The weather should be a bit more pleasant than last year's Octoberfest Invitational when a nasty day of cold and rainy weather made for slow times and anything but fun day for any meet director attempting to run off a meet with over 90 schools in such conditions. A partly cloudy day with temperatures starting just below 70 degrees for the first race of the day in the Varsity A girls race at 9 AM, but rising over 80 for the bulk of the meet's races, will insure that it will be the performances of the individuals and teams that will be story of the meet versus the weather or course.
Girls Individuals:
Photo by Ted Plunkett
Chantilly junior Lia DiValentin may have been running out of her league last weekend at the Oatlands Invite with the likes of Hannah Davidson from New York and Morgane Gay from Maryland setting blistering paces as two likely contenders for Footlocker Nationals out of the competitive Northeast region, but this week it is her turn to try and put the hurting on the rest of the field at Octoberfest.
DiValentin by no means ran poorly last weekend as she ran an outstanding personal best 5K time of 18:26 for third place honors between two very legit runners in Saratoga Springs #1 runner Davidson and a 4:55 miler in Gay as well as distanced herself well ahead of some of Virginia's better runners. Only defending Footlocker South champion Aurora Scott has ran faster for 5000 meters this fall as DiValentin comes in as the #1 ranked runner in AAA and unbeaten against Virginian runners.
There is a great possibility of three eventual state cross country champions to be featured in Saturday's race in The Plains with DiValentin, Heritage's Laura Rapp, and Bishop O'Connell's Megan Fitzpatrick.
10/2 UPDATE: DiValentin will miss Octoberfest due to illness
Rapp is the #1 ranked runner in Group AA and has started off her season with two sub 19 minute performances with a 18:40 victory at Knights Crossing and then took fifth in stellar Maymont invitational field with a time of 18:51. Rapp was two seconds behind Winston Churchill MD's Louise Hannallah, who earlier in the season won at the Great Meadow Invite on the same course which will be used this Saturday for the Octoberfest Invite in 18:36. With a full month ahead of then and DiValentin obviously already showing great fitness, Rapp could push to go under 18:30 for the first time.
A new threat to win the Virginia Independent Schools Division I state title in Megan Fitzpatrick brings her top Virginia private school ranked Bishop O'Connell team into Great Meadow along with individual aspirations. Fitzpatrick is coming off a big win at the Maymont Festival as she took the gold division race in a personal best time of 19 minutes as her time beat the top ranked private school and defending state champion Barbara Strehler's time from a later race at Maymont in the silver division. The Bishop O'Connell junior joined Virginia's #4 ranked runner Strehler in the top 15 all-class rankings this past Wednesday in the final 15th spot.
Four individuals ranked in the top 15 in Virginia this week will be at the Octoberfest Invite with #2 DiValentin, #7 Rapp, #15 Fitzpatrick, and #9 Hiruni Wijayarnte of Herndon. The Herndon junior has broken 19 minutes in both of her invitational races this season with her first coming in a 18:46 win at Virginia Tech and last coming in last Saturday's Oatland Invite with a sixth place run of 18:54. Look for the 11:05 3200 meter runner to aim for a top three finish at Octoberfest.
Conditions could be ideal as they were in 2005 to see a good share of girls running under 19 minutes when nine ventured under the mark. The hill course at Great Meadow can run fast when the weather and course behave, but obviously can turn very rough when mother nature goes afoul as last year was the case.
An out-of-state competitor who could run up with the leaders is freshmen Britt Eckerstrom from Northwest High in Maryland. Eckestrom recently clocked a 18:36 5K personal best in a fifth place finish at the Paul Short Run in Pennsylvania.
Other individuals to take into consideration include Gloucester's Hannah Varnell, Woodbridge's Michelle Britto, Brentsville's Amelia Emerson, Westfield's Tasia Potasinski, Dominion's Becky Misanin, and pairs of runners from some of the top teams in the meet from Blacksburg, Lake Braddock, and Ohio's Seneca East.
