2a West

[CoachSpongeBob]

Just something that might be interesting - here is the head-to-head records (records vs teams in 2a West) for this region. If a team is complete, I did not give other teams a win over them, only because it was easier to figure out without doing that. This is merely for entertainment, not an official stat.

Boys

1	FSK	16-0
2	Middletown	12-3
3	Winters Mill	10-6
4	Liberty	7-7
5	Century	6-7
6	Walkersville	5-8
7	North Hagerstown	3-11
8	Northwood	0-0
9	Clarksburg	0-3
10	Rockville	0-5
11	South Hagerstown	0-9

Girls

1	Century	11-0
2	Middletown	9-2
3	Winters Mill	6-5
4	Liberty	5-7
5	Walkersville	2-4
6	Rockville	0-0
7	Clarksburg	0-3
8	North Hagerstown	0-9
	FSK	Incomplete
	Northwood	Incomplete
	South Hagerstown	Incomplete

*Northwood has yet to compete against any 2a West teams
**Rockville girls have competed in meets with a complete team, but have not had a complete team when competing against 2a West teams

[rwilhelm]

Wow, that's really interesting. It looks like a good gauge as to how the Regional meet may go as well.

[CoachSpongeBob]

Clear Spring Invite 10/6/07

Boys Large

1	River Hill	32
2	Jefferson	55
3	Urbana	70
4	Westminster	102
5	Middletown	143
6	Richard Montgomery	153
7	Hedgesville	197
8	Musselman	209
9	Thomas Johnson	279
10	Tuscarora	288
11	Martinsburg	299
12	North Hagerstown	321
13	South Hagerstown	385

Boys Small

1	Glenelg	57
2	Winters Mill	78
3	Clear Spring	108
4	Williamsport	118
5	Smithsburg	126
6	Walkersville	127
7	Southern Garrett	160
8	Catoctin	174
9	Boonsboro	262
10	St James	264

Girls Large

1	Urbana	52
2	Richard Montgomery	71
3	River Hill	74
4	Jefferson	130
5	Westminster	135
6	Thomas Johnson	139
7	Hedgesville	206
8	Middletown	210
9	Martinsburg	235
10	North Hagerstown	246
11	Musselman	248
12	Tuscarora	312

Girls Small

1	Smithsburg	43
2	Winters Mill	85
3	Williamsport	87
4	Glenelg	90
5	Southern Garrett	117
6	Catoctin	143
7	Clear Spring	153
8	Holton-Arms	210
9	Walkersville	234
10	Boonsboro	319

Results: md.digitalsports.com/assets/188511/InterstateClassxc07.txt

[CoachSpongeBob]

Run from the Lion's Den 10/10/2007

Boys

1	River Hill	69
2	Francis Scott Key	106
3	Loyola	143
4	Archbishop Spalding	162
5	Westminster	177
6	Winters Mill	182
7	Oakland Mills	183
8	Thomas Johnson	207
9	Liberty	246
10	Century	280
11	Walkersville	306
12	Marriotts Ridge	309
13	Hammond	312
14	South Carroll	339
15	North Carroll	351
16	Williamsport	355
17	Northwood	473
18	Tuscarora	500
19	Severna Park	534
20	North Hagerstown	558
21	Rockville	569
22	Seneca Valley	694

Results: www.errun.org/LionsDen2007Boys.htm

Girls

1	River Hill	51
2	South Carroll	89
3	Century	108
4	Thomas Johnson	118
5	Westminster	118
6	Severna Park	164
7	Liberty	190
8	Winters Mill	203
9	North Carroll	274
10	Williamsport	274
11	Marriotts Ridge	284
12	Oakland Mills	289
13	North Hagerstown	298
14	Walkersville	452
15	Tuscarora	462
16	Hammond	464
17	Seneca Valley	483

Results: www.errun.org/LionsDen2007Girls.htm

[CoachSpongeBob]

Updated Records:

