Best Sprint Crews: Boys Week Seven

Thanks in advance to those patiently waiting. Leaving for Shepherd at 10:30am, coming home at 1:30am. Leaving for work Saturday at 11am, coming home from Farmington at 11pm, working these last two days on top of that leaves little time for the posts. But I’m here and here are the boys sprint rankings.

Here’s an explanation:

EXPLANATION

These are the previous two rankings. Hopefully your team has moved up!

WEEK TWO

WEEK FOUR

With the exception of the UP, these are all from races with fully automatic timing. Results had to be uploaded onto athleticnet by SUNDAY NIGHT.

Throwdowns & Showdowns

Damarcus Rouse – Two big wins in the 400m at Elmer Ball and Farmington. Both were over Krish Gupta, who’s a great candidate to medal at State. Also beat Skyline’s Henry Shaieb at Farmington, who also ranks in the top-10 in Division 1. Capping all that off, he took the stick from Parker Orlowsky and ran away with the 4×4 at Farmington, leading his Highlanders to a 6+ second victory.

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Points	Event
		1:29.1	Rockford	1242	4×2
		42.62	Rockford	1106	4×1
		3:28.7	Rockford	975	4×4
12	Keiton Fase	10.89	Rockford	413	100m
9	Adam Flanders	50.97	Rockford	384	400m
11	Jonah Carlson	11.24	Rockford	346	100m
11	Camden Kruisenga	11.27	Rockford	340	100m
12	Keiton Fase	22.53	Rockford	337	200m
11	Carter Bissell	52.39	Rockford	334	400m
11	Avery Engel	11.33	Rockford	329	100m
12	Brody Thompson	11.33	Rockford	329	100m
11	Lucas Cid	11.42	Rockford	311	100m
11	Sam Coyle	11.43	Rockford	310	100m
10	Isaac Poot	11.43	Rockford	310	100m
11	Jonah Carlson	22.86	Rockford	308	200m
11	Camden Kruisenga	22.94	Rockford	300	200m
11	Anthony Bouwhuis	22.94	Rockford	300	200m
12	Bryce Fongers	11.48	Rockford	300	100m
11	Ben Cummings	11.48	Rockford	300	100m
11	Carter Bissell	23.05	Rockford	290	200m
10	Isaac Poot	23.16	Rockford	281	200m
11	Sam Coyle	23.38	Rockford	261	200m
11	Avery Engel	23.44	Rockford	255	200m

