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Five major championship meets on Saturday and since it’s the season for championship meets, I’m gonna throw down some projections.

The goal of this week was to figure how the heck I did simulations last year. There are a ton of steps and since I have no idea how to write a program, nor any desire to learn how to write a program, this is all in ol’ Excel. I didn’t want to get to regional week and forget how to do these, so this was a good round of practice before my big weeks.

I’ll copy the explanation from last year, but if you don’t wish to read all that, here’s the cliff notes of how the simulations are different than early projections (last week) or a.net simulation:

These simulations/projections use a runner’s consistency and ratings over the course of the season and spit out a random number based on those two factors.

Past weeks and rankings use a weighted average, but don’t take into account a runner’s consistency.

Athleticnet uses a runner’s best time, with no consideration for course, date, or a runner’s consistency.

From last year (with a few edits):

“These are a bit different than they’ve been in the past. I’m trying to project as always, but changing it up a bit in terms of the methodology. In the past, I’ve just sorted out by the ratings, then scored as if they’re a cross country meet. Here, I’m doing the same thing, but running simulations. Essentially, given a runner’s ratings and the variance in their ratings throughout the season, I’m able to generate a large sample of “races” and not just one scenario. The thought is that this will give a better depiction of what may occur. If an athlete is consistent, that will be represented. If an athlete is polarizing, but has a chance at greatness, that will be represented. Both aren’t possible when just throwing out one race. TullyRunners explains it here.

By simulating many races, I can hand out odds and percentages as well. The team projections have odds of winning and odds of placing in the top three. The individual ones have an athlete’s average place. I do have odds on an athlete winning and getting top-30 or All-County or whatever, but I’m not gonna post that ahead of time. Maybe after and we can see who came through in a huge way on the huge stage.

Always remember, races aren’t run on paper or on a computer. These are meant to better our sport, give more attention where little is given. Although I take pride in their accuracy, this endeavor would be quite boring if it were always perfect. I look forward to these being proven wrong and I expect to hear about it as well.“

GREATER LANSING

Trophies to Top-5 Teams
Medals to Top-30 Individuals

Girls

Proj. Place	Girls Team	Avg. Score	Avg. Place	Win %	Top 5 %
1	Okemos	53	1.00	95+	95+
2	St. Johns	108	2.14		95+
3	DeWitt	140	3.02		95+
4	Pewamo-Westphalia	170	4.37		93
5	Owosso	175	4.63		95+
6	Alma	207	6.27		8
7	Lansing Catholic	216	6.78
8	Grand Ledge	254	8.58
9	Leslie	274	9.50
10	Mason	289	10.38
11	Haslett	302	11.03
12	Holt	303	11.12
13	Williamston	339	12.47
14	Howell	401	14.45
15	St. Louis	412	14.94
16	Corunna	436	16.07
17	East Lansing	458	16.73
18	Laingsburg	481	17.60
19	Fowlerville	550	19.41
20	Saranac	571	20.21

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	9	Ava Schafer	St. Johns	1.16
2	12	Tessa Roe	Lansing Catholic	2.44
3	12	Meghan Ford	Mason	2.92
4	12	Shannon Gillahan	Okemos	3.99
5	11	Ezgi Kurt	Alma	6.71
6	11	Whitney Werner	Pewamo-Westphalia	7.26
7	11	Lauren Walker	Holt	7.35
8	12	Abby Young	St. Johns	8.63
9	9	Gabriella Fugazzi	Okemos	8.80
10	12	Clara Fletcher	St. Johns	10.82
11	11	Kayla Williams	DeWitt	12.81
12	12	Lily Salazar	Okemos	13.71
13	11	Joy Evans	Alma	14.95
14	12	Nicole Mays	Okemos	14.99
15	10	October Harns	Okemos	15.29
16	10	Elizabeth Schafer	Okemos	16.92
17	10	Aviana Skinner	Grand Ledge	17.95
18	12	Jaiden Dickman	St. Louis	22.81
19	10	Lydia Jagger	Grand Ledge	23.17
20	12	Libby Summerland	Owosso	24.12
21	11	Abby Minnick	East Lansing	24.39
22	11	Autumn Thompson	DeWitt	25.69
23	11	Josie Jenkinson	Owosso	25.91
24	11	Nicole Schafer	Williamston	26.03
25	10	Emma Crandell	Owosso	27.19
26	11	Ayla Holben	DeWitt	27.35
27	12	Bryna Mead-O’Brien	Okemos	27.89
28	10	Miriam Kloha	St. Johns	28.98
29	12	Dora Henry	Haslett	30.65
30	11	Ella Reaves	Holt	31.00
31	11	Mia Williams	DeWitt	32.04
32	10	Frances Melinn	Lansing Catholic	32.68
33	9	Sophia Schafer	Williamston	32.87
34	9	Alyssa Kramer	Pewamo-Westphalia	34.23
35	12	Melanie Werner	Pewamo-Westphalia	37.32
36	11	Emily Rathka	Laingsburg	38.74
37	9	Jaidyn Nickels	Corunna	39.75
38	9	Grace Wonch	Lansing Catholic	40.36
39	10	Abbie Schneider	Pewamo-Westphalia	41.21
40	10	Madison Aten	Grand Ledge	41.50
41	10	Hailey Creisher	Leslie	41.71
42	11	Hayven Thiel	Corunna	41.83
43	10	Anna Poppema	Bath	41.97
44	10	Abby Russel	Haslett	42.05
45	12	Maura Lichiello	Howell	42.11
46	11	Julionna West	Owosso	43.45
47	11	Erin Lubahn	Leslie	44.21
48	12	Analise Chelotti	DeWitt	51.31
49	10	Reese Supianoski	Williamston	53.12
50	11	Natalie Summerland	Owosso	55.84

Boys

Proj. Place	Boys Team	Avg. Score	Avg. Place	Win %	Top 5 %
1	Alma	106	1.51	63	95+
2	Okemos	114	2.03	30	95+
3	Howell	119	2.46	7	95+
4	Pewamo-Westphalia	182	4.39		89
5	Grand Ledge	211	5.64		50
6	East Lansing	230	6.73		31
7	DeWitt	235	7.03		17
8	St. Johns	243	7.43		9
9	Bath	271	9.03
10	Corunna	300	10.34
11	St. Louis	309	10.74
12	Mason	335	11.98
13	Haslett	341	11.97
14	Leslie	419	14.71
15	Ionia	448	15.84
16	Eaton Rapids	451	15.68
17	Lansing Catholic	458	16.29
18	Saranac	481	17.44
19	Williamston	536	19.29
20	Fowlerville	548	19.73

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	12	Nate Carmody	Haslett	1.57
2	9	Jack MacGregor	Howell	2.80
3	12	Collin Farmer	Pewamo-Westphalia	4.18
4	11	Alex Doneth	Mason	5.54
5	11	Dylan Lydic	Haslett	5.59
6	10	Thomas Larson	Alma	6.91
7	12	Ben March	St. Louis	7.26
8	9	Ezekiel Baltierra	Alma	7.76
9	11	Nolan Inglis	DeWitt	9.17
10	10	Ian Morgan	Okemos	10.76
11	12	Isaac Staib	St. Johns	11.20
12	11	Landon Pestrue	St. Louis	12.38
13	12	Michael Cyrul	East Lansing	13.79
14	12	Jacob Montgomery	Ionia	14.40
15	10	Benjamin Rottier	Grand Ledge	14.74
16	12	Ali Kudmani	Alma	15.16
17	12	Matthew Schrauben	St. Johns	18.77
18	12	Eden Lampi	East Lansing	19.61
19	11	Lucas Wood	Howell	20.73
20	11	Nathan Beemer	Okemos	20.84
21	12	Brennan McKone	DeWitt	25.53
22	12	Carter Holmes	Bath	26.67
23	11	Drake Wallace	Howell	26.87
24	9	Simon Shutt	Okemos	27.22
25	12	Nathan Day	Saranac	27.26
26	10	Noah Devereaux	Laingsburg	27.49
27	11	Nathan Wilkinson	Okemos	28.58
28	11	Conner McCormick	Mason	32.55
29	11	Simon Erfourth	Owosso	33.72
30	12	Noah DeLand	Howell	33.75
31	9	Nolan Lounds	Grand Ledge	34.93
32	10	Elijah Baltierra	Alma	35.03
33	12	Liam Hoover	Howell	35.14
34	12	Hunter Helminski	Saranac	37.96
35	12	Gurshaan Sidhu	Okemos	38.65
36	11	Allan George	Pewamo-Westphalia	39.02
37	9	Wyatt Werner	Pewamo-Westphalia	39.28
38	11	Luke Skidmore	Bath	40.68
39	9	River Fox	Bath	41.35
40	10	Malcolm Cesario	Okemos	41.80
41	10	Payton Chandler	Corunna	42.47
42	11	Elijah Hutchinson	Grand Ledge	42.66
43	11	Bodie Heiss	Alma	42.78
44	12	Andrew Koenigsknecht	Bath	43.81
45	10	Aidan Roka	Corunna	45.44
46	11	Andrew Fugazzi	Okemos	46.98
47	11	Jack Huntington	Eaton Rapids	48.12
48	11	Lucas Moore	Fowlerville	49.15
49	9	John Kowatch	Pewamo-Westphalia	50.76
50	12	Sam Donnellan	East Lansing	52.52

