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  New York State XC Rankings 

End of Year Rankings for 2012

Note: Many weeks down the road since the last rankings for the finals of the 2012 season's XC, we are making an attempt to provide a general summary of the team rankings. The Overall and Class groups were expanded to include more teams in tribute to all the work done by teams and runners. In trying to sort out the merits of each team's season record, the weighting factors used were: a) performance at States \ NYC Conference and Nationals for qualifying teams, b) performance at Federation meet for selected teams, c) performance at NXN-NY for participating teams, d) performance at Sectionals or LI division meets, e) overall year's performance at major invitationals, f) Tully Runner speed rating team averages, g) cool factor of uniforms. Note that Sections 8 and 11 were not able to hold State Qualifier meets this year due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, and teams for States were selected from results at earlier conference\division meets, which are given less weight as these meets are not necessarily good predictors for Sectional champions (S8 girls A and S11 boys A States teams in 2011 were not divisional winners). TR averages are taken from November 19 compilations after Feds.

Cheers to all on another great season.

 

   
Girls Overall State Rankings
Rank Team Section Class
1 Fayetteville-Manlius 3 A
2 Saratoga Springs 2 A
3 East Aurora 6 B
4 Holy Names 2 B
5 Burnt Hills 2 B
6 Rush-Henrietta 5 A
7 Warwick Valley 9 A
8 North Shore 8 B
9 Nanuet 1 B
10 Suffern 1 A
11 Shenendehowa 2 A
12 Garden City 8 B
13 Penfield 5 A
14 Liverpool 3 A
15 Queensbury 2 B
16 Canandaigua 5 A
17 Maple Grove 6 D
18 Northport 11 A
19 Bronxville 1 C
20 Pearl River 1 B

 