D1 Rank	Team	100m	200m	400m	4×1	4×2	4×4	Total
1	Rockford	1429	1245	718	1106	1242	975	6714
2	West Bloomfield	1531	1239	354	1185	1216	789	6314
3	St. Joseph	1063	694	1182	1013	1109	1171	6233
4	Ann Arbor Huron	1142	1314	331	832	1118	1062	5798
5	Traverse City West	1384	860	746	818	1006	929	5743
6	Oak Park	686	609	1197	952	1207	1015	5666
7	East Kentwood	1075	853	804	735	1157	973	5597
8	Holland West Ottawa	1019	884	404	1002	1175	1053	5537
9	Detroit U-D Jesuit	436	714	787	961	1303	1217	5418
10	Byron Center	669	1110	752	927	1105	758	5321
11	Zeeland West	1092	678	427	868	1197	931	5194
12	Rochester Adams	633	672	479	927	1103	1308	5122
13	Troy	352	887	1528	0	1037	1104	4908
14	Chippewa Valley	1058	712	756	0	1348	826	4700
15	Grand Blanc	377	585	672	868	1107	986	4595
16	Saginaw Heritage	958	547	364	771	952	890	4482
17	Lansing Waverly	738	1184	390	893	1184	0	4390
18	Saline	658	589	358	769	1106	840	4321
19	Kalamazoo Central	1104	894	0	1174	1080	0	4251
20	East Lansing	717	631	0	965	1087	783	4184
21	Lake Orion	663	596	0	1026	1097	744	4127
22	Detroit Martin Luther King	454	574	0	1011	1095	881	4015
23	Holt	298	845	0	922	1126	784	3976
24	Livonia Franklin	298	590	371	883	1017	804	3963
25	Belleville	0	593	759	856	896	789	3893
26	Battle Creek Lakeview	0	521	754	631	769	1143	3819
27	Hudsonville	0	0	1445	679	851	830	3805
28	Northville	631	286	725	0	950	1133	3726
29	Caledonia	350	517	345	836	884	723	3655
30	H.H. Dow	425	298	393	761	904	772	3553
31	Southfield Arts & Tech	321	0	394	808	1025	975	3524
32	Muskegon	1113	1273	0	1044	0	0	3431
33	Farmington	300	270	346	802	935	725	3378
34	Fenton	0	253	705	651	994	768	3371
35	Grand Haven	659	541	382	883	878	0	3343
36	Warren DeLaSalle	710	556	0	1051	986	0	3302
37	Clarkston	0	589	744	0	1025	936	3295
38	Mattawan	613	553	335	885	905	0	3292
39	Detroit Renaissance	806	672	0	814	953	0	3244
40	Jackson	302	684	438	752	843	0	3019
41	Wayne Memorial	325	0	766	0	885	851	2827
42	Detroit Cass Tech	0	560	428	0	752	1071	2811
43	Jenison	319	253	0	720	745	724	2762
44	Walled Lake Central	0	0	1019	0	796	935	2750
45	Walled Lake Northern	306	343	422	0	742	928	2742
46	Davison	633	271	0	885	950	0	2739
47	Brighton	335	820	0	687	889	0	2730
48	Zeeland East	304	0	733	0	816	762	2614
49	Portage Northern	0	597	369	716	827	0	2509
50	Traverse City Central	611	0	346	761	0	754	2473

Throwdowns & Showdowns

Michael Ferguson – Throughout the year, has established himself as one of the better, if not the best, 400m runner in Division 2. He’s undefeated on the year and won the Goodrich Invite going away (but watch out for Ypsi’s Courtney Price in the coming weeks). I really liked how he hung in there amongst the shorter sprinters in the 200m. Beecher’s Jaylin Townsend is probably the most explosive sprinter in D4 and he won by almost a second, but Ferguson was right in the race with the rest of the competition, placing 4^th in a 22.48 personal best.

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Points	Event
		1:30.5	Berrien Springs	1093	4×2
		42.84	Berrien Springs	1055	4×1
		3:31.9	Berrien Springs	845	4×4
11	Jake Machiniak	10.95	Berrien Springs	402	100m
12	Jared Wilburn	10.99	Berrien Springs	394	100m
10	Noah Jarvis	51.38	Berrien Springs	369	400m
11	Jake Machiniak	22.78	Berrien Springs	315	200m
12	Jared Wilburn	22.78	Berrien Springs	315	200m
10	Zander White	11.45	Berrien Springs	306	100m
12	Quimari Haskins	11.47	Berrien Springs	302	100m
10	Zander White	23.48	Berrien Springs	252	200m
12	Quimari Haskins	23.89	Berrien Springs	215	200m
10	Noah Jarvis	23.98	Berrien Springs	207	200m