MACOMB COUNTY

Trophies to Top-3 Teams
All-County for Top-21 Individuals

Girls

Proj. Place	Team	Avg. Place	Avg. Score	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Romeo	1.00	21	95+	95+
2	Utica	2.43	86		89
3	Fraser	3.28	96		58
4	Macomb Dakota	3.29	97		53
5	Warren Regina	5.05	145
6	Armada	5.95	175
7	Macomb Lutheran North	7.42	256
8	Utica Eisenhower	7.61	258
9	Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley	9.01	294
10	Richmond	10.47	329
11	Lakeview St. Clair Shores	11.54	344
12	Utica Ford	12.47	354
13	Michigan Athletic Club for Homeschoolers	12.79	359
14	Macomb L’Anse Creuse North	13.55	367
15	Sterling Heights Stevenson	14.47	377

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	12	Jayden Harberts	Macomb Dakota	2.3
2	9	Annie Hrabovsky	Romeo	2.5
3	10	Natalia Guaresimo	Romeo	2.7
4	10	Emmerson Clor	Romeo	3.2
5	11	Violet Hrabovsky	Romeo	5.1
6	12	Mariah Belmont	Macomb Dakota	7.6
7	11	Olivia Purdy	Romeo	8.1
8	11	Grace Grupido	Fraser	8.9
9	11	Lillian Deskins	Romeo	9.2
10	10	Siene Muraszewski	Utica	10.4
11	9	Emma Brown	Utica	10.9
12	12	Lauren Thomas	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	13.1
13	10	Katelyn Frazier	Fraser	13.8
14	12	Ava Baltierra	Armada	14.8
15	12	Gracie Youngblood	Romeo	17.0
16	12	Remi Flanz	Fraser	17.9
17	11	Brooklyn Khon	Armada	18.4
18	10	Brooke McFarland	Utica	19.4
19	12	Kennedy Roskopp	Warren Regina	19.5
20	11	Elizabeth Ambroggio	Warren Regina	19.7
21	10	Olivia Cereska	Fraser	20.0
22	11	Charlotte Long	Utica Eisenhower	20.9
23	10	Lidia Clancy	Macomb Dakota	21.9
24	11	Norah Lesner	Utica	22.5
25	11	Sophia Aquino	Utica	23.2
26	9	Maggie Baginski	Utica Eisenhower	24.7
27	11	Natalie Lentine	Warren Regina	28.0
28	12	Samantha Kook	Armada	29.3
29	9	Aubrey Rizzo	Macomb Dakota	32.0
30	11	Lorelei Mahon	Warren Regina	32.4
31	12	Eleanor Kroetsch	Utica	34.4
32	10	Ryann Smitka	Macomb Dakota	34.7
33	9	Samantha Whitlam	Macomb Lutheran North	35.0
34	10	Eden Fante	Lakeview St. Clair Shores	35.4
35	12	Grace Gutmann	Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley	35.8
36	11	Shelby Stabile	Harrison Twp. L’Anse Creuse	36.0
37	11	Julia Timpa	Macomb Dakota	36.8
38	12	Brianna Albers	Richmond	38.0
39	11	Luciana Rodriguez	Fraser	38.4
40	9	Lilly McNair	Utica	38.9
41	9	Faith Wessel	Michigan Athletic Club for Homeschoolers	39.7
42	10	Jacalyn Yakel	Utica Eisenhower	40.9
43	10	Kate Molloy	Fraser	41.0
44	12	Emma Dell	Lakeview St. Clair Shores	44.5
45	12	Gabby Fernandez	Warren Regina	45.0
46	9	Lilianna Peace	Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley	49.0
47	10	Paulina Chapman	Richmond	49.7
48	9	Kaitlyn Rizzo	Macomb Dakota	49.8
49	12	Lydia Martoni	Fraser	50.1
50	10	Abigail Denoyer	Armada	50.9

Boys

Proj. Place	Boys Team	Avg. Score	Avg. Place	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Romeo	62	1.24	81	95+
2	Macomb Dakota	76	1.95	16	95+
3	Utica	86	2.84		95+
4	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	111	3.97
5	Utica Eisenhower	200	5.29
6	Macomb L’Anse Creuse North	225	6.94
7	Warren Cousino	232	7.64
8	Macomb Lutheran North	234	8.05
9	Fraser	235	7.98
10	Utica Ford	253	9.57
11	Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley	278	10.69
12	Lakeview St. Clair Shores	319	12.14
13	Harrison Twp. L’Anse Creuse	342	12.86
14	Sterling Heights Stevenson	381	14.36
15	Michigan Athletic Club for Homeschoolers	386	14.54

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	12	Thomas Westphal	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	1.3
2	12	Vincent Guaresimo	Romeo	2.5
3	12	Connor Clor	Romeo	3.8
4	10	Harper Wesley	Utica	5.2
5	12	Dylan Penberthy	Macomb L’Anse Creuse North	6.5
6	12	Carter Fox	Macomb Dakota	6.6
7	12	Tyler Donovan	Fraser	7.8
8	12	Tyler Brothers	Utica Eisenhower	7.9
9	12	Brewer Snay	Macomb Lutheran North	10.2
10	12	Simon Davis	Macomb Dakota	11.2
11	12	Brandon Penberthy	Macomb L’Anse Creuse North	12.4
12	11	Colton Howell	Macomb Dakota	13.5
13	11	Lucas LaMilza	Macomb Dakota	13.9
14	12	Ethan Muraszewski	Utica	14.0
15	12	Luke Oyster	Utica Eisenhower	16.3
16	12	Jack DeWaele	Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley	17.9
17	12	Bryce Goodsell	Romeo	17.9
18	12	Zachary Rubicz	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	18.1
19	11	Aidan Daly	Harrison Twp. L’Anse Creuse	19.9
20	10	Luke Allen	Romeo	20.7
21	12	Silas Smith	Utica	20.9
22	11	Luke Morehouse	Utica	21.2
23	12	Michael Magnoli	Romeo	21.2
24	10	Charlie Curtis	Utica	26.5
25	12	Aidan Leslie	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	27.3
26	11	Greg Vogt	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	28.1
27	12	Johnathan Mitchell	Utica Ford	28.6
28	12	Paul Gopez	Warren Cousino	28.6
29	11	Gavin Frandle	Utica	30.9
30	10	James Brickel	Romeo	31.9
31	10	Lance Edghill	Fraser	32.6
32	11	Braden Cinato	Warren Cousino	34.6
33	10	Andrew Scheloske	Macomb Dakota	34.7
34	11	John Lonsway	Sterling Heights Stevenson	34.9
35	12	Lucas Shemansky	Fraser	35.9
36	12	Jamison Snay	Macomb Lutheran North	36.3
37	12	Gabe Rusch	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	36.4
38	11	Alex Habarth	Harrison Twp. L’Anse Creuse	36.6
39	11	Owen Gould	Romeo	36.8
40	11	Noah Redman	Macomb Dakota	40.8
41	10	Aaron Hemstreet	Warren Cousino	40.9
42	12	Rhenier Weeks	Utica Ford	41.1
43	10	Ian Potts	Michigan Athletic Club for Homeschoolers	43.6
44	12	Aaron Franz	Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley	43.8
45	10	Joseph Kaleto	Macomb Dakota	44.4
46	12	Thomas Perez	Michigan Athletic Club for Homeschoolers	45.2
47	10	Aaron Osterman	New Baltimore Anchor Bay	46.6
48	11	Levi Clair	Utica	48.8
49	11	Jensen McCutcheon	Lakeview St. Clair Shores	51.0
50	11	Colden Gray	Utica Eisenhower	51.1

LENAWEE COUNTY

Trophies to Top-3 Teams
Medals to Top-20 Individuals

Girls

Proj. Place	Girls Team	Avg. Place	Avg. Score	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Adrian	1.76	70	51	95+
2	Tecumseh	2.07	75	28	95+
3	Clinton	2.26	76	21	95+
4	Onsted	4.10	92
5	Blissfield	4.82	103
6	Hudson	5.99	135
7	Addison	7.11	191
8	Adrian Lenawee Christian	7.97	205
9	Sand Creek	8.92	220

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	11	Emmry Ross	Onsted	1.0
2	11	Sophy Skeels	Adrian	2.3
3	12	Anastee Davis	Adrian	3.6
4	11	Izzy Brooks	Adrian Lenawee Christian	4.0
5	9	Ayda Skeels	Adrian	4.8
6	11	Madison Morris	Tecumseh	6.4
7	10	Hope Miller	Blissfield	6.5
8	12	Cylee Elkins	Clinton	7.6
9	12	Allison Bowles	Clinton	9.1
10	10	Hailey Sills	Blissfield	10.4
11	11	Stephanie Hernandez	Addison	12.5
12	12	Samantha Coots	Clinton	13.4
13	11	Jayla Bright	Hudson	13.6
14	10	Claire Cousineau	Tecumseh	14.8
15	11	Allie England	Onsted	16.7
16	10	Raegan Brosamer	Onsted	17.6
17	9	Leila Morris	Tecumseh	18.0
18	12	Leah Rorick	Morenci	19.3
19	11	Jessica Warren	Tecumseh	20.1
20	9	Maya Whelan	Tecumseh	20.4
21	12	June Miller	Blissfield	20.5
22	11	Aubrey Appleman	Britton Deerfield	21.1
23	10	Aurelia Bennett	Clinton	21.2
24	10	Emersyn Bachelder	Morenci	24.3
25	10	Annabelle Czeiszperger	Hudson	24.5
26	9	London Landini	Tecumseh	24.7
27	9	Camryn Nowak	Tecumseh	28.3
28	12	Yoselin Fermin-Campos	Adrian	29.3
29	9	Izabel Raglow	Onsted	30.0
30	11	Sarah King	Clinton	30.3