Britto is in the running for the triple crown, which is a collective scoring of the performances by individuals and teams who compete in the three meets of the Great Meadow Invite, Oatlands Invite, and this Saturday's Octoberfest Invite. Britto was ninth last Saturday at Oatlands with her best race of the season so far in a 19:17 5K and Osbourn Park will not be running their varsity team due to S.A.T. conflicts, so Great Meadow Invite runner-up Ariel Karabinus is out of the running for the triple crown to open the door for Britto as next in line.
Girls individuals to look out for:
VA #2 Lia DiValentin (Chantilly)
VA #7 Laura Rapp (Heritage-Lynchburg)
VA #9 Hiruni Wijayarnte (Herndon)
Britt Eckerstrom (Northwest MD) - 18:36 5K PR
VA #15 Megan Fitzpatrick (Bishop O'Connell)
AAA #10 Hannah Varnell (Gloucester)
Brittany Stockmaster (Seneca East OH) - 18:50 5K PR
Jessica Phillips (Seneca East OH) - 19:06 5K PR
AA #6 Amelia Emerson (Brentsville)
Michelle Britto (Woodbridge)
AA #9 Alison Homer (Blacksburg)
AA #8 Joanna Stevens (Blacksburg)
Tasia Potasinski (Westfield)
Kelly Hagan (Lake Braddock)
AA #10 Becki Misanin (Dominion)
Amanda Parker (Lake Braddock)
Anneka Wilson (Potomac School)
Laurel MacMillan (Blacksburg)
Aimees Moore (Quince Orchard MD) - 19:16 5K PR
Abby Badura (Clover Hill)
Stephanie Bray (James Robinson)
Sophia Holmes (Clarke County)
Jayna McGehee (Great Bridge)
Girls Teams:
Photo by Jason Byrne of flrunners.com
Who really is the next best team after the nationally ranked Midlothian in Virginia? The answer might finally get a bit more clearer this weekend, but not really as the conflict with S.A.T's will prevent Lake Braddock to run full strength against Blacksburg as Virginia's top two teams after the Lady Trojans will finally get a chance to see one another this weekend.
Lake Braddock will be missing two of their top four runners with seniors Erin Landy and Anna Corrigan taking S.A.T.'s as the Lady Bruins have already been missing senior and top returnee Christine Moore with IT band injury this fall. However, there is still plenty of youth and depth in Coach Mike Mangan's lineup to at least see how they can match with the runners they have with Blacksburg on Saturday and do the hypothetical plug-in's afterwards with their missing seniors.
Two sophomores in Kelly Hagan and Amanda Parker led the way for Lake Braddock in their trip to Florida this past Saturday as the team finished second to a strong Lady of Lourdes team from Florida in a spirited battle at the Southern Stars Invitational. Both recorded personal best 5K times on the fast and flat Florida course in Tampa with Hagan at 19:10 and Parker at 19:22. Saturday could potentially run just as fast for the Lake Braddock if temperatures stay cool for that first race at 9 AM and the competition is willing to press the pace.
What they lose in the absence of Landy and Corrigan, they make up somewhat with sophomore Liana Epstein back in the lineup as the first-time cross country runner was unable to make the trip with the team to Florida last week. Epstein is definitely of capable of running well into the 19 minutes after running a shade over 19 minutes at Burke Lake in a low-key mid week meet several weeks ago. Her instant success in the fall sport gives Coach Mangan plenty to be excited about the promise and potential she can offer to the team's cause. With Nadeen Khoury already under 20 minutes last weekend at Southern Stars in 19:54, Lake Braddock is capable of putting at least four under 20 minutes on Saturday.