D2 Rank	Team	100m	200m	400m	4×1	4×2	4×4	Total
1	Berrien Springs	1404	1096	369	1055	1093	845	5864
2	Frankenmuth	998	816	1280	877	976	874	5821
3	Vicksburg	1398	862	636	916	1009	745	5566
4	Forest Hills Eastern	694	778	993	828	964	921	5178
5	Whitehall	398	1130	421	946	1189	1003	5088
6	Corunna	1059	503	331	887	1143	933	4856
7	Spring Lake	650	830	1457	0	842	807	4586
8	Fowlerville	1192	836	315	729	878	511	4461
9	Gladwin	915	486	706	720	887	582	4296
10	Parma Western	852	743	291	781	905	676	4247
11	Orchard Lake St. Mary’s	1182	897	305	887	947	0	4218
12	Freeland	606	876	699	531	656	754	4122
13	Howard City-Tri-County	648	532	690	602	741	883	4095
14	Grand Rapids Christian	1119	492	324	699	627	795	4055
15	Detroit Country Day	1029	721	0	812	891	574	4027
16	Tecumseh	634	558	377	854	974	583	3981
17	Hamilton	398	572	671	605	832	820	3898
18	Essexville Garber	288	480	738	481	1007	852	3847
19	Mason	581	719	350	582	661	854	3746
20	Battle Creek Harper Creek	600	492	315	614	872	671	3565
21	Wayland Union	365	316	641	830	743	629	3524
22	Shepherd	631	526	289	626	796	606	3475
23	Charlotte	321	737	0	862	958	581	3459
24	Lansing Sexton	698	964	287	669	781	0	3399
25	Chelsea	681	494	330	521	640	622	3288
26	Saginaw Swan Valley	298	532	300	545	785	691	3152
27	Big Rapids	260	231	640	507	652	713	3003
28	Stevensville Lakeshore	275	269	324	674	771	690	3003
29	East Grand Rapids	623	680	940	0	0	739	2983
30	Alma	285	216	598	515	716	595	2924
31	Flint Powers Catholic	542	443	313	701	902	0	2901
32	Grand Rapids Catholic Central	313	263	367	552	851	541	2887
33	Sturgis	934	344	314	529	731	0	2853
34	Petoskey	344	466	0	633	745	563	2751
35	Ludington	294	441	0	588	738	613	2675
36	Hamady	275	334	344	0	876	822	2652
37	Summit Academy	260	555	642	482	659	0	2598
38	Wyoming Kelloggsville	867	485	0	560	659	0	2571
39	Niles	304	489	334	526	778	0	2432
40	Williamston	310	676	0	631	768	0	2384
41	Adrian	260	0	1071	0	0	1019	2350
42	Three Rivers	598	427	0	616	666	0	2307
43	Allendale	548	0	343	594	743	0	2228
44	Flint Kearsley	0	234	288	563	593	519	2197
45	Yale	0	342	437	0	681	651	2111
46	Bridgeport	340	304	0	614	827	0	2085
47	Muskegon Orchard View	348	207	0	649	878	0	2082
48	Cadillac	265	427	0	524	681	0	1897
49	Hazel Park	633	275	385	585	0	0	1878
50	GR West Michigan Aviation	0	0	702	473	0	682	1857

Is this real?

Okay, let’s back up. I fully believe Marine City’s Parker Atkinson ran a 10.21 in the semis, then a 10.50 to win the Muskrat Classic. And no one can discount coming away with a victory. But with no wind reading and no prior times, it’s tough to tell if he’s a legit state contender. We have no record of him competing last year and the only other race on his profile is a 23.44 hand-timed 200.

I’m not sure which heat he ran the 10.21 during the semis, so I decided to look at comparable competitors in the final, his 10.50. Four of those finalists had meets with fully automatic timing or fully automatic timing with a wind reading: Onction Zape, Keith Berry, Cory Franklin, and Andrew McNamara. Here is how Parker ran relative to them and how many seconds he beat each of those guys:

Place	Name	Time	Seconds Back
1	Parker Atkinson	10.50	–
3	Onction Zape	11.10	0.60
5	Keith Berry	11.12	0.62
6	Cory Franklin	11.32	0.82
7	Andrew McNamara	11.35	0.85

Clearly, Parker was the class of the field, that can’t be disputed. But in analyzing his competition’s times, we find that they all ran much faster than their previous bests. I can see one person having a considerable breakthrough, but four in the same race, all by similar margins. Doesn’t pass the smell test.