Boys

1	FSK	23-0
2	Middletown	14-3
3	Winters Mill	17-7
4	Liberty	13-9
5	Century	10-10
6	Walkersville	8-14
7	Northwood	2-5
8	North Hagerstown	5-18
9	Clarksburg	0-3
10	South Hagerstown	0-11
11	Rockville	0-12

Girls

1	Century	15-0
2	Middletown	10-2
3	Winters Mill	9-7
4	Liberty	9-8
5	Walkersville	2-10
6	North Hagerstown	1-13
7	Rockville	0-0
8	Clarksburg	0-3
	FSK	Incomplete
	Northwood	Incomplete
	South Hagerstown	Incomplete

[CoachSpongeBob]

With 7 of the 11 teams at the Lion's Den, I thought it might be interesting to pull out all the 2a West teams out of the results. The only teams missing would be Middletown, South Hagerstown and Clarksburg.

Boys Notes - Middletown boys should be around Winters Mill right now at 2nd or 3rd in the region. South Hagerstown has yet to beat any region teams, having lost 11 times. Clarksburg could be the most interesting. They have raced 3 teams and lost all 3 times, but they did win their division in Montgomery County. I don't think they will be a factor when it comes down to who qualifies for states though. Jesse Henderson of FSK is the second best #5 runner in the region at this meet finishing only one place behind the top #5 runner. Century had the best #5 and #6 runner in the region at the meet.

Girls Notes - The one girl that did not run was Century's #4 runner. Middletown girls have been a solid 2nd all year. South Hagerstown is incomplete and won't effect the scores (although, I read in the paper for Hagerstown that it is their hope that they will for the first time in years have a complete team at one meet this year, so apparently they have 5 girls on their roster so maybe 5 girls will be put in for regionals giving them a complete team) Rockville was incomplete at Lion's Den (and have been at a number of meets this year) but they have run with a complete team before. Clarksburg could be the most interesting team. They won their division in Montgomery County, but looking at results, they haven't seem to have run all their top girls at a meet with any 2a West team. They certainly might be a team that could threaten to qualify for states, or maybe they won't, they are probably the team that is hardest to read at this point.

Here are the 2a West Results from Lion's Den

Boys

1	Leathers, Arthur	Francis Scott Key	16:46.00
2	White, Jordan	Francis Scott Key	16:54.00
3	Holz, Zach	Francis Scott Key	17:18.00
4	Souders, Tim	Liberty	17:26.00
5	Haufler, Alex	Francis Scott Key	17:31.00
6	Liberatore, Eric	Liberty	17:32.00
7	Frock, Chris	Winters Mill	17:32.90
8	Tringali, Eric	Winters Mill	17:36.00
9	Zynda, Avior	Century	17:54.00
10	Reumante, Giovanni	Northwood	17:54.10
11	Carpenter, Tom	Winters Mill	18:09.70
12	Spangler, Ryan	Winters Mill	18:11.10
13	Orndorff, Billy	Rockville	18:19.00
14	Hartman, Colin	Walkersville	18:22.00
15	Wachter, Pat	Century	18:32.00
16	Blackner, Christian	Walkersville	18:32.10
17	McCabe, Rob	Walkersville	18:36.20
18	Mead, Pat	Century	18:38.20
19	Almonte, Dante	Liberty	18:39.00
20	Rodriguez, Dan	Liberty	18:39.50
21	Zeller, Luke	Walkersville	18:39.80
22	Hughes, Jared	Century	18:43.00
23	Hughes, Sean	Century	18:45.00
24	Henderson, Jesse	Francis Scott Key	18:46.00
25	Parker, Andrew	Winters Mill	18:46.60
26	Etheridge, Trevor	Century	18:51.00
27	Klaverkamp, Soren	Northwood	19:02.50
28	Watson, DJ	Francis Scott Key	19:06.00
29	Reumante, Rico	Northwood	19:09.00
30	Henriksen, Jeff	Walkersville	19:09.50
31	Haines, Danny	Liberty	19:10.00
32	Hong, Edward	Walkersville	19:12.00
33	Hutchinson, Scott	Winters Mill	19:13.00
34	Robbins, Corey	Century	19:17.40
35	Keith, Stephen	Walkersville	19:24.60
36	Ober, Nathan	North Hagerstown	19:27.00
37	Dugan, Kevin	Liberty	19:28.00
38	Abeles, Charlie	North Hagerstown	19:30.00
39	Dougherty, Pat	Liberty	19:32.00
40	Kofoet, Ben	North Hagerstown	19:40.00
41	Williams, Lucas	North Hagerstown	19:58.00
42	Kirk, Ian	Rockville	20:06.00
43	Winter, Jesse	Francis Scott Key	20:26.00
44	Shelley, Patrick	Northwood	20:37.00
45	Austin, Sean	North Hagerstown	20:39.00
46	Cothran, Jonathan	Rockville	21:10.00
47	Cadigan, Brian	Rockville	21:15.00
48	Kugler, Pierce	North Hagerstown	21:54.00
49	Bowersox, Michael	Winters Mill	22:10.00
50	Pangborn, Chris	North Hagerstown	22:18.00
51	Osgood, Forrest	Rockville	22:29.00
52	Udobong, Emem	Northwood	22:31.00
53	Osgood, Matt	Rockville	23:23.00
54	Lederer, Nikolai	Northwood	24:00.00
55	Moses, Teddy	Northwood	25:14.00
56	Donnelly, Kevin	Rockville