   
Girls Class A
Rank Team Section TR Avg. Season's Final Results Top Runners
1 Fayetteville-Manlius 3 137.8 1st in NXN Nationals, 1st in NXN-NY, 1st in States-A, 1st in Section 3-A Fanning, Pearl, Brislin, Avery, Barger, Duffy, Smith, Farrell
2 Saratoga Springs 2 130.4 5th in NXN Nationals, 2nd in NXN-NY, 1st at Feds, 2nd in States-A, 1st in Section 2-A Driscoll, Hollowood, Morrow, Morin, Samuel, Hayes, Hungerford
3 Rush-Henrietta 5 117.0 6th in NXN-NY, 6th at Feds, 3rd in States-A, 1st in Section 5-A (Quinn at NXN Nationals) Quinn, Jones, Cooper, MacDonald, Peters, Watson, Griffin,
4 Warwick Valley 9 116.0 7th at Feds, 4th in States-A. 1st in Section 9-A (Reilly at Footlocker Nationals) Reilly, Fitzgerald, Eigo, Cavanagh, Ginley, Mendrzycki, Rothstein
5 Suffern 1 114.0 8th in NXN-NY, 5th at Feds, 5th in States-A, 1st in Section 1-A Zendell, Colon, Ludwikowski, Mcintosh,  Matwiejczuk, A. Breton, E. Breton, Morgan
6 Shenendehowa 2 113.4 8th at Feds, 2nd in Section 2-A Zachgo, Hampton, Crounse, Kowalczyk, Hartman, Duclos, Rusch, Hulbert, Bleichert
7 Penfield 5 113.2 9th at Feds, 2nd in Section 5-A (Lembo at Footlocker Nationals) Lembo, Sedita, Heyer, Leo, Fahrenholz, Cok, Schnaufer
8 Liverpool 3 112.2 2nd in Section 3-A Mahoney, McNamara, Butler, Basla, Chewning-Kul, White
9 Canandaigua 5 110.2 3rd in Section 5-A (Jensen at NXN Nationals) Jensen, K. D'Amore, L. D'Amore, Garbinski, Miller
10 Northport 11 107.0 6th in States-A Brennan, Thorne, Jozefowski, Zieve, Kuehn, Flanagan, Cossaro
11 Baldwinsville 3 106.6 3rd in Section 3-A Peterson, Miller, Lathrop, Thompson, Bolton
12 Cicero-North Syracuse 3 107.8 4th in Section 3-A Halstead, Watterud, Shuman, Parry, Norris
13 St. Anthony's CHSAA 104.0 14th at Feds, 1st in CHSAA Worth, Leo, Mincone, Bohan, D'Angelo, Vezza, Flynn, 
14 Guilderland 2 107.0 9th in NXN-NY, 5th in Section 2-A Burns, Robinson, Tommell,  Herkenham, Jourdin, Fish, Forman
15 Syosset 8 102.2 10th in NXN-NY, 7th in States-A Gruber, Rustami, Go, Knaster, Beovich
16 Shaker 2 110.4 17th at Feds, 3rd in Section 2-A Lansing, Martino, Libruk, Czupil, Lavender
17 Bethlehem 2 106.2 4th in Section 2-A Champagne, Jensen, O'Hanlon, Cheu, Machabee, Davitt, Wright
18 Elmira 4 105.8 8th in States-A, 1st in Section 4-A M. Wheeler, A. Wheeler, Ashley, Johnson
19 Niskayuna 2 103.0 6th in Section 2-A F. Sciortino, Dewald, A. Sciortino, Spiers
20 Colonie 2 103.6 7th in Section 2-A Bower, Kaminski, Kerin, Malecki, Bousa, Schillaci
21 Hilton 5 101.4 15th in NXN-NY, 4th in S5-A Keene, Palmeri, Camillaci, Kunigan, Glavin, Hendricks
22 Sachem East 11 105.0 16th in NXN-NY O'Hehir, DiMartino, Murphy, Allen
23 Monroe-Woodbury 9 100.0 2nd in Section 9-A
Wasserman, Zelenoy, Gomez, Cueva-Scarpelli
24 Valley Central 9 103.0 3rd in Section 9-A Cavalluzzo, Borriello, Weiskittel, Ribadeneyra, Meade, Schneider
25 Clarence 6 101.6 9th in States-A, 1st in Section 6-A (Saenger in Footlocker Nationals) Saenger, Patterson, Garrett, Symons
26 Arlington 1 103.6 2nd in S1-A (Burda at NXN Nationals) Burda, Cleaveland, Eberhart
27 Irondequoit 5 101.4 5th in Section 5-A Tuttle, Tate, Wagner
28 Webster Thomas 5 100.8 6th in Section 5-A O'Hara, Adams, Gnolek
29 Kings Park 11 100.4 Ran in Section 11 Divisionals Naeher, Ahern, Homeyer
30 Sachem North 11 98.8 Ran in Section 11 Divisionals Lavan, Ramirez, Coleman
31 West Genesee 3 98.6 5th in Section 3-A Leff, Weaver
32 Ithaca 4 96.2 2nd in Section 4-A Trumble, Cornell
33 Webster Schroeder 5 95.5 7th in Section 5-A Palermo, Paratore
34 Fox Lane 1 93.6 3rd in Section 1-A Martinez, Asaro, Cloonan, Schwartz
35 Corning 4 93.0 3rd in Section 4-A Butler, Ustanik
36 Kellenberg CHSAA 93.0 2nd in CHSAA, 21st at Feds Fray, Imbesi, Magno
37 Ward Melville 11 92.4 Ran in Section 11 Divisionals C. Williams, B. Williams
38 Lockport 6 92.0 2nd in Section 6-A Lang, Kurbs
39 Bay Shore 11 91.0 Ran in Section 11 Divisionals Reyes, Arcuri
40 Port Washington 8 90.2 Ran in Section 8 Conference meet Feinberg, Luparello
 
Perry's Rationale and Wrapper:    Although not a year of unbroken 1sts for Fayetteville-Manlius, the team still inexorably marched to a 7th straight national championship with by far the biggest margin ever at NXN. Saratoga rebuilt a bit and captured a 5th place at Nationals for a solid season. Rush-Henrietta, Warwick Valley, and Suffern mixed it up with each other in the States, Feds, and NXN-NY meets, but the Comets had the overall strongest results. Shenendehowa got an influx of young talent and made perhaps the biggest late season movement among the other teams.
 
Kyle's Comments:       The girls on Manlius do it again, and looked the best doing it.  Their biggest margin of victory yet, it is safe to say they look to be the tops in the country.

