
Author's note: This is the fourth, and final, installment in a series of following-the-state-meet articles. I will not have time to write one for any more of the classifications and genders. Each one of these takes a while to write, and I'm rapidly running out of time.
In what follows, we will take you chronologically through the 2A Boys state meet, discussing each of the events and many of the athletes who figure to play prominent roles in determining this year's team state title.
The major team contenders are Lyons, Cedaredge, and Resurrection Christian. That doesn't mean it's impossible for any other team to win it, just that any reasonably objective analysis is going to land on these three teams as the primary contenders. And, even among these three, Resurrection needs things to go particularly well for them to have a hope of keeping pace with Lyons and Cedaredge. And so, these three teams will be the focus--though not exclusively so--of this article.
Thursday
Pole Vault - Opening even...