WCC #5

Athletes of the Week

Miles Batty  BYU

Morgan Haws BYU  Merel van Steenbergen Portland

 

Schedule

Pepperdine     

SCU                Charles Bowles (W), Notre Dame (M)

SMC               

USF                

Gonzaga          Montana

Portland          Bill Dellinger (W), Charles Bowles (M,W)

LMU              

USD               

BYU               Notre Dame

 

Charles Bowles

http://www.santaclarabroncos.com/sports/c-xc/2011-12/releases/20111001oddgat

http://portlandpilots.com/news/2011/10/2/WXC_1002114453.aspx

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=371&do=videos&video_id=54232

•           Portland did not run anyone in top 7 from Pier Park

•           Kelly Slaine, Portland #1 and top WCC finisher, was 2 seconds faster than Julia Fonk, Portland #8 at Dellinger

•           Santa Clara spread of 14 seconds is a stunning improvement of a season best of 54 seconds at Stanford 6K

http://portlandpilots.com/news/2011/10/2/MXC_1002115820.aspx

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=371&do=videos&video_id=54227

•           Portland ran Frerker and Wells who were #7 and #8 at Griak, to battle for the last spot to Pre-Nats

•           Appears to be bad news for Bassett who did not run and was #9 at Griak and 61 seconds behind Wells at Griak

•           Osoro was 54 seconds of his 2010 time, although Chico’s top returners from last year, Chavez and Gradone, were 16 and 18 seconds slower than 2010.

                                               

Notre Dame

http://www.santaclarabroncos.com/sports/c-xc/2011-12/releases/20110930rzf68p

http://byucougars.com/m-cross-country/cougars-find-success-notre-dame-invitational

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/240281-Notre-Dame-Cross-Country-Invitational-2011/video/508109-Miles-Batty-BYU-1st-Mens-Blue-Race-Notre-Dame-XC-Invite-2011

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/240281-Notre-Dame-Cross-Country-Invitational-2011/video/508107-Ed-Eyestone-BYU-1st-Mens-Blue-Race-Notre-Dame-XC-Invite-2011

•           UCLA team time average was 34 seconds slower at Notre Dame than Stanford, Santa Clara was 70 seconds, Fresno State was 81 seconds

•           DeMaree SCU#2 at Stanford and Zwarma Fresno State#1 at Stanford are not in Notre Dame results

•           BYU beat #1 South Florida State, #1 Mid Atlantic Princeton, #2 South Central Texas A&M, #3 South Georgia, #3 Southeast Eastern Kentucky, #4 Mountain New Mexico,

•           #4 Great Lakes Notre Dame, #4 Mid Atlantic Penn State

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/240281-Notre-Dame-Cross-Country-Invitational-2011/video/508119-BYU-1st-Mens-Blue-Race-Notre-Dame-XC-Invite-2011

•           Katy Andrews debuts #2 behind Haws

•           Top 5 spread of 61 seconds at 5K is an improvement over 86 seconds at 6K from Griak

 

Montana

http://www.gozags.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=627770&SPID=90857&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205304960&DB_OEM_ID=26400

http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/news/index.aspx?n=2011/98/10038&m=50

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mont/sports/c-xc/auto_pdf/2011-12/box_score/stats_20110930aab.pdf

•           Tate Kelly equaled Chris Boyle’s time in 2010

•           7 Gonzaga runners in 2011 eclipsed the Gonzaga 2010 #2 time behind Chris Boyle

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mont/sports/c-xc/auto_pdf/2011-12/box_score/stats_20110930aaa.pdf

•           Lindsey Drake continues to lower her times as she eclipsed Maggie Jones by 64 seconds after beating her by 43 seconds at Oregon

•           No Emily Thomas, #2 runner behind Drake in first two meets.

 

Bill Dellinger

http://portlandpilots.com/news/2011/10/2/WXC_1002114453.aspx

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=videos&event_id=18&video_id=54219

•           Portland beat #8 Midwest Wichita State, #10 Mountain Southern Utah, and lost to #5 Great Lakes Wisconsin

•           UC Riverside was 27 seconds team time average behind LMU (without Shea) at UCR 6K, 35 seconds behind Portland at Dellinger 5K, Fullerton State was 72 seconds at UCR 6K, 75 seconds at Dellinger 5K

•           Top 5 spread of 33 seconds                           

Random Thoughts

•           After LMU demonstrated the gap between the top half and the bottom half of the conference at Stanford, Portland reinforced it at Willamette with a B team almost matching Santa Clara in their breakthrough meet of the year

•           Back in 2002 with a team time average of 18:25 at Willamette, Santa Clara beat  the A team of Portland by 4 points

•           Santa Clara ran a team time average of 18:22 in 2011.  Portland B in 2011 and the WCC Champion Portland team in 2002 ran 18:24 at Willamette.

•           Stanford did not run anyone at Notre Dame that raced at Stanford Invite, notably top 3 in Derrick, Riley, and Olson

•           BYU will pick up points in Princeton and Florida State and won’t need Stanford’s point in case it was an A team

•           Washington State #5 and UCLA #6 in West Region beat the same ‘A’ teams at Notre Dame as BYU except Princeton and Florida State, which could help out Portland as pushers into the NCAA meet

•           Portland and Chico State could not have been any closer with a tie at Willamette:  Frerker of Portland #1 beat Chavez of Chico State #1 by .02 seconds and Wells of Portland #4 beat Costales of Chico State #3 by .02 seconds as they rescued Osoro of Portland #2 from losing the meet who slowed up at the finish to get beat by Sanchez of Chico State #2 by .21 seconds

•           Gonzaga men may be reaping the reward of a higher team finish by bringing 9 instead of 7 to the WCC as each meet this year has had one their top runners finish below 7th on the team.

•           Lauren Bergam of Gonzaga continues to redshirt and needs to drop a class to help out her team.  “There has been some talk we might redshirt Lauren because she has a really demanding academic schedule this season. “  http://www.gozags.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=627770&SPID=90857&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=26400&ATCLID=205265379