Monroe County Championships - Girls Preview

The girls race should be quite interesting tomorrow.  Thomas has not run that much, but when they have, they've been better than Penfield.  I expect a close meet, if they both run full strength this week, before doing it all again next week with the state meet berth on the line.  We have our work cut out, as Fairport has come on strong again after a quick start and a mid-season struggle.  Mendon is still an enigma, as they've had different performances all season long.  Here's how it looks:

1	Thomas	81
2	Penfield	91
3	Fairport	132
4	Mendon	136
5	Schroeder	148
6	Rush Henrietta	163
7	Hilton	188
8	Honeoye Falls Lima	205
9	Batavia	304
10	Canandaigua	314
11	Victor	335
12	Brighton	345
13	Irondequoit	401
14	Churchville Chili	413
15	Sutherland	419
16	Brockport	468
17	Spencerport	469
18	Odyssey	497
19	East Irondequoit	504
20	Athena	525
21	Gates Chili	540
22	Arcadia	640
23	Olympia	inc

The individuals favored for first team All County include the following:

Rank	Name	Grade	School
1	Lembo, Katie	12	Penfield
2	Jensen, Kennedy	12	Canandaigua
3	Albrecht, Autumn	11	Brockport
4	Cooper, Alex	11	Rush Henrietta
5	Quinn, Siobhan	11	Rush Henrietta
6	Paratore, Amanda	12	Schroeder
7	Vestri, Amanda	9	Thomas
8	Visca, Mary	11	Sutherland
9	Ashton, Claire	9	Thomas
10	Songer, Ellie	10	Thomas
11	Adams, Laura	12	Thomas
12	Barger, Mary	11	Mendon
13	Kostarellis, Anna	9	Churchville Chili
14	Nortz, Heather	11	Fairport
15	Mevorach, Martha	12	Honeoye Falls Lima
16	Sedita, Megan	10	Penfield
17	Yancey, Colleen	12	Mendon
18	Sedita, Erin	12	Fairport
19	Kunigan, Mary	11	Hilton
20	Wiseman, Julia	11	Schroeder
21	Canessa, Kelsie	9	Schroeder
22	Eastridge, Emma	10	Batavia
23	Cok, Sarah	11	Penfield
24	Fahrenholz, Tory	10	Penfield
25	Campbell, Alexa	12	Brighton
26	Swider, Katie	11	Fairport
27	Leo, Trista	12	Penfield
28	Gingello, Marissa	12	Penfield
29	Tuite, Kari	11	Mendon
30	Page, Shannon	11	Hilton
31	Douglas, Riley	11	Honeoye Falls Lima
32	Kindig, Alexis	12	Batavia
33	Wagner, Clara	12	Irondequoit
34	Peters, Lexi	8	Rush Henrietta

Monroe County Championships - Boys Preview

Here is a quick preview of the Varsity Boys race tomorrow.  First, the predicted team scores:

1	Thomas	71
2	Mendon	90
3	Fairport	114
4	Brighton	125
5	Irondequoit	196
6	Victor	212
7	Sutherland	216
8	Honeoye Falls Lima	260
9	Arcadia	270
10	Penfield	274
11	Hilton	279
12	Schroeder	341
13	Canandaigua	344
14	Rush Henrietta	353
15	Batavia	384
16	Athena	427
17	Churchville Chili	447
18	Spencerport	472
19	Gates Chili	543
20	Odyssey	568
21	Brockport	602
22	East Irondequoit	604
23	Olympia	728

Leading candidates for first team all-county:

Rank	Name	Grade	School
1	Burke, Mickey	12	Rush Henrietta
2	Dyrland, Josh	12	Irondequoit
3	Ronchetti, Will	12	Brighton
4	Johnson, Keith	12	Thomas
5	Shanahan, Luke	12	Victor
6	Neamtu, Nick	10	Thomas
7	Geraci, Matt	11	Honeoye Falls Lima
8	Ranke, Tyler	12	Hilton
9	Mertens, George	12	Victor
10	White, Jimmy	12	Fairport
11	Witt, Kevin	12	Thomas
12	Green, Connor	12	Mendon
13	Kaukeinen, Britt	10	Irondequoit
14	Doyle, Nathan	12	Mendon
15	Wesley, Jack	12	Mendon
16	Robbins, Luke	10	Sutherland
17	Goldstein, Josh	12	Thomas
18	Northrup, Brian	12	Arcadia
19	Schmitt, Drew	10	Brighton
20	Sargeant, Seamus	12	Fairport
21	Yost, Nathan	12	Victor
22	Mallow, Mike	10	Fairport
23	Dooley, Kevin	11	Mendon
24	Kozlowski, Mike	12	Penfield
25	Simpson, Zak	12	Brighton
26	Goodman, Isaac	10	Mendon
27	Feigel, Evan	11	Mendon
28	Grouse, David	12	Fairport
29	Demmer, Ty	12	Batavia
30	Hess, Griffin	10	Mendon
31	Roach, Coleman	10	Honeoye Falls Lima
32	Kolankiewicz, Thomas	12	Athena
33	Vestri, Justin	11	Thomas
34	Plummer, Bailey	11	Spencerport