Name	Time	Previous Best (FAT)	Improvement
Onction Zape	11.10	11.86	0.76
Keith Berry	11.12	11.88	0.76
Cory Franklin	11.32	11.78	0.46
Andrew McNamara	11.35	11.86	0.51

Perhaps the best comparison is to Keith Berry, who has raced three times in races with a wind gauge:

Name	Time	Conv. Time	Meet
Keith Berry	11.88 (1.8)	11.99	Ferndale University, Southfield, Pontiac@ Ferndale
Keith Berry	11.92 (-2.4)	11.73	Avondale, Ferndale University, Harper Woods @ Ferndale
Keith Berry	12.11 (0.4)	12.14	60th Elmer Ball Oxford Invitational

Credit to Oxford and Ferndale for having the requisite equipment! Every one of these is a legal reading for record-keeping, but I wanted to convert into a more normalized time, using this calculator. With the converted time in this limited sample, Berry appears to be a 11.9-12.0 100m runner. With this information, I would guess Parker Atkinson is more of a 11.3-11.4 runner, which is really freaking good for a career opener. I’m excited to see how the rest of his season goes.

Throwdowns & Showdowns

Reed City – The ‘Yotes 4×4 closed Bluejay in dominating fashion. The field contained Hart, a top-10 4×4 squad in D3 and Fowler, a title contender in D4, who had the meet champion in the 400m and 300h. Reed City’s distance boys showed out, Kiaunis coming back from a massive PB in the 1600m, Rohde coming back from a meet record and PB in the 800m.

Here’s the video

I liked a few things:

• All the coaches and teammates running across the infield. Don’t let anyone tell you track isn’t a team sport.
• The expression from the guy in the stands a few minutes in.
• Reed City’s third runner crashing into the yellow caution tape after handing off
• But most of all, I liked their win.

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Points	Event
		1:32.2	Sanford-Meridian	932	4×2
		43.75	Sanford-Meridian	860	4×1
		3:32.2	Sanford-Meridian	836	4×4
12	Brayden Riley	11.02	Sanford-Meridian	388	100m
11	Nickolas Metzger	51.28	Sanford-Meridian	373	400m
12	Brayden Riley	22.36	Sanford-Meridian	352	200m
12	Kenneth Emerson	53.43	Sanford-Meridian	296	400m
11	Nickolas Metzger	23.41	Sanford-Meridian	258	200m
12	Madix Saunders	24.13	Sanford-Meridian	194	200m
12	Kenneth Emerson	24.18	Sanford-Meridian	189	200m

D3 Rank	Team	100m	200m	400m	4×1	4×2	4×4	Total
1	Sanford-Meridian	388	993	670	860	932	836	4680
2	Clare	500	867	1178	549	857	715	4666
3	Reed City	533	590	1157	647	705	921	4553
4	Hart	546	477	868	709	867	802	4268
5	Chesaning	321	765	863	539	835	793	4116
6	Ithaca	592	694	296	729	669	744	3724
7	Onsted	815	506	350	760	783	470	3684
8	Constantine	261	656	1049	0	778	900	3644
9	Ottawa Lake-Whiteford	336	408	654	718	768	748	3633
10	Olivet	513	345	880	510	533	726	3507
11	Detroit Edison PSA	604	873	364	661	995	0	3497
12	Lansing Catholic	500	604	320	626	781	638	3469
13	Burton Atherton	1019	847	0	623	974	0	3463
14	Napoleon	229	651	294	612	879	559	3225
15	Warren Michigan Collegiate	807	832	261	595	666	0	3162
16	Jonesville	0	427	865	547	599	688	3125
17	Union City	263	655	331	547	745	569	3111
18	Traverse City St. Francis	508	485	533	455	625	487	3093
19	North Muskegon	479	278	598	426	824	435	3040
20	Montague	296	282	567	562	873	417	2997
21	Adrian Madison	583	448	292	487	643	477	2930
22	Pewamo-Westphalia	611	536	257	642	755	0	2802
23	Ida	577	299	312	370	710	432	2701
24	Standish Sterling	523	375	249	600	467	448	2663
25	Erie Mason	311	363	335	458	684	507	2658
26	Hillsdale	608	703	0	607	683	0	2601
27	Saginaw Valley Lutheran	263	255	346	391	668	629	2552
28	Grand Rapids West Catholic	723	229	0	536	661	402	2550
29	Centreville	223	424	357	577	874	0	2454
30	Jackson Lumen Christi	534	288	0	512	616	448	2398
31	Grandville Calvin Christian	286	203	259	484	645	467	2346
32	Remus Chippewa Hills	0	275	638	361	465	494	2234
33	Hanover-Horton	304	0	528	482	485	433	2232
34	Comstock	504	429	0	570	704	0	2207
35	Evart	571	216	0	605	766	0	2158
36	Kent City	252	470	300	0	598	500	2120
37	Delton-Kellogg	254	244	0	403	705	480	2086
38	Brooklyn Columbia Central	236	238	0	490	643	413	2020
39	Bridgman	227	174	284	0	612	638	1934
40	White Cloud	267	396	293	400	538	0	1895
41	Schoolcraft	575	401	0	387	0	524	1886
42	Ovid-Elsie	0	229	590	0	567	499	1884
43	Lake City	623	299	0	541	0	406	1869
44	Manton	515	175	284	340	0	487	1801
45	Lawton	238	245	0	568	740	0	1791
46	Bath	319	271	263	460	0	455	1767
47	Michigan Center	329	246	360	369	0	442	1745
48	GR Covenant Christian	0	412	593	0	0	623	1628
49	Tawas	0	176	297	0	578	548	1599
50	Quincy	238	200	276	400	478	0	1593