Boys

Proj. Place	Boys Team	Avg. Score	Avg. Place	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Adrian	21	1.00	95+	95+
2	Clinton	98	2.00		95+
3	Onsted	142	3.77		41
4	Hudson	144	3.85		43
5	Adrian Madison	155	5.16		15
6	Tecumseh	165	6.27
7	Sand Creek	171	7.20
8	Adrian Lenawee Christian	180	8.25
9	Morenci	183	8.66
10	Blissfield	188	8.84

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	12	Braylon Petty	Adrian	1.0
2	10	Moises Salazar	Adrian	2.5
3	11	Mitchell Hiatt	Onsted	2.5
4	12	Matthew Canales	Adrian	4.6
5	9	Carter Fenner	Adrian	6.2
6	9	Cole Hillegonds	Clinton	7.4
7	12	Alex Czeiszperger	Hudson	7.7
8	12	Chase Nyack	Adrian	9.5
9	12	Jackson Nyack	Adrian	9.9
10	9	Silas Skeels	Adrian	11.0
11	12	Grant Fahle	Tecumseh	11.4
12	11	Ian Waddell	Blissfield	11.9
13	12	Lucas Goodman	Clinton	11.9
14	11	Gabe Manchester	Clinton	13.1
15	11	Joel Lange	Adrian Lenawee Christian	16.3
16	10	Trenton Fetter	Adrian Madison	18.4
17	12	William Marks	Blissfield	19.8
18	10	Paul McClure	Adrian Madison	20.0
19	11	Isaac St. John	Hudson	20.9
20	9	Landon Wilkins	Morenci	21.8
21	11	Owen Strieter-Byron	Tecumseh	22.0
22	12	Nathan Daniels	Adrian Lenawee Christian	22.1
23	11	Max Marten	Tecumseh	22.3
24	11	James Bayes	Onsted	22.4
25	9	Silas Daniels	Sand Creek	22.4
26	11	Zachary Martinez	Morenci	24.9
27	11	Beau Shaffer	Morenci	25.1
28	11	Eric Ramsey	Clinton	27.1
29	11	Jameson Watson	Britton Deerfield	28.1
30	10	Nicholas Sorrow	Hudson	29.6

GMAA

No mention of trophies/medals on the info doc (or I missed it, very likely), so I went 30 deep on individuals

Girls

Proj. Place	Girls Team	Avg. Place	Avg. Score	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	1.00	39	95+	95+
2	Fruitport	2.04	66		95+
3	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	3.61	93		47
4	Muskegon Mona Shores	3.61	94		47
5	Whitehall	4.76	113		6
6	Montague	6.01	142
7	Muskegon Oakridge	6.97	174
8	Muskegon Orchard View	8.05	242

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	11	Grace VanderKooi	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	1.1
2	12	Tatum Dykstra	Fruitport	2.6
3	10	Jersi Bilek	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	3.4
4	11	Cami Kraai	Whitehall	4.1
5	12	Eleanor Kingshott	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	8.0
6	9	Leah Sneller	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	8.7
7	12	Lauren Lee	Fruitport	9.1
8	11	Valerie Pollock	Fruitport	10.2
9	12	Abbie Wiegers	North Muskegon	10.3
10	12	Grace Folkema	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	11.7
11	10	Ellery Horness	Muskegon Mona Shores	12.2
12	12	Merceydez Patton	Muskegon Oakridge	12.8
13	12	Cammie Erickson	Montague	12.9
14	9	Kaylie Riksen	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	13.8
15	11	Adalyn Britton	Whitehall	13.9
16	11	Adrienne Fluette	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	14.9
17	9	Gabrielle Chevez	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	17.9
18	10	Sylvia Skujins	North Muskegon	18.7
19	11	Morgan Lawrence	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	20.5
20	11	Diamond Madison	Muskegon Mona Shores	20.5
21	11	Logan Clausen	Muskegon Mona Shores	20.9
22	12	Raegan Ruel	Muskegon Oakridge	22.0
23	10	Ella Grimm	Muskegon Mona Shores	22.8
24	11	Grace Torsch	Montague	26.1
25	10	Kaylynn Pavlige	Fruitport	26.3
26	12	Tresa Dykstra	Fruitport	26.4
27	10	Kendall Braginton	Muskegon Mona Shores	26.5
28	9	Darcy Keefe	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	26.6
29	9	Treasure Fleese	Fruitport	27.2
30	10	Kaylynn Pavlich	Fruitport	27.9

Boys

Proj. Place	Boys Team	Avg. Score	Avg. Place	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	60	1.25	76	95+
2	Fruitport	72	1.90	22	95+
3	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	98	3.32		62
4	Whitehall	105	3.65		37
5	Montague	131	5.07
6	Muskegon Mona Shores	145	6.02
7	Muskegon Catholic Central	164	7.10
8	North Muskegon	174	7.69
9	Muskegon Oakridge	217	9.17
10	Ravenna	240	9.83

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	12	Jaxon Allen	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	2.5
2	11	Stewart Waters	Whitehall	2.6
3	11	Matthias Morse	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	3.2
4	11	Kye Grant	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	3.4
5	11	Vincent Pollock	Fruitport	6.1
6	11	Peyton Ruel	Muskegon Oakridge	6.8
7	12	Tate Bradley	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	7.2
8	10	Noah Raeth	Montague	9.2
9	10	Hunter Parsons	Whitehall	9.7
10	12	Willem Parsekian	Muskegon Mona Shores	10.7
11	12	Clay Johnson	Montague	15.3
12	12	Levi Glynn	Fruitport	15.5
13	12	Evan Atkinson-Miller	North Muskegon	15.5
14	12	Ethan Horan	Fruitport	16.2
15	12	Levi Bol	Fruitport	17.1
16	12	Graeson Lawrence	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	18.7
17	12	Jacob Lyonnais	Muskegon Catholic Central	19.5
18	12	Alex Wilber	Fruitport	20.9
19	11	Alix Draves	Montague	21.4
20	10	Landon Johnson	Fruitport	21.4
21	11	Andrew Boeringa	Whitehall	23.2
22	10	Jack Yonkman	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	24.0
23	9	Barrett Nance	North Muskegon	24.5
24	12	Owen Lyonnais	Muskegon Catholic Central	24.8
25	10	Hayden Fox	Muskegon Mona Shores	25.1
26	11	Jamie Neel	Muskegon Reeths-Puffer	26.1
27	9	Owen Sytsema	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	26.4
28	10	Reuben Anderson	Muskegon Western Michigan Christian	26.4
29	11	Daniel Mares	Ravenna	27.2
30	12	Jack Walkenhorst	Muskegon Catholic Central	30.0

DOWNRIVER GABRIEL RICHARD

(But really NEWS HERALD to us OGs)

Trophies to Top-3 Teams
All-Area to Top-25 Individuals

Girls

Proj. Place	Girls Team	Avg. Place	Avg. Score	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Brownstown Woodhaven	1.00	32	95+	95+
2	Allen Park	2.51	81		89
3	Wyandotte Roosevelt	3.12	87		71
4	Riverview	4.03	92		27
5	Grosse Ile	4.39	95		13

Boys

Proj. Place	Boys Team	Avg. Score	Avg. Place	Win %	Top 3 %
1	Brownstown Woodhaven	42	1.38	62	95+
2	Allen Park	44	1.62	38	95+
3	Riverview	86	3.00		95+
4	Wyandotte Roosevelt	109	4.00
5	Riverview Gabriel Richard	129	5.08

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	12	Logan Ruffner	Riverview	1.0
2	10	Pierce Scheffler	Brownstown Woodhaven	2.2
3	12	Caleb Wynn	Allen Park	3.3
4	11	Brady Boroniec	Allen Park	4.2
5	10	Alex Vazquez	Brownstown Woodhaven	4.3
6	12	Evan Smith	Brownstown Woodhaven	6.5
7	12	Hayden Holmes	Riverview	6.9
8	12	Matthew Mizzi	Allen Park	8.6
9	10	Rich Fanti	Riverview Gabriel Richard	9.3
10	12	Ethan Johnson	Wyandotte Roosevelt	10.5
11	9	Vincent Jones	Brownstown Woodhaven	12.3
12	10	Isaiah Clark	Allen Park	12.6
13	9	Jacob Ferdubinski	Riverview Gabriel Richard	15.7
14	12	Israel Garcia	Riverview	16.7
15	11	Jaime Saucedo	Melvindale	16.7
16	12	Gabriel Natividad	Trenton	17.0
17	10	Jackson Raby	Allen Park	17.9
18	10	Matthew Carbajo	Grosse Ile	19.0
19	10	Mateo Reyes	Brownstown Woodhaven	19.0
20	12	Alessandro Felici	Brownstown Woodhaven	20.0
21	11	Landon Hoffman	Allen Park	20.1
22	9	Calen Alexander	Brownstown Woodhaven	20.8
23	9	Connor Ball	Wyandotte Roosevelt	21.3
24	11	Jack Fox	Grosse Ile	23.7
25	9	Noah Amori	Wyandotte Roosevelt	24.1
26	12	Ian Kramp	Trenton	25.5
27	11	Aidan Kubitz	Allen Park	25.7
28	10	Dominic Barretto	Riverview Gabriel Richard	28.9
29	11	Matthew Caudill	Wyandotte Roosevelt	29.6
30	11	Owen Hassett	Trenton	29.9

