A Boys Individual Event Predictions 100 M 1. Chris Fleming Greenbrier West 2. John Adam Romeo South Harrison 3. Pat Zadrozny Wheeling Central 4. Jason Smith Buffalo 5. Eddie Mongold Moorefield 6. Matthew Liller Union Fleming won the AA-A combined meet last year and is a heavy favorite in the event. Romeo and Zadrozny should battle it out for the two spot with Romeo having a better series of times so far this year. Smith won his regional and has a good consistent series of times. Mongold has several fast clockings this year and could place higher but barely escaped regionals. Liller beat him in regionals as did Cody Shahan of Tucker (who also beat Liller but Liller has a better series of times). Dustin Briscoe has beaten teammate Smith in event so it looks pretty wide open midway through the placers and on down. 200M 1. Chris Fleming Greenbrier West 2. Joshua McKee Wheeling Central 3. John Adam Romeo South Harrison 4. Kenny Templeton Williamstown 5. Chris Neely Meadow Bridge 6. Daniel Sine East Hardy Fleming took third in last year's meet, has the fastest time this year by over 1/2 a second and his 5th best time is better than anyone else's best time. McKee ran very well in regionals and Romeo is very close to him has slightly faster times but a slower regional. Templeton also won his regional in fine fashion. Neely had a better regional than Sine and has a better time series despite Sine's better top time. Eddie Mongold of Moorefield had a reported 23.38 during the season but was barely below 24 the rest of the time. Another low 23 and he will move well into the placers. 400M 1. Ryan Jobes Williamstown 2. Eric Belancic Wheeling Central 3. Mike Drescher Doddridge 4. Wayne Ritter Doddridge 5. Chris Neely Meadow Bridge 6. Chris Fleming Greenbrier West Jobes has gone under 50 this year and is about 1.5 seconds faster than anyone else. Belancic has been 52 twice this year. Drescher and Ritter went below 52 at regionals, the only other people to go below that mark so far this year. Neely dominated his region and has the speed to move up. Speaking of speed, Fleming obviously has it to burn and placed 6th last year. A top 3 finish is easily within reach, but he'll have to run well to place. Keep an eye on Gilmer's Travis Fisher. He has beaten both Drescher and Ritter earlier this year and has a better best time than Neely. A top 3 is also not out of the question for him. 800M 1. Ryan Jobes Williamstown 2. John Matherly Charleston Catholic 3. Travis Fisher Gilmer 4. Nick Pickrell Williamstown 5. Mike Drescher Doddridge 6. Eric Thompson Doddridge Jobes placed 4th in the event last year and has gone below 1:59 this year. No one else is below 2:02. Matherly ran a great regional but will have to fight off Fisher again as both have gone under 2:03. Pickrell and Drescher both have 2:04's to their credit, with Pickrell having a better overall series. Thompson is the only other runner under 2:07. Jason Powell of Mercer Christian, Wayne Ritter of Doddridge and Ryan Howard of Cameron could also crack the point column. 1600M 1. Ryan Jobes Williamstown 2. Adam Raper Williamstown 3. Jamie Blair Charleston catholic 4. Nick Pickrell Williamstown 5. Eric Thompson Doddridge 6. Brent Wellings Doddridge Jobes has gone under 4:30 this year, no one else under 4:37. Raper is the only other runner under 4:40 so far this year and placed 5th in the event last year. Blair has the next best time and series of times and Pickrell has two sub 4:45 times. Thompson and Wellings could also go as high as 3rd as the placing should be tight here. 3200M 1. Adam Raper Williamstown 2. Adam Coon Sherman 3. Jamie Blair Charleston Catholic 4. Alex Sacco Wheeling Central 5. Corey Brown Williamstown 6. Eric Thompson Doddridge Raper is ahead of anyone else by 6 seconds and Coon ahead of the rest by another 4 seconds. Raper has the speed to finish it and Coon has been very consistent and has the bust total time series of the group. The rest of the top 6 are only separated by 6 seconds and all of them have a good shot at 3rd or better. Blair has the best series of times and has been consistent as well this year. Sacco has the 3rd best time in the field and Brown and Thompson are close behind. After this group of six, no one else has come within 18 seconds of their top times. 