Scores

FSK	35
Winters Mill	63
Liberty	80
Century	87
Walkersville	98
Northwood	162
Rockville	199
North Hagerstown	200

Girls

1	McElroy, Samantha	Liberty	20:56.00
2	Linde, Maura	Century	21:09.00
3	Dearie, Allie	Century	21:11.00
4	McGovern, Kristen	Century	21:33.00
5	Lambert, Michele	Liberty	22:00.00
6	Casem, Catherine	Century	22:30.00
7	Compton, Connie	Winters Mill	22:47.20
8	Pettner, Brooke	North Hagerstown	22:54.00
9	Slater, Amber	Winters Mill	23:00.00
10	Roberd, Casey	Winters Mill	23:00.80
11	Harrell, Alison	North Hagerstown	23:02.00
12	Fleischer, Forest	Winters Mill	23:06.00
13	Weiber, Beth Anne	Century	23:22.00
14	Hahn, Lane	Winters Mill	23:27.00
15	Peterson, Alyssa	Francis Scott Key	23:28.00
16	Black, Samantha	Liberty	23:31.00
17	Benko, Jill	Winters Mill	23:31.90
18	Ball, Laura	Liberty	23:46.00
19	Ridder, Lauren	Liberty	23:48.00
20	Gutierrez, Celina	Rockville	23:49.00
21	Michael, Amanda	North Hagerstown	23:51.00
22	Mead, Katie	Century	23:52.00
23	Kobett, Hannah	Liberty	23:53.00
24	Hill, Caitlyn	Liberty	24:04.00
25	Shank, Taryn	North Hagerstown	24:30.00
26	Staley, Leah	Winters Mill	24:34.00
27	Works, Casey	Walkersville	24:53.00
28	Kroker, Katrine	Walkersville	24:55.00
29	Brugh, Christine	North Hagerstown	25:12.00
30	Golian, Jen	Century	25:13.00
31	Kistler, Kitty	Walkersville	25:35.00
32	Morgan, Katie	Walkersville	25:45.00
33	McPharson, Ella	North Hagerstown	25:53.90
34	Suarez, sarai	North Hagerstown	26:05.00
35	Hobbs, Laura	Walkersville	26:11.00
36	Custer, Kelsey	Walkersville	27:21.00
37	Abramson, Nicole	Walkersville	27:59.00
38	Austin, Abbey	Rockville	28:06.00
39	Gratian, Margaret	Rockville	29:29.00
40	Hankins, Emma	Rockville

Scores

Century	28
Winters Mill	52
Liberty	56
North Hagerstown	88
Walkersville	143
Rockville	Incomplete