Proj. Place	Grade	Name	Team	Avg. Place
1	12	Payton Scheffler	Brownstown Woodhaven	1.3
2	12	Ava Teed	Allen Park Cabrini	1.7
3	12	Sparrow Centeno	Southgate Anderson	3.5
4	9	Hope Noal	Brownstown Woodhaven	4.0
5	10	Eleanor Grant	Wyandotte Roosevelt	5.4
6	12	Claire Bireta	Allen Park	5.9
7	10	Alyssa Korte	Grosse Ile	9.2
8	10	Elliana Perugi	Brownstown Woodhaven	9.3
9	12	Daniela Hinojos	Riverview	9.5
10	11	Raelyn McLaughlin	Brownstown Woodhaven	9.7
11	11	Marisa Chuey	Trenton	12.2
12	12	Lauren Moreno	Wyandotte Roosevelt	13.3
13	10	Avery Boggs	Riverview	13.4
14	10	Joslyn Bechtol	Brownstown Woodhaven	15.1
15	9	Julianne Nadolski	Southgate Anderson	15.7
16	11	Anahi Chapa	Allen Park	15.7
17	9	Chiamara Ogbonna	Brownstown Woodhaven	15.7
18	11	Mercedes Dziendziel	Wyandotte Roosevelt	17.3
19	12	Keira Wood	Riverview	18.6
20	11	Maya Justice	Brownstown Woodhaven	20.4
21	10	Alicia Shelton	Grosse Ile	21.4
22	12	Abbie Sawicki	Allen Park	22.5
23	11	Devyn Dorey	Trenton	23.1
24	9	Adrianna Zub	Allen Park	25.5
25	9	Whitney Laura	Grosse Ile	25.7
26	12	Nevaeh Harris	Allen Park	25.8
27	11	Taylor Karasinski	Grosse Ile	26.7
28	11	Grace Kendziuk	Allen Park Cabrini	27.4
29	10	Sophia Mihalko	Grosse Ile	29.5
30	12	Nicole Teed	Allen Park Cabrini	30.3

Portage, our great bellwether for the season’s progress, has come and passed. There were many affirmations and a few surprises. You’ll see a bit more movement in these rankings this week, as more recent meets are weighed more, early season meets mean less and less.

If you’ve followed these over the past few years, you may know the gist of these, but let’s break it down once again:

The individual ratings take into account all the meets listed here. There are a few meets missing that I’ll link to, but pretty much any meet with a significant number of athletes will have been calculated. An individual’s rating takes their best 75% of rated races (rounding up, so 4 of 5, 5 of 6, etc.), weighs them with more recent races having a higher weight, then spits out a final rating. The team rankings score those individuals as if they were in a meet against their entire division.

As a result of taking into the entire season into account, the rankings will be more conservative and less reactionary than most. Putting together a great performance once will bring about a tiny bit of movement, doing so repeatedly will elicit much greater change.

There are a few changes from previous years:

• No more ratings of weekday, conference meets
  • Why? One, often these aren’t raced all out and end up underrating a runner. Two, to lessen my workload. I’d rather concentrate on these rankings and use the weekend invites that are more likely to be raced hard to determine the rankings.
• Using the top 75% of races instead of 67%
  • Why? If I’m gonna use fewer overall races from a runner’s resume, I have to make up for it in some way.
• No more individual rankings posted to social media
  • Why? I hate instances where a runner stagnates or falls back over the course of the season and it’s posted for the world to see. I recognize people want to know where they’re ranked, so just having it on the website is a happy medium.
• More writeups focused on the top teams and individuals, rather than just handpicking one each week
  • I’ve found that when it comes toward state time, I know all the numbers and what a kid might run, but have a tough time pointing toward a narrative. Hopefully writing a little recap and what to look forward to will help in that regard. I started with three for the first rankings, then five this week, and so on.
  • But sadly not D1 this week. But as my own boss, I’m giving myself leeway as I’ve already written thousands of pages of material this year.
• Posting these one division at a time
  • If you’ve noticed, I always go Division 4 first, trending towards Division 1. This is done intentionally! Traditional media always focuses on the larger schools. By focusing on the smaller divisions first, they get the love that they might not normally receive.

Unfortunately, the injury rule is in place, where if I don’t have a rating from the past month, that runner is taken out. If you’re willing to share (and I can understand why not – someone’s medical situation doesn’t have to be the public’s business) that your athlete or you yourself are healthy/injured, feel free. There are some exceptions based on situations that make sense. Hopefully these don’t rub salt in the wound of someone who’s already hurting.

Now I need to be serious for a minute. These are for fun. If you don’t like these fun rankings, you don’t need to participate, you don’t need to call me names, talk trash to your fellow competitors, or send rude emails. We good here? Enjoy.

WEEK THREE RANKINGS
WEEK FOUR RANKINGS
CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK RANKINGS

Just wanted to get these out before work, so sadly, no writeups 😦

Rank	Team	Region	Score	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Romeo	9	88	1	2	2	1
2	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5	152	2	1	1	3
3	Brighton	4	283	3	3	3	4
4	Holland West Ottawa	1	319	9	8	6	5
5	Okemos	2	323	11	11	11	8
6	Grand Haven	1	357	7	5	5	9
7	Northville	6	381	4	4	4	10
8	Saline	5	393	5	9	7	2
9	Traverse City West	2	433	8	7	10	6
10	Forest Hills Central	3	468	6	6	8	15
11	Rockford	1	530	12	12	14	12
12	Oxford	8	577	10	10	9	7
13	Davison	4	623	18	15	17	33
14	Utica	8	676	22	16	18	20
15	White Lake Lakeland	7	701	15	31	28	45
16	Traverse City Central	2	724	13	14	16	16
17	Clarkston	8	744	30	41	39	19
18	Jenison	1	750	14	13	12	18
19	Dexter	4	765	16	21	22	13
20	Fraser	9	800	19	19	20	34
21	Walled Lake Northern	7	832	27	22	13	14
22	Rochester	8	838	24	20	26	37
23	Macomb Dakota	9	842	17	17	23	27
24	Ann Arbor Skyline	4	852	20	29	36	61
25	Lake Orion	8	864	23	28	19	17
26	Portage Central	3	869	26	26	15	28
27	Zeeland West	1	890	29	25	30	42

Just wanted to get these out before work, so sadly, no writeups 😦

Rank	Team	Region	Score	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Brighton	4	205	2	2	2	2
2	Northville	6	237	1	1	1	1
3	Grand Haven	1	298	3	3	3	4
4	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5	344	5	6	5	11
5	Canton	6	357	4	5	6	20
6	Kalamazoo Central	3	378	8	7	10	3
7	Oxford	8	386	7	4	4	19
8	Troy	8	473	6	17	22	6
9	White Lake Lakeland	7	498	10	8	11	12
10	Romeo	9	509	9	9	8	5
11	Forest Hills Central	3	513	11	10	17	8
12	Walled Lake Northern	7	544	13	14	7	7
13	Jenison	1	547	15	15	15	16
14	Livonia Churchill	6	579	12	12	13	26
15	Clarkston	8	613	22	11	12	9
16	Macomb Dakota	9	615	14	13	9	33
17	Traverse City Central	2	653	17	22	14	14
18	Plymouth	6	664	19	16	31	15
19	Portage Central	3	696	16	21	26	10
20	Utica	8	709	18	19	16	13
21	Saline	5	723	21	18	18	18
22	Zeeland West	1	730	20	23	19	21
23	Bay City Western	2	730	23	20	24	37
24	Lake Orion	8	844	28	26	20	23
25	East Kentwood	3	866	24	24	21	45
26	Traverse City West	2	896	26	36	34	28
27	Dexter	4	911	29	32	23	22

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Just wanted to get these out before work, so sadly, no writeups 😦

