Meet: A-AA Girls State Meet Predictions Location: Mineral Wells, WV Date: To be held October 30, 2004 Predicted A-AA Girls Team Results Doddridge has held the top spot in the Power Rankings throughout the season and shows 5 of the top 21 in the individual rankings. Ritchie has put a scare into Doddridge several times. Wheeling Central's only race against the top A-AA schools came at the Regional where they gave Ritchie all they could handle. Any of these three teams could take the title. Doddridge is the favorite but cannot afford a let-down. Berkeley Springs has the 1st and 3rd rated girls and their 3-4-5 runners have improved dramatically over the 2nd half of the season. Grafton has been steady as a team all season, but some of the individual runners have been very up and down. If they all hit an "up" day, they could slip in for a top 3 finish. Charleston Catholic is another team that is a little bit of a wild card. They have a good pack for their front four, and the the foursome move up together, they could also climb a few spots in the team standings. 1. Doddridge 53 2. Ritchie 64 3. Wheeling Central 66 4. Berkeley Springs 99 5. Grafton 107 6. Charleston Catholic 118 7. PikeView 176 8. Richwood 203 Predicted A-AA Girls Top 25 Rachel Buser has established herself among the best the State has ever seen. Her 18:24 at the Regional Meet was faster than Jessica Taylor, Holly Hunter, Jennifer Davis, or Susan Davis ever ran on the Williamstown course. She comes into the meet as a clear favorite. Valerie Peer and Clara Grandt have split their two meetings this year. With Peer taking the most recent meeting and considering that she's the course record holder at Mineral Wells, we'll give her the edge over Grandt. Jennie Spencer has come on strong late in the season and is the favorite for the 4th spot. Melanie Manning looks to cap off a fine Freshman season by taking a top five spot. She also owns several wins over Spencer. Kerry Davis is evidence of what can happen when someone really starts to take the sport seriously. She was barely a ranked runner last year, and now she's poised to be All-State. Holly Rooper and Kasey Jividen have battled as teammates all season. Rooper has won the last couple meetings, so we've given her the edge. However, Jividen finished 4th last year. Jamie Cokeley was an All-State performer last year and looks to duplicate that feat this year. Nicole Tingler is the favorite to snare the final spot, though there are a number of other prime competitors. The predicted top 25 are as follows: Place Score Name Year Team 1 1 Buser, Rachel 9 Berkeley Spr. 2 2 Peer, Valerie 11 Berkeley Spr. 3 3 Grandt, Clara 12 Doddridge 4 4 Spencer, Jennie 12 Doddridge 5 5 Manning, Melanie 9 Ritchie 6 X Davis, Kerry 12 Philip Barbour 7 X Rooper, Holly 9 Winfield 8 X Jividen, Kasey 11 Winfield 9 6 Cokeley, Jamie 11 Ritchie 10 7 Tingler, Nicole 12 Grafton 11 8 Caruso, Stephanie 10 Wheeling Cent. 12 9 Adams, Vanessa 12 PikeView 13 10 Bauer, Lauren 10 Wheeling Cent. 14 11 Weaver, Kallen 12 Wheeling Cent. 15 X McCort, Maggie 11 Frankfort 16 12 Rosier, Sarah 11 Grafton 17 13 Kimbler, Angela 11 Ritchie 18 14 Boring, Kylee 9 Doddridge 19 15 Hyde, Elizabeth 10 Doddridge 20 16 Sellers, Brittany 10 Ritchie 21 X Payne, Lindsey 10 Greenbrier West 22 17 Beck, Alice 11 Doddridge 23 18 Tuba, Caitlyn 9 Wheeling Cent. 24 X Jennings, Alexa 10 Philip Barbour 25 19 Wolfe, Ashley 11 Wheeling Cent.