[CoachSpongeBob]

Doc Jones Invite 10/13/07

Combined Results

Boys

1	Thomas Johnson	51
2	Middletown	66
3	Clear Spring	113
4	Smithsburg	121
5	Patuxent	151
6	North Hagerstown	177
7	Gettysburg	194
8	Brunswick	199
9	Frederick	204
10	Poolesville	249
11	St James	291
12	Boonsboro	324

Girls

1	Gettysburg	16
2	Brunswick	73
3	Smithsburg	75
4	Thomas Johnson	78
5	North Hagerstown	144
6	Clear Spring	192
7	Poolesville	196
8	Tuscarora	218
9	Frederick	230
10	Boonsboro	251

Results: md.digitalsports.com/assets/193800/StonerInvXC07.txt

[CoachSpongeBob]

MVAL Championships

Boys

Blue Ridge Conference

1	Francis Scott Key	32
2	Winters Mill	57
3	Century	67
4	South Carroll	80
5	Liberty	107

Results: www.errun.org/2007XCBlueRidgeBoys.htm

Piedmont Conference

1	Walkersville	27
2	Middletown	30
3	Frederick	92
4	North Hagerstown	113
5	South Hagerstown	130

Results: www.errun.org/2007XCPiedmontBoys.htm

Girls

Blue Ridge Conference

1	South Carroll	35
2	Century	41
3	Winters Mill	63
4	Liberty	78

Results: www.errun.org/2007XCBlueRidgeGirls.htm

Piedmont Conference

1	Middletown	25
2	North Hagerstown	39
3	Walkersville	67
4	Frederick	98

Results: www.errun.org/2007XCPiedmontGirls.htm

[CoachSpongeBob]

Once again I pulled out all the 2a West Results from the combined results. 8 of the 11 teams were here (only Northwood, Clarksburg and Rockville were not, and their Montgomery County champs are tomorrow). Only Clarksburg really has much of a shot of making any noise in the team standings (maybe - they may not either) and it will all depend on how many teams submit full rosters. I would think 6 boys team will qualify, and either 4 or 5 girls teams (hopefully 5 - FSK is definitely incomplete, Rockville, South Hagerstown and Northwood have been incomplete for most or all of the season, but they have 5 or more on their team, so hopefully they submit all for their regional roster).

Note: as long as they submit a team of 5 to the regional director, they count as a complete team even if 5 don't line up on the day of regionals.

For these times, it is important to note that conditions were a lot worse for the Piedmont race then the Blue Ridge race, and the Piedmont boys, a few of the runners made a wrong turn, and had to backtrack adding significant time to thier races.

