Raise It To The Rafters
OCIAA Cheerleading Championships Feature Non-Stop Athleticism, Style and Verve; Pine Bush Wins Fifth Division I Title In A Row; Burke Captures Division II; Soaring Flyers, Flips, Pyramids And Other Routine Elements Debunk Nonsensical Notion That Cheerleading Is Not A Sport
Division I: 1) Pine Bush 86.635; 2) Newburgh Free Academy 80.175; 3) Minisink Valley 74.325
Division II: 1) John S. Burke Catholic 71.95; 2) James I. O’Neill 67.15; 3) Tri-Valley 66.525
By RICHARD A. ROSS
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou, African-American poet
Scenes From The OCIAA Cheerleading Chapionships. (This panel is not large enough to hold photos of all competing teams but the accompanying album has hundreds) Seen here (Clockwise) Fallsburg cheerleaders leap in synch, Pine Bush cheerleaders pose for their fifth Division I title win in the past five years. They've won seven of the past eight and were 13th at Nationals. A Monroe-Woodbury cheerleader caught in mid air. The S.S. Seward Lady Spartans perform. Minisink Valley took third in Division I. Here's their team pose. Tri-Valley took third in Division II. All hail the Red and Blue! T-V cheerleader Jessica Kinney enjoys her young partner's dancing as well as her own. Burke won Division II with a captivating performance. Here they are with the plaque. A couple of Monroe-Woodbury cheerleaders smile for the camera as the teams dance and await awards. Newburgh Free Academy in a pyramid array. The Goldbacks took second. Goshen Cheerleaders launch one of their own into mid-air. A Chester cheerleader shows her verve. Monticello cheerleaders leap in unified motion. A Cornwall cheerleader defies gravity.
KINGSTON, NY—“You’ve come a long way, baby,” the slogan used to market Virginia Slims cigarettes to a widening demographic of women smokers, had the right message for the wrong agenda. So it was that the phrase was soon co-opted to commemorate the progress women have made in their battle for gender equality.
James I. O'Neill took second place in Division II.
Hard as it is to imagine a time when women couldn’t vote, work in an astounding variety of careers or earn pay commensurate with their talent and experience.
But times have certainly changed for the better, though there are still battles to be waged, especially in other parts of the world where extreme fundamentalism bars women from the most basic rights including driving a car or even going to school.
But to accept the notion that there remains no tinge of inequality or double standards right here in the United States is naïve at best. Women still are not paid the same as men in many arenas of work and in athletics, though inordinate progress has been made, women’s sports are one rung lower on the triage when it comes to sports coverage.
But perhaps the most flagrant example of ignorant bias applies to cheerleading. Talk about coming a long way. Not that many years ago, cheerleaders were mere accents to basketball or football games. Their lovely presence featured school uniforms which consisted of sweaters and long skirts. They sported pom poms and were solely about the rah rah.
Nowadays cheerleaders are athletes in every sense of the word. Their routines which include sending teammates to dizzying heights and catching them, back flips, tumbling, synchronized jumps and movements and dance routines require rigorous practice.
All of this was on display at this year’s OCIAA Cheerleading Championships staged at the Kate Walton Field House at Kingston High School. A total of 16 teams brought their best to the floor as judges looked on evaluating them according to a rubric of complex standards. Division I schools included Valley Central, Monticello, Goshen, Newburgh Free Academy, Pine Bush, Minisink Valley, Kingston, Washingtonville, Monroe-Woodbury and Cornwall.
Division II participants included Fallsburg, Chester, John S. Burke Catholic, Tri-Valley, James I. O’Neill and S.S. Seward.
Washingtonville exudes style and spirit.
The stands were packed and the crowd exuded their enthusiasm as the teams took the floor to perform their routines. For this photographer the day would yield hundreds and hundreds of photos which are now on display at www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com
Those pictures verify beyond doubt the degree of difficulty of much of what was performed as well as capturing the lively spirit evinced.
For the fifth year in a row and the seventh time in the past eight years, Pine Bush won the Division I crown. Not surprising given the back that the team just garnered 13th place at Nationals staged at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Talented Newburgh Free Academy with its amazing high flying performers and its stunning choreography and synchronicity was second. Minisink Valley was third.
Fallsburg was the first Division II school to perform and the Lady Comets did admirably. It’s always hard to perform early in a competition. By the time John S. Burke Catholic took to the floor, four other school had already finished their routine, including Chester, thereby making them the third Division II school on display.
The spirited Lady Eagles duly impressed the judges who would go on to award them first place. Rival James I. O’Neill was awarded second place and Tri-Valley, which did not compete in the OCIAA Championships last year, turned in a vibrant performance and came away with third place. Coach Leighanne Walsh was delighted for her Lady Bears who had voiced their nervousness prior to their performance.
Though the other teams are not listed in the scoring array, it must be said that all of them had elements that were outstanding and impressive.
Great hosts and great competitors: The Kingston Lady Tigers
OCIAA Cheerleading Chairman Andy Buchsbaum of Liberty High School had this to say about the day’s proceedings: “I thought it was an exciting atmosphere here today. All the teams competed well and there was a lot of energy and great sportsmanship. I thought it was an overall great day,” he averred.
The smiles and laughter that were on display during the competition, the massive dance interlude prior to the awards ceremony and of course the joy evinced by the teams which were top finishers combined to produce a positive and uplifting day.
Again, for a full album of photos visit www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com. Coaches interested in CD’s that contain all of my shots of your teams, e-mail me at rross@sportsinsights.com
Indoor Intrepidity
Tri-Valley Girls Garner Third Consecutive Section Nine ‘B’ Indoor Track Crown; Ellenville Boys Come Through On Avowed Quest Of ‘Drive For Five’ Straight Titles; Meet Features A Slew Of Repeat Defenders And Milestone Times And Distances
Section Nine Indoor ‘B’ Championships
Boys Team scores: 1. Ellenville (Ell) 109 points; 2. Tri-Valley (TV) 66; 3. Marlboro (Marl) 64; 4. Eldred (Eld) 57; 5. Pine Plains (PP) 56; 6. Liberty (Lib) 42; 7. James I. O’Neill (JIO) 26; 8. Spackenkill (Spac) 21; 9. Sullivan West (SW) 14; 10. Onteora (Ont) 9.
Girls Team scores: 1. Tri-Valley (TV) 144 points; 2. Onteora (Ont) 68; 3. Eldred (Eld) 64; 4. Marlboro (Marl) 56; 5. Sullivan West (SW) 44; 6. Liberty (Lib) 42; 7. Ellenville (Ell) 23; 8. Millbrook (Mill) 18; 9. James I. O’Neill (JIO) 16; 10. Spackenkill (Spac) 15; 11. Pine Plains (PP) 5.
By RICHARD A. ROSS
Photos at: www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com
Scenes From The Section Nine 'B' Indoor Track Championships (Clockwise) The Ellenville Blue Devils win their fifth consecutive boys title. Tri-Valley's Dominique Darby triumphs in the shot put and later in the weight throw. Liberty's Rebeccah Harman wins the triple jump. Ellenville senior Tyler O''Bryant prevails again in the 55. Eldred's Hunter Proscia wins the 3200 for the third year in a row. He also ran a leg in the victorious, school-record-breaking 1600 relay. Sullivan West's Rachel Deppa wins the 1500 racewalk for the third consecutive year. Eldred's Christine Donnelly triumphs in the 1,000 and 1500 and runs a leg in the victorious Eldred 1600 relay. Tri-Valley's girls team wins third consecutive Section Nine crown. T-V sophomore Katlynn Greffrath wins the high jump and the long jump. Eldred's Breanna Brucher triumphs in the pole vault.
WEST POINT, NY—Far from the maddening crowds of basketball arenas and the games therein with their banner headlines and epic stories, resides another heroic milieu with its own legion of noble warriors.
For the young men and women who work assiduously during the indoor track season, the greatest rewards are not measured in column inches of newspaper coverage, but rather in the satisfaction of having given their all to achieve vast improvement in their events.
Eldred's Alex Campanella wins the 1600. Here he leads teammate Hunter Proscia and Tri-Valley's Jimmy Bernstein.
To train relentlessly, to fight against all kinds of adversity and to marshal great progress forges character and a sense of personal power that has a lifelong shelf life. Choosing this winter sport requires a dedication and commitment second to none.
Rigorous practice regimens, long meets at West Point, endless bus rides and little sleep are just a few of the requirements.
But indoor track kids will tell you with few exceptions that what they gain is worth every bit of what they sacrifice, especially for those who are moving on into the glorious world of spring track. This season has strengthened body, mind and spirit and put them light years ahead of kids coming out for track who didn’t invest their energy in the arduous winter endeavor.
Aside from a sense of personal satisfaction derived from recording personal best times and distances, there are the added perks for those who emerge victorious and the pride felt in being honored as one of the elites. Track is also a team sport and so the collective joy of a Section Nine title rewards all of the team members and bestows a great honor on the winning schools and the communities they hail from.
When it comes to the Section Nine Indoor Track Championships with its panoply of events and competitors engaged therein, winning a title is an achievement beyond the pale. So when a team does it repeatedly, as is the case with the Tri-Valley girls who walked away with their third consecutive title, and the Ellenville boys whose zany post-meet antics expressed their exultation at winning their fifth straight crown, words fall far short in describing how remarkable such feats are.
For the Lady Bears, it’s been another storied winter, another year of garnering the Tri-fecta of Division, County and Section Nine titles. Details of the Sullivan County Championships can be found towards the end of this story under the subheading of “County Fare.”
Boys Meet Highlights
Tri-Valley's Andrew Malone prevails in the 55 hurdles.
Every championship meet has its milestones and in the very first event of the night, Eldred’s Hunter Proscia set the tone with his state-qualifying, personal best time in the 3200 (9:37.02). It was Proscia’s third consecutive Section Nine title in the event.
On paper based on seed times and distances, Eldred looked like it might be in a position to challenge Ellenville this year, though Blue Devils Coach Phil Altschuler had tinkered with numbers and figured his team had the depth to prevail.
As it would turn out, Eldred was missing a couple of key entrants that would cost them valuable points and drop them to fourth overall. Notwithstanding, the Yellow Jackets turned in some great performances. Alex Campanella won the 1600 (4:27.93), took second in the 3200 (9:53.08) and ran a leg in the Eldred’s school record smashing 1600 relay (3:39.27) along with Proscia, Adrian Krzysztofowicz and Matt Watts.
Looking to build on its recent Sullivan County Championship title, Tri-Valley came into this meet to make a statement. Beating Ellenville would be “Mission Impossible,” but the Bears made some serious noise in places few could have anticipated it. Andrew Malone won the 55 hurdles (8.38). It was the first T-V win in the boys event since Sean Messenger did it five years prior.
T-V’s 3200 Relay comprised of Justin Weintraub, Jim Bernstein, Hauk Boyes, and Brandon Hasbrouck took first in the event in 8:55.63.
Omar Lopez took second in the 1000 (2:43.86). Bernstein turned in a pair of third place finishes behind the storied Eldred duo with a 4:33.38 in the 1600 and 9:57.75 in the 3200. Eugene Morton and Aidan Woolsey claimed fourth and fifth in the Pole vault with marks of 11-0 and 10-5 respectively. Brendan Tierney was fourth in the Shot put with a mark of 41-5.25.
Liberty’s Michael Hinton won the Shot put with a heave of 43-1.5; Sullivan West’s Todd Roeder was third in the event with a mark of 41-6.
Elllenville's Justin Farrenkoph wins the pole vault with a leap of 13-0.
Ellenville’s heroics were seemingly non-stop. They included Tyler O’Bryant’s successful defense of his title in the 55 (6.74). Fellow senior teammate Tashan Beaupierre kept O’Bryant from back-to-back titles in the 300. Beaupierre turned in a blistering 37.72 to edge O’Bryant. Pole vault phenom Justin Farrenkoph repeated as champ with a leap of 13-0. The timing of the events disrupted a bid for an even greater flying feat. Teams were already leaving when Farrenkoph was still making a last ditch try at 14-0.
The boys results are listed below. I’ll add a link soon for the complete results.
55-meter dash: 1. Tyler O’Bryant (Ell) 6.74; 2. Erick Cuellar (Lib) 6.99; 3. Kenny Jaycox (Lib) 7.03; 4. (tie) Julius Nunez (Ell) and Zach Warden (Marl) 7.09; 6. Brendan Tierney (TV) 7.11.
55 hurdles: 1. Andrew Malone (TV) 8.38; 2. Alejandro Ayala (PP) 8.45; 3. Adrian Krzysztofowicz (Eld) 8.46; 4. Rich Barley (Marl) 8.75; 5. Alphonso Cruz (Ell) 8.79; 6. Mitch Paciga (SW) 8.84.
300: 1. Tashan Beaupierre (Ell) 37.72; 2. Tyler O’Bryant (Ell) 37.98; 3. Erick Cuellar (Lib) 38.26; 4. Julius Nunez (Ell) 39.79; 5. Steve Mussachio (Marl) 40.36.
600: 1. Chris Lofaro (Marl) 1:26.43; 2. Tashan Beaupierre (Ell) 1:29.35; 3. Micah Yannatos (Ont) 1:29.88; 4. Matt Watts (Eld) 1:30.17; 5. Omar Lopez (TV) 1:31.07; 6. Jason Groat (Ell) 1:31.18.
1,000: 1. Devin DeJoode (PP) 2:37.33; 2. Omar Lopez (TV) 2:43.86; 3. Jeremy Santiago (Marl) 2:47.16; 4. Alexander Parfentsov (Ell) 2:51.22; 5. Justin Weintraub (TV) 2:53.08; 6. Taylor Armstrong (Ont) 2:57.52.
1,600: 1. Alex Campanella (Eld) 4:27.93; 2. Devin deJoode (PP) 4:29.29; 3. Jim Bernstein (TV) 4:33.38; 4. Hunter Proscia (Eld) 4:36.49; 5. Zech Snel (JIO) 4:36.77; 6. Ryan Jelinek (Spac) 4:44.04.
Tri-Valley's Aric Boyes takes second in the non-scoring weight throw.
3,200: 1. Hunter Proscia (Eld) 9:37.02; 2. Alex Campanella (Eld) 9:53.08; 3. Jim Bernstein (TV) 9:57.75; 4. Reed Scott (SW) 10:20.94; 5. Hauk Boyes (TV) 10:55.97; 6. Brandon Hasbrouck (TV) 11:37.20.
800 relay: 1. James I. O’Neill (Derrike Shrieve, Jeremy Key, Jerry Nasi, Jonathan Carpenter) 1:36.09; 2. Liberty (Erick Cuellar, Kane Sauchuk, Kenny Jaycox, Andrew Hazelnis) 1:38.69; 3. Ellenville (Tyler O’Bryant, Julius Nunez, Alphonso Cruz, Justin Farrenkopf) 1:39.23; 4. Spackenkill 1:40.63; 5. Tri-Valley 1:42.43; 6. Marlboro 1:43.12.
1,600 relay: 1. Eldred (Alex Campanella, Adrian Krzysztofowicz, Hunter Proscia, Matt Watts) 3:39.27; 2. Ellenville (Tashan Beaupierre, Jimmy Quiceno, Jason Groat, Alexander Parfentsov) 3:40.45; 3. Spackenkill (Chris Mastman, Tommy Fink, Wayne Bowden, Ryan Jelinek) 3:40.98; 4. Marlboro 3:45.11; 5. Onteora 3:46.29; 6. Tri-Valley 3:49.07.
3,200 relay: 1. Tri-Valley (Justin Weintraub, Jim Bernstein, Hauk Boyes, Brandon Hasbrouck) 8:55.63; 2. Marlboro (Logan Maneely, Nick Kozlik, Jeremy Santiago, Chris Lofaro) 9:02.40; 3. Pine Plains (Alejandro Ayala, Devin deJoode, Brendan Long, Michael Kirschenheiter) 9:17.56; 4. Liberty 9:25.23; 5. James I. O’Neill 9:30.94; 6. Ellenville 9:31.63.
High jump: 1. Jonathan Carpenter (JIO) 6-0; 2. Brendan Long (PP) 5-8; 3. Justin Farrenkopf (Ell) 5-8; 4. Rich Ackerman (Marl) 5-6; 5. Mitch Paciga (SW) 5-4; 6. John Njoga (JIO) 5-4.