Throwdowns & Showdowns

Ford Phillips – Had his big breakthrough at Shepherd. Last spring, he was D4’s best freshman 400m runner by almost a full second. But he hadn’t really had that time drop in a race until he had to pass Tyler Saxton in the final 50m to capture the Bluejay victory.

More video!

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Points	Event
		1:36.9	Sault Ste. Marie	555	4×2
12	Carter Oshelski	11.31	Sault Ste. Marie	333	100m
11	Ryver Ryckeghem	11.46	Sault Ste. Marie	304	100m
12	Carter Oshelski	23.26	Sault Ste. Marie	272	200m
		47.45	Sault Ste. Marie	271	4×1
		3:52.3	Sault Ste. Marie	239	4×4
12	Carter Oshelski	54.78	Sault Ste. Marie	248	400m
12	Alexander Jacek	11.78	Sault Ste. Marie	242	100m
11	Ryver Ryckeghem	23.93	Sault Ste. Marie	211	200m

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Points	Event
		1:32.5	Concord	904	4×2
		44.6	Concord	696	4×1
		3:36.2	Concord	688	4×4
12	Adair Artis	52.70	Concord	322	400m
12	Malachi Boyd	11.44	Concord	308	100m
12	Javion Taylor	11.51	Concord	294	100m
11	Mekhi Wingfield	11.59	Concord	279	100m
12	Malachi Boyd	23.72	Concord	230	200m
12	Connor Keefer	55.31	Concord	230	400m
9	Tylend Allen	11.89	Concord	221	100m
11	Tyreke Brown	24.06	Concord	200	200m
12	Javion Taylor	24.07	Concord	199	200m
12	Isaac Waldron	56.42	Concord	190	400m
9	Tylend Allen	24.50	Concord	160	200m