Rank	Grade	Name	Team	Region
1	12	Rachel Forsyth	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5
2	12	Selma Anderson	Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills	3
3	11	Lucy Cook	Rochester	8
4	12	Jayden Harberts	Macomb Dakota	9
5	9	Annie Hrabovsky	Romeo	9
6	10	Natalia Guaresimo	Romeo	9
7	12	Clara James-Heer	Forest Hills Central	3
8	12	Katie Watkins	H.H. Dow	2
9	10	Emmerson Clor	Romeo	9
10	12	Morgan Brown	Livonia Churchill	6
11	11	Cassie Garcia	Northville	6
12	12	Ella Christensen	Northville	6
13	10	Ava Porras	Holland West Ottawa	1
14	11	Valerie Beeck	Grand Haven	1
15	12	Lydia Bowman	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5
16	11	Violet Hrabovsky	Romeo	9
17	9	Anyla Robinson	Detroit Cass Tech	5
18	11	Mallory Bigelow	Oxford	8
19	10	Addie Birkholz	Holland West Ottawa	1
20	12	Payton Scheffler	Brownstown Woodhaven	5
21	12	Layla Krayem	Livonia Stevenson	6
22	11	Ava Alicandro	White Lake Lakeland	7
23	12	Shannon Gillahan	Okemos	2
24	12	Elaina (Laney) Alig	Saline	5
25	12	Carrigan Eberly	Brighton	4
26	11	Chloe DeRidder	Grandville	1
27	12	Hannah DeRoeck	Lake Orion	8
28	12	Natalie Mello	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5
29	10	Lydia LaMarra	Brighton	4
30	11	Isabelle Becker	Bay City Western	2
31	11	Grace Tykocki	Grand Blanc	4
32	11	Ava Peters	Livonia Franklin	6
33	11	Elle Bissett	Brighton	4
34	12	Braydee Elling	Oxford	8
35	12	Ella Kirkwood	Traverse City Central	2
36	12	Allison Mayer	Ann Arbor Skyline	4
37	10	Leah Corby	Rochester Hills Stoney Creek	9
38	11	Lauren Walker	Holt	2
39	12	Izzy Fazio	Forest Hills Northern	3
40	10	Ava Lawrence	East Kentwood	3
41	11	Alena Blumberg	Dexter	4
42	12	Alisia Olteanu	Walled Lake Western	7
43	10	Addison Herr	Bloomfield Hills	8
44	12	Sylvia Sanok Dufallo	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5
45	9	Gabriella Fugazzi	Okemos	2
46	11	Annie Alkema	Kalamazoo Central	3
47	12	Paige McArdle	Davison	4
48	11	Jordyn Klaasen	Zeeland West	1
49	10	Cianah Budnik-Ramos	Grand Haven	1
50	10	Abby Veit	Traverse City West	2

BOYS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Just wanted to get these out before work, so sadly, no writeups 😦

Rank	Grade	Name	Team	Region
1	12	Seth Norder	Grand Haven	1
2	12	Brendan Herger	Northville	6
3	12	Thomas Westphal	Anchor Bay	9
4	12	Vishvaa Ravishankar	Troy	8
5	12	Vincent Guaresimo	Romeo	9
6	12	Aiden Moore	Battle Creek Lakeview	3
7	11	Ethan Powell	Northville	6
8	9	Kamari Ronfeldt	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5
9	11	Taye Levenson	Bloomfield Hills	8
10	10	Kyle O’Rourke	Highland-Milford	7
11	12	Luke Suliman	Ann Arbor Skyline	4
12	12	Brandon Anderson	Dexter	4
13	12	Ty Parker	Walled Lake Northern	7
14	12	Noah Selvaraj	Bay City Western	2
15	12	Sebastian Ramirez	Royal Oak	7
16	11	Seth Conner	Jenison	1
17	12	Iain Forrest	Davison	4
18	11	Kian Schneeweis	Troy	8
19	12	Jasper Cane	Kalamazoo Central	3
20	12	Tyler Langley	Brighton	4
21	11	Alexander McArthur	Oxford	8
22	9	Jack MacGregor	Howell	4
23	12	Vincent Peterson Sand	Ann Arbor Pioneer	5
24	12	Pierce Grzymkowski	White Lake Lakeland	7
25	12	Connor Clor	Romeo	9
26	12	Luke Campbell	Brighton	4
27	12	Truman Johnson	Saline	5
28	10	Aiden Pengelly	Canton	6
29	12	Mitchell Clark	Canton	6
30	12	Liam Walters	Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills	3
31	10	Harper Wesley	Utica	8
32	12	Anirudh Krishnan	Plymouth	6
33	11	Evan Nickoles	East Kentwood	3
34	11	Mason Lucas	Jenison	1
35	12	Ian Lewis	Livonia Churchill	6
36	12	Dylan Penberthy	L’Anse Creuse North	9
37	12	Carter Fox	Macomb Dakota	9
38	12	Evan Rice	Walled Lake Northern	7
39	12	Oliver Moss	Berkley	7
40	12	Zack Truszkowski	Traverse City Central	2
41	12	Logan Begeman	Portage Central	3
42	11	Malcolm Spiegle	Livonia Churchill	6
43	12	Willem DeGood	Traverse City West	2
44	11	Ben Eisnor	Grand Haven	1
45	11	Tyler Brock	Brighton	4
46	11	James Cusick	Oxford	8
47	12	Tyler Brothers	Utica Eisenhower	9
48	9	Luka Hammond	Grand Haven	1
49	10	John Blaskowski	Saginaw Heritage	2
50	11	Jonah Bills	Battle Creek Lakeview	3

Portage, our great bellwether for the season’s progress, has come and passed. There were many affirmations and a few surprises. You’ll see a bit more movement in these rankings this week, as more recent meets are weighed more, early season meets mean less and less.

If you’ve followed these over the past few years, you may know the gist of these, but let’s break it down once again:

The individual ratings take into account all the meets listed here. There are a few meets missing that I’ll link to, but pretty much any meet with a significant number of athletes will have been calculated. An individual’s rating takes their best 75% of rated races (rounding up, so 4 of 5, 5 of 6, etc.), weighs them with more recent races having a higher weight, then spits out a final rating. The team rankings score those individuals as if they were in a meet against their entire division.

As a result of taking into the entire season into account, the rankings will be more conservative and less reactionary than most. Putting together a great performance once will bring about a tiny bit of movement, doing so repeatedly will elicit much greater change.

There are a few changes from previous years:

• No more ratings of weekday, conference meets
  • Why? One, often these aren’t raced all out and end up underrating a runner. Two, to lessen my workload. I’d rather concentrate on these rankings and use the weekend invites that are more likely to be raced hard to determine the rankings.
• Using the top 75% of races instead of 67%
  • Why? If I’m gonna use fewer overall races from a runner’s resume, I have to make up for it in some way.
• No more individual rankings posted to social media
  • Why? I hate instances where a runner stagnates or falls back over the course of the season and it’s posted for the world to see. I recognize people want to know where they’re ranked, so just having it on the website is a happy medium.
• More writeups focused on the top teams and individuals, rather than just handpicking one each week
  • I’ve found that when it comes toward state time, I know all the numbers and what a kid might run, but have a tough time pointing toward a narrative. Hopefully writing a little recap and what to look forward to will help in that regard. I started with three for the first rankings, then five this week, and so on.
• Posting these one division at a time
  • If you’ve noticed, I always go Division 4 first, trending towards Division 1. This is done intentionally! Traditional media always focuses on the larger schools. By focusing on the smaller divisions first, they get the love that they might not normally receive.

Unfortunately, the injury rule is in place, where if I don’t have a rating from the past month, that runner is taken out. If you’re willing to share (and I can understand why not – someone’s medical situation doesn’t have to be the public’s business) that your athlete or you yourself are healthy/injured, feel free. There are some exceptions based on situations that make sense. Hopefully these don’t rub salt in the wound of someone who’s already hurting.

Now I need to be serious for a minute. These are for fun. If you don’t like these fun rankings, you don’t need to participate, you don’t need to call me names, talk trash to your fellow competitors, or send rude emails. We good here? Enjoy.

WEEK THREE RANKINGS
WEEK FOUR RANKINGS
CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK RANKINGS

Grand Rapids Christian

Week Three: Conquered a strong field at Benzie then turned around and routed a very competitive OK White. Showing much strength early with frontrunners and depth, could very well put all five girls on the podium.

Week Four: More of the same at Ottawa Hills from the Eagle girls. All scoring girls placed in the top-11, with Adia Sikkema and Lucy Waalkes pulling up in the top-20.

Championship Week: Otsego Bulldog is often the first D2 showcase of the season, this year being no different, with 6 of the top 15 ranked teams in appearance. Just as every other meet, the Eagles up front, making up half of the first 8 finishers. Senior Payton Holtz is peaking at the right time to close her career, hitting sub-19 in her past two invites.

Despite missing one of their top girls, won fairly convincingly at Portage. Naomi Nelson’s return to the 18’s didn’t hurt either.

Otsego

Week Three: Sadly, we won’t see the Bulldogs at a major Michigan invitational until Jackson, but when you have the opportunity to run at the legendary Detweiller Park, you take it. Their season is setting up very similarly to last year, a strong top four plus a solid fifth. Though it appears their 5th spot might be improved from 2022.

Week Four: Placed 7^th of 61 in the Richard Spring Invite down in Peoria. Now I don’t know much about Illinois XC at the moment, but that field had some legendary and recognizable names – York, Neuqua Valley, Palatine, Downer’s Grove, etc. Illinois Speed Ratings uses a similar methodology, but a different scale. Without getting too deep into it, converting to my scale, Detweiller rates out to about a +69 (+75 for boys) for its 2.97-to-3-mile course (highly debatable distance!) To make a short story long, the Bulldogs ran better than they have this season, even missing Taylor Mitchell.