 

   
Girls Class B
Rank Team Section TR Avg. Season's Final Results Top Runners
1 East Aurora 6 123.0 4th in NXN Nationals, 3rd in NXN-NY, 2nd in States-B, 1st in Section 6-B McLaughlin, Baritot, Donahue, Murray, Danieu, Spaschak, Zee
2 Holy Names 2 127.0 4th in NXN-NY, 2nd at Feds, 1st in States-B, 1st in Section 2-B Maloy, Triller, Scott, Williams, Smith, Willsey, Close
3 Burnt Hills 2 119.0 5th in NXN-NY, 3rd at Feds, 2nd in Section 2-B Casey, Digman, Roecker, A. Scott, Monsen, Bashant, Bachus, Pruyn
4 North Shore 8 111.2 7th in NXN-NY, 4th at Feds Caldwell, Nadel, Morra, Bazan, Vizza,  Statile, Osman
5 Nanuet 1 113.0 11th at Feds, 3rd in States-B, 1st in Section 1-B Young, Madry, O'Meara, Fernandez, Carbone, Mungroo
6 Garden City 8 111.0 10th at Feds, 4th in States-B S. Gerland, J. Gerland, Fisher, Rubino, O'Neill, Ferri
7 Queensbury 2 111.2 3rd in Section 2-B Wynn, Metcalf, Mueller, E. Guinther, Kellogg, R.Guinther, Dreitlein
8 Pearl River 1 106.4 13th at Feds, 2nd in Section 1-B Hayes, Rayward, Cooper, Harding, Durcan, O'Riordan
9 Cornwall 9 108.4 16th at Feds, 5th in States-B, 1st in Section 9-B Boylan, Wallace, Lujan, Cuffe
10 Canton 10 110.0 15th at Feds, 6th in States-B, 1st in Section 10-B Pierce, Ricalton, G. DelRossi, R. DelRossi, Orosz
11 Miller Place 11 110.2 7th in States-B Tia. Guevara, Tal. Guevara, Nolan
12 Sweet Home 6 108.8 2nd in Section 6-B Doyle, Ortega, Delsignore, Lewandowski
13 Honeoye Falls-Lima 5 108.2 14th in NXN-NY, 8th in States-B, 1st in Section 5-B Cole, Douglas, Mevorach, McDaniel, Reed
14 Tappan Zee 1 104.0 3rd in Section 1-B Jaskot, Ayres, Rizzo, Goldrick,Hartnett
15 Starpoint 6 105.0 3rd in Section 6-B Chase, Tasselmyer, Saraf, Henry
16 Westhill-Bishop Ludden 3 102.2 13th in NXN-NY, 9th in States-B Coolican, Washburn, Morrell, Corcoran
17 Pittsford-Mendon 5 101.6 2nd in Section 5-B Yancey,  M. Pieper, L. Pieper, Novak, Swetman, Ballet
18 East Syracuse-Minoa 3 98.4 2nd in Section 3-B Pallotta, Marra, Miller, Benz, Brownson
19 Jamesville-Dewitt 3 95.8 3rd in Section 3-B Fairbanks, Carpenter, Clemons
20 Pittsford-Sutherland 5 94.6 3rd in Section 5-B Visca, Smith, Mulroy
21 Bayport-Blue Point 11 91.8 Ran in Section 11 Divisionals Dooley, Delzell, Saroka, Darby
22 St. John Villa CHSAA 91.0 27th at Feds, 3rd in CHSAA V. San Fillippo, N. San Fillippo, Dunning, Nersten, Lopez
23 Wantagh 8 91.0 Ran in Section 8 Conference meet Gordon, Kratzer, Soethout, Redes
24 Peru 7 88.6 10th in States-B, 1st in Section 7-B Leta, Mazzella
25 Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons 2 88.2 4th in Section 2-B Williams, Hamilton, Matala
26 Eastport-South Manor 11 87.6 Ran in Section 11 Divisionals DeCicco, N. Schafer, A. Schafer
27 South Jefferson 3 86.2 4th in Section 3-B Pastor Miller
28 Ursuline 1 86.0 4th in Section 1-B Flynn, Losado, Donahue, Lang
29 New Hartford 3 80.2 5th in Section 3-B Wrate, Hull
30 Iroquois 6 82.8 4th in Section 6-B Grossman, Welling, Pepprielle
31 Scotia-Glenville 2 79.8 5th in Section 2-B Lindsay, Kraines
32 Somers 1 79.2   Kreuger, Abbate, Comporetto, Nolan, Corning
33 Hamburg 6 78.2 5th in Section 6-B Fredriksen, Cuddihy
34 Franklin Academy 10 77.4 2nd in Section 10-B Pomainville, Bronner
35 Vestal 4 76.4 11th in States-B, 1st in Section 4-B Gates, Gray
 
Perry's Rationale and Wrapper:      Though Holy Names was States champ, it's just too hard to to keep an East Aurora team off the top spot after it exploded in the NXN races and finished 5th in the nation, beating out even national power Tatnall as the top smaller sized school in the nation. Holy Names, Burnet Hills and North Shore led an impressive 2-3-4 finish at Feds behind Saratoga, and Nanuet gets the nod over Garden City with its 3rd place at States behind champ Megan Young.
 