Long jump: 1. Wayne Bowden (Spac) 19-6.25; 2. Jimmy Quiceno (Ell) 18-11.5; 3. Aric Canevari (PP) 18-4.75; 4. Steve Mussachio (Marl) 18-0.25; 5. Kyle Marquis (Marl) 17-11.25; 6. Jerry Nasi (JIO) 17-9.5.
Triple jump: 1. Jimmy Quiceno (Ell) 39-5.5; 2. Kyle Marquis (Marl) 38-1.75; 3. Adam Crick (PP) 36-5; 4. Brendan Long (PP) 36-3; 5. Adrian Krzysztofowicz (Eld) 35-10; 6. Mitch Paciga (SW) 34-10.5.
Shot put: 1. Michael Hinton (Lib) 43-1.5; 2. Jeff Nunez (Ell) 42-6; 3. Todd Roeder (SW) 41-6; 4. Brendan Tierney (TV) 41-5.25; 5. Rob Borriello (Ell) 40-7.5; 6. Aric Boyes (TV) 39-8.
Pole vault: 1. Justin Farrenkopf (Ell) 13-0; 2. Rich Barley (Marl) 11-5; 3. Eugene Morton (TV) 11-0; 4. Aidan Woolsey (TV) 10-5; 5. Julian Gottlieb (Eld) 10-0; 6. DennisMcCullough (Eld) 9-6.
Weight throw (non-scoring): 1. Jeff Nunez (Ell) 56-0.5; 2. Aric Boyes (TV) 52-11.5; 3. Todd Roeder (SW) 49-11; 4. Michael Hinton (Lib) 41-7; 5. Zachary Roberts (TV) 37-9; 6. Rob Borriello (Ell) 34-8.
Girls Meet Highlights
Taking photographs at track meets often means missing some shots while you're busy shooting others. I swung my camera around just in time to catch Tri-Valley's Katlynn Greffrath complete her winning long jump. She won the high jump too and finished a close second in the 55.
While much of the glory would fall to the Tri-Valley Lady Bears, there was plenty to go around for others too. That included Eldred senior Chistine Donnelly who handily won the 1000 (3:08.10) and the 1500 (5:08.37) and ran a leg in the winning 1600 relay along with Sarah Malzahn, Savannah Finck and Selena Hudak in 4:26.46. Breanna Brucher won the Pole vault with a leap of 10-6. Erika Bowring was second in the Long jump (15-0.75).
Another storied competitor in the meet was Tri-Valley’s Katlynn Greffrath. The talented sophomore who doubles up in winter playing for the Section Nine defending champion Lady Bears in basketball, won the Long jump with an impressive leap of 15-7. Greffrath also captured the High jump with a mark of 4-10 and took second in the 55 in 7.81.
Tri-Valley’s Brittany Rennison won the 600 in 1:44.87, while the Lady Bears’ 3200 Relay took gold in 11:05.23 with a team comprised of Autumn Bender, Alex Brooks, Brooke Gillette and Daniel Graham. Gillette was second in the 1500 Racewalk (8:46.12). That event was won by Sullivan West’s Rachel Deppa for the third straight time (8:03.21). History was also made in Shot put as T-V’s Dominique Darby won the event with a throw of 35-1, the best mark in the past seven years. Darby also won the non-scoring Weight throw (46-8).
Mareena DiMilia added valuable points to the T-V ledger with a second place in the 55 hurdles (9.07) and the Shot put (33-5). Bender took second in the 1000 and 1500 with times of 3:20.28 and 5:13.02 respectively.
Liberty’s Rebeccah Harman won the Triple jump (31-7). Teammate Amanda Bertholf was second in the Pole Vault (9-3), while Nikole Snyder took third in the Long jump (15-0.5).
Girls results were as follows (As I noted, I’ll add a link soon for the complete results).
55-meter dash: 1. Diamond Wiley (JIO) 7.78; 2. Katlynn Greffrath (TV) 7.81; 3. Katie Klercker (Ont) 7.82; 4. Courtney Warden (Marl) 7.87; 5. Amanda Rosenberger (SW) 7.89; 6. LaraJane Heslop (Lib) 7.92.
55 hurdles: 1. Courtney Warden (Marl) 8.84; 2. Mareena DiMilia (TV) 9.07; 3. Vickey Tingley (TV) 9.46; 4. Rebeccah Harman (Lib) 9.54; 5. Breanna Brucher (Eld) 9.82; 6. Hannah Feinman (SW) 9.93.
300: 1. Katie Klercker (Ont) 43.55; 2. Tess Howard (Ont) 44.25; 3. Shasche Allen (Spac) 44.60; 4. Brittany Rennison (TV) 46.13; 5. Nina Lofaro (Marl) 46.35; 6. Kristina Sumfleth (SW) 47.83.
Speed and timing are equally important in the 55 hurdles. Here you can see how close it can be as competitors go to clear the fourth hurdle about 40 percent through the race. Marlboro's Courtney Warren won the final with T-V's Mareena DiMilia taking second.
600: 1. Brittany Rennison (TV) 1:44.87; 2. Avery Maillet (Ont) 1:46.51; 3. Emily Koehler (Mill) 1:48.66; 4. Rosa Martinez (SW) 1:48.99; 5. Kendall Peabody (Ell) 1:50.07; 6. Melissa Donovan (Spac) 1:51.64.
1,000: 1. Christine Donnelly (Eld) 3:08.10; 2. Autumn Bender (TV) 3:20.28; 3. Marissa Galella (Marl) 3:24.36; 4. Danielle Graham (TV) 3:28.56; 5. Dani Myers (SW) 3:33.97; 6. Sara Jane Drewett (Eld) 3:38.43.
1,500: 1. Christine Donnelly (Eld) 5:08.37; 2. Autumn Bender (TV) 5:13.02; 3. Mary-Kate Bida (Mill) 5:14.41; 4. Olivia Rehm (TV) 5:35.19; 5. Danielle Graham (TV) 5:37.44; 6. Tania Gomez (PP) 5:39.29.
1,500 racewalk: 1. Rachel Deppa (SW) 8:03.21; 2. Brooke Gillette (TV) 8:46.12; 3. Emily Barbosa (Ell) 9:09.77; 4. Ali Reynolds (TV) 9:09.86; 5. Lauren Frey (Eld) 9:11.90; 6. Mary Alongi (TV) 9:47.75.
3,000: 1. Emily Waligurski (Ont) 11:04.68; 2. Julia Rubin-Armstrong (Ont) 11:07.72; 3. Mary-Kate Bida (Mill) 11:16.93; 4. Olivia Rehm (TV) 11:56.29; 5. Brooke Gillette (TV) 12:03.87; 6. Georgia Houghton (Marl) 12:09.47.
800 relay: 1. Onteora (Tess Howard, Katie Klercker, Avery Maillet, Emily Waligurski) 1:51.95; 2. Liberty (Amanda Bertholf, Nikole Snyder, Rebeccah Harman, LaraJane Heslop) 1:53.65; 3. O’Neill (Diamond Wiley, Maggie Borowicz, Maya Washington, Bayyinah Kareem) 1:58..01; 4. Marlboro 1:59.17; 5. Ellenville 2:01.72; 6. Eldred 2:03.45.
1,600 relay: 1. Eldred (Christine Donnelly, Sarah Malzahn, Savanna Finck, Selena Hudak) 4:26.46; 2. Sullivan West (Rosa Martinez, Amanda Rosenberger, Kristina Sumfleth, Kelsey Dutton) 4:28.34; 3. Spackenkill (Rachel Davis, Melissa Donovan, Jill Hennessey, Shasche Allen) 4:39.95; 4. Tri-Valley 4:45.37; 5. Pine Plains 4:46.25; 6. Ellenville 4:47.27.
3,200 relay: 1. Tri-Valley (Autumn Bender, Alex Brooks, Brooke Gillette, Danielle Graham) 11:05.23; 2. Marlboro (Marissa Galella, Melissa Gattuso, Sara Rood, Georgia Houghton) 11:27.83; 3. Liberty (Melissa Symanski, Jayco Krebs, Kristen Siegel, Sierra Thomas) 11:38.99; 4. Sullivan West 11:44.07; 5. Ellenville 14:40.30.
High jump: 1. Katlynn Greffrath (TV) 4-8; 2. Savannah Nobre (Marl) 4-6; 3. (tie) Erika Bowring (Eld) and Kristina Sumfleth (SW) 4-6; 5. Ali Reynolds (TV) 4-4; 6. Rosa Martinez (SW) 4-2.
Long jump: 1. Katlynn Greffrath (TV) 15-7; 2. Erika Bowring (Eld) 15-0.75; 3. Nikole Snyder (Lib) 15-0.5; 4. Mareena DiMilia (TV) 15-0.25; 5. Shasche Allen (Spac) 14-5.25; 6. Stephanie Walkowiak (Ont) 13-8.75.
Triple jump: 1. Rebeccah Harman (Lib) 31-7; 2. Aubrey Martin (Marl) 31-4.5; 3. Hannah Feinman (SW) 30-11; 4. Erika Bowring (Eld) 30-1.5; 5. Mary-Rose Kelly (PP) 29-7; 6. Brittany Rennison (TV) 29-4.
Shot put: 1. Dominique Darby (TV) 35-1; 2. Mareena DiMilia (TV) 33-5; 3. Danielle Borriello (Ell) 31-3.5; 4. Alyssa Brown (Marl) 30-2.5; 5. Heidi Furman (TV) 29-2; 6. Bianca Toscano (Marl) 27-7.5.
Pole vault: 1. Breanna Brucher (Eld) 10-6; 2. Amanda Bertholf (Lib) 9-0; 3. Julia Rubin-Armstrong (Ont) 9-0; 4. Amelia Jahrling (Ell) 7-6; 5. Vickey Tingley (TV) 7-0; 6. Lauren Frey (Eld) 7-0.
Weight throw (non-scoring): 1. Dominique Darby (TV) 46-8; 2. Danielle Borriello (Ell) 43-3; 3. Heidi Furman (TV) 37-6.5; 4. Shannon Smith (TV) 28-0.5.
County Fare
Tri-Valley’s girls won their third consecutive Sullivan County Indoor Track Championship by outpointing Liberty 137-71. Sullivan West was third with 66 points. Ellenville had 40, Eldred 34 and Monticello had 16.
Tri-Valley’s boys defeated Liberty 103-76, unseating defending champ Ellenville which held a number of its participants out to ready them for the coming sectionals. Monticello was third with 58 points, followed by Sullivan West in fourth with 52. Eldred had 41 and Ellenville posted 40.
Sullivan County Indoor Championships-Boys results
Sullivan County Indoor Championships-girls results
Event results are listed on the charts below.
League Lore
At the OCIAA League Championships Eldred’s boys finished fifth and its girls took ninth in the field of 16 and 13 schools respectively (some schools did not field full teams).
Girls notables: 55 hurdles DiMilia 5th (9.31); 55 Amanda Rosenberger (SW) 6th (7.85); 1500 Racewalk Deppa (SW) 2nd 7:44.34; 1000 Donnelly (E) 4th (3;02.22); 1500 Bender (T-V) 9th 5:08.90; Pole vault Brucher (E) 1st 10-00; Bertholf (L) 2nd 9-0; High jump Greffrath (T-V) 3rd 4-10; Kristina Sumfleth (SW) 7th 4-06; Triiple jump Harman (L) 7th 31-11-00; Hannah Feinman (SW) 8th 31-02.50; Shot put DiMilia (T-V) 4th 35-5.25; Weight throw Shannon Smith (T-V) 27-07.50.
Boys notables: 55 O’Bryant (E) 1st (6.65); Shane Jackson (M) 2nd (6.73); 300 Jackson (M) 5th (39.19). 3200 Campanella (E) 1st 9:30.85; Proscia 5th (9:51.28); 1600 Campanella (E) 1st (4:23.43); Proscia (E) 5th (4:30.74); 1600 unseeded Reed Scott (SW) 2nd 4:52.80; 3200 Relay T-V 6th (8:49.84); Shot put Aric Boyes (T-V) 2nd 43-08.25; Michael Hinton (L) 4th 42-08.25; Brendan Tierney (T-V) 7th 41-00.25; Weight throw Todd Roeder (SW) 4th (44-07); Tierney (T-V) 5th (44-06P; Boyes (T-V) 6th 39-11.50.
For albums of photos from the County and Section Nine meets, visit www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com
Powder Power 2012
Monticello’s Ryan and Haley Heins Win Individual Section Nine Titles In Cousins’ Coup D’état; Monticello Girls Are Victorious As Are Cornwall Boys In Team Honors At Glorious Section Nine Alpine Ski Championships
By RICHARD A. ROSS
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Section Nine Alpine Ski Championships Top Five Boys And Girls Finishes: Top Row : Individual Winners Ryan Heins and Haley Heins of Monticello; Second Row #2 Jacob Combe- Onteora, # 3 Christopher Mastropieti-Tuxedo,; #4 Connor Ginley-Warwick; Row 3: #2 Sabrina Easton-Warwick; #3 Isabelle LaMotte-Onteora; #4 Brianne Germaine- John S. Burke Catholic; Row 4: #5 Drew Billard-Sullivan West and #5 Haley Rip-Monticello.
HUNTER, NY—Stunning, glorious and yes…relatively balmy, this year’s Section Nine Alpine Ski Championships staged at Hunter Mountain were an eyeful to be sure. A year ago the wind was furiously ripping across the slopes and the weather was so frigid that skiers snapped the poles on the slalom course as they went by.
That day I recall saying I had never been so cold in my life. This year was more to my liking and so too apparently to the Heins cousins from Monticello, namely senior Ryan and junior Haley who won the individual titles.
The Monticello girls finished first to capture the team title with a combined time of 2:13.66. Warwick was second. In the boys team showdown it was Cornwall that took top honors with Onteora finishing second.
Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association (OCIAA) champions also were crowned. In the boys’ competition, Onteora won the Division I title and Cornwall the Division II title. Monticello (Division I) and Warwick (Division II) won the girls’ titles.
The state meet is Feb. 27-28 in Lake Placid.
Here are the results
Girls Team results: 1. Monticello (Mo) 213.66; 2. Warwick (War) 221.78; 3. Onteora (Ont) 234.49; 4. Goshen (Gosh) 241.10; 5. Cornwall (Corn) 242.19; 6. Monroe-Woodbury (MW) 261.37; 7. Newburgh Free Academy (NFA) 273.85.
Individual results: 1. Haley Heins (Mo) 66.45; 2. Sabrina Easton (War) 68.47; 3. Isabelle LaMotte (Ont) 68.91; 4. Brianne Germain (JSBC) 69.92; 5. Haley Ripa (Mo) 70.14; 6. Giovanna Fichera (Corn) 72.02; 7. Miranda Davenport (RV) 72.54; 8. Kendall Menges (SW) 72.83; 9. Kaitlyn Kelder (RV) 73.40; 10. Emily Burke (Gosh) 73.90; 11. Camille Huey (War) 75.90; 12. Sarah Coney (Falls/TV) 76.01; 13. Aja Finnocchiaro (MW) 76.49; 14. Tie – Francesca Huey (War) 75.90; 15. Rachel Klein (Mo) 77.07; 16. Christine McSweeney (War) 77.51; 17. Jackie Ford (Ont) 77.59; 18. Kassie Thelman (SW) 80.25; 19. Riley Lindholm (Mo) 78.72; 20. Danielle Diacova (King) 83.34.
State team: 1. Haley Heins; 2. Sabrina Easton; 3. Isabelle LaMotte; 4. Brianne Germain; 5. Haley Ripa; 6. Giovanna Fichera; 7. Miranda Davenport; 8. Kendall Menges; 9. Rachel Klein; Runnerup: Kaitlyn Kelder.
OCIAA Division I champion: Monticello 599.26 (342.14 slalom, 257.12 giant slalom).
OCIAA Division II champion: Warwick 626.38 (364.87 slalom, 261.51 giant slalom).
Boys Team results: 1. Cornwall (Corn) 213.27; 2. Onteora (Ont) 213.52; 3. Monticello (Mo) 215.13; 4. Warwick (War) 227.33; 5. Liberty (Lib) 232.53; 6. Kingston (King) 232.85; 7. Monroe-Woodbury (MW) 281.95.