110H 1. Eric Novick Wheeling Central 2. Eric Belancic Wheeling Central 3. Dylan Hashman St. Marys 4. Andrew Hose Moorefield 5. Scott Wallace South Harrison 6. Thomas Hutchinson Buffalo Novick has continued to improve all season long and has become the man to beat. His 15.04 regional clocking was nearly 1/4 second better than anyone else's best time this year. Belancic may be the only one to be able to challenge him and has beaten him this year as well as placing fifth in the combined state meet last year. Hashman has the next best time and series, followed by Hose. Wallace had an excellent regional run that has moved him up the board. Hutchinson has the next best series of times and a good regional clocking as well. Brandon Boone of Greenbrier West should be in the mix as well. 300H 1. Eric Novick Wheeling Central 2. Josh Brookover Williamstown 3. Eric Kromberg Parkersburg Catholic 4. Cody Boyd Williamstown 5. Chris Neely Meadow Bridge 6. Thomas Hutchinson Buffalo Novick has the best time in the class this year, two times under 41, and at least 5 times under 42 (leading the class in those categories as well. Brookover is the only other runner under 41 this year and has 3 times under 42. Kromberg is the only other runner with multiple times under 42 and Boyd the only other runner under that mark. They are about 1.5 seconds ahead of the rest of the field with Neely having the next best time and speed to go even faster. Hutchinson has a good series of times and was given the edge over Andrew Home of Moorefield slightly faster top time. 4x100 1. Williamstown 2. Wheeling Central 3. East Hardy 4. Greenbrier West 5. Moorefield 6. Valley Fayette Williamstown has excellent team speed and has 5 times better than anyone else's best time. Central is the only other team under 46 so far this year. East Hardy has a good stable of sprinters as well and has the 3rd fastest time in the state this year, set while winning their regional meet. Greenbrier West won their regional and has Chris Fleming as their anchor man. Moorefield has a low 46 mark this year and could compete for 3rd as well. Valley Fayette, Tucker and Buffalo should fight it out for 6th with Valley having the better regional. 4x200 1. Williamstown 2. Wheeling Central 3. Doddridge 4. East Hardy 5. Tucker 6. Buffalo Different sprint relay, same story. Williamstown has the horses and four times under 1:33. No one else has even one. Wheeling Central isn't so far back that Williamstown won't have to run their best though. No one else is under 1:35 and several teams have hit times in that area. Doddridge has been there more often than anyone else (3) while East Hardy and Tucker have done it twice with East Hardy handily over Tucker in the regional. Buffalo's top three times are all better than Valley Fayettes top time so they look like a solid pick to place as well. 4x400 1. Williamstown 2. Doddridge 3. Pocahontas 4. Wheeling Central 5. Charleston Catholic 6. Valley Fayette When it comes to the relays, we try to guess who will be running since teams often load up at states for possibly the first time all year. That is often why you will see picks that seem to be out of order with regional and best times. Williamstown has been the dominant team in this event all year and with Jobes likley running this event instead of the 4x800, they should be able to hold off other teams. If Doddridge chooses to fully load this team, they could come close to Williamstown but probably still be short. Pocahontas puts together a solid team effort from top to bottom and is currently 6 seconds ahead of the remaing teams. Wheeling Central might also challenge Williamstown if they fully loaded their team, but they will maximize scoring by using some of their athletes elsewhere. Valley Fayette and Catholic have the next best times this year with Catholic seeming to have more potential. Gilmer should be in the mix as well. 4x800 1. Williamstown 2. Doddridge 3. Charleston Catholic 4. Wheeling Central 5. Gilmer 6. Cameron See the the 4x4 above for comments about loaded teams vs. regional times, etc. Williamstown probably won't load their team as they don't need to to win. Doddridge has a solid team (with easily the second best time so far this year) and should be able to hold off Charleston Catholic who has the ability to upgrade their team time significantly. Wheeling Central, Gilmer and Cameron are several seconds apart for the next few spots and several seconds ahead of anyone else. Each has the ability to improve their time by several seconds so they'll probably fall about where they currently do on the best performances list. East Hardy and St. Marys could challenge for spots if they pull a couple runners in that we don't know about. Shuttle 1. Wheeling Central 2. Williamstown 