THIS WEEK - results, rankings, and other current news
(alphabetical by state)

California on DyeStatCal
Results - rankings - previews -
Foot Locker West rankings - Mike Kennedy's latest update 10/31 has Zoe Nelson and Lauren Jespersen in favorite's roles.
California Baker's Dozen - XC-Analyzer tabs top individuals in state
California Individuals by Division - XC-Analyzer picks top 10 individuals by division
DyeStatCal Athlete of the Week
Girls: Sacred Heart sr Michelle Gallagher Boys: Canyon sr Troy Werner

CO State Meet - Smoky Hill sr Megan Kaltenbach 18:21.3 5k won her fourth straight state championship (first four-peat ever in class 5A) in the fastest time ever, but for the second straight week she could not shake her younger sister, soph Katelyn Kaltenbach, who finished in 18:21.5. Morgan Schulz finished fourth for US#4 Smoky Hill, which won the team title with 41 points, best score ever in Colorado's 5A big school division. "With our team winning, and my sister getting second, it couldn't be better," Megan Kaltenbach said. In the boys race, Ian Burrell broke open a tight race with Brent Vaughn in the last 200 meters to win in course record time of 15:19 (Vaughn's 15:33 also bettered the old course record), duplicating his win over Vaughn in the state 1600 meters last spring. Denver West 105 won the team title. Results and more pictures

Kaltenbach sisters (green) are in the middle at start, in front at the end

CT Class Championships - Conard jr Ahmed Haji 16:01 5k and Killingly sr Meghan Owen 15:39 4k are fastest of the day in six classes.
CT Open Championships - Entries for Friday Nov 1 meet.

FL Panhandle Championships - Maclay Tallahassee jr Ryan Deak 14:56 3m won the individual battle, but South #6 Chiles Tallahassee won the team war, 30-53, with Herbert Thiele running in second at 15:11 with 4-5-8-11 support. Pensacola Catholic soph Anna Greskovich 18:34 won the girls varsity race, but Maclay topped her team, 91-96.
FL Florida Week by Ricky Quintana - Ryder Leary pulls away from Sam Vazquez in the last two laps to win Bishop Kenny Postal 2-mile in 9:18. Ryan Deak wins Panhandle Championships in 14:56(3 miles) over Chiles' Herbie Thiele. Chiles, #2 in the state overall, defeats #4 Maclay for the title. Paul Cross sprints to win in Broward County Championships(5K) in 16:46 on rainy muddy course. Defending state 3A 1600m Champion(5:03.94), Courtney Hall of Bishop Kenny, wins St. John's Country Day Invitational (5K) in 19:05.

GA Regionals - Wesleyan sr Lauren Blankenship 18:58 5k led team to win with 31 points (1-6-7-8-9) in Region 8 AA.

IA State Meet Saturday Nov 2 at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge will feature two nationally ranked teams: #10 Roosevelt Des Moines boys and #7 Iowa City West girls. District qualifiers.

IL Illinois Week by Scott Bush, IllinoisRunner.com - Stephen Pifer, Matt Withrow, and Meghan Braffet are impressive in regional meets. Sectionals are next. US#1 Sandburg girls 23 placed 6 in top 9 in their regional.

IN Semi State - Lawrence North sr Nef Araia 14:54 5k blitzed the Southeastway Park course, wet from 2 days of rain, to remain undefeated this year. He beat Columbus North jr Christian Wagner by 21 seconds and took 11 seconds off the course record held for 20 years by former Indiana U. star Scott Williams. Wagner led US#6 Columbus North over Lawrence North for the team title, 53-100. Columbus North doubled with its US#21 girls team winning a close one over Franklin Central, 69-72, as Carmel jr Katie Harrington 14:09 4k won individual honors.

KS Regionals - Shawnee Mission Northwest sweeps Emporia super-regional (15 of top 20 ranking teams in Kansas). Connie Abbott 11:10, Grady Sullivan 15:24. Kansas #1 Lawrence boys win easily at Manhattan, setting up big showdown with Shawnee Mission NW in state meek next week.

