With simply 4 returnees from the highest 10, there’s loads of room for brand new blood within the Div. 1 Meet of Championships in November.
The prime spot, although, must be out of attain for everybody if defending champion Paul Bergeron of Westford Academy is within the race. Bergeron is as sturdy a favourite as there was in years and the race may flip right into a runaway from the harrier, who will attend Stanford subsequent 12 months.
Bergeron pulled away from his two greatest rivals final 12 months in Sam Burgess of Framingham and Nathan Lopez of St. John’s Prep and he has been coaching as laborious as ever for the autumn. It will take a monumental effort to knock Bergeron off his perch and it doesn’t look as if anybody is shut sufficient to problem him.
That’s to not say there’s restricted expertise in Div. 1 — it’s loaded. Oliver Ames has a terrific returnee in Brendan Thomas, whereas Bergeron’s teammate, Jack Graffeo, must be within the prime three. Billerica’s Ryan Leslie is also within the prime three.
Defending champion Brookline shall be powerful to beat with 4 runners again from the highest 35 — Kailas Ciatto, Ben Kasen, P Tejedor Meyers and Ilan Sherman-Kadish — all hungry to repeat their win on the Devens 3.1-mile format.
There’s a plethora of expertise in Eli Merritt and Stephen Goehringer of Wellesley, Davis Haines of Westford Academy, B.C. High’s John Wilson and Chris Larnard, Lowell’s Jack Courtney and Schneider Pierre, Andover’s Ryan Todesco, Patrick Hall of Billerica, Tyler Johnson of Winchester and Gabe Grove of Newton North.
The battle for the Div. 2 crown ought to come all the way down to 4 runners — Adam Balewicz of Nashoba Regional, Greater Lowell’s Devin Moreau, Neil Aradhya of Groton Dunstable’s and Norwell’s Thomas Corbett. Norton’s Andrew McConnell and Sean Moore of Danvers, each top-10 finishers final 12 months, also needs to be near the highest 5.
Danvers has three returnees from the highest 50 together with William Conklin, Jonathan Rooney and Charlie Garlin whereas Wayland’s Owen Williams and Luke Chisum are again, together with Ludlow’s Joseph Keroack and Logan Walsh, and Carter Rauch and Jonathan Garraway of Bedford. Wakefield’s Michael Arria must be within the prime 10, as ought to Greater Lowell’s Seamuss Tully.
The panorama of Div. 2 additionally consists of high quality expertise with Zach Metzger of Groton Dunstable, Caleb Barnes of Melrose, Dover-Sherborn’s Jack Almeda, Northampton’s Theodore King-Pollett and Jude Mourad, David Pinero-Jacome of Amherst-Pelham, Burlington’s Colin Irwin, Kyle Kwiatek of St. Mary’s, East Longmeadow’s Charlie Klatka, Spence Deliso of Longmeadow, Ashland’s William Child, Luke Henson of Holliston and Northampton’s Jude Mourad.
In Div. 3, final 12 months’s winner, Aidan Ross of Uxbridge, has moved on, paving the best way for Northbridge’s tremendous expertise Marcus Reilly. Reilly was second to Ross final 12 months and may have his palms full with Littleton’s Tim Rank. Most of the highest 10 are again with Finn O’Hara of Manchester Essex, Parker Charter’s Caleb Hatlevig and Henry Jacobsen and Sha Stanghellini of Sturgis.
Emmett Johnson of Mohawk Trail, Bona Bradshaw of Littleton, Jackson Hung of Hopedale, Uxbridge’s Lincoln Schiller and Andrew Kinkenhoker of Monson completed within the prime 15 and must be transferring up. Others who ran properly final fall and are again are Weston’s James Osborn and Quinn Garry, Cormac Mathews of Lenox, Caiden Sears of Seekonk, Northbridge’s Dylan Reilly, Monument Mountain’s Everett Pacheco, Andrew Petropulos and Oliver Swabey of Mount Greylock, Ben McCarthy of Millis and Falmouth Academy’s Nathan Gartner.
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