Boys

1	Leathers, Arthur	12	Francis Scott Key	16:46.00	Blue Ridge
2	Holz, Zach	12	Francis Scott Key	16:59.00	Blue Ridge
3	White, Jordan	12	Francis Scott Key	17:29.00	Blue Ridge
4	Haufler, Alex	9	Francis Scott Key	17:32.00	Blue Ridge
5	Tringali, Eric	10	Winters Mill	17:38.00	Blue Ridge
6	Zynda, Avior	11	Century	17:48.00	Blue Ridge
7	Souders, Tim	11	Liberty	17:50.00	Blue Ridge
8	Frock, Chris	11	Winters Mill	18:06.00	Blue Ridge
9	Carpenter, Tom	10	Winters Mill	18:08.00	Blue Ridge
10	Greene, Jimmy	12	Middletown	18:17.00	Piedmont
11	Spangler, Ryan	9	Winters Mill	18:20.00	Blue Ridge
12	Mead, Pat	10	Century	18:28.40	Blue Ridge
13	Hartman, Colin	11	Walkersville	18:30.00	Piedmont
14	McCabe, Rob	12	Walkersville	18:34.00	Piedmont
15	Patschak, Mike	11	Walkersville	18:37.20	Piedmont
16	Goulart, Chris	12	Middletown	18:37.80	Piedmont
17	Hughes, Sean	12	Century	18:38.00	Blue Ridge
18	Blackner, Christian	10	Walkersville	18:39.00	Piedmont
19	Brinton, Tom	11	Middletown	18:39.20	Piedmont
20	Binzer, Hank	11	Middletown	18:39.40	Piedmont
21	Foland, Garrett	11	Middletown	18:41.00	Piedmont
22	Pezza, Nick	9	Century	18:41.00	Blue Ridge
23	Owens, Willie	11	Middletown	18:45.00	Piedmont
24	Hughes, Jared	12	Century	18:46.00	Blue Ridge
25	Rodriguez, Dan	11	Liberty	18:50.00	Blue Ridge
26	Zeller, Luke	11	Walkersville	18:51.00	Piedmont
27	Wachter, Pat	12	Century	18:54.00	Blue Ridge
28	Henriksen, Jeff	12	Walkersville	18:55.20	Piedmont
29	Fisher, Calvin	12	Middletown	18:55.80	Piedmont
30	Henderson, Jesse	12	Francis Scott Key	18:56.00	Blue Ridge
31	Griffin, Paul	10	Winters Mill	18:57.00	Blue Ridge
32	Watson, DJ	11	Francis Scott Key	18:59.00	Blue Ridge
33	Almonte, Dante	12	Liberty	19:08.00	Blue Ridge
34	Etheridge, Trevor	10	Century	19:09.00	Blue Ridge
35	Parker, Andrew	11	Winters Mill	19:15.00	Blue Ridge
36	Dugan, Kevin	10	Liberty	19:29.00	Blue Ridge
37	Jones, Sam	10	South Hagerstown	19:30.30	Piedmont
38	Kofoet, Ben	10	North Hagerstown	19:30.80	Piedmont
39	Southern, Kent	9	Walkersville	19:32.00	Piedmont
40	Abeles, Charlie	11	North Hagerstown	19:33.00	Piedmont
41	Dougherty, Pat	12	Liberty	19:36.00	Blue Ridge
42	Mauck, Brandon	11	South Hagerstown	19:40.00	Piedmont
43	Ober, Nathan	11	North Hagerstown	20:05.00	Piedmont
44	Haines, Danny	12	Liberty	20:23.00	Blue Ridge
45	Williams, Lucas	12	North Hagerstown	20:32.00	Piedmont
46	Rice, Tyler	10	South Hagerstown	20:46.00	Piedmont
47	Austin, Sean	11	North Hagerstown	20:46.60	Piedmont
48	Kugler, Pierce	11	North Hagerstown	21:32.00	Piedmont
49	Winter, Jesse	10	Francis Scott Key	21:40.00	Blue Ridge
50	Pangborn, Chris	11	North Hagerstown	21:51.00	Piedmont
51	Teunnis, Mark	11	South Hagerstown	23:06.00	Piedmont
52	Zittle, Kyle	11	South Hagerstown	24:03.00	Piedmont
53	Branham, Dean	12	South Hagerstown	24:18.00	Piedmont
54	Ringler, Michael	10	South Hagerstown	25:52.00	Piedmont

Team Scores

1	FSK	40
2	Winters Mill	64
3	Century	81
4	Middletown	86
5	Walkersville	86
6	Liberty	142
7	N Hagerstown	213
8	S Hagerstown	228