| VA Lake Braddock | ||||
| 1) Hagan, Kelly | 2010 | 19:10 | ||
| 2) Parker, Amanda | 2010 | 19:22 | ||
| 3) Corrigan, Anna | 2008 | 19:26 | ||
| 4) Landy, Erin | 2008 | 19:26 | ||
| 5) Khoury, Nadeen | 2009 | 19:54 | ||
| Average Time: 19:27.6 -- Total Time: 1:37:18 -- 1-5 Split: 44 | ||||
| 6) Tkac, Sammy | 2010 | 20:16 | ||
| 7) Lardner, Casey | 2011 | 20:31 | ||
| 8) Jarris, Mari | 2010 | 20:45 | ||
| 9) Moore, Taylor | 2009 | 20:55 | ||
| 10) Sands, Michaela | 2008 | 21:02 | ||
However, being short-handed will make it tough for Lake Braddock to defeat Blacksburg who already have seven runners under 20 minutes this season and are looking to improve upon their fourth place performance in the Maymont Festival's invitational race last weekend. It was the first race for Blacksburg's top returnee in Laurel MacMillan, who had an ankle stress fracture in the summer to set back her return to racing until this past week. MacMillan already has made quick strides in her return as she was over 25 seconds faster from Maymont (19:58) to the Metro Cross Country Championships (19:32) this past Wednesday in a runner-up performance to defending private school Division II champ Jane Gay of North Cross.
With MacMillan's absence, Allison Homer has had to run solo upfront for Blacksburg as she went under 19 minutes early in the season at Knights Crossing with a time of 18:54, but struggled at Maymont and finished behind sophomore teammate Joanna Stevens as the team's second place finisher. Coach James Demarco is hoping to have his team's old formula for success in great front running come back with Homer shaking off her Maymont race and MacMillan continuing to work herself back into shape as his Blacksburg squad's depth has never been better.
Blacksburg sophomore Joanna Stevens stepped into the #1 role at Maymont with Homer faltering in a time of 19:31 and has ran even faster at 19:23 this season for 5K. Twin sister Kathleen at 19:50 season best along with Avery Mattingly (19:50), Trinity Foreman (19:50), and Leah Fitchett (19:57).
A turning point for the Blacksburg program actually came two years ago at this very invitational when the Blacksburg girls came into Octoberfest as an unheralded Group AA squad and then walked out as team on the brink of starting a dynasty in Virginia by scoring a huge invite victory over a quality field of teams including four higher state ranked AAA squads.
| VA Blacksburg | ||||
| 1) Homer, Allison | 2009 | 18:54.03 | ||
| 2) Stevens, Joanna | 2010 | 19:23.19 | ||
| 3) MacMillan, Laurel | 2008 | 19:32.36 | ||
| 4) Mattingly, Avery | 2008 | 19:40 | ||
| 5) Stevens, Kathleen | 2010 | 19:50.29 | ||
| Average Time: 19:27.97 -- Total Time: 1:37:19.87 -- 1-5 Split: 56.26 | ||||
| 6) Foreman, Trinity | 2009 | 19:50.75 | ||
| 7) Fitchett, Leah | 2011 | 19:57.99 | ||
| 8) Welsh, Jennie | 2011 | 20:30.63 | ||
| 9) Dorrell, Sarah | 2011 | 20:51.75 | ||
| 10) Welsh, Jenny | 2011 | 20:57.9 | ||
After what happened last weekend at Maymont with an unranked team from the Midwest in Ohio's Medina boys taking a field of Virginia and the Southeast's best teams by storm and flying out of Richmond with the first place hardware, it could be deja-vu all over again when the Seneca East girls from Ohio make their way to Great Meadow this weekend.
Cross country in other parts of the country can be very fierce and even more competitive than the level that is found within Virginia. Last week's Maymont champions in Medina of Ohio for instance were fourth place finishers in the 2006 Ohio State Meet and they are not even in the largest classification in their state.
