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This year's Good Counsel team is clearly one of the most outstanding collections of track and field athletes ever assembled in Montgomery County.
They demonstrated that again this weekend with their 173 point win at the WCAC Championship, 76 points better than the second place team. Good
Counsel has a star sprinter, a stud hurdler, and a deep distance squad. They lead Montgomery County this year in the 4x4 (3:19.53) and 4x8 (7:53.52)
with not a single runner overlapping between those two relays. I documented in the fall that I believe the 2015 Good Counsel XC squad was the best
cross country team that I ever covered and their distance guys were certainly a key to success at yesterday's track meet.
I think back to the best track and field teams that I have seen in covering the county over the last decade-plus. Instantly I think back to the Good
Counsel teams of 2009 to 2011 and there are many parallels between those teams and this year's team. For one thing, the Good Counsel team of 2011
won the WCAC title with 174 points as compared to the 173 points accumulated by this year's team. The star athletes from those teams of the past
match up similarly to this year's team. For example: Danell Pratt versus Sean Sutton; Ian Davis versus Kyle Martin; Jack Wavering versus Jack
Riely.
Even though 2011 is ancient history in the eyes of a high schooler, I had to compare that 2011 team to this year's team. I took the top three
performances from the WCAC Championship in 2011 and 2016 and scored the hypothetical meet with 5-3-1 scoring in individual events and 5-0 scoring in
relays. The findings were as I suspected. It would have been a tight meet with 2011 beating out 2016: 69 to 64. The 2016 team had the edge on the
track but the 2011 team pulled away in the field events with the help of recently drafted Washington Redskin, Kendall Fuller. Of course, in a real
world meet, the coaches may have moved their athletes around differently to play to their strengths and expose the weaknesses of their opponent.
Hypothetical Dual Meet 2016 Good Counsel vs. 2011 Good Counsel
Using Performances from WCAC Championship Meets in 2011 and 2016
Boys 100 Meter Dash
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Darnell Pratt 2016 OLGC 10.85 5
2. Sean Sutton 2011 Good Counsel 11.00 3
3. Ben Harvey 2011 Good Counsel 11.10 1
Boys 200 Meter Dash
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Darnell Pratt 2016 OLGC 21.34 5
2. Sean Sutton 2011 Good Counsel 21.94 3
3. Blake Countess 2011 Good Counsel 22.63 1
Boys 400 Meter Dash
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Darnell Pratt 2016 OLGC 48.46 5
2. Sean Sutton 2011 Good Counsel 48.48 3
3. Jonathan Imes 2016 OLGC 49.51 1
Boys 800 Meter Run
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Kevin McGivern 2016 OLGC 01:56.69 5
2. Afolabi Shokunbi 2011 Good Counsel 01:57.57 3
3. Jack Wavering 2016 OLGC 01:58.06 1
Boys 1600 Meter Run
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Jack Wavering 2016 OLGC 04:17.65 5
2. Kevin McGivern 2016 OLGC 04:19.20 3
3. Jimmy Vazzana 2016 OLGC 04:24.88 1
Boys 3200 Meter Run
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Jack Wavering 2016 OLGC 09:32.46 5
2. Kevin McGivern 2016 OLGC 09:34.75 3
3. Jack Riely 2011 Good Counsel 09:42.66 1
Boys 110 Meter Hurdles
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Ian Davis 2016 OLGC 14.66 5
2. Kyle Martin 2011 Good Counsel 14.93 3
3. Justin Cleaver 2016 OLGC 16.01 1
Boys 300 Meter Hurdles
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Ian Davis 2016 OLGC 39.76 5
2. Justin Cleaver 2016 OLGC 41.13 3
3. Kyle Martin 2011 Good Counsel 41.24 1
Boys 4x100 Meter Relay
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. 2011 Good Counsel 43.26 5
Boys 4x200 Meter Relay
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. 2016 OLGC 01:27.98 5
Boys 4x400 Meter Relay
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. 2011 Good Counsel 03:28.81 5
2. 2016 OLGC 03:33.59
Boys 4x800 Meter Relay
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. 2016 OLGC 08:04.26 5
2. 2011 Good Counsel 08:07.75
Boys High Jump
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Kyle Martin 2011 Good Counsel 5-04.00 5
Boys Long Jump
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Kendall Fuller 2011 Good Counsel 21-02.50 5
2. Kevin Moore 2011 Good Counsel 18-11.50 3
3. Justin Cleaver 2016 OLGC 18-08.50 1
Boys Triple Jump
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Kendall Fuller 2011 Good Counsel 43-00.00 5
2. Blake Countess 2011 Good Counsel 40-04.50 3
3. Kyle Martin 2011 Good Counsel 39-06.75 1
Boys Shot Put
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Ryan Watson 2011 Good Counsel 53-10.00 5
2. Olushola Shokunbi 2011 Good Counsel 40-07.00 3
3. Eli Crutchfield 2011 Good Counsel 39-00.50 1
Boys Discus
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Name Team Result Pts
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1. Ryan Watson 2011 Good Counsel 123-10 5
2. Eli Crutchfield 2011 Good Counsel 115-09 3
3. Bobby Mitchell 2011 Good Counsel 103-05 1
Men - Team Rankings - 17 Events Scored
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1) 2011 Good Counsel 69 2) 2016 OLGC 64 |
