Jordan placed 6th in 15:12. Winnebago handed Elmwood its head 81-122 for the title and Emerick (Elmwood guy) place 3rd overall in 14:53 getting outpsrinted for the title and runner-up places. Parker Thompson from Tremont won with a 14:49 and Brian Thompson from Fieldcrest nipped Emerick at the line with a 14:53 clocking as well.
The Elmwood girls placed third overall behind Winnebago and Eureka. 65-90-113. A girl from Elmwood finished in 7th place in 18:19, two seconds and one place behind Megan Hermann of Havana. Hermann has run pretty much the exact same time at the State Finals all three years she has been in high school and has managed to get 17th, 12th and 6th. Hilarious.
The Class A Girls' State Champion ran away from the field, winning in 17:27 to 17:53.
Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin girls win the 2A State title throwing down on two Peoria area schools (Notre Dame and East Peoria) 63-140-147. SHG packs three in the top-11 and four in the top-30 and strings their girls out between 17:53, 17:54, 18:06, 18:33 and 18:59.
Class 2A girls champ beats defending champ for only the second time ever in a race longer than a 1600, 16:37 to 16:50. Third place time is 17:44.
Chatham Glenwood boys place second in 2A while locked in a dogfight for the last two trophies. Sycamore runs away with it, no pun intended, 73-189. Second through seventh place in the team race are all within a 12 point spread: 189-193-194-196-200-201. Neal Anderson from Chatham placed third in 14:49 while in a melee for second place. It looks like it came down to a sprint for the bridesmaid spot as Nick Holmes from Bartonville (Limestone) ran away with it in 14:21. 2nd, 3rd and 4th place were 14:48, 14:49 and 14:50.
Springfield High School placed 4th and the Central State 8 conference, the conference for the Springfield area 2A schools put two other guys in the top-25 besides Anderson. Osborne from SHS placed 9th in 15:09 and Frank from SHG placed 24th in 15:28.
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A good start for the 3-class system. Of course, one wonders if its worth having the suburban schools make the trip downstate for the 3A race, when nobody south of I-80 is participating.
I think that 3 classes is all we need. If you go to dyestat and look at the results of states that have more than 2 or 3 classes (like Missouri, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, etc.) you notice that in the smaller classes the times are pathetically slow over 5k. I don't know how tough some of the courses are but the MS 1A state Champion ran 18:39 for 5k. That was a MALE! The state meet course might be in the bayou but holy crap! I could have been a 4 time all-stater if I'd gone to high school down there.
When I was in high school, I went to a running camp attended by the small school state champ in Delaware (first, explain to me how Delaware of all places needs a multiclass system). I believe he had won the state 3200 in something like 10:10-10:15.
Dunno why Delaware would need a muti-class system. Why would Mississippi need five? I can see Texas needing a few as well as California but I never understood why Missouri had four. Outside of Kansas City and St. Louis there really isn't much in the state except puppy farms and fireworks factories.
North Carolina has four, but then again, North Carolina is now a fairly populous state. I think 3 would make more sense here, as well.
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