The Seneca East girls did not appear to be on the radar screen for many, but when a team's top five is dominated with three new talented freshmen it can make a great team overnight. Seneca East is led by freshmen Brittany Stockmaster, who broke 19 minutes for the first time in a 18:50 individual victory at the Bettsville Invitational last Saturday in Ohio. Behind her in the same race were teammates Jessica Phillips (2nd, 19:06), Brooke Szabo (4th, 19:38), Brecka Szabo (5th, 19:38), and Tressa Schaade (11th, 20:33). With four runners among the top five in the 12 team field, Seneca East put up a dual meet-like score of 23 points.
Despite being such a young squad, Seneca East appears to be one of the top five best teams in Ohio currently and gearing towards a state championship run if not this year then future years with only fifth runner in junior Tressa Schaade as their eldest scoring member. A win over two quality teams in Lake Braddock and Blacksburg would certainly bolster their confidence returning back to Ohio with both squads not only earning recognition regionally in the Southeast, but nationally as well with Lake Braddock receiving a top 25 national ranking last month.
| OH Seneca East | ||||
| 1) Stockmaster, Brittany | 2011 | 18:50.67 | ||
| 2) Phillips, Jessica | 2010 | 19:06.64 | ||
| 3) Szabo, Brooke | 2011 | 19:38.08 | ||
| 4) Szabo, Brecka | 2011 | 19:38.99 | ||
| 5) Schaade, Tressa | 2009 | 20:33.63 | ||
| Average Time: 19:33.6 -- Total Time: 1:37:48.01 -- 1-5 Split: 1:42.96 | ||||
| 6) Elmlinger, Brittany | 2008 | 20:34 | ||
Other Virginia squads have other plans in allowing the Ohio team slip into the top three. Virginia's #5 ranked squad in Brentsville is not looking to back down from Seneca East nor their AA foe Blacksburg. Despite the loss of their top returning runner in Maggie Gentry for the season, the Brentsville girls have pressed on with veterans stepping up and newcomers filling holes to make them still one of the state's better squads. Coach Rob Dulin's girls have been featured in the NTN Southeast region top 10 rankings all season and recently took eighth place in the invitational division at Maymont.
The only senior among their top six in Amelia Emerson, ran exceptional in Richmond this past Saturday showing her old AA All-State cross country form with a season best time of 19:14 for 5K. However, she will need more teammates to join her under 20 minutes on Saturday to keep up with the likes of Blacksburg and Lake Braddock as only junior Lauren Bussian went under the mark with her at Maymont in 19:56.
| VA Brentsville District | ||||
| 1) Emerson, Amelia | 2008 | 19:14.1 | ||
| 2) Bussian, Lauren | 2009 | 19:56.15 | ||
| 3) Price, Morgan | 2011 | 20:23.05 | ||
| 4) Earman, Sarah | 2009 | 20:28.36 | ||
| 5) McGowan, Courtney | 2009 | 20:32.56 | ||
| Average Time: 20:06.84 -- Total Time: 1:40:34.22 -- 1-5 Split: 1:18.46 | ||||
| 6) Hoffman, Caitlin | 2010 | 20:48.27 | ||
| 7) Hutson, Stephanie | 2008 | 21:02.87 | ||
| 8) Kulifay, Alex | 2008 | 21:25.59 | ||
| 9) Gaines, Ashby | 2009 | 21:45.05 | ||
| 10) Ostergren, Kelsey | 2009 | 22:33.1 | ||
Bishop O'Connell hopes to have a second straight meet at Great Meadow with a top four finish and further prove they belong to be ranked right with some of the state's top public school teams. O'Connell opened the season with an impressive fourth place finish at the Great Meadow Invitational to assert themselves as the team to beat in the private school ranks and further solidified themselves into good position to go for a state team championship this fall by winning the gold division at the Maymont Festival.