Championship Week: In her final Bulldog Invite, senior Megan Germain ran her fastest time at Otsego’s signature home meet. Her 18:29 was good for a 6^th place finish, fast enough for three consecutive top-10’s, and clutch enough to grant her Bulldogs a 2^nd place finish.

Wrapped up Wolverine Conference dual/tri meet action with another 7-0 record.

Goodrich

Week Four: Changed things up on us! The past few years, the Martians have been at Holly, this year they headed further west to East Lansing. And evidenced by their 3^rd place finish in the Elite Division, an excellent decision. These girls get it done through their pack, going seven deep, displacing fools left and right.

Championship Week: The Martians marked Shepherd as their territory in prep for Regionals. A 23-point win in a D2-centric field, even with Kamy Lauinger having a rough go of it.

Kamy Lauinger more than made up for Bluejay, coming across the Greater Flint line in first. Her 18:18 was a massive PB and helped the Martians win the Overall title at Cummings Center.

East Grand Rapids

Week Four: After missing Under the Lights, Drew Muller has returned, to EGR’s benefit. Her 3^rd spot at Ottawa Hills meant the Pioneers really had to only score four. Combine that with personal bests from Adeline Armstrong and Sadey Seyferth and you have this traditional power rising through the ranks.

Championship Week: Great through three and finding contributors further back. Rory Workman (I swear there are thousands of Waalkes, Workmans, Kuzmas, and VanderKoois up this way) has dropped more than a minute from her Under the Lights debut.

Faced some adversity mid-race, but the performances of their sophomores in the final miles led to a top-10 finish at Portage.

Zeeland East

Week Three: An easy victory in the OK Green was sandwiched between a 2nd place in their division at Under the Lights and a 5th at Bredeweg. Emma Drnek has come into her own this year, giving the Chix a formidable 1-2 combo.

Championship Week: Another OK Green victory to go with a bronze at Otsego Bulldog. Taryn DiLaura has been a key figure on their varsity outfit, breaking 20:00 in two of her past three races, nearly a minute quicker than her freshman form.

CC Kuras masterfully moved up over the course of the Portage hills, going from over 100^th at the mile to 68^th at the finish as the Chix placed 6^th.

St. Joseph

Week Four: The rare case of having two low sticks and needing to score three. Among those three, you could have reliable seniors such as Jade Murdoch or Ceci Ruchti. Or perhaps freshmen that are coming along nicely such as Lydia Johnson or Lily Cummings. Like many West Coast teams, the Bears traveled to Ottawa Hills on Friday, coming away from Session 2 placing 4^th of 18.

Championship Week: Make it 4 straight and 13 of the past 14. The Bears have truly established a Berrien County dynasty.

Won the tiebreak over ZE. Sophomore Beatrice Peruchetti didn’t run her fastest race ever, but delivered a performance right in line with many in her initial cross season, in the mid-21’s.

St. Johns

Championship Week: The Redwing top three can hang with anybody. For instance, in the first two CAAC Red Jamborees – Fletcher, Schafer, and Young combined for 17 points. That’s in two meets, folks. SJ has won each of those jamborees.

Skipped the weekend invites, but once again put together a dominating CAAC Red effort. Their 5^th and 6^th girls (Lily Sackrider and Sylvia Thomas) came in before any other team’s 4^th runner as the Redwings rolled.

Holland Christian

Out of any team in the D2 Portage field, the Maroons exemplified the patient racing style best. 285 points at the mile, 253 through two, then 219 at the finish, grabbing the 4^th spot. Experience executing a plan in big spots gives this team major sleeper vibes come late October.

Spring Lake

Championship Week: Bea Reeser has been ON IT all year. First, opening with her best debut ever, then parlaying that into a personal best she’s been waiting to snatch since her sophomore year. Twice 6^th in the OK Blue Jamborees, contributing to Laker victories each time.

The Lakers brought it to a whole new level at Portage. Personal bests up front + season bests from their depth = a 3^rd place finish amongst D2’s best.

Frankenmuth

Tuesday, the quick runnin’ Shepherd course was home to personal bests from Lucy Conzelmann and Kaitlyn Miller as the ‘Muth captured the TVC Red title.

Place	Team	Region	Score	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Grand Rapids Christian	11	66	1	1	1	2
2	Otsego	13	198	2	2	2	1
3	Goodrich	15	282	3	4	4	3
4	East Grand Rapids	12	320	4	3	8	6
5	Zeeland East	11	386	5	7	3	5
6	St. Joseph	13	419	6	5	6	4
7	St. Johns	14	436	7	8	7	7
8	Holland Christian	11	439	11	12	28	10
9	Spring Lake	11	452	8	9	9	11
10	Frankenmuth	15	494	9	6	5	8
11	DeWitt	14	536	13	10	10	14
12	Ludington	10	583	10	15	12	13
13	Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg	12	617	14	13	13	27
14	Hudsonville Unity Christian	11	638	15	14	14	17
15	Linden	16	651	20	26	24	20
16	Owosso	14	671	21	19	18	26
17	Freeland	15	674	12	11	11	12
18	Petoskey	10	724	23	18	15	18
19	Dearborn Divine Child	16	725	18	22	20	19
20	Forest Hills Eastern	12	753	24	24	22	25
21	Warren Regina	17	758	16	20	19	34
22	Croswell-Lexington	17	772	19	17	17	29
23	Alma	15	782	17	16	16	15
24	Pontiac Notre Dame Prep	16	897	25	23	25	44
25	Grand Rapids South Christian	12	906	29	29	29	22
26	Chelsea	18	909	26	25	23	21
27	GR West Michigan Aviation	12	948	32	32	38	16

Forest Hills Eastern

Week Three: That’s two years in a row that the Hawks have put the state on notice with an Under the Lights masterpiece. All five scorers were sub-17 on that humid, late August night. With three of those capable of low-16’s or better, much pressure will be placed on other teams to close that gap.

Week Four: Missing Brendan Hoving and Liam Hinman at Sparta, the Hawks still emerged victorious, eking out a 6-point victory over the home team. Youngster Steven Zawacki stepped up in a major way – he’s dropped more than a minute since Under the Lights.

Championship Week: Lost in the TJ Hansen spectacle was the fact that FHE stole the show in the elite race. The field contained tons of top teams from all divisions, yet the Hawks still prevailed. Nearly putting four under 16-flat will tend to lead to those victories.

Another show of their deep team where anyone can pop an amazing race. Lately, Luke Ueland has shown a few of those. Two straight sub-17’s, the latest one a 16:48 at Portage that was a minute faster than his junior effort.

Allendale

Week Four: There were a few doubters last week with the Falcons’ #4 ranking. I think their effort at Spartan proved a few wrong. Three in the top-15, half the points of any other school in the White Division.

Championship Week: Even if Grand Haven had Seth Norder competing, the Allendale Falcons would’ve still won their home invite. If that ain’t a show of how impressive they’ve been of late, I don’t know what is.

Sandwiched between that outstanding Allendale Falcon race and a 3^rd place at Portage was another OK Blue conference win.

East Grand Rapids

Week Three: Still missing a piece, but those who have competed have had success. That could come in the form of an Alex Thole, who pulled a massive upset at Under the Lights or a Jack Edison, who navigated his way into the 16’s for the first time ever at the OK White Jamboree.

Week Four: That piece has arrived. Ryan Brinker, with only one race under his belt in ’23 has already raced faster than he had to this point in the ’22 season.

Championship Week: It wasn’t just FHE taking it to those D1 boys, the Pioneers were right there with them. Jonah Workman was a workhorse, reaching wayyyy into the 15’s to sneak into the top-10.

As Davis Christy continues to come back into the form he displayed late last year, continue to expect EGR to be in the hunt for a podium spot. His 16:43 was a 20 sec. season best and 12 seconds faster than his Portage race from 2022.

Grand Rapids Christian

Week Three: Saw FHE throw down the gauntlet on a Friday night, then woke up Saturday and decided to match it. Winners of Pete Moss by 88 points, then put seven guys in the top-16 at a star-filled OK White Jamboree.

Week Four: Probably underrated here because of their cruise through Christian Schools and the fact that we’re comparing against the entire state. In actual competition, the Eagles are undefeated, finding another clear victory this past weekend at Ottawa Hills.

Championship Week: It’s not as strong as in past years, but you can’t help who you run against, you can only aim to win. Which the Eagles did at Otsego, completing the sweep from their boys and girls squads. Senior Dylan Clark with the big breakthrough, knocking 15 seconds off his previous best.

Won another OK White Jamboree, making it 3 for 3 on the season.

Pinckney

Portage victory couldn’t have happened without the efforts of their 4^th-6^th guys. Zach Newman, Parker Hays, and Kyle Osborne each ran significantly better than they had all season. All personal bests, all sub-17, all valuable contributors on the path to another Portage win.

Alma

Championship Week: Ali Kudmani’s return coincides with the Panthers’ 3 meet victory streak – in conference, at Bluejay against many teams they could see at State, and this week at Birch Run.

After taking the weekend off (but still meeting for their traditional long run!), the Panthers returned to action Tuesday, where they won the TVC Red title. Of their 11 athletes, 7 ran a personal best on the Shepherd course.

Adrian

Championship Week: Carter Fenner and Matthew Canales have been steady as they come, both trending towards the 16’s as the Maples have held their own in the SEC White and picked up a victory at Jackson.

