Foot Locker's Super Saturday - three regionals

Northeast - At 2k mark, defending national champion Aislinn Ryan (1663) and defending regional champion Nicole Blood (149) were side by side. They duelled in the woods and hills before Blood pulled away. To be continued in San Diego. photo by Don Rich

Illinois' fab four at FL Midwest regional -- Ryan Craven (4th), Stephen Finley (7th), Jeremy Stevens (5th) and Evan Jager (9th). They're going to San Diego.

Northeast - Van Cortlandt Park, New York NY -
Don Rich on-site for DyeStat - Complete Seeded Results
Nicole Blood NY and Ayalew Taye MA
Don Rich reports:
Boys - The Tayes have it. Saratoga Springs qualifies a boy. PA sends two.
Girls - Saratoga Springs High School pulls a double quad. In a long-awaited rematch, Nicole draws first blood and earns an unmatched triple.

South - McAlpine Park, Charlotte NC - Ben Ackerly on-site for DyeStat
Complete Seeded Results
McAlpine Speedway
Nichole Jones and Michael Eaton
blaze paths to San Diego
Ben Ackerly reports - Track gets going early in this part of the country. Saturday, on a crisp and clear morning at McAlpine Park, in the Foot Locker South Regional, it started at 10 a.m. Nichole Jones, a junior from Houston and a cross-country novice, used her superior track speed to break away from a lead group of 10 that held together well past the 2-mile mark, winning by 5 seconds at 17:10, the fastest performance on the 5K layout at McAlpine in 21 years. Soon after, Michael Eaton, a senior from Bowling Green, Kentucky, took a very different approach on the way to a 5-second win of his own, at 16:46, equaling the No. 4 all-time mark.

Midwest - UW Parkside, Kenosha WI - Steve Underwood on-site
COMPLETE SEEDED RESULTS
Keara Sammons & Mohamud Ige of CO win, but It was an Illini kind of day.
Stephen (SteveU) Underwood reports -- After the Midwest’s best runners tried to earn a ticket to San Diego on a sunny, but un-California-like snowy Saturday morning, one had several choices in how to summarize the proceedings. It was a Colorado day, with Mohamud Ige (14:58 for the boys) and Keara Sammons (17:26 for the girls) showing that you can predict this year’s winners based on last year’s top returnees. It was a Minnesota day, with girls from that state taking three of the top nine spots. But above all, it was an Illinois kind of day, with an intensely focused group of boys from different schools in that state working together to get four in the top ten for clearly the best performance of the day.

NTN Selection Sunday 4
On to Portland! The field is complete!
At large boys: Saratoga XC Club NY and Hills XC Club (Morris Hills) NJ
At large girls: Succasunna XC Club (Roxbury) NJ and Fairbanks XC Club (West Valley) AK
Nov 27 -- The NTN rankings committee announced the last four at large selections, completing the fields of 20 boys and 20 girls teams to run next Saturday Dec. 3 in Portland.