They won at Maymont with their second best runner in Gloria Roberts dropping out with a foot injury and the injury could be serious enough for her to miss the majority if not all of the season, so others will need to step in their place. Fitzpatrick is obviously filling in the front runner role nicely after a 19:00 5K personal best at Maymont and with Roberts in the line-up, their fifth is at 20:37. Their fifth becomes an issue with Roberts out though as the next best is a minute later at 21:40. In such a large field, a later finish time for a fifth runner could really add onto the final score for a team. Their two freshmen in Michelle Van Horn and Alex Nihill stepped up very nicely at Maymont though with both at 20:37 behind Fitzpatrick and head coach Cindy Walls' daugther Katie Walls (20:26) in the third and fourth positions.
| VA Bishop O'Connell | ||||
| 1) Fitzpatrick, Megan | 2009 | 19:00.43 | ||
| 2) Roberts, Gloria | 2010 | 20:14.5 | ||
| 3) Walls, Katie | 2008 | 20:26.66 | ||
| 4) Van Horn, Michelle | 2011 | 20:37.46 | ||
| 5) Nihill, Alex | 2011 | 20:37.82 | ||
| Average Time: 20:11.37 -- Total Time: 1:40:56.87 -- 1-5 Split: 1:37.39 | ||||
| 6) O'Neill, Stephanie | 2009 | 21:40 | ||
| 7) Giaquinto, Madeliene | 2010 | 22:03.9 | ||
| 8) Tamberrino, Lucy | 2009 | 22:20 | ||
| 9) Van Horn, Nicole | 2008 | 22:33.43 | ||
| 10) Christ, Ashley | 2011 | 22:37.95 | ||
The defending Octoberfest champions in the James Robinson girls are back, but a second straight victory at Great Meadow would be titled "The Miracle on The Plains" with the two heavyweights in Blacksburg and Lake Braddock along with the Ohio squad and others. However, the Lady Rams still have a formidable group and should finish high as they look to crack back into the top 10 rankings in the state. James Robinson will also be anxious to race against again Virginia's #10 ranked Herndon girls after finishing behind them last weekend at Robinson with both teams jockeying for position with others to see who can make it out alive onto the state championships from the Northern Championships later this fall.
| VA Herndon | ||||
| 1) Wijayaratne, Hiruni | 2009 | 18:46 | ||
| 2) Kulik, Carly | 2011 | 20:11.14 | ||
| 3) Ortel, Laura | 2009 | 20:23 | ||
| 4) Wilds, Jessica | 2009 | 20:43 | ||
| 5) O'Bryan, Joan | 2009 | 20:48 | ||
| Average Time: 20:10.23 -- Total Time: 1:40:51.14 -- 1-5 Split: 2:02 | ||||
| 6) Pinkston, Lauren | 2008 | 21:09.03 | ||
| 7) Hennessey, Carolyn | 2011 | 21:21.25 | ||
| 8) Haq, Mehnaz | 2010 | 21:21.32 | ||
| 9) Downer, Julia | 2009 | 21:41.37 | ||
| 10) Merrill, Katie | 2008 | 21:44 | ||
| VA James Robinson | ||||
| 1) Bray, Stephanie | 2009 | 19:42.74 | ||
| 2) Nevlud, Amanda | 2009 | 20:22.06 | ||
| 3) Criman, Monika | 2009 | 20:25 | ||
| 4) Swim, Ashley | 2009 | 20:31 | ||
| 5) Kavanaugh, Kelly | 2009 | 21:13 | ||
| Average Time: 20:26.76 -- Total Time: 1:42:13.8 -- 1-5 Split: 1:30.26 | ||||
| 6) Valdez, Faviola | 0 | 21:19.2 | ||
| 7) Fontanez, Diana | 2010 | 21:31.06 | ||
| 8) Hovland, Anne | 2009 | 21:46 | ||
| 9) Sharp, Cathleen | 2006 | 22:03 | ||
Girls teams to look out for:
VA #2 Blacksburg
VA #3 Lake Braddock (W/O Erin Landy & Anna Corrigan)
OH #4 Seneca East
VA #5 Brentsville
VA #10 Herndon
Private #1 Bishop O'Connell
AAA #8 James Robinson
Westfield
Great Bridge
AA #6 Chancellor
AA #8 Sherando
Boys Individuals:
Photo by Brandon Miles
Three top 10 returnees are back from last year's mud back that was called the Octoberfest Invitational led by Turner Ashby junior Alex Ott, who placed fifth in 2006 with a time of 17:20 as not a single runner broke 17 minutes on the day. Expect quite many to break 17 minutes in 2007 with possibly a handful or more breaking 16 minutes. The 4:20 miler went under 16 minutes at Maymont with strong sixth place run of 15:51. Joining him under 16 minutes in the same race was Mountain View junior Thomas Porter in 15:58 with a 12th place effort.