3. Buffalo 4. St. Marys 5. South Harrison 6. Valley Fayette Central's shuttle team is likely all that stands in the way of a Williamstown sweep of the relay events. Central has the best time in the state this year and 4 times under 60. Williamstown has two times in that range. Buffalo is the only other team under 1:03 with a 1:01 mark earlier this month. St. Marys and South Harrison have both been in the 103's with South Harrison having a better series of times. Valley Fayette has the next best time and series of times. Greenbrier West easily won their region and could contend her as well. H Jump 1. Eric Belancic Wheeling Central 2. Jomarrae Gordon Pendleton 3. Matt Beiter Bishop Donahue 4. Johan Berte South Harrison 5. Mark Sabolsky Hannan 6. Brian Spitzer Greenbrier West Belancic is the best jumper in the state this year regardless of class. He is the defending champion and has a jump of 6'9 and at least 5 jumps over 6'6. Gordon came onto the scene fairly late this year but his 6'4 jump puts him where no one else has gone. Beiter jumped decently in states last year and has two jumps of 6'2 this year. Berte has two marks over 6'0 and Sabolsky 1, the only other jumpers in the field with reported marks of greater than 5'10. Spitzer's 5'10 jump in regionals along with his good LJ ability has convinced us to move him ahead of the rest of the 5'10 jumpers. Of the remaining jumpers, Joe Duffelmeyer of Doddridge has 3 5'10 leaps and no one else has more than one. L Jump 1. Brian Spitzer Greenbrier West 2. Daniel Watson Buffalo 3. Donnie Robinson Union 4. Jacob Lilly Gilmer 5. Preston Copeland Valley Fayette 6. Drew Hines Charleston Catholic Spitzer placed 6th last year and has the best jump in the class this year by nearly 1/2 foot. Watson jumped well at regionals and finished fifth in the event last year. Robinson also has a 20' leap this year at his regional meet. Lilly has a solid series of jumps this year with several over 19'6 feet while Copeland has also neared 20 feet. Hines jumped well at Gazettes and is one of only three others to have cleared 19' this year (Berte of South Harrison and Gsell of Tucker). P Vault 1. Willie Sarine Doddridge 2. Wes Billups Williamstown 3. Dylan Hashman St. Marys 4. Justice Powers Williamstown 5. Josh Weithe Wheeling Central 6. James Fenton Williamstown Sarine switched to a longer pole later in the year and immediately went over 13'. Billips and Hashman have an equal amont of vaults over 12'6 with Billups being given the edge due to his 4th place finish int he event last year. Powers is the only other jumper in the field to go over 13' but has no 12'6 marks behind hit. Wiethe took 3rd in the event last year, but needs a 12'6 to go that high again. Fenton has cleared 12'0 twice this year and no one else in the field has. Sayer Romage of Mount Hope isn't very far off with a number of marks in the 11'6/11' range. Discus 1. Zac Hall Williamstown 2. Tony Flinn Williamstown 3. Patrick Hart Buffalo 4. Travis Shreve Valley Wetzel 5. Josiah Barton Bishop Donahue 6. Tyrone Powell Mount Hope Hall (3rd last year) has 2 throws over 160' and 3 more over 154. No one else has gone over 146. Flinn has 4 throws over 140 and we gave him the edge over Hart who has a top mark 4 feet greater than Flinn but no other marks above 138. Shreve placed second in the event last year and has potential. Barton is the only other thrower over 140' so far this year. Powell has the best series of the remaining throwers and the 6th best throw overall. Josh Burns of St. Marys has 3 throws over 130' and that might be well enough to place. Jeffrey Wilkins of East Hardy has a 139' to his credit and could land in the top 3 with another throw of that distance. Shot 1. Tony Flinn Williamstown 2. Tim Williams Doddridge 3. Tyrone Powell Mount Hope 4. Travis Shreve Valley Wetzel 5. Brian McCulley Bishop Donahue 6. Patrick Hart Buffalo Flinn placed 6th in the event last year and has two throws over 49' as well as the best overall series and top throw. Williams has also been over 49 this year. Powell has the best series among the remaining throwers so we gave him the edge over Shreve who has the 3rd best throw in class. McCulley has been very consistent this year so we placed him ahead of Hart and Bruce Whitlock of Pendleton who have slightly better top throws but not as good top five throws. High Point Predicitons 1. Ryan Jobes Williamstown 32.5 2. Eric Belancic Wheeling Central 28.5 3. Eric Novick Wheeling Central 24.5 4. Adam Raper Williamstown 23 5. Tony Flinn Williamstown 22.5