Kyle's Comments:        A tough choice to make when looking at the overall season, both East Aurora and Holy Names look even to me.  They won the one that is official, but East Aurora won the one with the tougher field.  A good point of discussion.

 

   
Girls Class C
Rank Team Section TR Avg. Season's Final Results Top Runners
1 Bronxville 1 106.4 12th in Feds, 1st in States-C, 1st in Section 1-C (also: Mary Cain at NXN Nationals) Ryan, H. Rizzo, Hoffer,  Campbell, Chrappa, Nobles, Hayes, Phillips
2 Tully 3 98.2 2nd in States-C, 1st in Section 3-C Crawford, Jaworski, Bolt, Gambell, Sheldon
3 Skaneateles 3 97.6 2nd in Section 3-C Neal, Adams, Dunn, Dwyer, Malcolm
4 Newark Valley 4 92.0 3rd in States-C, 1st in Section 4-C J. Cupp, Stewart, Meyers, Tobey, L. Riegel
5 Fredonia 6 95.2 5th in States-C, 1st in Section 6-C Reyda, Tramuta, Foley, Zebracki, Kowalski, Gullo
6 Mattituck 11 85.0 4th in States-C Bergen, Getz, Pfenning
7 Schuylerville 2 90.6 6th in States-C, 1st in Section 2-C Watson, Freemire, Scavone, Cerqua
8 Tri-Valley 9 90.6 8th in States-C, 1st in Section 9-C Bender, Bertholf, Gillette, Krom
9 Pawling 1 89.6 2nd in Section 2-C McCarthy, Meaney, Marvin
10 Fonda-Fultonville 2 88.0 3rd in Section 2-C Kasza, Geniti, Phelps
11 Cazenovia 3 87.6 3rd in Section 3-C Cudney, Stanford, Ma. Gabor, Mi. Gabor
12 Mt. Saint Mary's-Buffalo CHSAA-6 85.2 19th at Feds Sullivan, Gattuso, MacDonald
13 Wayland-Cohocton 5 80.8 7th in States-C, 1st in Section 5-C Curtin, Booth, Lewis
14 Akron 6 83.8 2nd in Section 6-C Schultz, Chubb, Henley, Pepke
15 Maple Hill 2 78.2 4th in Section 2-C Pasko, Riordan, Curtin, Strain
16 Adirondack 3 81.0 4th in Section 3-C Tanner, Rhone, Swierat
17 Dobbs Ferry 1 75.4 3rd in Section 1-C Andrews, Sheely, Kihara
18 Byron-Bergen 6 75.8 2nd in Section 5-C Lovett, Walker, Clay, Donovan,
19 Friends Academy 8 74.4 9th in States-C Pascucci, LeoGrande, Garry
20 Onteora 9 75.6 2nd in Section 9-C Waligurski, Armstrong
21 Marymount AIS 74.0 2nd in AIS Coughlin, Allessie, Villalba
22 JFK 6 73.6 3rd in Section 6-C Rustay, Vohwinkel
23 Livonia 5 81.4 3rd in Section 5-C Shipman, Tkaczow, Mineti
24 Holland-Patent 3 71.4 5th in Section 5-C Villeneuve, Hilts, Bunal
25 Broadalbin-Perth 2 71.2 4th in Section 2-C Monroe, Smith
26 Mechanicville 2 70.4 5th in Sectiion 2-C Spitalny, McGuire
27 Alden 6 72.0 4th in Section 6-C Ja. Wallace, Warner, Parlow, Je. Wallace
28 Christian Brothers Academy-Syracuse 3 75.2 DNS at Section 3-C Pierce, McGlynn, Schug
29 James O'Neill 9 68.2 4th in Section 9-C Daddis, Henderson, Tyce
30 Newfane 6 66.6 5th in Section 6-C Bochnewetch, Eadie
 
Perry's Rationale and Wrapper:      Bronxville's 5th straight States C win came without much drama as the Broncos rolled to their 11th state championship. Tully ended up pushing by Skaneateles at the Section 3 SQs more easily than expected and took 2nd at States, while a late-charging Newark Valley rode their usual cool-factor shorts to a 3rd place States finish and 4th place ranking. Fredonia dropped back a spot after its frontrunner had problems at States but still earned a spot in the top 5. After that things got a bit messy as a number of States teams had very off days, and Mattituck took advantage to leap way up for a 4th place at States and 6th spot ranking.                                 
 