The Nyack brothers brought their senior experience to Portage, filling in the 4^th and 5^th spots as the Maples snuck into the top-5.

Otsego

Championship Week: The Bulldogs were missing a few of their top boys at home, perhaps Jackson was a better show of their capabilities. On those rolling Ella Sharp hills, the Dawgs packed up between 16:39 and 17:02, placing right in the middle of a field complete with D1 teams.

Thanks to the presence of 16^th-ranked Plainwell, the boys side of the Wolverine Conference is a bit tougher than the ladies. At the tail end of conference competition, one of the older rivalries in Michigan HS sports took place, the Bulldog Boys prevailing by a 5 point margin over Plainwell.

Marshall

Week Four: Even missing Kaiden Gore (their five guy) at Holly, the Redhawks triumphed in the D3 race. With five divisions there, you get a mix of D2 and D3 teams in the 3^rd Division, but even if Marshall was in the 2^nd Division this past weekend, odds are that they’d win. When you have four boys capable of going sub-17, many possibilities are on the table.

Championship Week: These past two years, Connor Griffith has been a kid hellbent on dropping time. From 10^th to 11^th grade, he stormed from the 18’s to the very low-17’s. Now he’s knocking on the door of the 15’s, hitting 16:05’s at both Stockbridge and Barney Roy.

Gotta appreciate schools that represent their area. Would’ve been easy to travel to Portage for all the hoopla, instead the Redhawks hosted the Calhoun County meet. Taking the first four spots, their boys captured the victory for an excellent kick off to their championship season.

Petoskey

Have been steadily dialing it in, moving down in the ranks these past few weeks. That descent has only been accelerated with the addition of Tommy Farley in the last two weekends.

Rank	Team	Region	Score	Champ Wk	Week 4	Week 3	Summer
1	Forest Hills Eastern	12	187	1	1	1	3
2	Allendale	11	230	3	3	4	4
3	East Grand Rapids	12	264	4	2	3	1
4	Grand Rapids Christian	11	268	2	4	2	2
5	Pinckney	16	388	11	23	29	6
6	Alma	15	427	5	7	5	10
7	Adrian	18	455	6	6	7	5
8	Otsego	13	471	8	9	8	13
9	Marshall	12	489	7	5	6	15
10	Petoskey	10	514	12	16	15	9
11	Holland Christian	11	531	9	8	21	8
12	Sparta	10	577	10	10	10	17
13	Gladwin	10	616	14	12	9	12
14	Frankenmuth	15	626	13	15	13	21
15	Spring Lake	11	642	20	18	18	18
16	Plainwell	13	648	15	11	12	37
17	Yale	17	664	17	13	11	19
18	Flint Powers Catholic	15	696	18	22	20	25
19	Fremont	10	698	19	21	NR	14
20	Hamilton	11	713	16	19	19	16
21	St. Clair	17	735	24	14	14	31
22	Clio	15	788	21	24	17	28
23	Chelsea	18	841	23	20	23	7
24	Parma Western	14	846	22	27	25	27
25	St. Johns	14	921	26	30	28	34
26	Shepherd	15	935	27	28	26	33
27	Flint Kearsley	15	943	28	29	30	45

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Gail Vaikutis

Week Three: Her 18-flat at Lakeview was a massive personal best and over 80 seconds faster than her 2022 performance. In track, she was able to display great speed and now we’re witness to her strength.

Week Four: Gail’s just out here stacking personal best after personal best. Similar conditions, similar courses, 22 second improvement from week to week. Gail now owns the fastest time AND best rating in Division 2.

Championship Week: A senior going out with wins all over the place. In conference, in county, and in her college decision, recently committing to Michigan.

The pack of four at the mile turned into a pack of three by two miles, and by the finish, Gail was the only one left standing.

Natalie VanOtteren

Week Four: Sub-18 at Ottawa Hills was the 3^rd of her career and 40+ seconds faster than her ’22 effort on the banks of the Grand River.

Championship Week: Four straight wins for this Eagle senior. One of those was a 17:35 personal best at Cougar Falcon, another a 17:43 effort at the Otsego D2 Showcase.

Three years of competing at Portage. Three top-10 finishes, two sub-18’s, and a 16 second improvement from 2022 to 2023.

Elena Figueroa

Week Three: Right alongside Vaikutis at both their home invite and the PC Early Bird. Missed out on a great time at Lakeview, I hope for non-injury reasons. Regardless, her early season best is already an improvement from her sophomore year.

Week Four: Her first race in over three weeks, Elena hopped right back on the wagon with a 17:44 at Riverside. A minute faster than her 2022 effort there and a 35 second personal best.

Championship Week: A slight, ever so slight personal best at Cougar Falcon is still a personal best. 17:44.0 to 17:43.9 counts for me. Elena and Gail have gone 1-2 in both of the SMAC West meets along with Berrien County – all Bear victories.

Portage just another example of how even the fastest of the fast can improve. Her 18:41 last fall was among the best efforts of her sophomore year. Her 17:43 on Saturday is what we’ve come to expect. Funny how those expectations change over time.

Ava Schafer

Week Three: Adjusting very well to the high school scene. After taking her lumps with a second-place finish at Under the Lights, she’s ripped off two consecutive victories. All mid-18 efforts from this young freshman. The Redwings have some light racing in their future, so we’ll see how much she’s improved come late September at Shepherd.

Week Four: The Redwings took the weekend off racing and well, that looks to be to Ava’s benefit. Girl just blasted a 17:48 to capture the first CAAC Red Jamboree.

Championship Week: Stuck her nose right in there at Bluejay, heading out with the lead girls, coming through the mile in 5:34. Ava faded a bit, but got a good look of what she’ll need to do when similar runners race her in a month. Comparing against only D2 girls in that Elite section, Ava did place 1^st of all 46, so she’s performing admirably against her competition.

Freshman just quietly winning another CAAC Red Jamboree. Excellent opportunity for some high-level racing this weekend over at Greater Lansing.

Katie Berkshire

Championship Week: Has been a barrier-busting season for Berkshire. She first slipped under 19:00 at the Mud Run of all places, then has ripped off three consecutive low-18 efforts at Cadillac, Shepherd, and Mancelona.

Impressed by her ability to recover. Three low-18 efforts in a seven day stretch. Bluejay, Mancelona, and then Portage.

Drew Muller

Week Four: Just announced her commitment to Virginia, a great institution for its education, history, and distance running (the Hoos are currently ranked #11). I’m sure Drew will contribute there as she does here, consecutive mid-18 efforts to begin her senior year.

Championship Week: I believe her trip to Shepherd was the first of her career, and that initial run through produced her best mark of the year, an 18:16.

Unfortunately had to drop out of the race this past weekend, but I’m sure this proud champ will be back for the upcoming championships.

Emma Hoffman

Championship Week: Think of all the success, all the accomplishments over Otsego’s past ~15 years. Three titles, a runner-up, plenty of state appearances. And atop of them all, time-wise, was Emma’s 18:03 from this past weekend.

Portage pace may have been a little quick early, as she fell back from 9^th to 14^th. But this sophomore has shown she can learn from midseason races and apply to bigger races down the stretch. This isn’t the last we’ll see of her.

Mary Richmond

Championship Week: Four years of races at Bluejay – all in the low-18’s, all in the top-15. The Frankenmuth senior has taken on a lighter load than in years past and should be ready to roll for the coming month.

The Mary Richmond senior year tour continued this week with the culmination of a historic TVC-8/Red career. By my count, four overall championships for this Tampa-bound senior.

Emma Drnek

Just when you thought she couldn’t go any lower – she does. 18:12 at Otsego Bulldog, another personal best in a season full of them. Back to the expectations mentioned earlier for Elena. If you had told me she’d run 18:29 at Portage, I’d have said that was an outstanding season. Scary that it was only her 3^rd best time of the season.

Meghan Ford

Couldn’t be happier to mention this girl here. It’s been quite a four-year journey for Meghan, three All-States, a Greater Lansing title, plenty of finishes in the 17’s and 18’s. A great career.