Individual results: 1. Ryan Heins (Mo) 62.91; 2. Jacob Combe (Ont) 63.61; 3. Christopher Mastropietro (Tux); 4. Connor Ginley (War) 65.77; 5. Drew Billard (SW) 66.66; 6. Greg Merrill (King) 66.97; 7. Charles Manzari (Corn) 68.85; 8. Jack Graham (JIO) 69.83; 9. Ryan Erts (Falls/TV) 71.43; 10. Liam Foody (Corn) 71.44; 11. Kealey Viglielmo (Ont) 72.51; 12. Jimmy Patterson (Corn) 72.98; 13. Eric Buchanan (MW) 74.67; 14. Jack Pennington (War) 74.78; 15. Patrick Doyle (Lib) 74.38; 16. Patrick Ortland (NFA) 76.24; 17. Joseph Klein (Mo) 75.35; 18. Daniel Oldfield (Mo) 76.87; 19. Gene Doyle (Lib) 78.45; 20. Nick Barthel (Ont) 77.40.
OCIAA Division I champion: Onteora 595.62 (325.06 slalom, 260.56 giant slalom).
OCIAA Division II champion: Cornwall 607.43 (346.96 slalom, 260.47 giant slalom).
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Survivors’ Manifesto IV
Fourth Annual Coaches Versus Cancer Classic Features An Expanded Docket Of Games To Raise Money For The Catskill Regional Oncology Unit; Livingston Manor And Tri-Valley Girls Prevail As Do Monticello Junior Varsity and Varsity Boys; Sullivan County Generals Record Mens and Womens Victories
Girls Varsity: Livingston Manor 48, Eldred 22
Boys Junior Varsity Monticello 61, Liberty 29
Varsity Boys: Monticello 65, Liberty 42
Girls Varsity Tri-Valley 64, Sullivan West 17
Womens College SCCC 59, Manhattan CC 54
Mens College SCCC 80, Manhattan CC 50
By RICHARD A. ROSS
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The Fourth Annual Coaches Versus Cancer Classic Gets Bigger And More Pro-Active Each Year. Scenes from (some) of this year's moments along with the resulting donation from last year's event. (Clockwise) The Sullivan West Lady Bulldogs look pretty in Pink. Coach Pat Donovan joins his young team for the pre-game photo op. Monticello's Rob Riley goes aloft for two of his game-high 18 points as the Monties beat Liberty 65-42. The 13-1 Tri-Valley Lady Bears and Coach John Tenbus revel in the limelight prior to their 64-17 win over Sulivan West to defend the tourney title. The poster for the event helped draw large crowds to the Paul Gerry Fieldhouse for the day-long event. Tri-Valley senior Erin Smith looks daunting in this pre-game warmup drill. Sophomore teammate Katlynn Greffrath is about to unleash two of her 12 points in the game. Sullivan West sophomore Marianne Durkin rises up for a shot. She's just a sophomore and still learning but she, like the rest of her young teammates are going to make some serious noise in years to come. Liberty junior Ryan Henry goes aloft for two of his team-high 17 points. Last year's representatives from the four teams along with their coaches present a big check to the Catskill Regional Oncology Unit. We'll see a similar photo erelong as a new group carries on the noble tradition.
LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY—(The following introduction is taken verbatim from the piece I wrote two years ago and again for last year’s Third Annual Coaches vs. Cancer Classic.)
Reading it over, I decided that I still couldn’t frame this year’s story any better and so, rare as it is for me to repeat myself, let alone twice, I present this to my readers again knowing full well that many never read it, or for those who did, it is time to be afforded a reminder about the salient subject of cancer and the indomitable human spirit that continues to battle it, not to mention the place that sports has assumed in the ongoing universal endeavor to generate the resources needed to find a cure for this disease .
LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY—Nothing brings home the message of our mortality more than the dreaded diagnosis of cancer. Few people’s lives are left untouched by this modern day scourge that afflicts people young and old alike from every walk of life, striking family members and friends seemingly everywhere we turn.
And yet, even in the face of such a grim and daunting adversary, people find the will and the courage to battle back; to fight for their survival against the combined ravages of the illness and the bodily upheaval wrought by the chemotherapy and radiation most often used to combat it.
Those battles waged daily, yield countless uplifting stories of survivors who overcome the odds, as well as the heart-rending instances wherein noble souls eventually succumb.
But it is in those times when people are besieged by afflictions such as cancer, or ravaged by other disasters such as the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami that beset Japan, that others will come forward to show their generosity to support one another in their time of greatest need.
In its unrelenting assault, cancer is a universal adversary against which the human spirit continues to apply its resolve to find a cure, and pending that, to deploy better tools for combating the disease and improving the survival rates of those beset by it. Such work is not only time-consuming. It is costly.
Since 1993, an alliance between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has spawned a nationwide effort to marshal the resources provided by the popular sport as a fundraising tool to battle cancer.
Today, more than 2000 college and high school coaches are involved in the Coaches versus Cancer program which has raised nearly 50 million dollars to eliminate cancer as a life threatening disease.
The Local Effort
In 2010 two separate events were staged in Sullivan County to help raise money for the epic battle against this terrible affliction. In second of those initial CVC endeavors and the first one held at Sullivan County Community College, Liberty and Monticello’s boys teams went at it in the Second Annual Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic. Liberty prevailed 66-59 in that epic clash and a hefty sum of $1,060 dollars was raised by the event.
A month prior, in December 2009, Sullivan West girls basketball coach Patrick Donovan who had previously called Tri-Valley coach Andy Taggart, had made arrangements whereby the two decided that their upcoming game would be a fundraiser for the Catskill Regional Oncology Unit. Thus was born the “Pink Out” game and its mantra of “Battlin’ For A Cause.”
In that January 2011 clash at SCCC, Tri-Valley prevailed by the score of 37-20, but more importantly, the real winner was the fight against Cancer as a hearty sum was raised as the two rival communities forged a combined effort royale.
Donovan and Tri-Valley Coach John Tenbus who replaced the retiring Taggart had contacted then Liberty Athletic Director Jason Semo about adding their game and its community fundraising power to the Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic.
The result was inspiring. The 2011 event raised $3,205.41 for the Catskill Regional Oncology Unit as the throngs in the packed gym at Sullivan County Community College showed their remarkable generosity in these difficult economic times.
Fans were privy to some wonderful basketball and made aware of the promise that this year’s event would expand again.
In the 2011 CVC high school clashes, the Monticello boys held sway over Liberty by the score of 64-43, while the Tri-Valley Lady Bears dominated Sullivan West to the tune of 59-30. As it would turn out this year, the defending Tournament champions would repeat their feats of a year ago despite major changes in their casts.
On the docket this year was a junior varsity game between the Liberty and Monticello boys, won by the storming Monties 61-29, a varsity girls opener between Livingston Manor and Eldred girls in which the Lady Wildcats prevailed 48-22 behind the 18-point outpouring of Samantha Scott, and a pair of college game as the nightcap as the SCCC men’s and women’s teams took on the Borough of Manhattan Community College to add to the already thrilling girls and boys games that preceded it.
The Lady Generals prevailed 59-54 as Isis Alonso scored 17 points and pulled down 17 rebounds, while Luna Jefferson added 15 points and 13 rebounds. In the men’s nightcap, Pine Bush grad Cleanthony Early scored 21 points in the 80-50 Region XV win. Willie Williams added 18 points and 15 rebounds for the 23-2, 16-0 Region XV Generals who are ranked second in the nation.
Crowds were thinner than a year ago but the event still raised over $3,000 for the Catskill Regional Oncology Unit in the name of Cierra Boone, a young woman who lost herbrave battle against cancer last year. Her cousin Dante Agnew is a student at SCCC this year and the leading scorer on this year’s #1-ranked Generals team.
Monticello Uses A 20-2 First Quarter To Outlast Liberty
This year has seen its share of struggles for both Monticello and Liberty who came into this fray with just five and four wins respectively. Even so, both face crucial must-win league games on February 15 that could bring them sectional berths on their respective senior nights. Monticello hosts Goshen, while Liberty hosts O’Neill.
Both teams had played tough games the night prior to this year’s CVC clash and both had to use everything they had to survive for season-saving league victories. Monticello outlasted Port Jervis 47-45, while Liberty withstood a furious Sullivan West comeback bid to hold on for the 46-40 win. With Eddie Byrd’s ejection in that encounter via a pair of technical fouls, his absence would make things more trying for the Indians who dressed only eight players for the fray.
Monticello jumped out to a 20-2 lead in the first quarter getting six points apiece from Rob Riley and Sean Reuss and five from Anthony Gray that included a trey, to go along with a game-opening three from Ros Djonbalaj. A late bucket by Liberty’s D’angelo Burell avoided the shut out.
The Indians awoke with nine points in the second stanza four of which came from Joe Franke to go along with two apiece from Henry, Andrew Hersh and Taylor Vankeuren. The Monties countered with 12 of their own. A trey from Ben Kapito, four more points from Reuss, three from Riley and two from Naquan Holman gave the Panthers a 32-11 lead at the half.
Liberty continued to play hard and nearly matched the Monties’ effort in the third stanza as they scored 11 to Monticello’s 15. Henry led the way with five points in the quarter, Franke had three and Travis Beaupierre added two. Burrell provided one from the stripe.
Riley carried the load with nine after despite a scary moment wherein he went up for a dunk and got taken out by Vankeuren. The flagrant foul sent Riley to the line for extra attempts given the nature of the violation. “I thought my knee went out,” the stalwart senior would later declare. Gray had his second trey of the game.
Monticello now led 47-22 after three. Liberty erupted for 20 points in the final stanza as Henry poured in 11, Franke provided four and Marson Williams added a trey for the now 4-11 Indians. Henry had 17 points to lead the Indians, while Franke donated 11 to the cause.
Riley led the Monties with 18 with Reuss chipping in 16 including an impressive six-for-six from the stripe in the 65-42 win for the now 6-11 Monties.
Monticello Coach Chris Russo who had been shocked by his team’s poor, albeit winning effort against a diminished Port Jervis team the night before, came away from this game in a much better state of mind. “We shot the ball really well today which we haven’t done in awhile which was really good for us. We defended really well.
The game was different without Eddie in there but you’ve got to give those kids credit. They fought really hard. We had a great first quarter and it really set the tone for the rest of the game. Their kids battled. You know Mike (Salvia) does a great job with them and I’m proud that we were able to get a win. That’s two in a row as we get ready for Goshen on Wednesday. That’s a big one for us,” he noted.
Referencing the scary moment when Riley hit the deck, Russo agreed it was frightening. “Rob’s looking for a dunk and they don’t want to get dunked on. The kid just got a little bit much but fortunately Rob is all right and cooler head prevailed when all was said and done with it,” he averred.
“The event was great. It’s been great all day. The venue is awesome. Chris DePew and Kevin DeVantier and all the guys here at Sullivan do a great job and the event just gets bigger and bigger for us. Hopefully we’re raising a lot of money and I’m proud of my guys.
Salvia deflected any excuses for the loss including Byrd’s absence, fatigue etc. “We just came out flat in the first quarter. We just didn’t bring it and that was the difference in the game. They came out and made a lot of shots that we didn’t expect. They had some kids step up and hit some big time shots,” he noted.
“Our season is on the line on Wednesday versus O’Neill. Our kids understand that and if can bring the same effort we brought against Sullivan West and the latter part of this game we’ll be okay.”
Tenbus Sits His Sluggish Bears Early But Tri-Valley Goes On To Steamroll Young Sullivan West
It’s been a tempestuous week for Tri-Valley as the team suffered its first loss of the season in a home division clash to Tuxedo. The 52-46 defeat unveiled some chinks in the Lady Bears’ armor and had Tenbus looking forward to this game with Sullivan West as a place to put the machinery back in gear against the youngsters of Sullivan West.
It’s not a mystery that Coach Pat Donovan’s kids are learning the game on the fly. They have both talent and heart aplenty but they’ve got a lot to learn. Thus the 3-11 record coming in made the Lady Bulldogs a major underdog to the 12-1 Lady Bears.
Imagine the astonishment of both coaches and the throngs in the stands as Sullivan West battled the defending Class C champs nearly even in the first quarter and trailed by just two at 10-8 at the end of eight minutes.
Tenbus was fuming with his team’s clueless play as they seemed mystified by Sullivan West’s two-three zone, something they practice against constantly. Turnovers, poor execution and a spate of missed shots were part of the modus operandi, not to mention a pair of missed free throws from sophomore point guard Sabrena Smith, a less than scintillating reminder of T-V’s ongoing struggles from the stripe.
The only bright spot was junior Mareena DiMilia who scored eight of her team’s ten in the stanza. The other two points came from freshman Katlynn Greffrath. Sullivan West countered with a bucket apiece from juniors Katie Taylor and Erika Stauch to go along with ones provided by sophomores Jordan Parsons and Sydney Sipple.
Tenbus had seen enough and took his entire starting five out. “I told them they’d go back in when they were ready to play. I’d rather throw away a game than let that go on,” he would later say. His second team provided good energy and played tough defense. When Tenbus figured the message had registered he reinserted his starting quintet who came out and played like demons possessed.
The result was a 24-4 Tri-Valley second quarter barrage that limited the Dawg pups to two buckets by Taylor. With steals galore and easy transition buckets resulting from little or no pressure, T-V was in its element. DiMilia led the charge with eight more for her game-high total of 16. Sabrena Smith had seven and canned her one attempt from the line.
Greffrath, Caroline Martin, Erin Smith and Maria TerBush added a bucket apiece to the burgeoning lead as the Lady Bears took a 34-12 lead into the break.
The imbalance continued in the third quarter as Tri-Valley outscored Sullivan West 16-3 as Tenbus got his entire team into the act. Greffrath and Martin had four each and the Lady Bears got lone buckets from Sabrena Smith, Amanda TerBush, Keira McHugh and Nicole Bradley.
A bucket by Taylor and a lone free throw from Jordan Parsons were all the harried Ladies in white could manage.
The fourth quarter was more of the same as the SW learning curve continued. T-V outpaced SW 14-2. Krysten Herbert had the lone score for the now 3-12 Lady Bulldogs. To their credit, they never gave up as they wrestled in tie ups refusing to relent on yielding the rock. They dove for every loose ball and as Donovan would later note, “They play like that for 32 minutes.”
DiMilia led all scorers with 16, while Greffrath had 12 for 13-1 Tri-Valley. The Lady Bears face a tough week with a home and away pair of league games against Eldred and a visit to Fallsburg on February 16 for the Lady Comets senior night.
To preserve its current hold on the number two seed in the upcoming Class C Sectionals, the Lady Bears need to win all three games or else face the prospect of going on the road to start their title defense.
Taylor had eight of Sullivan West’s points in the 64-17 loss.
Tenbus talked about sitting his starters and how his second team came in and “gave us big minutes with a lot of energy which my first five weren’t doing to start. That’s great as far as the second group. I tried to explain to the girls that we havent’ won anything yet so this business of playing lackadaisically has to come to an end.”
Practicing non-stop against the two-three zone that Eldred will deploy, that Sullivan West uses and at times Fallsburg unveils, it was mystifying to see his starters struggle so. My pregame message tonight was to get back to playing basketball the way we play it, not the way anybody else does: run, pressure and look for the good shots. Once we got out of that funk in the beginning we were all right from then on,” he averred.
“We’re not good enough to take plays off for a whole quarter. If we that when sectionals come around that will kill us,” he concluded.
Donovan was proud of his team’s effort. “We played one of the better teams in the state and were within one point of them. They’re really good. Our girls have a lot to learn but they never quit,” he said proudly. Look for the ascension of Donovan’s troops in the years to come. What they’re suffering through now by way of growing pains in their first year of varsity experience will build a powerful foundation for the future.
Two games were all this harried writer/photographer could manage but my associate Nick Piatek shot pictures from the junior varsity game that preceded the varsity double header.
