJL's 'who's who of PA distance running' reference so that shows that there is no grassy knoll conspiracy in the announcers booth at WCH. But that is a little revealing about who reads Etrains blog since both guys used that exact reference. Everyone interested in PA running reads this stuff, it's the place for PA distance.
ReplyDelete^^^What he said.
ReplyDelete4x8 at D6 almost had 3 state qualifiers. Altoona won in 7:54, State got second in 7:58 without Milligan, and Mifflin County was ~1.5 behind state with 100 to go but there anchor leg fell and unfortunately fell hard.
ReplyDeleteWPIAL RESULTS http://www.msasports.net/articles/2015-wpial-individual-track-field-finals-results
ReplyDelete^^^^^^ Even if the 1600 was just based on the sqs their were guys below the sqs at the d1 meet that didn't even make it to the finals. Maybe it's time to lower the sqs for the 1600 To the point where you can eliminate preliminary heets at the state track meet.
ReplyDeleteYou guys realize you can just reply to an individual post and you don't have to type 6 up arrows.
ReplyDeleteAt D1 there were a lot of people who ran the SQS that didn't even make the finals
ReplyDelete^^thanks
ReplyDeleteat D12, who won the 1600s?
ReplyDeleteDaly won 3A in 4:24.83 (60, 69, 69, 65)
DeleteDegroot won 2A in 4:22.56 (66, 66, 65, 65)