Kyle's Comments:       The Bronco's look to be the tops again, and will bring back many of their top 9 runners.  Look out for them again next year.

 

   
Girls Class D
Rank Team Section TR Avg. Season's Final Results Top Runners
1 Maple Grove 6 110.4 12th in NXN-NY, 1st in States-D, 1st in Section 6-D Pietrocarlo, Benson, Marsh, Norris, Sirwatka
2 Greenwich 2 104.8 2nd in States-D, 1st in Section 2-D Montague, Spezio, Haskell, Lapham
3 South Lewis 3 90.4 3rd in States-D, 1st in Section 3-D Campanian, Platt, Corbett, Tripp, Bronson
4 Nightingale-Bamford AIS 89.0 18th at Feds, 1st in AIS Whittle, Jurew, Beroutsos, Chesley
5 Notre Dame-Batavia 5 82.0 4th in States-D, 1st in Section 5-D Call, Warner, McCracken, McGinnis
6 Immaculata CHSAA-6 82.6 5th in Clarence-Small (Oct. 20) Kubiolka,Attea , Simon
7 Oakfield-Alabama 5 78.0 2nd in Section 5-D Mills, Chatt, Crossen, Denton, Munger
8 Sauquoit Valley 3 77.6 2nd in Section 3-D Jones, Latella, George
9 Candor 4 74.2 5th in States-D, 1st in Section 4-D J. Russell, M.Russell, C. Russell
10 Sherman 6 73.2 2nd in Section 6-D Eliason, King, Pacy
11 Berne-Knox-Westerlo 2 70.2 2nd in Section 2-D C. Tedeschi, A. Tedeschi
12 Silver Creek 6 69.0 3rd in Section 6-D H. Seiders, E. Seiders, Radack
13 Remsen 3 68.2 3rd in Section 3-D Cooley, Roberts, O'Connor
14 Red Creek 5 66.4 3rd in Section 5-D McDonald, Wade, Weaver, Bristol
15 Geneseo 5 66.4 4th in Section 5-D Miskell, Ryan, Horn
16 Cooperstown 3 63.6 4th in Section 3-D Fanion, O'Handley
17 Beaver River 3 59.2 5th in Section 3-D Rollin, Smith
18 Duanesburg 2 54.4 3rd in Section 2-D Fisher, Gregory, Kenyon
19 Fabius-Pompey 3 51.8 6th in Section 3-D McConnell, Giraud
20 Notre Dame-Utica 3 49.0 7th in Section 3-D Lewis, Owens
21 Seton Catholic (Plattsburgh) 7 72.0* 6th in States-D, 1st in Section 7-D Champagne, Whyman, Munn
22 Norwood-Norfolk 10 46.8* 7th in States-D, 1st in Section 10-D Saucier, Livernois
23 Haldane 1 48.4 8th in States-D, 1st in Section 1-D Winnie, Conklin, Ricketts
24 Stony Brook 11 48.4* 9th in States-D, 1st in Section 11-D Rashba, Walker
25 Bishop Grimes 3 44.4* 8th in Section 3-D M. Naylor, A. Naylor
 
Perry's Rationale and Wrapper:      Maple Grove crunched down its 3rd straight States title fairly comfortably, though Greenwich took the top two spots but couldn't find the depth for a close head-to-head battle. The champion Red Dragons went on to an impressive performance at NXN-NY. States 3rd place team South Lewis and 4th place Notre Dame-Batavia occupied the 3rd and 5th spots in the rankings after strong season's finishes, and tucked in between was rankings newcomer Nightingale-Bamford, the winner of NYC's independent school's championship and big performers at Feds. 5th at States was a 9th-ranked Candor team that seems to recruit mainly from one family. A team to watch going ahead out in section 6 is a close replica of the 2010 Maple Grove team -- 12th ranked Silver Creek's oldest runners are two freshmen who hopefully were able to serve as experienced mentors to the three middle-schoolers on the Black Knights squad. (Note: teams with asterisked TR scores had less than 5 runners with positive numbers.)
 
Kyle's Comments:       Greenwich seems to have the front runners, but Maple Grove had the depth.  Look for both teams to be present again next year, in line for another interesting battle to watch.