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The Eye Of The Tigress
Tuxedo Pays Tri-Valley Back For Home Loss By Handing Lady Bears Their First Defeat Of The Season With A Victory In The Lady Bears’ Den; Hard-Fought Clash Could Well Be A Preview Of A Do-Or-Die Sectional Fray As Rivalry From Two Years Ago Is Ablaze Once Again
Tuxedo 52, Tri-Valley 46
By RICHARD A. ROSS
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Seeing red (and white) Tri-Valley and Tuxedo battle in their rematch as Tuxedo pays the Lady Bears back for an earlier season home loss (Clockwise) Tuxedo Coach Dave Powers counsels his team. Tri-Valley junior Mareena DiMilia ties the score at 26 all at the end of the third quarter with this bucket and a free throw. Tri-Valley Coach John Tenbus and his team show the emotion late as they look to stage a comeback rally. Wrestlemania: Tri-Valley's Katlynn Greffratth and Tuxedo's Alexandriah Sabarese wrangle with each other for the control of the rock. T-V's Caroline Martin puts up a shot. Tri-Valley cheerleaders roll in the air in preparation for the OCIAA Cheerleading Championships. Tuxedo freshman Kayla Pinkney scores two of her game-high 18 points. Muscle men: Tri-Valley boys show off their retro warm ups on sale as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer Basketballl fundraiser.
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY– There are few things more frightening in nature than a bear roused to fury or a tornado destroying everything in its path.
It is therefore fitting that these icons of seemingly indomitable force should be the namesakes for two warring girls basketball teams vying against each other in the turbulent maelstrom of Section Nine Class C basketball.
Tri-Valley's Sabrena Smith races up the floor as she is shadowed by Tuxedo's Cori DiLisi.
To be more accurate, the ongoing battle between Tri-Valley and Tuxedo which has reignited the rivalry established in 2010 wherein the Lady Bears won both regular season games only to lose to the Lady Tornadoes in the finals, is much more suited to the metaphor of boxing.
“And in this corner, the challenger, wearing the red trunks, weighing in at 11-4 (7-1 OCIAA), the Tuxedo Lady Tornadoes.
And in this corner, the defending champion, wearing the white trunks, weighing in at 12-1 (6-1 OCIAA), the Tri-Valley Lady Bears.”
It’s enough to call forth images of Rocky running up the stairs of the Philadelphia Courthouse to the rising strains of the Survivor smash hit, “Eye of the Tiger.” (See accompanying lyrics to reinforce the relevance to the current situation).
Following Tuxedo’s impressive road 52-46 road win over previously undefeated Tri-Valley on February 9, the stage is set for a likely rematch in the Section Nine tournament, a game that would be played on the court of the team with the higher seed, not on the grand stage of the floor of Mt. St. Mary College. That arena is reserved for the final battle.
Given the punch-counterpunch history of the two teams, the loss sustained by each squad is apt to be a summoning call to greater intensity once they are battling for the right to survive and move on to the title bout against the heavyweight favorite, John A. Coleman Catholic.
But there are games yet to be played, and as such, there are no guarantees of anything at this juncture other than the fact that both of these warring factions will be in the tournament.
The lyrics from "Eye of the Tiger" speak strongly to the challenge facing these two teams in the battles that lie ahead.
Credit the Lady Tornadoes who could well adopt the name of “Road Warriors” following three wins on the road in four nights as they dispatched two league rivals in Fallsburg and Tri-Valley sandwiched around a non-league battering of rebuilding Sullivan West. Anyone who has ridden the bus to Tuxedo knows the lengthy trip is not easy. Try six rides between hither and yon in 96 hours and take that as a measure of the Lady Tornadoes’ fortitude since those sojourns were coupled with at least two high intensity games.
Coach Dave Powers felt confident that his team could deliver a roundhouse punch to Tri-Valley maintaining that the first loss followed a period of 13 days with no games. He expected his team to be better prepared this time out.
Given the sting of the 39-32 home loss to the Lady Bears and the urgency of trying to keep in the hunt for a better seed, Tuxedo marshaled its ‘A’ game and caught Tri-Valley with a powerful blow to the midsection.
They outplayed their rival in every facet of this game, but were the season to end today, Tri-Valley would enjoy the home game in a possible semifinal rematch.
All’s Not Quiet on the Western Front
Well-coached teams adapt, which is why playing them more than once can produce contrasting results. Powers is master of the X’s and O’s of the game. He knew his team had not handled the pressure of Tri-Valley’s man defense well in their first encounter so the agenda this time out was two-fold.
First, deploy a more effective defense to prevent Tri-Valley from doing what it wanted to do, namely run the floor and get easy transition buckets.
To do that, you’ve got to take care of the ball on offense, resist the pressure and get the ball into players who are in a position to make high percentage shots. On this night, that would be freshman standout Kayla Pinkney who would lead all scorers with 18 points.
Add in the foul factor. Tuxedo looked to get Tri-Valley’s biggest interior weapon Erin Smith in foul trouble early and remove her from the equation. That happened in short order forcing the senior to the bench. Nicole Bradley came in and did an admirable job in her stead but Smith’s absence was a big factor.
Secondly, given Tri-Valley’s struggles at the stripe, it would be better to put them on the line as opposed to letting them drive to the rim uncontested.
Tug of war: Tuxedo's Alex Gunderman and Alexandriah Sabarese try to wrest the ball away from Mareena DiMilia whose strength is the stuff of legend when it comes to holding the school record in the shot put. DiMilia doesn't relent and the Bears get the ball on the possession arrow.
That strategy paid off in spades as the Lady Bears shot a woeful 11-for-26 from the stripe for a dismal 42 percent. You cannot win big games with that kind of performance and T-V Coach John Tenbus knows it all too well. That issue has been an ongoing one despite the run of 12 straight wins. The Lady Bears know they’re in for relentless free throw practice in the coming days.
For Tri-Valley, it was clear that what worked down in Tuxedo was not translating well in the rematch. There were too many turnovers, too many ill-conceived shots and perhaps a bit of overconfidence. That said, they never quit and made the final few minutes enthralling as they threatened to steal this one right back out of the hands of their red-jerseyed nemesis.
Nothing is a greater tonic for a team’s gathering will and intensity than a loss and Tri-Valley had not experienced such…a few close calls yes, but always the victory at the end. For Tenbus’ young hoops mavens, this was only their third loss of their high school careers and it stung.
They’ll remember that much better than lectures.
They’re a tough group. Just watch how they hold onto the ball when opposing players try to wrest it from them. In one late sequence Mareena DiMilia fought tooth and nail to hold on as Tuxedo’s big Alexandra Gunderman and feisty Alexandriah Sabarese tried to divest her of the rock.
Can you say shot put?
DiMilia holds the school record for flinging it and she is as strong as an ox. She and her teammates will have to summon all of their physical, emotional and spiritual strength for the coming fray for Tuxedo fully intends to try and rip that Section Nine title right out of their possession.
Nobody likes losing. Tuxedo didn’t and neither did Tri-Valley. Now we’ll see which one has the Eye of the Tigress as they part ways to finish up their regular season call to arms and gird themselves for the battle to the death that appears to be looming between them.
Tuxedo's Kayla Pinkney controls the opening tip against Erin Smith.
Pinkney controlled the opening tip against Smith but it was the Lady Bears who struck first as Katlynn Greffrath converted an inbounds pass from DiMilia. Sabrena Smith got a steal from DeLisi but Caroline Martin was called for traveling. Erin Smith picked up her first foul as Pinkney drove. Tenbus felt it was an offensive foul, the officials didn’t see it that way.
Pinkney hit both from the stripe to tie it at two all. She’d net 13 of her 18 points on the night from the charity stripe.
A nifty pass from Erin Smith to Greffath gave the Lady B’s the 4-2 lead as the intensity began to rise even in this early juncture. The teams exchanged turnovers as the play was becoming more physical. The teams continued their stalemate amidst turnovers until Caroline Martin fired in a shot clock buzzer-beater to make it 6-2.
Pinkney answered with a drive into the paint. Alex Nouri hit one of two from the stripe for what would be tuxedo’s last points of the opening stanza. Allison Toscano fouled DiMilia who hit one of two from the stripe.
The Bears led 7-5 at the end of the first stanza. Both teams had five turnovers in the period. Tuxedo had its chances to tie before the period expired but couldn’t close the deal.
The Lady Bears inbounded to start the quarter but missed on its first four attempts within the first minute. Pinkney hit one of two from the stripe to close within one. Pinkney tied it up from the line at 6:06. Bradley and Allison Toscano exchanged baskets as the lead shifted to Tri-Valley and back to Tuxedo.
Soon the score hovered at 9-9 with battles ranging at both ends of the floor. Powers subbed players in and out exploiting his team’s greater depth. DiMilia broke the deadlock with a put back. With both teams over the bonus, they took turns marching to the free throw line. “Weave,” implored Powers. “Don’t try to drive the ball in traffic,” he admonished.
Pinkney was back at the line and with her two made free throws the Lady T’s took a 13-11 lead. DiMilia tied it up but a trey from Alexandriah Sabarese made it 16-13 with 1:06 remaining. Murphy hit two from the stripe. Sarah Schneyer blanked on a pair from the stripe and Tuxedo took the 18-13 lead into halftime.
Regaled in their throwback warm ups, Tri-Valley boys had been a great cheering presence during the first half. Now they mugged for a muscle shot just after the Lady Bears cheerleaders unveiled the routine they’ll deploy at the OCIAA Cheerleading Championships at Kingston High School on February 18.
My apologies to the Lady Bears for not taking the kind of shots I’m noted for. I had switched lens but not settings and blew it. I’ll make amends at Kingston..I promise.
Tuxedo's Erin Murphy scores two of her nine points as Keira McHugh closely defends her.
Tuxedo inbounded to start the second half and scored the first bucket for the 20-13 lead. From this juncture though, Tri-Valley would outscore Tuxedo 13-6 to knot the score at 26-all heading into the fourth quarter. It began with a bucket from Greffrath. DiMilia showed her aggression as she jumped in for a loose ball, put it in the cylinder and was fouled. By night’s end she’d lead the Lady Bears with 12 points.
Tri-Valley now trailed 22-19 but Murphy made it a five point game. Sabrena Smith put back a DiMilia miss with 4:59 to go. Erin Smith cut it to one as she scored off the inbounds pass and shortly thereafter Martin gave the Bears the lead at 25-24 with 2:56 to go. Tension rose as DiMilia got a steal, turned it over and Gunderman travelled.
Sabrena lurched to the floor for a steal but it rolled out of bounds. Tuxedo regained the lead with 1:15 to go. Two key T-V travelling calls stymied the chance to tie but DiMilia got the lay up on the left wing and tied it with a free throw with 29 seconds to go.
Tenbus and Powers huddled with their troops and counseled them for the final stanza.
Tri-Valley inbounded but began with another travel, this one by Sabrena Smith. Cori DeLisi converted a quick run out to a layup but missed the free throw. DiLisi went wire-to-wire again for the four point lead. Sabrena Smith hit one of two to make it 30-27. A trey from a wide-open Pinkney was not making Tenbus a happy camper as the lead swelled to 33-27.
Fans decried what they averred were moving picks and missed calls. T-V picked up two points from the line but Tuxedo scored again. DiMilia cut the lead down to 35-31 with 5:12 and a Tuxedo turnover had the Bears fan in a tizzy.
Martin hit one of two from the stripe to make it 35-32. Now it was Greffrath to the line via a foul from DeLisi but missed the front end of a one and one. Gunderman scored in the paint and was fouled with 3:38 and the Lady T’s led by six again.
Katlynn Greffrath fires up a three that would have cut the lead in half in the late going. It rimmed out instead.
Greffrath tried to halve that with a trey but missed. Erin Smith stood in an took the charge which turned out to be DeLisi’s fifth foul. Toscano came in for her with 3:10 to go. Erin Smith dove for a loose ball and Tenbus screamed for a time out which was not heard. The possession arrow was in Tuxedo’s favor.
A wide open Murphy scored at the other end of the floor after blanking on her initial lay up. The Lady Bears now trailed by eight with 2:42 remaining. The Bears needed the free throw line as an ally. DiMilia missed one but Erin Smith put it back to make it 40-35 with only two seconds coming off the clock in the sequence. She added a free throw and the lead was down to four.
Martin fouled Alex Nouri who made one of two. Sabrena Smith was fouled by Toscano but only made one of two again. Now it was 40-37 with 2:02. Tuxedo would go on to make four consecutive free throws and trailed by seven.
Pinkney hit two more from the stripe to make it 46-37. Pinkney was fouled intentionally and hit two more to make it 48-37. Sabrena Smith hit a trey. Gunderman hit one of two from the line to make it 49-40.
Martin hit two more from the stripe to make it 49-42 and the Lady Bears scored again. Caroline Martin scored off a set play as she positioned herself alone up the floor to make it 50-46 with 12.2 seconds. They let five seconds go off the clock before fouling Pinkney with 7.5 seconds to go. Murphy iced the deal with a pair of free throws as the Lady Tornadoes savored the 52-46 victory.
Powers agreed that this was exactly the kind of game both teams needed to tune up for the sectional tournament. “I thought we started to execute our game plan well defensively. We forced them into some things I don’t think they wanted to do. Offensively I thought we were running some stuff but struggling early. We just could not find the basket. Once we started to settle in I thought we did some good things,” he posited.
“Down the stretch I thought we made some key baskets. Alex Nouri hit a big one and Gunderman hit a big one, “ he noted adding props for DeLisi’s fire. Asked about the sectional seeding, Powers offered this: “The wild card in this is Fallsburg. They host Tri-Valley next Thursday and plays us at our place at the end of the year. If one of loses to Fallsburg it could make a difference. I’d rather be playing in my home gym than here,” he noted.
"Feeling strong now..won't be long now..I'm gonna fly..fly..fly!
“We have league games with Florida and Fallsburg and a good test in a non-league game with Burke Catholic,” Powers added. “We wanted that at the end of the year to get both of our teams ready for sectionals,” he concluded.
Tenbus said, “They were the better team tonight in every aspect. They beat us to loose balls. They were the first ones on the floor. They made rebounds and got second shots. It happens. Hats off to them.
They’re a good team and I anticipate seeing them again.” Tenbus realizes his team needs to win all three remaining league games to lock up the home court advantage that would come with the #2 seeding. That includes a game at Fallsburg and a home and away versus Eldred.
“That’s been our focus, to get that two seed and have home games here. We were out of synch tonight, definitely rattled,” he noted. As to Erin Smith’s foul troubles, Tenbus commended Bradley’s play. “She rebounded well and is not going to let them take it away from her, but Erin is my best big as far as looking to score. It takes away an option. Foul trouble will kill us. It’s hurt us all year.
“They went one-three-one on us a lot tonight. Last time it was three two, two-three and even some box and one,” he noted referencing Tuxedo’s defensive array. We’ve seen it, but not in awhile. It caught us a little off guard but it will better prepare us for the games down the stretch,” he added.
“A lot of the girls were really upset. I told them, it’s good to care so much that you lost but there’s no reason to shed the tears at 12-1. Most teams would die to have that record. These girls have lost only three games during their high school careers. It’s a stumbling block. It hurts. But we’ve got to move on. We’ve got another game on Saturday (vs. Sullivan West in 4th Annual Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic) and three games next week.
We’ve got to play better and move on. We’re never going to stop playing. We’ll fight tooth and nail down to the end like we did tonight. We came up a few time outs a few points short but the way we battled back showed how much pride we have. Close games are always good because that’s what they’re going to be down the stretch.”
As I entered the darkness of the night after exiting the gym, I heard that reprise echoing in my head one last time, “It’s the eye of the tiger….”
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Division Precision
Tri-Valley Boys and Girls Capture Division V Crowns In First Salvo Of Indoor Track Championships, A Forerunner To OCIAA, Sullivan County, Section Nine, State Qualifier and NYSPHSAA Quests For Glory; Eldred Boys And Girls Finish Second
By RICHARD A. ROSS
Girls Team scores: 1. Tri-Valley (T-V) 204; 2. Eldred (E) 89; 3. Sullivan West (SW) 79; 4. Millbrook (M) 69; 5. Pine Plains (PP) 24; 6. John S. Burke Catholic 8; 7. Chester 1.
Boys Team scores: 1. Tri-Valley (T-V) 153; 2. Eldred (E) 119; 3. Pine Plains (PP) 98; 4. Sullivan West (SW) 67; 5. Chester (C) 10; 6. Millbrook (M) 9.
WEST POINT, NY–So much for the preliminaries, now it’s championship season for indoor track runners, jumpers and throwers as the first salvo, the Division championships are now in the rearview mirror. Completing the cycle of meets that had already seen Divisions I-IV crown their heroes and heroines, Division V had its turn on February 3 at the Gilllis Field House.