Monroe County Championships

I've had even more than usual going on this month, and making time for blog entries ended up on the wrong side of the line between what I could get done and what I could not.  I did not want to get to the County Meet without getting online with my annual predictions.  First, let's cover the details about the meet tomorrow, then I will post a couple more entries today to cover the predictions.

The meet will be held at Parma Park (see directions at the bottom of this post - but keep driving east past "Point B" to the parking lot by the starting line).  The schedule is as follows:

• 11:15 Modified Girls
• 11:45 Modified Boys
• 1:00 JV Girls (no Schroeder entries)
• 1:30 JV Boys (9th and 10th graders only)
• 2:00 Varsity Girls
• 2:30 Varsity Boys
• 3:00 Varsity “B” Girls
• 3:30 Varsity “B” Boys
• 4:15 Awards in shelter past finish line

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Seneca Park Today

Our league meet schedule takes us to Seneca Park today to face Arcadia, Churchville-Chile, Hilton and Penfield.  On the girls side, this puts together 3 of the top 25 large schools in the state, as Penfield is #8, Schroeder is #16 and Hilton is #25, which is a rematch of last Friday's Penfield-Irondequoit invitational (results are here).  The boys will have the unusual opportunity to face the three teams ranked immediately ahead of them in the Monroe County computer rankings, as Schroeder is #12, Hilton is #11, Penfield #10 and Arcadia #9.

Scoring today's meet as an invitational, the computer predicts the following very close result:
Penfield 53
Arcadia 55
Hilton 62
Schroeder 63
C-C 112

So, expect to see several dual meets today that are 26-29, 27-28 or even 28-28 and the sixth runner will break the tie.

8-0!

The boys and girls teams combined to go 8-0 on Tuesday in our league meet with Rush Henrietta, Canandaigua, Batavia and Eastridge.  The girls race turned out to be a bit anti-climatic as RH chose to sit stars Siobhon Quinn and Alex Cooper, currently ranked 9th and 10th in the state, who were coming off fantastic races at McQuaid, allowing our girls to take the top 5 places against RH.  As Kennedy Jensen of Canandaigua was also sitting out after a late-night return from an Ivy college visit (I guess her brain moves as quickly as her legs), our girls were able to take 5 of the top 8 places overall (and it would have been 5 of 7, if not for Dana Garbinski's incredible speed down the stretch).

The boys had a tougher meet, but rose to the occasion as Kevin, Justin and Zach went 3-4-5, Ray cracked the top ten and Kade came on strong to fill in for Peter, who was still ill but made a strong effort to help out.  In the end, we had five runners in before anyone else had four, and managed surprisingly wide margins of victory over the much-improved Batavia team, and a solid Canandaigua team.  Mickey Burke also took the race off, coming off of his unbelievable record-setting race at McQuaid, where he ran 14:25, allowing us a comfortable win over RH as well.

Yesterday and Today

The only real "yesterday" part is that I did not have time to post anything about the McQuaid Invitational.  Our top story there was that the girls pulled off a shocking 9th place finish in a loaded Large School seeded race, which included the top-ranked team in the country finishing second!  We managed to be the third-best Section V team, behind our closest neighbors in the Section: Thomas and Penfield, but finishing ahead of Hilton, Fairport and Rush-Henrietta, and far exceeding our "tenth-best" Section V ranking.  In the "merged" results (this is where they put all of the races together and pretend it was one race), R-H slipped by us as they had a ninth-grader finish third in the Sophomore race.  She would have broken into their top five in the Varsity race, thus lowering their merge score.

This is where the Today part comes in, as fate would have it, our league meet against R-H is scheduled for today, and we will get a quick rematch of Saturday's race, just three days later.  It should be an interesting race, and should include Kennedy Jensen, one of the top runners in the country (not just Monroe County), who was a precautionary last-minute scratch at McQuaid.  We have not beaten Canandaigua since they entered the league in 2009, but have the opportunity to do so this year.  Batavia and Eastridge are our other opponents.

On the boys side, McQuaid was a solid race, and we placed 9th in the unseeded large school race.  The boys have not beaten Rush-Henrietta since 2005, and also have close competitors in Canandaigua, and even Batavia today.

Complete McQuaid results are available here.

For today's meet, we return to Center Park for the second time this year - it is located on Ayrault Rd, just east of Turk Hill.