Porter appears to be in his usual mid-season form, which is nowhere near top form as he showed last year from the transformation he made with an eighth place finish at the Octoberfest Invite to a tenth place finish and punching his ticket to San Diego at Footlocker South. However, he should not loaf around too long as many just within his own class of juniors in Virginia are developing along quite well from their sophomore year as shown by last week at Maymont with four Virginian juniors finishing ahead of him in Jamestown's Andrew Colley (15:39), Ott (15:51), Western Albemarle's Kyle Satterwhite (15:55), and Atlee's Ben Dejarnette (15:57). Footlocker Nationals is exclusive party for ten from the South region and there are many Virginians alone not including others from the remaining states who feel their R.S.V.P. card is just as redeemable as the next guy's card.
Ott comes in with the best time of the season at 15:51 with Porter next in line, but the Northern Region pair of Bradshaw Kenimer from T.C. Williams and Leoule Degfae from Thomas Edison will also be hungry from the win as the top two finishers from last Saturday's Oatlands Invite. Kenimer became a two-time winner of the event with a final time of 16:00, while Degfae held off Thomas Jefferson's Brian Landry for second two ticks later at 16:02. The T.C. Williams senior will be gunning for his third invitational victory of the fall as he has two his credit this season from Monroe Parker and Oatlands.
Ott leads four top 15 ranked runners in Virginia at Octoberfest at the #6 spot with #10 Porter, #12 Kenimer, and #14 Degfae joining him in this week's all-class rankings.
A darkhorse could be Gloucester's Doug Fenstermacher who seems to beat the myth that Eastern Region runners cannot run well at Great Meadow as he faired well last year in his two races at the venue with 10th place finish at Octoberfest and then finished out his season with an All-State performance in the AAA state race. Fenstermacher dipped just under 16 minutes last Saturday in a runner-up effort at the Chesapeake Invitational.
The Southeast's #2 ranked team in Quince Orchard of Maryland has a front runner who could contend for the title along their team gunning for a second Octoberfest title in Neal Darmody. Darmody clocked in a season best of 15:43 at the Paul Short Run in Pennsylvania last Saturday, which is a quite fast and well-groomed course at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Darmody should be able to compete with the leaders up front though.
Boys individuals to look out for:
VA #6 Alex Ott (Turner Ashby)
VA #10 Thomas Porter (Mountain View)
VA #12 Bradshaw Kenimer (T.C. Williams)
VA #14 Leoule Degfae (Thomas Edison)
Neal Darmody (Quince Orchard MD) - 15:43 5K
AAA #15 Doug Fenstermacher (Gloucester)
AA #9 Ray Delgado (Brentsville)
David Laratta (Quince Orchard) - 16:05 5K
Tihut Degfae (Thomas Edison)
Chris Foley (Chantilly)
Devin Edgell (Lake Braddock)
Boys Teams:
The Southeast #2 ranked Quince Orchard set their schedule to go to Virginia for two consecutive weekends in October with the Octoberfest Invitational this weekend and Glory Days Grill Invitational next weekend in hopes of facing now #1 ranked Oakton, but they will not get the opportunity to race the "A" team for the Cougars at either meet. Oakton takes off this weekend with their varsity guys before setting their sights on New York City next weekend for the Manhattan Invitational.