The meet is a forerunner of the two-day OCIAA league meet slated for February 10-11 and the Sullivan County Championships which will take place at Sullivan County Community College on February 13. The Section Nine Indoor “B” meet will be staged at West Point on February 17, while the “A” meet will deploy on February 18. The boys state qualifier meet will be held on February 24 and the girls state qualifier is slated for February 25.
Here are the individual results from the Division V championships. At the bottom, you will find the winners from the Division III and IV championship that feature athletes from Monticello and Liberty respectively. Be sure to also check out the updated Sullivan County leader board diligently provided by Eldred Coach Bill Kroohs.
But First: NATIONAL ELITES FROM MILE SPLIT BASED ON DIVISION V RESULTS
Below are the performances entered for the meet that met the national silver standard.
| HS Girls | |||
| 1000 Meter Run | 3:06.33 | Mallory Peterson | Millbrook |
| 1500 Meter Run | 5:03.24 | Mallory Peterson | Millbrook |
| 1500 Meter Run | 5:05.35 | Autumn Bender | Tri-Valley |
| 1500 Meter Run | 5:05.71 | Christine Donnelly | Eldred |
| Weight Throw | 40-6 | Heidi Furman | Tri-Valley |
| Weight Throw | 41-4 | Dominique Darby | Tri-Valley |
| HS Boys | |||
| 1000 Meter Run | 2:36.09 | Devin deJoode | Pine Plains |
7 National Elites. 7 MileSplit New York Elites.
2011 OCIAA Division Meet 5 - 2/3/2012
Orange Ulster BOCES
Results
Girls 55 Meter Dash
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Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
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Finals
1 Greffrath, Katlynn Tri-Valley 8.04 7.83 1 10
2 Brucher, Breanna Eldred 7.84 7.95 1 8
3 Rosenberger, Amanda Sullivan West 7.64 8.02 1 6
4 DiMilia, Marenna Tri-Valley 8.14 8.22 1 4
5 Sickler, Shannon Pine Plains 8.20 8.35 1 2
6 Weller, Kendra Millbrook 8.94 8.43 2 1
7 Loussedes, Alexis Millbrook 9.34 8.70 2
8 Miller-Lattin, Angelica Pine Plains 8.69 8.83 1
9 Tierney, Claire Tri-Valley 8.44 8.87 1
10 Albright, Sara Pine Plains 8.74 8.88 2
11 Ludvick, Jillian Burke Catholic 10.94 8.95 2
12 King, Bridget Burke Catholic 10.94 9.13 2
13 Camaj, Albina Millbrook 10.84 9.72 2
Girls 300 Meter Dash
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Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
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1 Sumfleth, Kristina Sullivan West 45.24 45.29 1 10
2 Rennison, Brittany Tri-Valley 46.34 45.37 1 8
3 Sickler, Shannon Pine Plains 48.17 47.29 1 6
4 Malzahn, Sarah Eldred 53.84 48.89 2 4
5 McMonagle, Melissa Eldred 53.34 52.05 2 2
6 Jones, Devan Tri-Valley 51.44 52.34 1 1
7 Tierney, Claire Tri-Valley 51.44 53.37 1
8 Eldred, Carli Chester 56.24 55.84 2
9 Miller, Denise Millbrook 55.24 56.24 2
10 Troisi, Julia Chester 50.24 57.89 1
11 Welch, Diana Burke Catholic 1:03.34 1:02.70 2
12 Eldred, Carie Chester 58.24 1:04.59 2
Girls 600 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
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1 Rennison, Brittany Tri-Valley 1:54.44 1:45.40 1 10
2 Koehler, Emily Millbrook 1:52.24 1:48.51 1 8
3 Brooks, Alex Tri-Valley 1:56.54 1:50.42 1 6
4 Smith, Sabrena Tri-Valley 1:57.94 1:53.66 1 4
5 Martinez, Rosa Sullivan West 1:54.24 1:53.70 1 2
6 Finck, Savanna Eldred 1:59.24 1:57.06 2 1
7 Hudak, Selena Eldred 2:00.10 2:00.08 2
8 Karten, Kyla Millbrook 2:00.24 2:07.20 2
9 Rosenberger, Amanda Sullivan West 1:53.24 2:12.78 1
10 VanWagner, Corrine Sullivan West 1:58.24 2:20.17 2
Girls 1000 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Peterson, Mallory Millbrook 3:05.24 3:06.33 10
2 Donnelly, Christine Eldred 3:20.24 3:11.30 8
3 Bender, Autumn Tri-Valley 3:22.44 3:20.97 6
4 Rosenberger, Amanda Sullivan West 3:26.24 3:32.40 4
5 Graham, Danielle Tri-Valley 3:30.44 3:39.19 2
6 Drewett, Sara Jane Eldred 3:36.20 3:39.27 1
7 Karten, Kyla Millbrook 3:36.24 3:48.74
8 Deppa, Rachel Sullivan West 3:45.24 3:52.21
9 VanWagner, Corrine Sullivan West 3:45.24 4:00.86
10 Troisi, Julia Chester 4:00.24 4:36.48
11 Eldred, Carie Chester 4:25.24 4:41.07
Girls 1500 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Peterson, Mallory Millbrook 4:55.24 5:03.24 10
2 Bender, Autumn Tri-Valley 5:11.44 5:05.35 8
3 Donnelly, Christine Eldred 5:16.84 5:05.71 6
4 McMahon, Tiffany Pine Plains 5:33.01 5:12.81 4
5 Rehm, Olivia Tri-Valley 5:28.94 5:33.86 2
6 Dutton, Kelsey Sullivan West 5:35.24 5:37.55 1
7 Myers, Dani Sullivan West 5:25.24 5:43.33
8 Gomez, Tania Pine Plains 5:51.15 5:45.74
9 Rhodes, Katey Sullivan West 5:55.24 6:00.47
Girls 3000 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Bida, Mary-Kate Millbrook 11:00.24 11:22.39 10
2 Rehm, Olivia Tri-Valley 11:33.44 11:28.34 8
3 Dutton, Kelsey Sullivan West 11:35.24 11:45.64 6
4 Gillette, Brooke Tri-Valley 11:47.54 11:57.78 4
5 Myers, Dani Sullivan West 11:25.24 12:09.30 2
6 Graham, Danielle Tri-Valley 12:04.24 12:21.85 1
7 Rhodes, Katey Sullivan West 12:09.24 13:09.09
-- Davis, Jessica Eldred 13:30.24 DNF
Girls 55 Meter Hurdles
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Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
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1 DiMilia, Marenna Tri-Valley 9.64 9.38 1 10
2 Tingley, Vickey Tri-Valley 10.04 9.59 1 8
3 Brucher, Breanna Eldred 9.64 9.80 1 6
4 Feinman, Hannah Sullivan West 9.34 10.00 1 4
5 Adriaans, Rachel Tri-Valley 10.64 10.62 1 2
6 Weller, Kendra Millbrook 11.64 10.67 2 1
7 Barr, Kiersten Pine Plains 10.66 10.74 2
8 Hudak, Selena Eldred 10.54 10.83 1
9 Loussedes, Alexis Millbrook 11.64 11.14 2
10 Kelly, Mary-Rose Pine Plains 11.12 11.51 2
11 Miller, Denise Millbrook 12.24 12.61 2
Girls 4x200 Meter Relay
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School Seed Finals Points
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1 Tri-Valley 'A' 2:01.54 2:06.20 10
1) Greffrath, Katlynn 2) Adriaans, Rachel
3) Tierney, Claire 4) Jones, Devan
2 Pine Plains 'A' 2:18.24 2:06.63 8
1) Sickler, Shannon 2) Miller-Lattin, Angelica
3) Long, Makayla 4) Albright, Sara
3 Burke Catholic 'A' 2:20.54 2:25.93 6
1) Clayton, Jayme 2) King, Bridget
3) Ludvick, Jillian 4) Zick, Patty
Girls 4x400 Meter Relay
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School Seed Finals Points
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1 Eldred 'A' 4:45.14 4:39.09 10
1) Donnelly, Christine 2) Drewett, Sara Jane
3) Finck, Savanna 4) Hudak, Selena
2 Tri-Valley 'A' 4:37.64 4:39.72 8
1) Tingley, Vickey 2) Brooks, Alex
3) Smith, Sabrena 4) Adriaans, Rachel
3 Millbrook 'A' 4:43.24 4:43.84 6
1) Koehler, Emily 2) Karten, Kyla
3) Bida, mary-Kate 4) Peterson, Mallory
4 Pine Plains 'A' 10:52.24 4:59.80 4
1) Ye, Linda 2) Barr, Kiersten
3) Gomez, Tania 4) McMahon, Tiffany
Girls 4x800 Meter Relay
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School Seed Finals Points
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1 Millbrook 'A' 11:07.24 10:52.92 10
1) Bida, Mary-Kate 2) Karten, Kyla
3) Koehler, Emily 4) Peterson, Mallory
2 Tri-Valley 'A' 11:00.64 11:23.56 8
1) Bender, Autumn 2) Gillette, Brooke
3) Rehm, Olivia 4) Graham, Danielle
3 Sullivan West 'A' 10:40.24 11:43.03 6
1) Dutton, Kelsey 2) Martinez, Rosa
3) Myers, Dani 4) Sumfleth, Kristina
Girls High Jump
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Greffrath, Katlynn Tri-Valley 4-10.00 4-10.00 10
2 Sumfleth, Kristina Sullivan West 4-08.00 4-06.00 7
2 Bowring, Erika Eldred 4-08.00 4-06.00 7
4 Bobik, Brina Tri-Valley 4-03.00 4-02.00 4
5 Smith, Sabrena Tri-Valley 4-03.00 4-00.00 2
6 Martinez, Rosa Sullivan West 4-04.00 J4-00.00 1
-- Loussedes, Alexis Millbrook 4-04.00 NH
-- Albright, Sara Pine Plains 4-00.00 NH
Girls Pole Vault
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Brucher, Breanna Eldred 8-06.00 9-06.00 10
2 Tingley, Vickey Tri-Valley 7-06.00 7-00.00 8
3 McMonagle, Melissa Eldred 6-06.00 6-06.00 6
-- Reynolds, Ali Tri-Valley 6-00.00 NH
-- Frey, Lauren Eldred 6-00.00 NH
Girls Long Jump
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 DiMilia, Marenna Tri-Valley 14-08.00 15-06.25 10
2 Feinman, Hannah Sullivan West 14-01.00 14-02.00 8
3 Bowring, Erika Eldred 15-06.00 13-11.75 6
4 Whalen, Annie Millbrook 10-06.00 11-11.25 4
5 Bobik, Brina Tri-Valley 11-06.00 10-09.25 2
6 Camaj, Albina Millbrook 10-03.00 10-06.75 1
7 Dignan, Megan Millbrook 13-00.00 8-08.25
-- Finck, Savanna Eldred 12-00.00 FOUL
Girls Triple Jump
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Rennison, Brittany Tri-Valley 30-03.00 31-02.50 10
2 Feinman, Hannah Sullivan West 33-08.00 30-07.75 8
3 Bowring, Erika Eldred 31-09.50 29-04.50 6
4 Reynolds, Ali Tri-Valley 28-11.00 29-02.00 4
5 Camaj, Albina Millbrook 21-09.00 21-11.75 2
6 Revay, Megan Millbrook 20-00.00 21-10.75 1
-- Kelly, Mary-Rose Pine Plains 29-08.00 FOUL
Girls Shot Put
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Darby, Dominique Tri-Valley 37-03.00 37-04.25 10
2 Furman, Heidi Tri-Valley 32-03.00 30-03.00 8
3 Smith, Shannon Tri-Valley 28-03.00 29-07.50 6
4 Milk, Brittney Sullivan West 25-06.00 27-08.00 4
5 Kissane, Danielle Burke Catholic 22-00.00 22-02.50 2
6 Eldred, Carli Chester 21-00.00 19-05.50 1
7 Clayton, Jayme Burke Catholic 16-00.00 17-08.50
8 Miller-Lattin, Angelica Pine Plains 16-00.00 15-10.00
-- Revay, Megan Millbrook 24-06.00 DQ
-- Estremera, Melissa Millbrook 20-06.00 DQ
-- Dignan, Megan Millbrook 16-07.00 DQ
-- Camaj, Albina Millbrook 18-00.00 DQ
Girls Weight Throw
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Name Year School Seed Finals
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1 Darby, Dominique Tri-Valley 48-07.00 41-04.00
2 Furman, Heidi Tri-Valley 39-11.00 40-06.00
3 Smith, Shannon Tri-Valley 25-07.00 29-01.00
Girls 1500 Meter Race Walk
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Deppa, Rachel Sullivan West 7:35.24 8:03.40 10
2 Frey, Lauren Eldred 9:50.24 9:02.18 8
3 Reynolds, Ali Tri-Valley 9:54.44 9:58.59 6
4 Alongi, Mary Tri-Valley 10:20.24 10:07.00 4
5 Dignan, Megan Millbrook 10:45.24 11:03.10 2
6 Revay, Megan Millbrook 12:07.24 11:14.25 1
-- Gillette, Brooke Tri-Valley 8:25.64 DQ
-- Estremera, Melissa Millbrook 10:51.24 DQ
Boys 55 Meter Dash
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Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
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1 Burns, Craig Eldred 6.74 6.88 1 10
2 Tierney, Brendan Tri-Valley 7.34 7.14 1 8
3 Malone, Andrew Tri-Valley 7.44 7.19 1 6
4 Hart, Sean Sullivan West 7.54 7.63 1 4
5 Cruz, Ivan Pine Plains 7.89 7.81 1 2
6 Khan, Mohib Tri-Valley 8.44 8.16 1 1
7 Barrett, Alex Pine Plains 8.68 8.41 2
8 Stevenson, Greg Sullivan West 8.64 8.48 1
9 O'Reilly, Oisin Pine Plains 8.84 8.79 2
-- Mihan, Drew Millbrook 9.14 DQ 2
-- Forte, Sal Millbrook 9.04 DQ 2
-- Bonadaonna, Mike Millbrook 9.14 DQ 2
-- Junke, Alex Millbrook 9.24 DQ 2
-- Henry, Marquise Millbrook 8.54 DQ 1
Boys 300 Meter Dash
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Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
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1 Burns, Craig Eldred 38.14 38.90 1 10
2 Lopez, Damon Tri-Valley 38.54 39.19 1 8
3 Smith, Sam Sullivan West 40.34 39.96 1 6
4 Santana, Michael Chester 44.24 43.38 2 4
5 Owens, Raine Pine Plains 40.74 44.17 1 2
6 Bonadaonna, Mike Millbrook 44.04 44.26 2 1
7 Henderson, Kyle Pine Plains 44.74 44.66 2
8 Hart, Sean Sullivan West 45.44 45.38 3
9 Campanelli, Joe Sullivan West 47.24 45.86 3
10 Cerbone, Dalton Tri-Valley 43.84 46.34 2
11 Thomas, Nicholas Chester 42.24 46.45 1
12 Rios, Nick Tri-Valley 43.44 47.35 2
13 Robb, William Millbrook 46.84 47.68 3
