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Here is the GHSA A Public State Meet Preview including Post Region Team Rankings

Here are the Week 10 male ROWS. Sam Bowers is named All Class after his win at Area 3. photo by Rob Rose

Top remain solid. Third podium spot up for grabs.(via MileSplit)

Here are the Georgia HS Female Runners of the Week from Week 8. Nicole Fegans is pictured.

(via MileSplit)After Week 5, Towns County and Commerce are looking like the teams to beat after a close race at Cookies n' Quotes.

All of the top 10 squads in A Public have at least 1 race in this Fall. Georgia Military Boys are beginning to look like the team to beat. Towns County is on top for the Girls.

Here is the A Public pre-season preview and rankings. 

Towns County, like in 2014, Sweep the A Public Team and Individual Titles. Hannah Whitehead defends the Overall as well.

A Public Girls will also get their due Saturday at the GHSA State Championships. Commerce edged defending State Champ Towns County at the Area 4 meet.

A Public will get their due Saturday at the GHSA State Championships. This could be a very tight race to determine the Boys Team Champ.

1A Boys Public hit the start line after all the dust had cleared from the afternoon, but did have cooler temps than the previous 2 classes (unless some self-appointed weathermen out there beg to differ like on The Discussion Board. The venue had nearly cleared after the A Private Awards were finished , but these guys were ready to race on a course that very few of them had experience on.  Many of the top runners from the 2013 meet had graduated, and 2 time defending Champ Georgia Military was a bit down this season (like many A Public squads having a difficult job of fielding a full squad.) New champions would be crowned on this day...

I really wish we had more data to gon with A Public Cross Country, but this seems to happen every season since A was split up into Public and Private. Its pretty obvious the toughest area is Area 4 as judged by the races held at Athens Academy ( a real XC course) all season and last Thursday.  As for the other Areas...no results have been turned in and I don't have much faith in some of the courses being legit that Area 1,2,3 competed on. 

The Nike-Fleet Coach Wood Invitational produced 5 of the 8 HS Boys for week ending 10-19.  Pictured are 5A ROW Christian Bowles and 6A ROW Khayvonn Benson. Reilly Friedman of Galloway was delected as the All-Class 'ROW' after his 1st place effort at Coach Wood in 15:50. 

Tyler Barber's mammoth performance at the Gwinnett County Championship earns him All-Class 'Runner of the Week' Other Class 'ROWs' were Jack Bluth from Milton, Jonathan Pelham from Lagrange, Stephen Martinez of St.Pius X, Brian Vincent from Pepperell and 2 freshmen from the 'Small School' classes: Jack Douglass of Pace Academy, and Griffin McCauley of Paideia who finished just ahead of Douglass at Coach Daley.  

We are definitely looking for an involved 1A Public Coach to take over doing Rankings. If you are willing to invest an hour a week on Sunday to compile rankings please e-mail the webmaster. 1A Public is a fickle beast...Many more schools must be competing than results we are receiving and you could be the conduit to improve this as gatfxc.com and now https://ga.milesplit.com have reached out for years for results.  Trion's Boys ran well at Ridge Ferry deserving of #1. No Girls team matched Towns County who won at Cookies and Cream at Tallulah Falls.

Its actually extremely close in 1A Public with the top 5 Team Rankings. Looking at the Team Rankings page will spell that out, but some course variances came into play and some head to head competiton at Athens Academy meet 9-3 and George Walton 9-10.   

 A Public Girls- Towns County, Trion Go to Tiebreaker!  Sarah Meadows Individual Champ Only a few fans got to witness the closet race of the meet as A Public Girls came down to a 6th runner tiebreaker to decide the team champion. Just 9 days earlier Trion defeated Towns by 12 points at the Area 4 meet. But, with more players in the mix with a few individuals factoring in from other Areas the game was afoot. In near darkness with temps dropping Towns and Trion tied with 60 apiece, but the Towns' 6th runner was far ahead of Trion's deciding the team title. Commerce finished 3rd followed by Hawkinsville.at the team Podium party!  Frosh Sarah Meadows of Gordon Lee won her first of what could be many A Public GHSA individual titles placing 1st in 22:46. Defending champ Ansley Vardeman from Towns placed 2nd in 23:21. 

The A Public Girls have the honor of racing last on what's sure to be a chewed up course with only meet officials, parents, their coaches and the timer left in attendance with the sun dropping behind the hill, elementary school getting their awards in near darkness (unless the lights are turned on across the street) The team race favors Area 4 champ Trion, defending champ Towns County. Indivdually it may be wide open as very few of these girls may have experience on the re-routed course.