2. Will Anyone Have a Perfect Season On The Guys Side?
Something has to give.
Both Loudoun Valley (VA) and Great Oak (CA) enter NXN undefeated across the season. Perhaps Great Oak's consistency and depth has been more impressive across the entire season, but the Vikings certainly turned a corner at the VHSL Group 4A Championships, posting a perfect 15-point score.
So what can we expect?
Loudoun Valley will have an obvious low stick with Sam Affolder, while Peter Morris and Colton Bogucki and Jacob Hunter and Connor Wells will form mini-packs behind them.
Great Oak, though, has been tighter in its pack over its past two races, producing a ridiculous 18-second spread at the CIF Division I Championships and 15:36 average. A week earlier, at the CIF Southern Section Finals, were 31 seconds between their first and fifth scorers, averaging 15:01 over the 3-mile course.
Naturally, Loudoun Valley will need to be very cognizant of displacement in the final stretches of NXN on Saturday.
Other boys teams to consider -- while less likely to win -- include Downers Grove North (IL), Wayzata (MN), Mountain Vista (CO) and Springville (UT).
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