Boys 600 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Lopez, Omar Tri-Valley 1:29.94 1:30.85 10
2 Watts, Matt Eldred 1:33.94 1:31.08 8
3 Bobik, Brandon Tri-Valley 1:45.44 1:34.25 6
4 Weintraub, Justin Tri-Valley 1:34.44 1:34.42 4
5 Goggin, Shaughn Sullivan West 1:38.24 1:38.57 2
Boys 1000 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 DeJoode, Devin Pine Plains 2:35.92 2:36.09 10
2 Proscia, Hunter Eldred 2:54.24 2:40.25 8
3 Lopez, Omar Tri-Valley 2:43.84 2:50.15 6
4 Santana, Michael Chester 3:10.24 3:00.41 4
5 Cerbone, Dalton Tri-Valley 3:01.74 3:08.75 2
6 Chon, Sowoo Tri-Valley 3:02.54 3:14.32 1
7 Maas, Kevin Eldred 3:45.24 3:17.75
8 DeLeon, Jared Eldred 3:45.24 3:17.77
9 Thomas, Nicholas Chester 3:15.24 3:26.58
10 Sweeney, Mike Millbrook 3:35.24 3:28.04
11 Rojlesky, Jack Sullivan West 3:30.24 3:30.25
12 Camaj, Tom Millbrook 3:39.24 3:37.52
13 Reyes, Christopher Chester 3:30.24 3:37.61
14 Keller, Jacob Sullivan West 3:40.24 4:10.78
Boys 1600 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Proscia, Hunter Eldred 4:33.57 4:33.77 10
2 Campanella, Alex Eldred 4:21.82 4:33.83 8
3 Bernstein, Jim Tri-Valley 4:35.24 4:34.32 6
4 Scott, Reed Sullivan West 4:56.24 4:58.10 4
5 Boyes, Hauk Tri-Valley 5:00.44 5:15.94 2
6 Hasbrouck, Brandon Tri-Valley 5:27.34 5:33.13 1
7 DeLeon, Jared Eldred 5:30.24 5:47.77
8 Lessner, Kevin Millbrook 5:48.24 5:49.12
9 Ayala, Luis Pine Plains 6:10.88 5:50.67
10 Rojlesky, Jack Sullivan West 6:00.24 6:05.94
11 Leach, David Pine Plains 5:17.70 6:14.36
12 Keller, Jacob Sullivan West 6:10.24 7:14.26
-- Kirschenheiter, Michael Pine Plains 5:55.34 DNF
Boys 3200 Meter Run
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Campanella, Alex Eldred 9:41.94 9:53.98 10
2 Bernstein, Jim Tri-Valley 9:54.24 10:04.74 8
3 Scott, Reed Sullivan West 10:13.24 10:23.35 6
4 Boyes, Hauk Tri-Valley 10:48.44 11:07.36 4
5 Hasbrouck, Brandon Tri-Valley 11:23.74 11:38.32 2
6 Maas, Kevin Eldred 12:00.00 12:02.34 1
7 Lessner, Kevin Millbrook 13:10.24 12:49.07
Boys 55 Meter Hurdles
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Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
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1 Krzysztofowicz, Adrian Eldred 8.74 8.59 1 10
2 Malone, Andrew Tri-Valley 8.84 8.66 1 8
3 Ayala, Alejandro Pine Plains 8.91 8.73 1 6
4 Paciga, Mitch Sullivan West 8.70 8.93 1 4
5 Canevari, Aric Pine Plains 8.99 9.04 1 2
6 Lopez, Damon Tri-Valley 8.04 9.24 1 1
7 Siegel, Andrew Sullivan West 10.14 9.74 2
8 Leach, David Pine Plains 9.98 9.75 2
9 Leek, Doug Eldred 10.04 9.82 2
10 Bender, Nathan Tri-Valley 9.64 9.86 2
11 Campanelli, Joe Sullivan West 12.24 11.55 2
Boys 4x200 Meter Relay
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School Seed Finals Points
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1 Tri-Valley 'A' 1:43.44 1:41.82 10
1) Lopez, Damon 2) Malone, Andrew
3) Tierney, Brendan 4) Khan, Mohib
2 Eldred 'A' 1:43.11 1:42.70 8
1) Burns, Craig 2) Gottlieb, Julian
3) DeLeon, Julian 4) Leek, Doug
3 Sullivan West 'A' 1:49.24 1:51.37 6
1) Murphy, Adam 2) Siegel, Andrew
3) Hart, Kevin 4) Hart, Sean
4 Pine Plains 'A' 1:52.20 1:55.52 4
1) Cruz, Ivan 2) Henderson, Kyle
3) Mizutani, Daniel 4) Barrett, Alex
5 Millbrook 'A' 1:53.24 1:58.92 2
1) Lessner, Kevin 2) Wiltse, Ethan
3) Junke, Alex 4) Bonadaonna, Mike
Boys 4x400 Meter Relay
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School Seed Finals Points
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1 Eldred 'A' 3:47.04 3:44.24 10
1) Campanella, Alex 2) Krzysztofowicz, Adrian
3) Proscia, Hunter 4) Watts, Matt
2 Tri-Valley 'A' 3:52.74 3:54.09 8
1) Lopez, Omar 2) Woolsey, Aidan
3) Bobik, Brandon 4) Bobik, Stephen
3 Pine Plains 'A' 4:23.16 3:59.54 6
1) Cooper, Michael 2) DeJoode, Devin
3) Ayala, Alejandro 4) Cruz, Ivan
4 Sullivan West 'A' 4:03.24 4:00.66 4
1) Goggin, Shaughn 2) Smith, Sam
3) Hart, Kevin 4) Murphy, Adam
5 Chester 'A' 4:25.24 4:37.18 2
1) Thomas, Nicholas 2) Reyes, Christopher
3) Ascolese, Brendan 4) Santana, Michael
Boys 4x800 Meter Relay
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School Seed Finals Points
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1 Pine Plains 'A' 9:11.82 9:07.34 10
1) Ayala, Alejandro 2) DeJoode, Devin
3) Long, Brendan 4) Owens, Raine
2 Tri-Valley 'A' 8:55.44 9:11.54 8
1) Bernstein, Jim 2) Weintraub, Justin
3) Boyes, Hauk 4) Tompkins, Nat
3 Sullivan West 'A' 9:43.24 9:52.64 6
1) Goggin, Shaughn 2) Smith, Sam
3) Hart, Kevin 4) Scott, Reed
4 Millbrook 'A' 10:57.24 11:19.04 4
1) Lessner, Kevin 2) Camaj, Tom
3) natale, Caleb 4) Stickter, Edward
Boys High Jump
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Long, Brendan Pine Plains 5-10.00 5-07.00 10
2 Crick, Adam Pine Plains 6-00.00 J5-07.00 8
3 Paciga, Mitch Sullivan West 5-06.00 J5-07.00 6
4 Woolsey, Aidan Tri-Valley 5-02.00 5-03.00 4
-- Mednick, Greg Tri-Valley 4-09.00 NH
-- Barrett, Alex Pine Plains 5-00.00 NH
-- Exner, Andrew Tri-Valley 4-09.00 NH
Boys Pole Vault
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Gottlieb, Julian Eldred 9-06.00 10-00.00 10
2 Canevari, Aric Pine Plains 11-00.00 9-06.00 8
3 Morton, Eugene Tri-Valley 10-06.00 J9-06.00 6
4 Woolsey, Aidan Tri-Valley 10-00.00 9-00.00 4
5 DeLeon, Julian Eldred 8-00.00 8-06.00 2
6 Bender, Nathan Tri-Valley 8-06.00 J8-06.00 1
7 Henderson, Kyle Pine Plains 9-00.00 7-06.00
8 Mizutani, Daniel Pine Plains 8-06.00 x7-00.00
8 O'Reilly, Oisin Pine Plains 7-00.00 7-00.00
10 Stevenson, Greg Sullivan West 6-00.00 6-06.00
Boys Long Jump
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Canevari, Aric Pine Plains 19-00.00 17-10.50 10
2 Morton, Eugene Tri-Valley 16-06.00 16-09.00 8
3 Owens, Raine Pine Plains 17-06.00 15-11.50 6
4 Gottlieb, Julian Eldred 15-06.00 15-03.00 4
5 DeMan, Chris Millbrook 13-06.00 15-02.00 2
6 Siegel, Andrew Sullivan West 15-03.00 15-01.50 1
7 Sweeney, Mike Millbrook 14-02.00 14-06.75
8 Murphy, Adam Sullivan West 14-04.00 14-02.25
9 Bobik, Stephen Tri-Valley 15-04.00 13-08.50
10 Rios, Nick Tri-Valley 14-08.00 13-05.75
11 Mihan, Drew Millbrook 11-05.00 12-11.00
12 Ayala, Luis Pine Plains 14-00.00 12-10.75
13 Zach, O'Connor Sullivan West 14-00.00 12-07.25
14 Robb, William Millbrook 12-00.00 x12-04.25
Boys Triple Jump
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Krzysztofowicz, Adrian Eldred 36-08.75 37-03.00 10
2 Long, Brendan Pine Plains 37-00.00 36-09.50 8
3 Crick, Adam Pine Plains 36-00.00 36-07.00 6
4 Paciga, Mitch Sullivan West 33-00.00 35-01.50 4
5 Morton, Eugene Tri-Valley 35-03.00 34-00.00 2
6 Chon, Sowoo Tri-Valley 30-00.00 30-09.00 1
7 Camaj, Tom Millbrook 29-11.00 29-04.00
8 Zach, O'Connor Sullivan West 30-00.00 28-03.25
9 Robb, William Millbrook 26-00.00 26-10.00
-- Bobik, Stephen Tri-Valley 30-02.00 FOUL
Boys Shot Put
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Name Year School Seed Finals Points
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1 Tierney, Brendan Tri-Valley 42-05.00 44-04.50 10
2 Roeder, Todd Sullivan West 41-06.00 40-01.50 8
3 Boyes, Aric Tri-Valley 44-04.00 39-05.00 6
4 Reddish, Blain Sullivan West 37-00.00 37-01.00 4
5 Rydell, Anthony Sullivan West 33-00.00 31-10.00 2
6 Roberts, Zachary Tri-Valley 32-08.00 31-04.50 1
7 O'Reilly, Oisin Pine Plains 28-08.00 31-01.50
8 Wiltse, Ethan Millbrook 31-02.00 30-09.00
9 Ascolese, Brendan Chester 25-00.00 21-00.50
10 Ayala, Luis Pine Plains 21-00.00 19-04.00
Boys Weight Throw
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Name Year School Seed Finals
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1 Roeder, Todd Sullivan West 46-00.00 45-00.50
2 Boyes, Aric Tri-Valley 39-06.00 39-05.00
3 Roberts, Zachary Tri-Valley 35-05.00 36-08.00
4 Rydell, Anthony Sullivan West 35-00.00 32-11.75
5 Davis, Tyler Sullivan West 30-00.00 26-05.00
6 Khan, Mohib Tri-Valley 28-02.00 25-09.50
Boys’ OCIAA Division III meet
(at West Point)
Team results: 1. Wallkill (Wall) 178; 2. Cornwall (Corn); 3. Monticello (Mont) 72; 4. Port Jervis (PJ) 36; 5. Goshen (Gosh) 21.
Individual results: 3,200: 1. Dan Thurau (Corn) 10;35.24; 55 hurdles: 1. Eric Wellmon (Wall) 7.89; 1,000: Hans Zanger (PJ) 2:43.24; 55: 1. Shane Jackson (Mont) 6.75; 600: 1. Alex Combs (Corn) 1:27.41; 1,600: 1. Nick Branch (Corn) 4:46.30; 300: Anthony Hall (Corn) 37.07; 3,200 relay: 1. Cornwall 9:46.23; 1,600 relay: 1. Wallkill 3:49.47; 800 relay: 1. Monticello 1:35.67; Long jump: 1. Isaiah Berrios (Wall) 18-8 3/4; 1. Alex Corrado (Wall) 6-0; Pole vault: 1. Codey Flickenschild (Wall) 10-6; Triple jump: 1. Berrios (Wall) 39-8 3/4; Shot put: 1. Garrett LaPolt (Mont) 47-8.75.
Girls’ OCIAA Division III meet
(at West Point)
Team results: 1. Cornwall (Corn) 229; 2. Wallkill (Wall) 69; 3. Port Jervis (PJ) 68; 4. Goshen (Gosh) 60; Monticello (Mont) 39.
Individual results: 3,000-meter run: 1. Ashley Wallace (Corn) 11:04.64; 55 hurdles: 1. Christa Sidoti (Corn) 10.11; 1,000: 1. Michelle Lujan (Corn) 3:08.39; 55: 1. Kalissa Caesar (PJ) 7.63; 600: 1. Jillian Decker (Corn) 1:44.56; 1,500 walk: 1. Sabrina Scharfenberg (Corn) 8:15.88; 1,500: 1. Camryn Johnson (Mont) 5:27.53; 300: 1. Caesar (PJ) 44.07; 1,600 relay: 1. Cornwall 4:30.36; 800 relay: 1. Wallkill 2:00.09; Long jump: 1. Brittany Bryant (Corn) 16-6; High jump: 1. Bryant (Corn) 5-0; Pole vault: 1. Rachel Pinter (Wall) 8-0; Triple jump: 1. Azania Mitchell (Corn) 31-6 3/4; Shot put: 1. Katherine Mollahan (Corn) 36-1 1/4; Weight throw: 1. Katie Reed (Wall) 21-2 3/4.
Girls Division IV championship
Team scoring and key: 1. Marlboro (Marl) 174 points; 2. Liberty (Lib) 104; 3. Ellenville (Ell) 74; 4. Onteora (Ont) 49; 5. Spackenkill (Spac) 33; 6. James I. O’Neill (JIO) 4.
55 meters: 1. Courtney Warden (Marl) 7.76; 2. Genece May (Ell) 7.82; 3. LaraJane Heslop (Lib) 7.84; 300: 1. Shasche Allen (Spac) 44.60; 2. Katie Klercker (Ont) 44.96; 3. Nina Lofaro (Marl) 45.71; 600: 1. Melissa Gattuso (Marl) 1:51.69; 2. Kendall Peabody (Ell) 1:53.40; 3. Melissa Symanski (Lib) 1:54.30; 1,000: 1. Marissa Galella (Marl) 3:22.98; 2. Sierra Thomas (Lib) 3:41.09; 3. Kristen Siegel (Lib) 4:11.69; 1,500: 1. Georgia Houghton (Marl) 5:40.30; 2. Shannon Zahara (Marl) 6:33.27; 3,000: 1. Julia Rubin-Armstrong (Ont) 11:10.82; 2. Georgia Houghton (Marl) 12:21.15; 3. Dina Truncali (Marl) 14:27.33; 55 hurdles: 1. Courtney Warden (Marl) 9.19; 2. Rebeccah Harman (Lib) 9.91; 3. Aubrey Martin (Marl) 9.94; 1,500 racewalk: 1. Emily Barbosa (Ell) 9:27.40; 2. Delyla Defelice (Marl) 10:10.43; 800 relay: 1. Onteora (Tess Howard, Katie Klercker, Avery Maillett, Adrianna Kight) 1:55.43; 2. Marlboro 1:58.67; 3. Liberty 2:00.76; 1,600 relay: 1. Marlboro (Melissa Gattuso, Marissa Galella, Haley Drake, Nina Lofaro) 4:35.05; 2. Spackenkill 4:44.80; 3. Ellenville 4:57.61; 3,200 relay: 1. Marlboro (Melissa Gattuso, Sara Rood, Marissa Galella, Georgia Houghton) 11:23.11; 2. Liberty 12:17.40; 3. Ellenville 14:02.52; high jump: 1. Zaira Pabon (Lib) and Crysten Hunt (Marl) 4-0; 3. Amber Swinden (Ell) 4-0; long jump: 1. Shasche Allen (Spac) 14-9.75; 2. LaraJane Heslop (Lib) 13-11; 3. Crysten Hunt (Marl) 13-9; triple jump: 1. Rebeccah Harman (Lib) 32-5.75; 2. Aubrey Martin (Marl) 32-5.25; 3. Crysten Hunt (Marl) 29-2.5; shot put: 1. Danielle Borriello (Ell) 32-5.25; 2. Alyssa Brown (Marl) 30-9.5; 3. Adrianna Hinsey (Marl) 28-10.5; weight throw (non-scoring): 1. Danielle Borriello (Ell) 43-5.75; pole vault: 1. Julia Rubin-Armstrong (Ont) 8-6; 2. Amanda Bertholf (Lib) 8-6; 3. Jasmine Lupi (Marl) 7-0.
Division IV championship
Team scoring and key: 1. Ellenville (Ell) 138 points; 2. Marlboro (Marl) 119; 3. Liberty (Lib) 67; 4. James I. O’Neill (JIO) 62; 5. Spackenkill (Spac) 57; 6. Onteora (Ont) 20.
