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Cross country meet may end in a few surprises

Don't forget about Ogden and Bear River Boys in 3A. They may have something to say about who takes a trophy home!

Once again nothing about the small schools.

What about the small schools, I am pretty sure they will be running at Sugar House Park as well.

I would agree with the Small School Fans...They deserve just as much coverage as the big schools.

As for the coverage on the 5A boys...they nailed it on the head with who the favorites are and the darkhorses. This years 5A Boys Race is one not to miss...It will be a knock em down drag em out fight to the finish.

I have been following all of the classifications this year and this looks like a state tournament that should be very close in all mens divisions 1A -5A. I can't wait to see how it all turns out. In 2A look for Richfield again, but Parowan was only one point behind last year so this should be close again and look for Juab. In 1A who knows, St. Joe is always tough but I am betting on Milford or Escalante. Individually Howell from Manti is on the top 5 in any classification and 1A Rono Wasatch Academy and Norris Panguitch would be in the top 2 or 3 for any team in the state. Milford will run away with the 1A title for the girls. Congrats to their coach who has done an outstanding job. Sorry I am not sure about the 2A girls maybe someone can add to this.

Hey what about the small schools.

nothing about small schools or Alta, how can that be ??

Have you really done your research on the 3A boys.
Ogden handily beat Park City and Judge at Orem Kiwanis. Grantsville outscored North Sanpete 148
to 203 while Ogden was 72, Park City 77 and Judge
85. There is no way North Sanpete will contend. They may not even be in the top ten. Bear River has beaten Ogden twice and Park City and was close enough at the region meet to Ogden to be right in there. My prediction right now...Ogden 1st, Park City 2nd, Bear River 3rd, Cedar 4th, Judge 5th and North Sanpete...first in some JV race maybe. DO your research!!!!

Park City has the best pack but Ogden has three top
ten kids and Bear River has two. Ogden and Bear River could actually go 1st and 2nd and shut out
your favorites.

No mention of returning 5A State Champion Steven Clark? Sad! Also, who is this all-stater from Timpiview named "Brian" Fletcher? That's two weeks in a row we've heard about him. Is there anyone who really follows cross-country and track at the Deseret News?

Ogden could be a factor? Ogden will be the
factor in the boys race. As great as Luke
is, he only scores one place. Ogden will have
three in the top ten before Judge has it's #2
runner in...who will probably be pushing to finish
in the top 15. Ogden's #4 and #5 will beat Judge's
#3...no chance for the Bulldogs this year. Judge
will get a 1st place medal...Ogden will get a trophy
and three medals.

Forget about Utah...Luke Puskedra might very well be the best runner in the nation!

Once again you left off 1A and 2A! Come on Deseret News.....we read the paper too. Don't you care about us? I love reading about 3A-5A but would love to see you write about the little schools as well.

way to leave out the smaller schools again deseret.. we train just as hard as the bigger schools!! good luck 1a and 2a

Hey Mr. Petersen what about 1A and 2A? Who do you think leads the pack in those divisions? Come on finish your story if you are going to do enough research to write the story at least have the courtesy to find out what is happening with 1A and 2A. Many of those those who will be at this competition train for cross country after they have already practiced for another sport ie football, baseball or volleyball. They deserve to be written about as well as the larger schools. For once I agree with something someone from Panguitch has said......we train just as hard as the bigger schools do.....don't forget to write about us too!!!!

Don't think Milford will run away with the 1A girls title just yet. There could be a surprise coming their way. As for Puskedra with Judge, he himself is worth standing out in the rain to watch. He is probably the story of Utah prep sports right now!!! Too bad he doesn't get the pub he deserves in this state and paper.

This is lazy reporting. For 4A they didn't even mention Mountain View who only finished two points behind Timpview and one point behind Orem at the Region 7 meet. And they are talking about Mt. Crest like they are the team to beat when they havent beaten Timpview or Orem this year.

If Mountain Crest performs like they did in region, they will whoop Timpview & Orem. I think Mountain Crest boys & girls are the teams to beat at state.

what about the small schools? are we not as important as the bigger schools? well milford girls are going to have a pretty good chance of taking state.

Well at least YOU attempted to write about cross-country. Most people don't realize that cross-country and track have the 2nd most participants of any high school sport other than football. And I guarantee that Utah turns out more D1 runners than football players. Maybe newspapers will read all these comments and start to actually put a few articles about the great runners from all over the state in the paper on a consistent basis.
By the way watch for an un-named darkhorse to at least breakthrough the Utah County dominance in 4A.