Girls

1	Linde, Maura	9	Century	20:47.00	Blue Ridge
2	McElroy, Samantha	9	Liberty	21:00.00	Blue Ridge
3	Dearie, Allie	9	Century	21:31.00	Blue Ridge
4	Wilson, Kristin	10	Middletown	21:35.80	Piedmont
5	Nichols, Emma	12	Middletown	21:41.20	Piedmont
6	McGovern, Kirsten	10	Century	21:50.00	Blue Ridge
7	Casem, Catherine	9	Century	22:17.00	Blue Ridge
8	Compton, Connie	9	Winters Mill	22:25.00	Blue Ridge
9	Pettner, Brooke	11	North Hagerstown	22:25.30	Piedmont
10	Hahn, Lane	9	Winters Mill	22:25.50	Blue Ridge
11	Lambert, Michele	10	Liberty	22:28.00	Blue Ridge
12	Harrell, Alison	10	North Hagerstown	22:31.40	Piedmont
13	Roberds, Casey	10	Winters Mill	22:33.00	Blue Ridge
14	Benko, Jill	9	Winters Mill	22:39.00	Blue Ridge
15	Fleischer, Forest	11	Winters Mill	22:40.00	Blue Ridge
16	Staley, Leah	9	Winters Mill	22:56.00	Blue Ridge
17	Weiber, Beth Anne	10	Century	23:00.00	Blue Ridge
18	Hobbs, Laura		Walkersville	23:01.40	Piedmont
19	Gastelle, Marissa	10	Middletown	23:03.70	Piedmont
20	Bussard, Katie	9	Middletown	23:17.80	Piedmont
21	Peterson, Alyssa	10	Francis Scott Key	23:23.00	Blue Ridge
22	Black, Samantha	12	Liberty	23:25.00	Blue Ridge
23	Shank, Taryn	11	North Hagerstown	23:32.80	Piedmont
24	Oursler, Alyssa	11	Middletown	23:37.30	Piedmont
25	Michael, Amanda	12	North Hagerstown	23:49.40	Piedmont
26	Ridder, Lauren	12	Liberty	23:50.00	Blue Ridge
27	Kistler, Kitty		Walkersville	23:53.90	Piedmont
28	Nichols, JoJo	12	Middletown	23:55.30	Piedmont
29	Ball, Laura	12	Liberty	23:58.00	Blue Ridge
30	Hill, Caitlyn	10	Liberty	24:06.00	Blue Ridge
31	Brugh, Christine	11	North Hagerstown	24:08.30	Piedmont
32	Kobett, Hannah	11	Liberty	24:13.00	Blue Ridge
33	Hartman, Mary	9	Century	24:33.00	Blue Ridge
34	Morgan, Katie		Walkersville	24:39.70	Piedmont
35	Slater, Amber	10	Winters Mill	24:41.00	Blue Ridge
36	Kroll, Kayla	12	Middletown	24:44.10	Piedmont
37	Duddridge, Katie		Walkersville	24:53.40	Piedmont
38	Kroker, Katrine		Walkersville	25:08.40	Piedmont
39	Beane, Erin	10	Century	25:22.00	Blue Ridge
40	Works, Casey		Walkersville	25:47.10	Piedmont
41	Brown, Christin	11	North Hagerstown	26:30.40	Piedmont
42	Custer, Kelsey		Walkersville	26:59.50	Piedmont
43	Korrell, Tricia	10	South Hagerstown	27:02.90	Piedmont
44	Brown, Susa	12	North Hagerstown	27:57.10	Piedmont
45	Mcgee, Amanda	9	South Hagerstown	29:20.20	Piedmont
46	Nutter, Bethany	9	South Hagerstown	30:48.20	Piedmont
47	Olson, Alexis	9	South Hagerstown	31:42.10	Piedmont

Team Scores

1	Century	34
2	Winters Mill	60
3	Middletown	72
4	Liberty	90
5	N Hagerstown	100
6	Walkersville	154

[rwilhelm]

From what I understand from Coach S. Boyer, 6 boys and 5 girls teams will advance to States.

[CoachSpongeBob]

Mongomery County Champs 10/20/2007

Boys

1	Quince Orchard	51
2	Bethesda-Chevy Chase	77
3	Walt Whitman	139
4	Northwest	142
5	Gaithersrburg	143
6	Walter Johnson	164
7	Sherwood	203
8	Damascus	221
9	Magruder	227
10	Winston Churchill	262
11	Richard Montgomery	326
12	Montgomery Blair	368
13	Thomas S. Wootton	395
14	Clarksburg	404
15	Albert Einstein	450
16	Springbrook	455
17	Paint Branch	507
18	Rockville	535
19	Northwood	538
20	Poolesville	558
21	Watkins Mill	568
22	Wheaton	573
23	John F. Kennedy	575
24	Blake Cross Country	622
25	Seneca Valley	734