Photo by Brandon Miles
The consolation prize for Quince Orchard is to see how they match up against Virginia's #4 and #6 ranked squads in Brentsville and Mountain View. Coach Seann Pelkey's Quince Orchard boys are coming off a solid performance at Paul Short in the Pennsylvania last weekend against one of the best teams in Pennsylvania as well as the entire Northeast in Germantown Friends. Quince Orchard averaged 16:19 as a team with a time spread of 1:05, but it was not enough to taken down the Northeast #3 ranked squad as Germantown put 22 point cushion on first place.
Quince Orchard faired much better against teams to the North than the other Southeast region teams did at Maymont against a Midwest bubble team in Medina of Ohio as Oakton finished as a runner-up to the unranked Medina team in Richmond.
Without the head-to-head matchups between the Southeast's top two ranked teams, the comparisions will definitely be coming after the races at Octoberfest to see how Quince Orchard faired against common opponents Brentsville and Mountain View with one week separating their battles with top ranked Oakton at Maymont. Quince Orchard boys will also be gearing towards beating the ghost of the Oakton boys from the Great Meadow Invitational in early September with Coach Phil Tiller's team dominated the field with a 16:31 team average on the identical course which Quince Orchard will be racing on this Saturday.
The defending Octoberfest Invitational champions cannot sleep on their top Virginia contenders though in Brentsville and Mountain View.
AA teams Jamestown and Western Albemarle especially found that out the hard way about Brentsville last Saturday at Maymont when Coach Rob Dulin's boys showed the heart of champions by defeating two teams considered superior to them going into the race. A fourth straight Group AA state cross country team title seemed unlikely for Brentsville at season's beginning with the firepower that both Jamestown and Western Albemarle were bringing back as well as a decisive loss to Western Albemarle at the Fork Union Invitational. However, after a fifth place finish at Maymont and defeating several NTN Southeast ranked squads, the confidence and belief is definitely back for the Brentsville boys that another state championship run is attainable. Brentsville senior Ray Delgado has asserted himself strongly as the team's front runner with the graduation of their top two runners from 2006 with his recent performance in the form of a 16:15 run at Maymont.
| VA Brentsville District | ||||
| 1) Delgado, Ray | 2008 | 16:15.1 | ||
| 2) Johnson, Andrew | 2008 | 16:49.61 | ||
| 3) Watts, Luke | 2008 | 16:53.76 | ||
| 4) Burress, Grant | 2009 | 16:57.58 | ||
| 5) Cronauer, Robbie | 2009 | 17:05.85 | ||
| Average Time: 16:48.38 -- Total Time: 1:24:01.9 -- 1-5 Split: 50.75 | ||||
| 6) Hull, Kris | 2008 | 17:24.14 | ||
| 7) Morrow, Zach | 2011 | 18:23.47 | ||
| 8) Peterson, Thomas | 2008 | 18:36.13 | ||
| 9) McMullen, Aaron | 2009 | 18:56.66 | ||
| 10) Earman, Matt | 2011 | 18:57.75 | ||
The Mountain View boys on the other hand did not come out feeling like winners after Maymont as the team which had been ranked fourth in the Southeast region previously will likely drop a few spots this week after finishing seventh at Maymont. Octoberfest meet director and Mountain View coach Dave Davis looks to have his boys rebound this weekend on a course very familar to them at Great Meadow and go after Brentsville and Quince Orchard. The key for Mountain View's success continues to point to having a runner or two in their pack after Thomas Porter move up to match up with some of the other top teams, who have #2 and #3 runners who could very well be many teams' top runners.