Rank	Grade	Name	Team	Region
1	12	Gail Vaikutis	St. Joseph	13
2	12	Natalie VanOtteren	Grand Rapids Christian	11
3	11	Elena Figueroa	St. Joseph	13
4	9	Ava Schafer	St. Johns	14
5	10	Katie Berkshire	Gaylord	10
6	12	Drew Muller	East Grand Rapids	12
7	10	Emma Hoffman	Otsego	13
8	12	Mary Richmond	Frankenmuth	15
9	11	Emma Drnek	Zeeland East	11
10	12	Meghan Ford	Mason	14
11	12	Emily Tomes	Grand Rapids Catholic Central	11
12	10	Ellie Scholma	Grand Rapids Christian	11
13	12	Logan Brazee	Otsego	13
14	10	Lilah Poel	Grand Rapids Christian	11
15	11	Sadey Seyferth	East Grand Rapids	12
16	11	Summer Brower	Ludington	10
17	12	Naomi Nelson	Grand Rapids Christian	11
18	11	Sophy Skeels	Adrian	18
19	11	Kamryn Lauinger	Goodrich	15
20	12	Jenna Pilachowski	Monroe Jefferson	18
21	12	Payton Holtz	Grand Rapids Christian	11
22	11	Natalia DeMea	Chelsea	18
23	9	Clara Kaczor	Freeland	15
24	12	Allison Kuzma	Zeeland East	11
25	12	Megan Germain	Otsego	13
26	12	Emma DeVries	GR West Michigan Aviation	12
27	11	Ezgi Kurt	Alma	15
28	11	Ava Crews	Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg	12
29	12	Addison Washler	Forest Hills Eastern	12
30	10	Natalie Foltz	Frankenmuth	15
31	11	Eva Thompson	Croswell-Lexington	17
32	9	Olivia Hollebeek	Holland Christian	11
33	11	Layla Jordan	Goodrich	15
34	12	Anastee Davis	Adrian	18
35	9	Caroline Randall	Hastings	12
36	12	Abby Young	St. Johns	14
37	12	Camille DeCola	Marshall	12
38	10	Samantha Brown	Clio	15
39	9	Jaelyn Ray	Pinckney	16
40	9	Eliana Stob	Holland Christian	11
41	12	Tatum Dykstra	Fruitport	11
42	12	Kyla Meyers	Spring Lake	11
43	10	Linnea Paige	Fremont	10
44	9	Johanna Mulder	Holland	11
45	12	Nora O’Leary	Petoskey	10
46	12	Clara Fletcher	St. Johns	14
47	9	Ayda Skeels	Adrian	18
48	10	Brooklynn Brown	Cadillac	10
49	12	Ellia Agar	Grand Rapids South Christian	12
50	11	Mea D’Agostino	Orchard Lake St. Mary’s	16

BOYS INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

Connell Alford

Week Four: Week Three: Cross country is definitely his thing. Facing some fierce competition at Lamplighter, Connell laid down the hammer early en route to a large margin of victory.

Week Four: Unfortunately, couldn’t pull off the win at Spartan, but he did finish first amongst all Michigan competition. His 15:09 nearly matched the 15:06 from last year, and when you’re in the ballpark of your state-winning self, you know you’re in a good place.

Competed in his first SEC White Jamboree of the year, grabbing his third conference win in these past three years. A solid block of training setting up for the future showdowns in the coming months.

Moved up to the D1 race at Portage to test his fitness against the most populated division in Michigan (and some Ohio teams). Came away with a 3^rd place finish, his third top-10 placing there.

TJ Hansen

Week Three: Just continuing and building from his track accomplishments. 15:39 at Under the Lights was a personal best, 15:13 at John Bruder was a massive personal best. It’s a shame Freeland is on the smaller side of D2 schools, we sadly avoid a matchup with Evan Loughridge at Holly.

Week Four: Of the 93 boys that ran at both John Bruder and Holly, only 22 ran faster at Holly. TJ was 0.5 seconds slower, showing his 15:14 through the sharp turns and hills at Springfield Oaks can be sub-15 on the right course on the right day.

An absolutely masterful performance at Bluejay, negative splitting to a 14:46. Let’s just put it this way – in early September, Shepherd hosted the Jeff Drenth Memorial COLLEGE meet. TJ’s 14:46 would have won that.

Quickly bounced back from Portage (and even Bluejay the week prior) to capture his third consecutive TVC-8/Red title in as many years as he’s been competing.

Evan Loughridge

Week Three: “Opener at Possum Hollow was a 20+ second win over a ton of talented D1 runners. He’ll be facing some potential D2 All-Staters this weekend at Holly.”

Week Four: 15 seconds at a mile, 30+ at two, and 36 at the finish, Evan’s 15:35 win at Holly was allll on his lonesome. For many that would be a mental grind, but it’s more of the same for this tough-minded kid. His performance on Saturday was over 25 seconds faster than what he raced to in 2022 and given how his October played out last year, big goals are there for the taking.

After working on their toughness at Bennett Park, the Pirates head toward Portage, the site of Evan’s junior breakout race. All indicators show he’s ready to shock us again.

While others left D2 for greener pastures, Evan stuck around with his Pirate teammates. The result is something that can never be taken away. A win for himself and a win for Pinckney, besting his long-standing personal record.

Solomon Kwartowitz

Week Four: Hung in there pretty well for his first real huge effort of the season. A 15:32 in Spartan Elite earned Kwartowitz a 7^th place (5^th amongst Michiganders) and a massive personal best.

Each year, Cranbrook takes the trip down to Indiana to run in the Culver Academies Invitational. Solomon’s 15:38 there was 40 seconds faster than where he was in 2022, coming back from injury. He placed a second behind Kyle Grove, who just ran a 15:17 at Lavern Gibson. My guess based on limited evidence is that Solomon is ready to head toward the very low-15’s.

Just as his training partner Ethan Pruzinsky, strategically broke away from the pack early at Possum Hollow. His competitors couldn’t make up the distance on the double hill and he had enough momentum on the lengthy downhill to secure a County title.

Alex Thole

Week Four: State Champions, national qualifiers, insane freshmen, talented underclassmen… Alex has won against them all and we’re only in mid-September. Three races, three wins, all considerably better than his 2022 best.

Over the past two years, Alex has surely benefitted from the BluejayBoost. First at the MITCA race, the home of his initial sub-16, the one that paved the way for the enormous success this year. Then again on Saturday, just a show of his progress, 30 seconds quicker than that breakthrough.

Busy week for Alex, nabbing his 2^nd OK White win to go along with a 2^nd place Portage finish.

Sean Pettis

Nestled in between his past two WMC Lakes wins was a 15:24 at Cougar Falcon, first amongst a bevy of potential All-Staters.

Busy week for Sean as well, winning his 3^rd WMC Lakes jamboree, following it up with a 3^rd place Portage placing.

Nate Carmody

The Haslett senior has laid low these past few weeks, nabbing his second consecutive win at DeWitt, which was his fourth sub-16 in a row.

Greater Lansing will be as competitive as ever and Nate should be right in the mix. As in past weeks, he’s been laying low on the major invites, just quietly throwing down a 25+ second win at the Country Mill Classic.

Jack Bidwell

Has won all but two of his races this year. Included in those wins have been two I-8 jamborees and a Calhoun County championship.

Braylon Petty

Hard to believe a school as close as Adrian hadn’t traveled to Jackson in three years. But Braylon showed that he remembered how to attack those long, gradual downhills, rolling to a 15:50 victory.

Back-to-back top-10’s at Portage for Braylon, his 15:49 also 5 seconds faster than his 2022 effort.

Noah Lambers

A look at how far Noah has come: between his Portage Invite as a sophomore and as a senior, he improved by over 150 seconds (18:14 to 15:36).

Rank	Grade	Name	Team	Region
1	12	Connell Alford	Chelsea	18
2	11	TJ Hansen	Freeland	15
3	12	Evan Loughridge	Pinckney	16
4	12	Solomon Kwartowitz	Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood	16
5	12	Alex Thole	East Grand Rapids	12
6	12	Sean Pettis	Fremont	10
7	12	Nate Carmody	Haslett	14
8	11	Jack Bidwell	Marshall	12
9	12	Braylon Petty	Adrian	18
10	12	Noah Lambers	Holland	11
11	11	Simon Triezenberg	Grand Rapids Christian	11
12	11	Colin Murray	Dearborn Divine Child	16
13	12	Logan Ruffner	Riverview	18
14	11	Henry Dixon	Forest Hills Eastern	12
15	10	Jonah Workman	East Grand Rapids	12
16	12	Brendan Hoving	Forest Hills Eastern	12
17	12	Caleb Palmreuter	Gladwin	10
18	12	Elliott Sirianni	Clio	15
19	12	Gregory Janesak	Sparta	10
20	10	Ronnie Silveira	Allendale	11
21	11	Kilian Whalen	Allendale	11
22	10	Owen Metzger	Sparta	10
23	11	Alex Doneth	Mason	14
24	12	Liam Hinman	Forest Hills Eastern	12
25	11	Dylan Lydic	Haslett	14
26	12	Ryan Brinker	East Grand Rapids	12
27	12	Nolan Pinion	Lake Fenton	16
28	11	Dominic Lowrie	Battle Creek Harper Creek	12
29	10	Thomas Larson	Alma	15
30	11	Will Engbers	Holland Christian	11
31	9	Ezekiel Baltierra	Alma	15
32	12	Aiden Krueger	Niles	13
33	12	Paul Moore	Pinckney	16
34	10	Moises Salazar	Adrian	18
35	11	Nolan Inglis	DeWitt	14
36	12	David Murphy	Flint Powers Catholic	15
37	11	Nolan Longuski	Shepherd	15
38	11	Parker Tiethof	Allendale	11
39	11	Abatu Dykstra	Hamilton	11
40	12	Shane Izzard	Petoskey	10
41	12	Cooper Jacobsen	Forest Hills Eastern	12
42	9	Bryce Cahoon	Shepherd	15
43	12	Shay White	St. Joseph	13
44	11	Seth Mead	Gladwin	10
45	12	Brewer Snay	Macomb Lutheran North	17
46	11	Henry Cox	Plainwell	13
47	12	Ethan Sandula	Pinckney	16
48	12	Isaac Staib	St. Johns	14
49	12	Connor Griffith	Marshall	12
50	12	Luke Glasgow	Spring Lake	11