KY Metro Meet of Champions - St. Xavier Louisville sr Bobby Curtis rolled to a 14:50 5k in soft mud, only 2 seconds behind the fastest US 5k this year, which was run on a hard, fast surface by Nef Araia at the Midwest Meet of Champions September 7. The race was spread out with two lonely leaders. Curtis finished 36 seconds ahead of Butler Louisville sr Jacob Buckman, who in turn was 48 seconds ahead of anyone else. Story and pix by Charles Zimmerman

MA home-schooled NH soph Chantelle Dron 18:18 5k went to Boston looking for a race and ran 18th among top club women in the big Mayor's Cup at Franklin Park. Right, photo by Victah Sailor
MA Wachusett Regional swept the Midland-Wachusett League A Division championships, the with the boys scoring 16 points (1-2-3-4-6) and the girls 36 (1-7-8-9-11). Individual winners were soph Vicki Weismann 18:20 2.9m and sr Dan Sullivan 15:08.7 (Mike Banks 15:09 and Tim Cunningham 15:10).

MD Montgomery County Championships - Northwest boys 48 win second straight county title, Walter Johnson girls 49 5th straight.

ME Western Maine Championships - Greely jr Ben True continues to be Maine's best runner, winning by more than a minute in a course record 16:06 5k in rain, wind, and mud. Falmouth edged Greely for the team title by 4 points.

MI Upper Peninsula Championships - Westwood Ishpeming jr Amber Smith, a 2001 Foot Locker finalist, won Div 2 in 18:49 5k by 97 seconds.
MI Lower Peninsula Championships - Qualifiers for 4-division meet at Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn MI, Saturday Nov 2.
MI Regionals - Brighton girls 28 (3-4-5-7-9) upset US#10 Clarkston 40 (1-2-8-11-18). Clarkston soph Liz Mengyan 19:21 5k was the individual winner. Rockford girls run a perfect 15 in their regional, led by Nikki Bohnsack's 18:51.

NC Independent Schools state meet - Freddy Torres 15:51 5k was fastest of the day as he led Cardinal Gibbons 31 (1 2 4 7 17) to the 3A title. Cardinal Gibbons girls 31 (1 3 6 7 14) completed the school's sweep behind Lauren Holesh 18:58.
NC Regionals - South View's Robert Longoria 15:14 5k.

NM Los Alamos Invitational - US#8 Albuquerque Academy boys and US#5 Los Alamos girls roll on in last big invitational before district and state meets the next two weekends.

Los Alamos girls all together after 1 mile.

NY Suburban Council - Saratoga fr Nicole Blood 17:04 5k, 10 seconds faster than last year in this meet and the fastest 5k in the nation this year despite 43 degrees temp and heavy rain. Blood led the US#1 girls team to a big 19-100 victory over Northeast #8 Columbia. Mike Foley 15:26 gave Saratoga a sweep of individual honors, but runner-up Jacob Gurzler led US#16 Shenendehowa 27 to the team title over Burnt Hills 90.

New York week by George Febles www.armorytrack.com Sayville sr Brian Dalpiaz continues his speedy recovery from an emergency appendectomy at the start of the season, and New York observors think he will be ready for the favorite's role by November 30 at Van Cortlandt Park -- the Foot Locker Northeast regional. Meanwhile, he has serious competition in New York. In the Section 11 divisional championships at super-tough Sunken Meadows, Northport soph Kevin Tschirhart shaded Dalpiaz by 4 seconds, 16:05 to 16:09. photo by TrakShots

OH State Meet - Davidson Hilliard became the first Ohio Division 1 team ever to win both boys and girls state championships. The girls won with 72 points (Turpin Cincinnati 93, Dublin Coffman 116) and the boys won with 87 points (LaSalle Cincinnati 104, St. Xavier Cincinnati 145). Hudson sr Wesley Smith 15:15 5k won the boys race (Strongsville sr Chris Kollar 15:20). Mason Cincinnati freshman Angela Bizzari 17:47 won the girls race over veterans Carolyn Rauen 18:01 and Michelle Sikes 18:09. The course was wet and muddy and slippery. Complete results and 54 DyeStat Elite performances.

