Sectionals

I don't have time to go over the meet in detail right now, but what an exciting day!

Complete results are available at Yen Timing, in this folder: http://www.yentiming.com/results/2011/xc/sectionv/

Our boys had an outstanding race overall, as is best displayed in the "Merged" results, where they took 12th overall, beating everyone that was within reach.  The 11th place team, Hilton, was 115 points ahead, nearly 20 seconds per man.  My favorite statistic of the day was the compare to the [corrected] computer times that I had with me on Saturday.  The 96 boys on the list were, on average, 3 seconds faster than the computer had predicted.  Our team averaged 14 seconds faster, led by Zach's 48 second improvement, slightly better than R-H's 10 seconds faster (Colby Burke was their leader, at 23 seconds faster than predicted).

Our girls also placed 12th in the merged results, which was a good performance after all of the injuries we faced.  And Amanda qualified for the State Meet for the second year in a row.  Val had her best race ever, in terms of speed, but just missed making States.  After reviewing all of the results from all of the Sectional races around the state, it is clear that Val is the fastest girl that did not qualify.  The next fastest, interestingly enough, was Fayetteville-Manlius's 8th girl, who would have been the second individual qualifier in Section III, if she attended a different school.  The speed ratings indicate that Val was 19 seconds faster.  So, I guess that actually means that R-H's girls, Lizzie Greiner and Alana MacDonald are the next fastest non-qualifiers.  What an incredibly fast race!