Spring season gets started
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- March
- 27
It feels like I was just down at the armory wrapping up the indoor season. Now the shortest sport season of the school year is getting under way. Even though the spring is starting, don’t forget to check out the previews coming out April 5. After that, be sure to catch the winter all-star edition that will be printed on April 19.
I really enjoyed reading all the comments on the Division I – Division II debate. I actually think it’s a good idea to have a D-II, allowing athletes from smaller schools a chance to compete at the state meet. However, there are a few problems I have with it. If you have 600 or more students a school is in D-I, less a school is in D-II. So, you have a team like Rye who is in Class B, but D-I because of four students. But then other B schools – Putnam Valley, Pleasantville or Pelham to name a few are in D-II.
I know someone said this already, but I don’t know why the standards for D-I got harder, while the D-II standards got easier. I have no problem with making it easier for the D-II athletes, but why make it harder for D-I? My last point on it is this: Under the current system, a D-II qualifier doesn’t take a spot away from a D-I athlete. However, D-I can only send a max of two athletes, the same with D-II as long they hit the standard and then finish in the top two. But in the winter a section can send a max of three athletes per event – and it would be the top three athletes in an event. All three athletes could be from what’s considered a D-I school. Look at the 55 hurdles – Claudio Delli Carpini, Chris Rones and Ryan Lacossade all qualified in the winter all from a D-I school. In the spring, one of them wouldn’t have qualified. In that case then D-I does lose a spot. Again, I think it’s a good idea to have two divisions, but in that respect D-I does get hurt.
You can click below to also view yesterday’s track meets.
Boys
Fox Lane 87, Horace Greeley 73
at Horace Greeley
100 – 1. Marano (HG) 11.8; 2. Lebron (FL) 12.1; 3. Kohn (HG) 12.5. 110 hurdles – 1. Benton (HG) 16.8; 2. Melton (FL) 18.9. 200 – 1. Marano (HG) 24.6; 2. Cardoza (FL) 25.5; 3. Garcia (FL) 25.6. 400 – 1. Benton (HG) 57.5; 2. Rosenbloom (HG) 63.5; 3. Yell (FL) 65.8. 400 hurdles – 1. Pile (HG) 69.1 800 – 1. Eager (HG) 2:16; 2. Debrose (FL) 2:20; 3. Amabrai (FL) 2:46. 1,600 – 1. Scaglio (FL) 4:38; 2. Eager (HG) 4:44; 3. Sacks (FL) 4:45. 3,200 – 1. Schwartz (FL) 10:57; 2. Fenton (FL) 11:12; 3. McGarrah (FL) 11:44. 400 relay – 1. Horace Greeley (Chareton, Kohn, Krebs, Marano) 50.2. 1,600 relay – None. 3,200 relay – 1. Fox Lane (Garcia, Sgaglio, Sacks, Cohn) 8:48 Pole vault – 1. Benway (FL) 9-6; 2. Licata (FL) 9-0; 3. Poster (HG) 9-0. Long jump – Faherty (HG) 16-6; 2. Louie (HG) 15-6; 3. Garcia (FL) 14-6. Triple jump – 1. Faherty (HG) 33-7; 2. Louie (HG) 33-5. High jump – 1. Lebron (FL) 5-6; 2. Kohn (HG) 5-2; 3. Goncalves (FL) 4-8. Shot put – 1. Schemerhorn (FL) 34-2; 2. Barr (FL) 30-7; 3. Lathanzi (FL) 30-1. Discus – 1. Schemerhorn (FL) 122-5; 2. Cooper (HG) 77-9; 3. Barr (FL) 68-6. Javelin – Fleitus (FL) 108; 2. Hartz (FL) 103; 3. Liemer (HG) 81-2.
Girls
Horace Greeley 64, Fox Lane 46
at Horace Greeley
100 – 1. Taylor (HG) 14.6; 2. Gilkes (FL) 14.7; 3. Kirschner (HG) 15.0. 100 hurdles – 1. Downs (FL) 20.6; 2. LaHanzi (FL) 21.7; 3. Sorkin (HG) 22.1. 200 1. Biederman (HG) 29.2; 2. Liang (FL) 29.4; 3. Stein (FL) 30.5. 400 – 1. Biederman (HG) 65.2; 2. Beck (HG) 77.2; 3. Jeffers (FL) 79.1 400 hurdles – 1. Sorkin (HG) 99.0. 800 – 1. Berman (HG) 2:42; 2. Malsin (FL) 2:47; 3. Powers (HG) 2:49. 1,500 – 1. Tsoucas (HG) 5:24.2; 2. Berman (HG) 5:40.9; 3. Malsin (FL) 5:42. 3,000 – 1. Tsoucas (HG) 11:49; 2. Kramon (HG) 12:40. 400 relay – Horace Greeley (Thum, Pickel, Berman, Taylor) 62.8. 1,600 relay – None. 3,200 relay – None. Pole vault – 1. Reach (FL) 6-0. Long jump – 1. Stein (FL) 12-4; 2. Taylor (HG) 11-6; 3. Gilke (FL) 10-2. Triple jump – None. High jump – None. Shot put – 1. Johnson (FL) 33-6. Discus – 1. Johnson (FL) 60-8. Javelin – None.
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The standards are a five year average of 6th place in that
event. The standards were updated from last year. They
would have been different from last year even if things
hadn’t change to allow one from each division to qualify.
The newly created DII standards represent the DII results for the last 5 vears at the state meet. DII teams generally do not do as well as the large DI schools at the state meet and these standards are proof of that. I would love to have a separate meet/site for the state DII meet but in this economic climate this is unlikely to happan. For a short while about 10+ years ago the state meet was contested as three separate meets at the same site at different times. Usually each meet lasted 4 hours. That might have been the best solution. Small school sports are very different from large school sports (more than anyone from a large school could ever imagine) and they need to be properly represented at states. A D class football team would never be expected to play a AA class team. So why do we expect small school track teams to compete with large school teams?
rumor has it that brandon freyer won’t be able to compete this spring. so that plus the ridiculous qualifying procedure in the spring leads to the 3200 having 2 extremely good qualifiers, but leaving one good D1 runner out. then having a really weak runner going for D. II automatically. same prbly goes for many events, i just looked through the distance events and this one stuck out at me.
if he were still at Brewster he wouldn’t be affect DII anyway, so not any different than last year when he wasn’t at Pawling….
Patrick Wortner would probably be the next best 3200 guy in DII unless I’m completely forgetting somebody or someone has a breakout season.
Yes Brandon is ineligible for the spring season. It’s a real shame after his great race at NIN but he will be competing in some open meets and hopefully NON in June. I have no clue who will be taking that DII spot now that he is out for states.
I personally have no problem with the DI and DII standards. Some might say it’s unfair but I feel it will only strengthen NY and make athletes work harder to hit faster standards. Overtime the shock will pass and kids will work harder to get the job done!
The same rule governs the DI and DII standards – average of results for each division for last 5 years proving once again that DI is better than DII usually. So harder standards for DI is justified and appropriate.
dont feel bad. Fryer did it to himself
Freyer is God…ur lucky he’s not running cause you scrubs wouldn’t stand a chance
Let’s try to keep it clean.
A its freyer
B it was for my own reasons so (edit) please refrain from makeing unnecessary comments