D4 Rank	Team	100m	200m	400m	4×1	4×2	4×4	Total
1	Concord	1102	789	742	696	904	688	4921
2	Reading	611	619	972	442	692	704	4040
3	Kalamazoo Hackett	1100	675	730	588	474	310	3877
4	Buckley	523	681	264	364	777	828	3437
5	Fowler	0	651	675	248	715	819	3108
6	Climax-Scotts	919	638	0	499	622	226	2904
7	Fairview	790	379	452	345	372	472	2809
8	Beal City	704	634	0	534	367	430	2669
9	Lincoln-Alcona	719	423	481	415	588	0	2626
10	Kingston	517	416	0	438	728	450	2548
11	The Potter’s House	404	525	216	488	247	657	2536
12	Three Oaks River Valley	529	587	539	170	275	430	2529
13	Morenci	513	189	495	426	510	379	2512
14	Unionville-Sebewaing	469	473	477	260	455	341	2475
15	Dansville	211	482	246	452	604	412	2407
16	Harbor Springs	194	130	1017	0	474	568	2383
17	Mt Clemens	565	518	505	0	572	185	2345
18	Martin	250	414	469	234	350	448	2165
19	Riverview Gabriel Richard	598	117	221	410	361	396	2104
20	Flint Beecher	471	434	0	725	0	418	2049
21	McBain Northern Michigan Christian	219	360	461	0	504	426	1970
22	St. Charles	244	350	483	384	462	0	1922
23	Addison	404	0	291	443	492	226	1856
24	Marion	313	414	253	251	621	0	1853
25	Pentwater	477	196	582	296	0	261	1812
26	Morrice	286	220	0	570	481	235	1792
27	Maple City Glen Lake	567	146	389	217	383	0	1703
28	Southfield Christian	227	406	0	210	429	418	1690
29	Detroit Frederick Douglass	523	359	279	0	428	0	1589
30	White Pigeon	0	132	263	310	482	329	1516
31	Carson City-Crystal	175	144	485	0	295	377	1476
32	Potterville	379	123	227	160	304	257	1450
33	Hillsdale Academy	0	130	280	0	372	603	1385
34	Indian River Inland Lakes	273	118	227	332	431	0	1382
35	Portland St. Patrick	208	122	262	0	408	378	1378
36	Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary	350	301	0	293	398	0	1342
37	Gobles	260	0	0	484	597	0	1340
38	Mason County Eastern	488	200	329	0	0	286	1303
39	Sand Creek	396	0	0	276	392	229	1294
40	Ubly	238	0	630	0	0	422	1290
41	Eau Claire	290	143	0	377	460	0	1270
42	Mesick	615	475	0	178	0	0	1269
43	Royal Oak Shrine	186	125	0	221	462	259	1254
44	Adrian Lenawee Christian	352	187	0	317	394	0	1250
45	Carsonville-Port Sanilac	0	164	210	231	395	224	1224
46	Frankfort	383	0	0	240	297	290	1209
47	East Jordan	448	0	0	439	0	272	1159
48	East Jackson	198	275	269	0	401	0	1143
49	New Buffalo	0	0	285	0	474	368	1128
50	Tekonsha	498	0	0	310	296	0	1104

More of a news section than anything. For the first time ever, an Upper Peninsula team is coming down for MITCA Team State. Pickford will be joining D4 teams to compete on Memorial Day weekend. Congrats to the Panthers!

UP Rank	Team	100m	200m	400m	4×1	4×2	4×4	Total
1	Sault Ste. Marie	879	483	248	271	555	239	2674
2	Bark River-Harris	581	534	260	339	514	264	2491
3	St. Ignace	442	157	395	442	485	395	2316
4	Marquette	242	173	245	464	607	382	2113
5	Manistique	231	409	458	168	475	317	2057
6	Pickford	0	479	479	0	611	414	1982
7	Newberry	231	304	446	197	323	180	1681
8	Gladstone	479	139	0	222	323	182	1344
9	Iron Mountain	375	144	249	266	281	0	1315
10	Kingsford	281	123	0	372	486	0	1261
11	Escanaba	192	0	226	138	251	244	1051
12	Lake Linden-Hubbell	0	0	218	178	281	0	677
13	Munising	229	0	0	0	0	399	627
14	Brimley	269	121	0	167	0	0	557
15	Forest Park	192	148	0	187	0	0	527
16	Norway	173	121	0	0	0	0	294
17	Powers North Central	0	135	0	126	0	0	261
18	Menominee	0	0	231	0	0	0	231
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