| VA Mountain View | ||||
| 1) Porter, Thomas | 2009 | 15:42.27 | ||
| 2) Brown, Alex | 2008 | 16:42.37 | ||
| 3) Porter, Daniel | 2008 | 16:53.68 | ||
| 4) Henry, Stephen | 2008 | 16:57.96 | ||
| 5) Brown, Chris | 2008 | 17:00.41 | ||
| Average Time: 16:39.34 -- Total Time: 1:23:16.69 -- 1-5 Split: 1:18.14 | ||||
| 6) Wisniewski, Tim | 2009 | 17:11.79 | ||
| 7) Yingling, Ryan | 2008 | 17:14.45 | ||
| 8) O'Baker, Logan | 0 | 17:42.34 | ||
| 9) Hagstrom, Dustin | 2008 | 17:49.7 | ||
| 10) Darley, Patrick | 0 | 17:53.42 | ||
After the top three teams, the shakedown will especially be interesting among the Northern Region schools as James Robinson appears to have emerged as the next best team out of the region after Oakton and Thomas Jefferson, but both W.T. Woodson and Thomas Edison look to the first teams in a while who have realistic shots out of making it to the state meet. The Lake Braddock boys should also be a team of interest as they ran decent down in Florida while running under the lights as well as in the shadows of their nationally ranked girls' team.
Boys teams to look out for:
SE#2/MD #1 Quince Orchard
VA #4 Brentsville
VA #6 Mountain View
VA #10 James Robinson
AAA #9 W.T. Woodson
AA #4 Blacksburg (W/O #1 Peter Dorrell)
AA #6 Sherando
Thomas Edison
Lake Braddock
TIME SCHEDULE
9:00am Varsity A Girls
9:45am Varsity A Boys
10:30am JV FR & SO Girls
11:20am JV FR & SO Boys
Noon JV JR & SR Girls
12:45pm JV JR & SR Boys
1:20pm Varsity B Boys
1:55pm Varsity B Girls
TEAM LIST
| Octoberfest - October 6, 2007 | |
| 1 | Auburn |
| 2 | Bishop O'Connell |
| 3 | Blacksburg |
| 4 | Brentsville |
| 5 | Briar Woods |
| 6 | Broad Run |
| 7 | Brooke Point |
| 8 | Bullis School |
| 9 | Chancellor |
| 10 | Chantilly |
| 11 | Charlottesville |
| 12 | Clark County |
| 13 | Clarkstown South, NY |
| 14 | Clover Hill |
| 15 | Dominion |
| 19 | Edmund Burke |
| 20 | Fauquier |
| 21 | Forest Park |
| 22 | Fredericksburg Academy |
| 23 | Freedom - Soth Riding |
| 24 | Freedom - Woodbridge |
| 25 | Gar-Field |
| 26 | Gloucester |
| 27 | Great Bridge |
| 28 | Handley |
| 29 | Hayfield |
| 30 | Heritage-Leesburg |
| 31 | Heritage-Lynchburg |
| 32 | Herndon |
| 33 | James madison |
| 34 | James Monroe |
| 35 | King George |
| 36 | Lake Braddock |
| 37 | Langley |
| 38 | Liberty - Bealeton |
| 39 | Loudoun County |
| 40 | Loudoun Valley |
| 41 | Marshall |
| 42 | Massaponax |
| 43 | McLean |
| 44 | Mountain View |
| 45 | New Kent |
| 46 | Northwest, Md |
| 47 | Osbourn |
| 48 | Osbourn Park |
| 49 | Park View - Sterling |
| 50 | Paul VI |
| 51 | Potomac |
| 52 | Quince Orchard, Md |
| 53 | RE Lee-Springfield |
| 54 | Riverbend |
| 55 | Robinson |
| 56 | Seneca East, Ohio |
| 57 | Sherando |
| 58 | Sherwood, Md |
| 59 | Sidwell Friends |
| 60 | Skyline |
| 61 | South Lakes |
| 62 | Spotswood |
| 63 | Stafford |
| 64 | Stone Bridge |
| 65 | TC Williams |
| 66 | The Potomac School |
| 67 | Thomas Edison |
| 68 | Turner Ashby |
| 69 | Warren County |
| 70 | Washington & Lee |
| 71 | Westfield |
| 72 | Woodbridge |
| 73 | WT Woodson |