CIAC Open Preview: Running More Numbers from Divisionals

Manchester CT.  Friday's action at the Open will be spectacular. We have run the numbers for the previews on the following pages, but the runners may have some different notions about what will be going on. The champions for each Class are highlighted below.


Boys Champions

Class
Team Champ
Team Runner-UP
Individual Winner
Team
LL
Hall
Danbury
Steven Hergenrother
Ridgefield
L
Xavier
New Milford
Owen Martin
Xavier
MM
East Lyme
EO Smith
Michael Byrnes
Wilton
M
Joel Barlow
Rocky Hill
Brayden Bayek
Rocky Hill
SS
Griswold
Suffield
Griffin Mandirola
Suffield
S
Immaculate
Hale-Ray
Michael Kraszewski
Hale-Ray


Girls Champions

Class
Team Champ
Team Runner-UP
Individual Winner
Team
LL
Glastonbury
Ridgefield
Kathryn Marchand
Trumbull
L
New Miford
New Canaan
Sydney Kelleher
New Milford
MM
Guilford
Pomperaug
Sophia Oliva
Pomperaug
M
New Fairfield
Mercy
Kelly Jones
Lauralton Hall
SS
Haddam-Killingworth
Plainville
Lindsey Cascio
Lewis Mills
S
Somers
Lyme-Old Lyme
Chase Gilbert
Lyme-Old Lyme


On the guys' side Steven Hergenrother of Ridgefield  posted the best time of the day at 15:53 with a speed rating of 183 in the Class LL race, while Katie Marchand of Trumbull got the best time for the girls at 19:00 with a speed rating of 123 in the Class LL race.

Moving on to the Open on Friday are the top two teams from each class race shown above along with eight other selected teams based on their average times (speed ratings). We have broken down the field for the two Friday races on the following pages with a listing of each team's average time for the 1-5 runners, 1-5 split, and speed rating from Saturday's races. Teams naturally want to lower their average times, and generally a lesser 1-5 split is better (pack team mentality), but they want to increase their speed ratings.

Thanks to Bill Meylan of Tully Runners for providing most of the speed rating data for this preview, and to MS's Jason Creasy for pulling all the Class Divisionals merge stuff together.


CIAC Open Teams by the Numbers

Boys Championship

Girls Championship