Results: www.mocorunning.com/meet.php?meet_id=347

Girls

1	Winston Churchill	63
2	Walt Whitman	82
3	Northwest	85
4	Thomas S. Wootton	115
5	Quince Orchard	138
6	Richard Montgomery	156
7	Damascus	205
8	Walter Johnson	209
9	Gaithersrburg	263
10	Bethesda-Chevy Chase	280
11	Montgomery Blair	296
12	Magruder	301
13	Sherwood	312
14	Clarksburg	442
15	Paint Branch	461
16	Albert Einstein	470
17	Poolesville	476
18	Springbrook	540

Results: www.mocorunning.com/meet.php?meet_id=347

[CoachSpongeBob]

You really can't do a real comparison, but I compared the times from Lion's Den and the Montgomery County Championships to try to get an idea of where Clarksburg is. Both Northwood and Rockville ran at both meets, and while neither team should be much of a factor at regionals (only one male runner from each school will do any damage), it does help to get an idea of how Clarksburg might do.

Girls:

My the looks of it, Even though the Clarksburg should be the 6th best team going in, I don't think they will be able to beat healthy teams of Century, Middletown, Winters Mill, Liberty and North Hagerstown, so those teams should feel pretty good about their chances for states.

Boys:

The boys are more interesting. I did the best I could to make a prediction at what times the Clarksburg boys may have run on the Liberty course based on how they did against both Rockville and Northwood. this is what I came up with:

Top 5 Clarksburg Boys possible times on Liberty Course:
Ramon Munoz 17:41
Michael Leaman 18:40
Bentsi Johnson 19:07
Russ Daley 19:27
Phillip Cruz 19:49

If I took these times and added them to the 2a West times I pulled from MVALs, this is what I would get (again, only Orndorff from Rockville and Reumante from Northwood should really effect the scoring at all, and lets assume they effect the teams in the same way):

1	FSK	42
2	Winters Mill	69
3	Century	88
4	Middletown	92
5	Walkersville	92
6	Clarksburg	149
7	Liberty	156
8	N Hagerstown	236
9	S Hagerstown	251

Eric Liberatore for Liberty did not finish at MVALs, and since by these numbers (obviously don’t put too much stock into it, it is just to get an idea of how good maybe Clarksburg is), it puts Liberty in 7th, I wanted to try and put Eric in to see how it changes things. There is no telling how fast Eric may run, but let’s say he finished 4th at Regionals, which is possible (he finished 3rd two years ago on the same course with 2 weeks of training), but he could obviously run worse too, or not even run. But if he were to finish 4th, this is how the team scores would change:

1	FSK	44
2	Winters Mill	74
3	Century	93
4	Middletown	97
5	Walkersville	97
6	Liberty	123
7	Clarksburg	154
8	N Hagerstown	241
9	S Hagerstown	256

So the boys race could be more interesting then the girls. In both cases I would think that Clarksburg going in on paper it would put Clarksburg on the outside looking in on qualifying for states. With 6 boys teams qualifying, I think 7 teams have a shot, with FSK, Winters Mill, Century, Middletown, Walkersville and Liberty looking like they have the best shot. Makes it a little more interesting at least.

But in any case, it looks like Carroll County has a shot of qualifying 7 out of 7 possible teams for states in this region (Obviously FSK girls can’t qualify, not a complete team and so they don’t count), and I am certain that SC will qualify both of their teams. Maybe NC and Westminster can make it a perfect County in qualifying!

[rwilhelm]

You never know with Clarksburg. We (Walkersville boys) beat them pretty handily at Oatlands, but their #2 guy (Leaman) didn't run good. And it seems like their #3 runner (Natang, or something like that) is streaky. If they can get those guys to run good, they may make a little noise in the team standings. But it seems like they drop off alot after those first three guys... I just wish we ran against them in a couple earlier meets so I can get a better gauge on them.