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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 15, 2015 18:07:56 GMT -5
The final XC meet of the season, the NCAA championship, used to be held on Monday, when the teams would have nine or ten days to recover from regionals. this year the meet is on Saturday, which will give the teams eight days to recover. Ahmed Bile, who didn't run in the regionals, should be ready and rested for the nationals. Darren Fahy is expected to bounce back after not finishing as one of our top five runners. If Sam Nadel runs, she should be rested. Both teams are expecting a top 15 finish.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 19, 2015 20:34:55 GMT -5
Going into the NCAA meet, the men are ranked 13th, up two from the previous voting, while the women stay at 14th.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 20, 2015 19:41:39 GMT -5
The women go off at noon EST and the men at 1:00 pm EST in L'ville. Everybody is conceding the women's race to New Mexico and thinking NM might have one of the best teams of all time. Colorado is the favorite in the men's competition. Our men and women are ranked approximately the same. How we do will be determined on who is running tomorrow. The women had been plagued with injuries all year. The men have been pretty solid; they did lose a two or three potential scores in three transfers - Collin Leibold (Stanford), Ryan Gil (Oregon), and Ryan Manahan (Mississippi).
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 20, 2015 19:57:22 GMT -5
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 12:41:53 GMT -5
Well, the women underachieved in the race today as they came in 20th with 491 points. New Mexico won with 49 points, a whopping 80 points better than 2nd place Colorado (who beat them at regionals). Their coach is the former Butler coach. Molly Seidel of Notre Dame won the individual title in 19:28.6. Molly is the defending NCAA track champ in the 10,000m.
For the women (places are overall, not team finishes) 61. Haley Pierce 20:37.4 106. Audrey Belf 20:52.6 131. Kennedy Weisner 21:03.1 161. Andrea Keklak 21:11.1 194. Piper Donaghu 21:34.4 174. Heather Martin 21:48.4 231. Autumn Eastman 22:10.1
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Post by prhoya on Nov 21, 2015 12:56:49 GMT -5
Nevada, at guhoyas.com, there's a great photo of the girls racing together. Check it out!
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Post by sleepyjackson21 on Nov 21, 2015 13:39:31 GMT -5
Men unofficially finish 10th. Really a solid season. Jon Green ran a great race and finished 5th. He was pretty much 5th or 6th running alongside McGorty of Stanford the entire race.
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Post by birdman on Nov 21, 2015 13:48:26 GMT -5
Great run for Jon. Highest individual finish since Franklyn Sanchez (also 5th) in 2000?
Shame about SUcks upsetting Colorado. I don't care if it's the JV tiddlywinks championship, Cuse should never win anything.
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Post by birdman on Nov 21, 2015 13:52:53 GMT -5
Sorry, got distracted by my orange-infused anger and forgot to say, of course, that outperforming their rank to finish 10th is great for the men!
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Post by sleepyjackson21 on Nov 21, 2015 13:54:06 GMT -5
Truly a shame about SU. Franklyn Sanchez, freshman phenom, a name from the past!
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 14:04:29 GMT -5
Yes, that is the bad news of the race, that SU upset Colorado to win. But there are a number of great things to be happy about. First and foremost is Jon's 5th place finish. He was actually in 1st or 2nd early in the race. But he stayed up there (except with Tiernan from Nova and Cheserek from Oregon, who won his 3rd straight NCAA XC race). And the Hoyas were top 10 (they were 4th after 2K). And if they still had RyaGil, who ran for Oregon today, the Hoyas would have finished 7th.
Hoyas (absolute finish, not team finish) 5. Jon Green 29:49.5 49. Darren Fahy 30:32.0 Darren bounces back after a poor regionals 104. Ahmed Bile 31:00.2 His rest at regionals prove fruitful in this race. 128. Amos Bartelsmeyer 31:11.1 158. Mike Lederhouse 31:30.7 a bit off his very fine XC racing this year 180. Christian Alvarado 31:42.1 238. Scott Carpenter 33:00.4
Former Hoyas 121. Ryan Gil Oregon 31:08.7 182. Ryan Manahan Mississippi 31:46.7
The Hoyas had 352 points in 10th
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 14:09:18 GMT -5
And the Hoyas defeated the all-Kenyan UTEP by two points!
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 14:18:59 GMT -5
Coach Bonsey had been saying all year that the Hoyas were better than their ranking. And from great distractions and men going elsewhere, he was right and the team came together in great fashion this year relying on Jon and Darren and a bunch of middle distance runners!
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 14:37:17 GMT -5
And we have to realize that just a few years ago that Coach Bonsey was assistant coach at SU. So we can partially blame him for the orange victory.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 14:50:13 GMT -5
At 2K:
For reference at 2k it was: 1 Syracuse 3, 11, 12, 35, 36, (37), (111) 97 2 Iona 4, 14, 15, 21, 89, (106), (162) 143 3 Colorado 16, 23, 30, 44, 68, (70), (78) 181 4 Georgetown 6, 40, 41, 48, 50, (59), (150) 185 5 Washington 26, 27, 32, 46, 60, (159), (182) 191 6 Stanford 9, 29, 43, 49, 79, (92), (105) 209
So the Hoyas went for it. Didn't last but they were in it all race.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 14:51:10 GMT -5
Comment from letsrun.com
Monster run by Jonathan Greene (GTWN) finishing 3 seconds behind much more heralded fellow soph J Knight of 'cuse for 5th overall. Greene is a true soph with HS PRs of 4:24/9:21.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 14:58:40 GMT -5
Hoyas received encouragement before the race from of all people, Clark Kellogg:
Clark Kellogg @clarkkelloggcbs 4h4 hours ago
@hoyasad @hoyastrackxc Congrats to the Hoyas..Compete well today!!
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Post by reformation on Nov 21, 2015 16:36:54 GMT -5
nice to see men outperform + big perf from Jon Green. Its really been a a number of years sine the men have had a nationally elite performer. Not totally surprised re the women, since they really needed everyone to perform their best to have a top 10 perf which obviously did not happen. Was good to see haley pierce display some of the talent she had coming out of hs with a strong perf. Women should be back next yr with two new elite xc recruits + samantha nadel coming back. Men should be able to improve too with maybe Jon green competing for an ind title.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 21, 2015 20:54:54 GMT -5
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Nov 22, 2015 10:56:47 GMT -5
Congrats to the men on a great performance. The women could never get fully healthy, hopefully next season will be a different story. Hoya Saxa.
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