55 meters: 1. Tyler O’Bryant (Ell) 6.79; 2. Erick Cuellar (Lib) 7.12; 3. Mike Clear (Spac) 7.14; 300: 1. Tyler O’Bryant (Ell) 38.09; 2. Tashan Beaupierre (Ell) 38.25; 3. Erick Cuellar (Lib) 39.06; 600: 1. Chris Lofaro (Marl) 1:26.92; 2. Tashan Beaupierre (Ell) 1:32.30; 3. Micah Yannatos (Ont) 1:33.43; 1,000: 1. Jeremy Santiago (Marl) 2:49.45; 2. Kane Sauchuk (Lib) 2:52.46; 3. Alexander Parfentsov (Ell) 2:52.67; 1,600: 1. Zech Snel (JIO) 4:50.92; 2. Kyle Marquis (Marl) 4:53.40; 3. Ryan Jelinek (Spac) 4:53.59; 3,200: 1. Ryan Jelinek (Spac) 10:25.18; 2. Sammy Heraughty (Spac) 10:36.72; 3. Kyle Marquis (Marl) 10:42.46; 55 hurdles: 1. Rich Barley (Marl) 8.76; 2. Nick Martens (Marl) 8.92; 3. Jason Groat (Ell) 9.14; 800 relay: 1. James I. O’Neill (Derrike Shrieve, Jeremy Key, Jerry Nasi, Jonathan Carpenter) 1:37.16; 2. Ellenville 1:40.86; 3. Spackenkill 1:40.88; 1,600 relay: 1. Spackenkill (Tre Wilson, Tommy Fink, Ryan Jelinek, Wayne Bowden) 3:43.71; 2. Marlboro 3:47.45; 3. Ellenville 3:50.96; 3,200 relay: 1. Marlboro (Logan Maneely, Nick Kozlik, Jeremy Santiago, Chris Lofaro) 9:14.52; 2. Ellenville 9:30.64; 3. Liberty 9:35.58; high jump: 1. Jonathan Carpenter (JIO) 6-6; 2. Rich Ackerman (Marl), John Njoga (JIO), Rob Borriello (Ell) and Justin Farrenkopf (Ell) 5-3; long jump: 1. Steve Mussachio (Marl) 18-8; 2. Jeremy Key (JIO) 18-6.75; 3. Jimmy Quiceno (Ell) 18-5.75; triple jump: 1. Jimmy Quiceno (Ell) 39-3; 2. Kyle Marquis (Marl) 39-0.5; 3. Andrew Hazelnis (Lib) 38-3; shot put: 1. Michael Hinton (Lib) 43-10; 2. Jeff Nunez (Ell) 41-4; 3. Cody Jacks (JIO) 40-6; weight throw (non-scoring): 1. Jeff Nunez (Ell) 51-2; 2. Rob Borriello (Ell) 42-4.25; 3. Michael Hinton (Lib) 38-7.25; pole vault: 1. Justin Farrenkopf (Ell) 13-6; 2. Rich Barley (Marl) 12-0; 3. Zac Maniatis (Lib) 9-6.
Fourth Annual Coaches Vs. Cancer Basketball Classic
This is a "can't miss" event for basketball fans and a great chance to do your part to battle the dreaded disease.
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY- I’ll be there and hopefully, so will you. This is a great event for a noble cause and always rife with outstanding basketball. Circle the date: 2/11/2012 and make a beeline for the Paul Gerry Fieldhouse. You won’t regret it.
SUNY SULLIVAN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT TO HOST
FOURTH ANNUAL COACHES VERSUS CANCER BASKETBALL CLASSIC
Loch Sheldrake, NY (February 1, 2012) – The SUNY Sullivan Athletics Department and Basketball Program will be hosting a day of basketball games on February 11, 2012 to raise money for the cancer care program at Catskill Regional Medical Center (CRMC). This fourth annual event to benefit CRMC’s Oncology Program will feature a slate of games including local Varsity and Junior Varsity match-ups and, for the first time this year, two college games featuring the SUNY Sullivan men’s and women’s teams.
The money raised at this year’s event will be donated to benefit cancer care at CRMC in the name of Cierra Boone, a young woman who lost her brave battle against cancer last year. Her cousin, Dante Agnew, is a current student athlete at SUNY Sullivan, and a top scorer on this year’s #1 nationally ranked Generals team.
Proceeds from admission to the event will be donated, as will money raised via voluntary drop-boxes in the Paul Gerry Field House on the day of the event, event tee shirt sales, and 50/50 Raffles offered during the games. Admission rates will be as follows: $3.00 for adults; $2.00 for Seniors & Students with valid college ID; children under the age of five admitted free of charge.
The 4TH ANNUAL COACHES VERSUS CANCER BASKETBALL CLASSIC slate of games will proceed as follows:
10:30 AM Livingston Manor vs. Eldred (Varsity Girls Game)
12:00 PM Monticello vs. Liberty (Junior Varsity Boys Game)
1:30 PM Monticello vs. Liberty (Varsity Boys Game)
3:00 PM Tri-Valley vs. Sullivan West (Varsity Girls Game)
5:00 PM SUNY Sullivan Lady Generals vs. Borough of Manhattan
7:00 PM SUNY Sullivan Generals vs. Borough of Manhattan
For more information about this event or the cause, please contact Chris DePew at (845) 434-5750, extension 4313. You may also send your inquiries to him via email to: cdepew@sullivan.suny.edu. You can also contact the event’s co-organizer, Christopher Russo of Monticello High School, at (845) 794-8840, extension 10816, or by email to crusso@k12mcsd.not. Additional information is also available online at the SUNY Sullivan website, www.SUNYSullivan.edu.
Read the story from last year to soak up the vibe…See you there:
G/S Finesse
Division I Skiers Rocket Down The Slopes Of Belleayre Mountain; Last Run On This Mountain Serves As Tune Up For Coming Sectionals; Monticello Girls Clinch Division I Title; Haley Heins Is Division I Girls Champ; Ryan Heins and Onteora’s Jacob Combe Still Vying For Boys Individual Title
Photo Essay By RICHARD A. ROSS
rross@sportsinsightsny.com….photos at: www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com
Just a few of the legion of fine skiers hurtling down Belleayre Mountain in the Giant Slalom Races held on January 30, 2012.
HIGHMOUNT, NY–People wonder why I make the trek up the slippery slope of Belleayre Mountain each year to photograph skiers and risk freezing. The answer is because it’s worth it to visually portray these kids with all of their grace and style as they careen down the hill.
Indeed, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the album of photos that accompanies this page would comprise a book of substantial size. As such, I’ll let the photos speak for themselves though if you aren’t a parent or a coach who knows the bib numbers of these colorful young men and women, you’d be hard pressed to identify them. That is why when I finally get the results from the Giant Slalom races of January 30, I will diligently put them on here to make that task easier.
At long last, here are the results.
Rebuff On Resolution Ridge
Tri-Valley Remains Undefeated By Turning Back Chester For Regular Season Sweep; Sectional Berth Secured With Ninth Win And Fifth League Victory; Hustle, Rebounding and Relentless Defense Prove Effective Once Again As Tenbus’ Youngsters Continue Their Ascent
Tri-Valley 49, Chester 42
By RICHARD A. ROSS
Scenes from Tri-Valley's rebuff of Chester in a Division V rematch of the first one captured by T-V by a lone point. (Clockwise) Chester junior standout Mardelle Jean is shadowed ever so closely by T-V freshman Caroline Martin. Tri-Valley junior Mareena DiMilia scores over Chester's Kathryn Jankelunas. DiMilia had a game-high 14 points and 17 rebounds. Chester's Ashley George keeps a close watch on Tri-Valley's Sabrena Smith. Both scored 13 in the game. All of Smith's came in the second half. Tri-Valley cheerleader Ali Reynolds soars towards the rafters in a nifty basket catch display by the T-V cheerleaders. Tug of war: Tri-Valley's Erin Smith and Marcella Brosnan grapple for a loose ball. Chester's Amanda Schembri looks to pass in the early going and Tri-Valley's Katlynn Greffrath posts up for two of her eight points on the night.
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY—The Lady Bears went over the mountain and what do you think they saw? They saw another mountain to climb, this one named Mt. Chester: steep, rugged and daunting.
Welcome to the arduous climb wherein the goal is reach the upper stratosphere of Section Nine Class C.
Points in the paint: Tri-Valley's Sabrena Smith scored all of her 13 points in the second half as Chester's mission of preventing dribble penetration fell short as its bigs could not get up and down the floor as fast as the quick and the red (and white).
Out of the foothills of the early season and now onto the treacherous mid-level ridges of league encounters, the Lady Bears put one foot in front of the other, assisted each other when pitfalls loomed and downed Chester 49-42, a score that does not reflect Tri-Valley’s dominance as they continue their ascent with one goal in mind: to reach the title game peak and take on the final challenger.
As their warm up shirts inform…”We’re not defending the Championship…We’re pursuing another.”
With their feisty win over Chester, a team that has played them closer than any other team to date, the Lady Bears swept aside a league contender bent on coming in and forcing them to take a misstep. The enchanting Lady Bears foiled Chester’s mission of getting even for a one-point defeat down in Hambletonian Country and moving within one game of Tri-Valley on the Division V ladder.
Hoping to use their advantage in size against a smaller adversary and a to deploy a match-up zone that would keep the quick Lady Bears from penetrating the paint and scoring at will, Chester veteran Coach Pete Rickard felt confident before the fray that his girls could upend their hosts to orchestrate the start of a new world order in the Class C hierarchy.
The assumption is that currently undefeated John A. Coleman Catholic will snare the number one seed in the Sectional tournament. Consequently, teams like Chester, Tuxedo and Tri-Valley covet the idea of being seeded number two in order to avoid the Lady Statesmen until the finals.
With two losses against eight wins coming in, and both of those defeats in league play including a six point defeat against Tuxedo, Chester was in a must-win situation to improve its lot. That said, the pressure was equally intense on the undefeated Tri-Valley Lady Bears . T-V Coach John Tenbus has schooled his young squad to approach every game with the intensity of a playoff.
Lethal Weapon #12: Chester's Mardelle Jean is a threat in every aspect of the game. She can drive, shoot the three, slash to the rim, dish it off and on defense harry you into exhaustion. But in this game T-V had her mostly under wraps.
It’s not about remaining undefeated. It’s about gearing up to be in the best position for the postseason. This ninth win of the year marks the midpoint of the struggle and though it bequeathed Tri-Valley a sectional berth, that is only the first step in the real upward scaling of Mt. Class C.
That said, as the motto for the NY lottery reminds us, “You’ve gotta be in it to win it.” At present, Tri-Valley is the only Division V team that’s already in it. Chester and Tuxedo only need one more win to join T-V in the big dance. Fallsburg needs three.
In addition to its size, Chester has arguably one of the finest guards in the Class C realm in junior Mardelle Jean. She can handle the ball with finesse, slash to the lane, dish it off and score from anywhere. Tri-Valley’s mission, one oft-repeated by Tenbus throughout the game, “Know where she is.”
Limiting the stalwart Jean to eight points was a major factor in the win. Early foul trouble consigned the lethal weapon to the bench as the Bears turned their focus in her absence towards sophomore Ashley Georges who would go on to lead the Lady Hambos with 13 points on the night.
Early on, Chester’s defense gave the overly-zealous Lady Bears fits and starts. Missing lay-ups, making errant passes and showing less patience than needed, Tri-Valley was outplayed in the early going and found itself behind at the outset.
There can be little doubt that T-V’s defense and its ability to overcome a height deficit by pulling down rebounds for second and third chance shot opportunities helped them to right the ship, pull ahead and then leave Chester far behind in its wake.
If the Bears unveiled one potential Achilles Heal, it was their inability to close out the game with authority. Leading by as much as 15 in the game’s waning minutes, they failed to grind down the clock, settling instead for quick and often ill-conceived shots that allowed Chester to chip away making the final score appear as if this was a close game, which it was certainly not.
The climb towards postseason success is a slippery slope, and while success in the regular season can grant passage into the tournament with an eye towards reaching the ethereal peak, it take sure-footed resolve and arduous preparation to be ready for the do-or-die battles to be staged on those lofty cliffs.
Coaches teach; players learn: Top: Chester's Pete Rickard. Bottom: Tri-Valley's John Tenbus
Before that championship encounter is staged, all teams save two will topple and fall, and no one wants to have their season end prematurely. To put it succinctly, the prologue of the season and its opening acts are now over as the curtain is going up on the cathartic scenes that will catapult this hardwood enactment towards its dramatic finish.
Tragedy or comedy? Like most good plays you have to see it through the final act to determine how it ends up.
T-V senior Erin Smith controlled the opening tip against Chester junior tall tree Amanda Schembri. Caroline Martin’s opening shot was rejected and the Lady Bears failed on the put back. Chester traveled but the Lady Bears missed two more inside shots. Chester missed its first chance as well but would score the opening two buckets as George drove for two and was fouled by Katlynn Greffrath. She missed the free throw. A put back by Chester freshman Simone Ayers made it four-zip.
Martin’s dish to Mareena DiMilia cut the deficit in half. Greffrath and Ayers traded buckets as T-V now trailed 6-4. Martin gave the Lady Bears the lead with a bucket and a free throw. Tight T-V defense forced a Chester turnover. Jean picked up her first foul and another travel call on the Lady Hambos followed an errant T-V pass that would have given Chester numbers going the other way.
It was early, but you could already feel that Chester’s attempt to deliver the early knockout punch was being countered by T-V jabs that were taking their toll.
From the latter first quarter juncture when Chester led 8-7 after a Jean lay up, Tri-Valley would go on to outscore Chester 7-0 to emerge from the first quarter with a 14-8 lead by dint of five points from DiMilia, four from Greffrath , three from Martin and two points from Erin Smith. Chester got a bucket apiece from Jean and two from Ayers.
Highlights from that first quarter included a nice dish across the lane from Martin to DiMilia for two points and DiMilia’s final bucket from the wing with .6 of a secosnd remaining in the frame punctuated with a made free throw.
Grace, style and agility: Tri-Valley's Jessica Lee shows it all.
The Lady Bears cheerleader added to the home-crowd approval with their timely spirit.
T-V inbounded to start the second quarter that would feature more even play between the two vying squads as each would score nine in the stanza. Sabrena Smith picked up her second foul early. Ayers cut the lead to 14-10 with a pretty turnaround but T-V capitalized on a steal as Erin Smith dished it to Greffrath for two more in the Bears’ column.
Ayers scored in the paint again but that would be all for her scoring for the remainder of the game as she’d end up with eight by night’s end. Chester turnovers continued but Schembri muscled in a put back to make it 16-14 as the Lady Hambletonians looked to reassert their early one-upmanship.
But as they did in the first quarter, the Lady Bears found extra resolve to end the quarter with a nice run from 3:27 when they led 16-14. Schembri missed a potential game-tying shot as the ball bounced out.
They’d get another chance at 2:31 after Sarah Schneyer missed and Greffrath blanked on the putback attempt. Chester turned it over yet again. But Greffrath tried to dribble through Chester’s packed two-three zone and hit the front rim. Jean had a chance to tie it up with free throws but managed only one of two.
With the ball on the floor Tenbus called for a time out anticipating a Chester possession arrow but the officials didn’t hear him. The ball went over to the Lady Hambos who turned it over again. Chester regained the lead for the last time as Georges made it 17-16 but a DiMilia put back of a miss by Schneyer began a 6-0 run that would close the quarter and knock the air out of Chester’s bid to hold bragging rights at the break.
The Lady Bears led 23-17 at the break. In that second quarter they got four from DiMilia enroute to her team-high 14 points. Great defense led to transition points against a clearly frustrated Chester contingent. Greffrath added two in the stanza as did Keira McHugh who put up a timely shot. Erin Smith hit one from the line.
Chester’s nine in the period came via four from Ayers, two points each from Georges and Schembri and one point from Jean.
Emotions and mindset play a big part in sports and you could see that in the third quarter as the Lady Bears came out to play their best basketball of the night, while Chester struggled as its big players could not keep up with T-V’s speed up and down the floor, nor wrest the ball from their smaller adversaries that would afford T-V offensive rebounds and second-chance scoring.
A 16-7 thrashing by T-V in the third period would lead to a 39-24 margin heading into the final eight minutes of the game. The quarter didn’t start out that way though as Tri-Valley missed its seventh lay up of the night. But Chester turned it over before DiMilia scored the first points of the frame.
Poise at the point: Great teams have it as does Tri-Valley with Sabrena Smith directing the flow.
Martin pushed the lead to ten. Sabrena Smith was fouled on her lay up attempt and hit two. She had gone scoreless in the first half but would post 13 in the second half beginning with this pair from the line.
Chester was limited to lone buckets by Georges, Marcella Brosnan and Jean along with a single free throw from Maggi Feldman. In comparison, the running, rebounding, stealing and scoring Lady Bears looked fresh and vibrant. The quarter which had already gone in T-V’s favor ended like the two prior with a Bears’ closing run, this one 6-2 over their blue-clad adversaries.