Historic photo - Div 1 boys and girls champs are from the same school: Davidson Hilliard

OK 5A Regionals - US#2 Jenks girls 28 for 40-point win over Union, led by sr Brianna McLeod 11:20 (course record), back in top form after a siege of tendonitis.

OR Portland District - Grant swept the team titles, with its boys 1-2 punch of Scott Wall 15:21 5k and Joaquin Chapa 15:22 each surpassing Galen Rupp's course record set earlier this season. Cleveland's Olivia Bender 18:25 won the girls race.
OR State Meet 11/2 at Lane Community College - One of the most anticipated state meet races of the season—The Oregon 4-A Division championships at Lane CC. Last year Lauren Jespersen and Jacob Gomez, both of Klamath (Klamath Falls) set the course record at 15:29, listed by Oregon’s Who’s Who of track and Cross country, as the fastest in state history. There is some question as to what the record should be since current co-head coach at South Eugene, Jeff Hess ran 14:33 in 1978 to win the state meet for South. However, Hess demanded that then Coach and now co-coach John Gillespie, measure the course the next day. Gillespie did and found it to be 3 miles, about 188 yards short of 5,000 meters. Two years earlier another South Eugene legend, Bill McChesney, had run 14:51. No other runners have ever broken 15 minutes in the state meet but that barrier will be challenged this Saturday. Pushing the undefeated Jespersen, who won the Stanford invitational in a course record 14:54 earlier this year, will be junior sensation, the undefeated Galen Rupp of Central Catholic (Portland), who won his district meet in 15:15 and last year at the U.S. Junior National ran 14:34 on the track for 5,000 meters. Joining these two are the Grant (Portland) duo of Alec Wall and Joaquin Chapa, who ran 15:02 and 15:11 behind Jasperson at Stanford. Rounding out what just might be the best five-some ever to face off in Oregon harrier history is Lincoln (Portland) senior Mike McGrath, who possess 1:50 speed and finished just behind the Grant pair in last weeks district meet. These peope are going to COOK. (from Mike Kennedy's Foot Locker West preview)

PA PENNSYLVANIA WEEK BY DON RICH - District Meets - Council Rock-North boys pull off mild upset at District 1, over US#11 Henderson, by just five points. But Henderson's Ian Gottesfeld wins in 15:25 5k saying "we're confident for States." Hatboro-Horsham sr Janine Ricci continues "breakthrough" season with 18:16 win. Sam Bair 16:10. Parkland edges Allentown Central Catholic by 1 point in battle of last two state AAA girls champs. ACC's Frances Koons wins race in 18:39. US#14 Wyomissing girls (below) place five in top eight behind 1-2 Amy and Debbie Huss for just 20 points and a 1:13 spread. Ryan Blood cruises alone to best time of day on a muddy, slow Hershey Park course in 16:22. Red Lion jr Kate Papenberg 19:04 is fastest girl at Hershey.

VA The Virginia State Meet has been delayed a week to Nov. 16 because of meet cancellations caused by the sniper attacks in recent weeks.
VA Districts - Jefferson Alexandria got a 1-2 finish in both boys and girls races to sweep team titles in the Concorde District at Fort Belvoir, with US#12 boys scoring 28 and the girls 27. . Madison swept the Liberty District at the same course. Regional championships are next week

WI Sectional - Stevens Point sr Chris Solinsky 15:27 5k, winning by 90 seconds for course record on wet, hilly Waupaca sectional course.

WY State Meet - Campbell County swept 4A titles, the US#17 boys putting 5 in the top 10 and the girls 4. Campbell sr Andrew Jones won the boys race in 15:55 5k, and Natrona County soph Sarah Balfour 18:23 (Gretchen Fagley 18:58) the girls race. The unbeaten Balfour's time was only 2 seconds off the state record held by Alicia Craig. Next for Balfour: Zoe Nelson of Montana in the BorderWar Nov 2 in a battle of undefeated sophomores.

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