November 7, 2010

Early conference read: Adams men; Augie and Western women impress

It is hard to know what performances mean at conference championships.
For example, it appears that Adams State men will get the best of Western State this year. Adams recorded a decisive 30-42 win at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference meet in Las Vegas (uh, New Mexico). If anything, the Adams team appears to be in churn, with Edwin Cruz and Keegan Calmes impressing, while Luke Cragg perhaps had an off day. And I'm kinda wondering where Matt Bond is. Another indication of depth?
Western State's top five were the same quintet that had the awesome pack time at the Fort Hays State meet. But a 25-second gap between Ryan Haebe and Tyler Rasmussen wasn't enough for the win. Again, Tyler Pennel didn't run (and apparently won't??).
Western State's women came up big, besting their rivals by 11 points. Is that only because steeple champ Cassie Mitchell wasn't at the front for Adams? (Correction: Steeple champ Alicia Nelson didn't run.)
And, yes, fair readers, No. 18 Augustana women's win over No. 10 Mary and No. 7 Minnesota-Duluth did not escape me. More on that to come...

7 comments:

  1. Do u know anything about your former school? Cassie Mitchell did run and was Adams 5th girl. Alicia Nelson was the steeple champ and she is the one that didn't run.

    But western also sat their top girl.

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  2. Western State's top runner Lauren Kleppin did not race either

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  3. Its Alicia Nelson that didn't run for Adams, but one can negate that by saying Western didn't run their top runner Lauren Kleppin.
    Looks like Mines blew up again, besides Swift getting 2nd.

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  4. Looks like Ryan Mcniff had something to say, I didn't know whether to take this as arrogance or confidence.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgUQtXiUtGM

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  5. Dear Anonymous,
    Regarding your observant "Do u know anything about your former school?" comment. My mistake! Feel better?

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  6. It's going to be alot closer at regionals between Adams and Western.Great to see some rivarly coming back into D2

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  7. 30-47 adams-western.

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