In that third quarter fusillade, Tri-Valley got ten points from fireplug Sabrena Smith, four from DiMilia and a bucket from Martin.
Heading into the final frame, Tenbus was preaching patience and use of the shot clock but the message wasn’t getting through to the overzealous Lady Bears who continued to run and shoot to their own detriment.
Six of the ten points the Lady Bears would score in the fourth quarter came from the line as Chester was over the limit. Just two baskets rang in, one from Greffrath and one from Erin Smith. Meanwhile, hurried shots, often involving sub-par looks gave Chester life enough to chip away at the 15 point deficit to cut it to seven by game’s end.
All the while Tenbus fumed at his team’s sudden loss of patience and poise. Eight points from Georges in the quarter included a trey as the Lady Hambletonians proved why they are apt to be a lethal foe down the stretch. Their 18 points in the fourth quarter, though too late to alter the outcome, was the best showing by either team all night.
Threes by Jean and Kathryn Jankeluras were also registered as T-V defenders were not getting back in position to challenge shots. A vital lesson was being played out here for Tri-Valley, one of many yet to be learned. You’ve got to be able to close out teams when you can and not leave them hanging around to bite you. Another two minutes had they existed in this game might have brought an upset and Tenbus knew it.
Chester 8-3 (4-3 OCIAA) made it interesting but still succumbed 49-42. Tri-Valley improved to 9-0 (5-0 OCIAA).
Rickard talked about the changing tenor of the game. “Their hustle, second shots and ability to get up and down the court, coupled with our inability to get up and down the court,” were the factors he cited.
Live to fight another day: Mardelle Jean fouls out of the game and stands next to Coach Peter Rickard.. Reminder to Mardelle and everyone else: What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger."
“Our advantage is we have big people. They have one big player in the middle. We put a smaller person on her who did a good job but they released and our bigs didn’t hustle back. If they don’t hustle back I have to go with a smaller and younger team. Mardelle got in some foul trouble. We didn’t stop dribble penetration (Sabrena Smith) so they got closer to the basket.”
Rickard noted that early on Tri-Valley did not get that kind of dribble penetration and weren’t shooting the ball well. “I think we came in a little bit afraid. My team will run the way Mardelle runs and if she isn’t going at it incredibly hard, my team will follow her motion.
They look for her, even if she’s guarded and so we had a lot of turnovers and she got into foul trouble as well. That run at the end of the first half hurt us. That was the changing point of the game,” he averred.
“I thought the pressure would be on them but I think we felt the pressure more thinking we had to win this game and we haven’t won a really big game in the four years I’ve been here. You build a program and this was a game I thought they would come up and win a big game on the road.” You could sense his disappointment and the look on his players’ faces really made it look like “Blue Monday.”
“You’ve got to learn how to win on the road. 49-42 looks good but they could have beaten us by 20. Coming up next is Eldred and then Tuxedo. Both games matter greatly for seeding presuming the Lady Hambos will get the one win they need to punch their ticket to the dance. Chester also has a league game remaining against Seward. They beat Fallsburg twice.
Chester only has 17 games on its schedule as it could not find another opponent. They beat Liberty and have O’Neill on the schedule. They’ll play Livingston Manor too.
Tenbus held forth on the game’s pro’s and cons. “We missed a lot of lay ups and a lot of easy shots. We just came out rattled. Nerves just got the better of us. Our girls knew this was against a team that played us closest so far. They’re a big team and athletic team. But once we settled in a little bit, got under control and started running our stuff we were okay.”
“We were standing still early on. We didn’t move around a lot and we threw the ball away early on. When our wings were standing still it’s easy to defend and get steals. The long passes over the top to try and get the break weren’t working either,” he observed.
“We’re trying to play up-tempo. But they’re still towing that fine line about when to break and when to pull it out and run offense.” Racing and forcing shots comes back to what Tenbus has alluded to in prior discussion: “learning how to defend when someone is right on them.”
Tenbus went on to expand on the idea. “There’s a saying that we use that there is a difference between playing fast and playing quick. Playing quick is where you’re under control and we’re still running through everything. Playing fast is where you’re trying to get up and down the floor and that’s where we have a lot of our turnovers and that’s what we’re trying to avoid. We always tell them to play quick but not fast.”
Tenbus agreed with Rickard that the flurry of points at the end of the first half was a big momentum shift. “Erin worked hard on offense to get the foul shots. Marenna worked very hard to get the rebounds and to put it back up. Mareena also got the steal and Keira McHugh having the presence to just go right up with it. She’s a bench player and if she’s hesitant there, we don’t even get a good look.”
“Everybody’s coming for us,” said Tenbus. “The target’s getting bigger. Everybody wants to be the one to knock us off and I keep reminding the girls that it’s a one-game season. We can only focus on one game at a time. I think switching to a two-three zone helped us a ton in the second half. We never really done that all year. It’s not in my philosophy to do it but Mardelle is excellent at getting to the basket so we contained her more. Early on we were giving her way too many opportunities.”
Jean did foul out near the end of the game.
“We have to live with being small and hopefully we can make up for that at the other end of the floor by scoring,” said Tenbus who understands that his team’s rebounding and aggressive tendency to dive for and grab loose balls or those held by their opponents is a major way of compensating for their disparity in height.
“We have to be scrappy. We can’t just go up and get rebounds. We have to work for every single one.” DiMilia led the team with 17 rebounds. “It’s a work in progress,” noted Tenbus.
From this writer’s standpoint, this game against a tough opponent provided more teachable moments. Face it, every team has its strong points and the best ones have many of them. Learning how to amend your weaknesses and strengthen your assets during the season prepares you for that kind of full-frontal attack you’ll see from teams in the sectionals.
So now for both teams, it’s on from this ridgeline to the next one. More battle-tested and hopefully more savvy, they’ll face their upcoming challenges the better for having played this game.
Yes indeed, the Bears went over this mountain and what do you think they saw? Rising promontories in the distance, a steeper climb ahead and somewhere far off in the distance a familiar mountain top which they hope to reclaim some weeks hence.
Chester’s missed step is far from fatal. Yes, the climb gets harder than it was. But that distant peak is in their sights too and they feel they’ve got the horses to carry them thither.
Time will tell.
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Leaders Of The Pack
Sullivan County Indoor Track Leaders
Compiled By Bill Kroohs
Some of the current Sullivan County indoor track leaders (many more great photos to come in the looming championshiip meets) Clockwise: Nikole Snyder, Autumn Bender, Rachel Deppa, Vicky Tingley, Mareena DiMilia, Alex Campanella, Jimmy Bernstein, Onique Taylor, Eugene Morton, Katlynn Greffrath, Damon Lopez, Shane Jackson, Omar Lopez and Breanna Brucher.
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY– January is nearing its end as crucial coming weeks loom large for runners, jumpers and throwers in the realm of indoor track. So who’s on top in their events from Sullivan County schools? Check out the charts below with athletes ranked by their performance against other County athletes in their events.
Kudos to Eldred’s Bill Kroohs for the gathering of info and for seeing to it that county indoor track kids get some attention sorely missing from other media sources. Rigorous practices, grueling competition, countless hours at meets and the travel to and fro, require a commitment second to none.
But within the crucible of those stifling field houses something powerful is being forged: character, perseverance, resistance to adversity and for many the groundwork for epic performances yet to come this winter and for the sport’s most loyal cadre, this spring. LATEST UPDATE BELOW (1-31-12)
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Girls |
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| Name |
School |
Grade |
THD |
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| 55 meter dash | LaraJane Heslop |
Liberty |
7.3 |
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| A. Rosenberger |
S-W |
7.5 |
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| Tania Walker |
Monticello |
7.7 |
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| Katlynn Greffrath |
Tri-Valley |
So |
8.04 |
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| Zaira Pabon |
Liberty |
8.34 |
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| 55 hurdles | Mareena DiMilia |
Tri-Valley |
Sr |
9.2 |
| Vicky Tingley |
Tri-Valley |
Jr |
9.5 |
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| Breanna Brucher |
Eldred |
Sr |
9.7 |
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| Rebeccah Harman |
Liberty |
9.91 |
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| Mariah Brickhouse |
Liberty |
10.2 |
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| 300 meters | Tania Walker |
Monticello |
44.4 |
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| K Sumfleth |
S-W |
45.5 |
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| Brittany Rennison |
Tri-Valley |
Sr |
46.31 |
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| Christine Donnelly |
Eldred |
Sr |
47.6 |
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| Amanda Bertholf |
Liberty |
49.29 |
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| 600 meters | Christine Donnelly |
Eldred |
1:50.6 |
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| Melissa Symanski |
Liberty |
1:54.30 |
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| Autumn Bender |
Tri-Valley |
8th |
1:56.26 |
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| Breanna O’Malley |
Liberty |
1:56.78 |
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| 1,000 meters | Sierra Thomas |
Liberty |
3:41.09 |
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| Kristen Siegel |
Liberty |
4:11.69 |
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| 1,500 meters | Autumn Bender |
Tri-Valley |
8th |
5:11.92 |
| Camryn Johnson |
Monticello |
5:27.53 |
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| Brooke Gillette |
Tri-Valley |
So |
5:32.99 |
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| Olivia Rehm |
Tri-Valley |
Sr |
5:37.16 |
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| Sydney Johnson |
Monticello |
5:39.96 |
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| 3,000 meters | Autumn Bender |
Tri-Valley |
8th |
11:17.3 |
| Camryn Johnson |
Monticello |
11:21.19 |
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| Christine Donnelly |
Eldred |
Sr |
11:40.6 |
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| Brooke Gillette |
Tri-Valley |
So |
11:47.76 |
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| Sydney Johnson |
Monticello |
12:02.68 |
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| 1500 meter W | Rachel Deppa |
S-W |
7:35.8 |
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| Brooke Gillette |
Tri-Valley |
8:52.4 |
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| 800 Relay | Liberty |
1:58.8 |
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| 1,600 Relay | Sullivan West |
4:30.2 |
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| Eldred |
4:44.9 |
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| Liberty |
5:03.46 |
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| 3,200 Relay | Tri-Valley |
10:54.5 |
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| S-W |
11:15.9 |
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| Liberty |
12:17.40 |
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| Monticello |
12:21.2 |
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| High Jump | Katlynn Greffrath |
Tri-Valley |
So |
4′ 10″ |
| Kristina Sumfleth |
S-W |
Jr |
4′ 8″ |
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| Erika Bowring |
Eldred |
Sr |
4′ 8″ |
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| Sabrena Smith |
Tri-Valley |
So |
4′ 3″ |
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| Zaira Pabon |
Liberty |
4′ 3″ |
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| Long Jump | Maureena Dimilia |
Tri-Valley |
Sr |
14′ 10 3/4″ |
| Nikole Snyder |
Liberty |
14′ 10 1/4″ |
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| Laradane Heslop |
Liberty |
14′ 9 1/2″ |
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| Katelyn Greffrath |
Tri-Valley |
So |
14′ 8 3/4″ |
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| Erika Bowring |
Eldred |
Sr |
14′ 6 3/4″ |
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| Triple Jump | Rebeccah Harmon |
Liberty |
32′ 5 3/4″ |
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| Erika Bowring |
Eldred |
Sr |
31′ 9 1/2″ |
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| Hannah Feinman |
S-W |
Jr |
31′ 5″ |
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| Brittany Rennison |
Tri-Valley |
Sr |
30′ 3″ |
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| Pole Vault | Breanna Brucher |
Eldred |
Sr |
8′ 6″ |
| Amanda Bertholf |
Liberty |
8′ 6″ |
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| Vicky Tingly |
Tri-Valley |
Jr |
7′ 6″ |
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| Kristina Sumfleth |
S-W |
6′ 6″ |
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| Melissa McMonagle |
Eldred |
8th |
6′ 0″ |
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| Shot Put | Mareena Dimilia |
Tri-Valley |
Sr |
38′ 11 3/4″ |
| Dominique Darby |
Tri-Valley |
Sr |
37′ 3″ |
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| Heidi Furman |
Tri-Valley |
32′ 9 3/4″ |
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| Kayla Martin |
Monticello |
30′ 9″
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Boys |
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| Name |
School |
Grade |
THD |
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| 55 meter dash | Shane Jackson | Monticello |
6.5 |
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| Onique Taylor | Monticello |
6.5 |
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| Craig Burns | Eldred |
Sr |
6.5 |
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| Erick Cuellar | Liberty |
6.6 |
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| 55 hurdles | Damon Lopez | Tri-Valley |
7.9 |
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| Mitch Paciga | S-W |
8.1 |
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| Adrian K | Eldred |
9.0 |
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| Steve Padin | Monticello |
9.25 |
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| Josh Lieberman | Liberty |
9.36 |
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| 300 meters | Shane Jackson | Monticello |
36.8 |
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| Craig Burns | Eldred |
Sr |
37.9 |
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| Erick Cuellar | Liberty |
39.06 |
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| Kenny Jaycox | Liberty |
41.21 |
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| 600 meters | Omique Taylor | Monticello |
1:26.8 |
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| Alex Campanella | Eldred |
1:30.1 |
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| Omar Lopez | Tri-Valley |
Sr |
1:30.89 |
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| Matt Watts | Eldred |
1:33.7 |
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| Josh Liebermann | Liberty |
1:34.96 |
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| 1,000 meters | Omar Lopez | Tri-Valley |
Sr |
2:43.5 |
| Jim Bernstein | Tri-Valley |
Sr |
2:44.61 |
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| Kane Sauchuk | Liberty |
2:52.46 |
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| Joe Klein | Monticello |
3:12.96 |
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| 1,600 meters | Alex Campanella | Eldred |
Jr |
4:21.82 |
| Hunter Proscia | Eldred |
Sr |
4:33.57 |
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| Jim Bernstein | Tri-Valley |
Sr |
4:39.8 |
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| Luis Campos | Liberty |
5:14 |
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| 3,200 meters | Alex Campanella | Eldred |
Jr |
9:41.7 |
| Hunter Proscia | Eldred |
Sr |
9:52.7 |
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| Jim Bernstein | Tri-Valley |
Sr |
10:01.54 |
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| Omar Lopez | Tri-Valley |
Sr |
10:26.3 |
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| Hauk Boyes | Tri-Valley |
10:53.08 |
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| 800 Relay | Monticello |
1:35.67 |
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| Liberty |
1:40.4 |
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| Tri-Valley |
1:43.2 |
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| Eldred |
1:43.2 |
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| 1,600 Relay | Eldred |
3:46.8 |
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| Liberty |
3:58.77 |
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| Sullivan West |
4:02.4 |
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| 3,200 Relay | Tri-Valley |
8:41.6 |
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| Liberty |
9:26.0 |
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| High Jump | Mitch Paciga | S-W |
5′ 6″ |
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| Zac Maniatis | Liberty |
5′ 0″ |
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| Long Jump | Andy Hazelnis | Liberty |
17′ 8″ |
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| Justin Malone | Tri-Valley |
16′ 11″ |
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| Eugene Morton | Tri-Valley |
16′ 6 1/4″ |
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| Brandon Tierney | Tri-Valley |
16′ 3/4″ |
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| B Bobik | Tri-Valley |
15′ 6 1/2″ |
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| Triple Jump | Talon Watson | Monticello |
40′ 1/2″ |
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| Andy Hazelnis | Liberty |
38′ 9 1/2″ |
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Adrian Krzysztofowicz |
Eldred |
Jr |
36′ 8 3/4″ |
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| Pole Vault | Eugene Morton | Tri-Valley |
10′ 6″ |
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| Julian Gottlieb | Eldred |
So |
9′ 6″ |
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| Zac Maniatis | Liberty |
9′ 6″ |
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| Dennis McCullough | Eldred |
Sr |
9′ |
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| Julian DeLeon | Eldred |
So |
8′ |
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| Shot Put | Brendan Tierney | Tri-Valley |
Jr |
48′ 4 1/2″ |
| Garrett LaPolt | Monticello |
47′ 8 3/4″ |
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| Aric Boyes | Tri-Valley |
Jr |
44′ 5″ |
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| Mike Hinton | Liberty |
44′ 1 1/2″ |
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| Todd Roeder | S-W |
Sr |
43′ 7 1/4″ |
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Stay tuned for great indoor coverage of the OCIAA, Sullivan County, Section Nine Championships, the State Qualifier and the NYSPHSAA Meet at Cornell.
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