Class A
Position	Team	TR	Top Runners
1	Warwick Valley	163.8	Bekele-Arcuri, Stanton, Meade, DeSotle, Walker, Tillinghast
2**	Monroe-Woodbury (Projected winner)	163.2	Yi, Anderson, Whitfield, Howell, Allen, Jaurez, Bezdicek
3	Cornwall	159.0	Vreeland, Jean-Charles, Festa, Greene, Byrne, Abbott
4	Washingtonville	156.2	Cupertini, Castro, Del Rio, Brockway, Katzmann, Marchese, Hoew
5	Minisink Valley	151.2	Dewhurst, Struk, Howard, Reilly, Freda
6	Newburgh FA	148.2	Abrams, Haynes, Baelic, Corcoran, Diaz

Summary:  You can toss aside all the numbers, when the S9-A teams get together because there is always a huge amount of variance for the runners at Sectionals compared to previous Bear Mountain performances at OCIAA or other meets. Last year's race was the highlighter of the state's Sectional events as Warwick Valley and Washingtonville dueled place by place to a 54-54 tie before the Wildcats and champ runner Behailu Bekele-Arcuri claimed the title on a 28th to 29th place tiebreaker differential. Monroe-Woodbury topped Warwick Valley by 15 at OCIAA, but last year the Wildcats finished way back at OCIAA and then took the Sectional championship. This year Warwick Valley has the speed rating edge over the Crusaders by a smidgen, but its compression number is a big 29 to the Monroe-Woodbury pack's 13. If those number do stay the same at S9-A, the Crusaders will win. The virtual score for the S9-A has it at:

*** Monroe-Woodbury 54, Warwick Valley 66, Washingtonville 81, Cornwall 103

So MW is the projected winner, but the margin is small, and the Crusaders will need a big effort to knock off the reigning champ. Washingtonville and 2018 Class B champ Cornwall are also lurking not too far back. The last time anyone but thrice-champ Bekele-Arcuri won an S9-A individual title for the guys, self-tying shoes had not even been invented, so we're going way, way back, to 2015 when the Wildcats' Matt Adolph was the winner and Bekele-Arcuri finished 3rd for Minisink Valley.