So, we had a chance to avenge some losses last weekend, and to send a message to Hilton. We sort of did the latter - we beat Hilton by 22 points in the invitational, but they beat us 28-28 in dual meet scoring, so we have some work to do on Tuesday. We did not manage to get Irondequoit, losing by 24 points (and 27-28 in dual meet scoring).
Sutherland and Victor were in the Division II race. Plugging our times in that race shows that we would have beaten both teams, and finished 2nd to Wayne. So, our improvement was certainly demonstrated; however, to be successful as the season continues, we need to close our 1-5 (and 1-7) gap. It was still at 1:52 (and 2:24) on Saturday. Since our top guy was 21 seconds behind the "average" top guy, we need to get it done with a tighter pack, a closer team.
Tuesday's meet is likely to be decided by the performance of the 4-5-6 runners on each team. I have confidence that our 4-5-6 (and 7-8-9, et al) runners are ready to tough it out in a mano-a-mano meet like this. This meet will be very different than most dual meets we run, and we should get excited by this during the race. I expect 17 of the top 20 places in the race on Tuesday will be Hilton or Schroeder runners; the majority of those should be ours!
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