State quals Day 2 highlights
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- May
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This was a very long night. I’m just going to throw up some of the highlights from the meet. I’m still not sure why this meet can’t be run on a Saturday. I’m sure there’s a reason, but for us media types it’s tough when the meet goes late because we have to leave before all the events are compeleted in order to file our stories by deadline.
Anyway, it was a real exciting meet.
Mike Abelard looks rediculously fast. To win the 200 in 21.58 – not bad.
The 400 was one of the more impressive events. There’s Chris Davis (48.83) from Roosevelt and Alex Petit-Frere (50.16) both qualify for states. Davis looked really strong. And then you have Kevin Sainvil win the D 2 400 breaking 50 and he qualified in the 200.
Sticking with Woodlands there’s Alexis Easterling – 56.62 and 25.32. Apparently she’s given up on the jumps and is focusing on just the running. It’s definitely working. She looks phenominal running.
Joe Fox and Charlotte Pope dominated the throws these past two days. They are the by far the best in the section.
Dasheen Ellis – 45 9 1/2 nice triple jump. Then of course there’s Sean Reilly jumping 47. Reill’y an increible athlete, but that was a big jump for Ellis.
The 3,200 relay was exciting with New Rochelle breaking 7:50 and edgint out Arlington. Fox Lane made a late charge, but just fell short. Irvington had a late rally to win D 2 as Julian Saliani will be competing at states in the relay and the 1,600 after he won that in about 4:30.
How about a freshman – Nina Sarmiento from Harrison running the 400 hurdles in 64 seconds. Her coaches kept telling me she’s an extraordinary athletes. She proved that tonight.
Shelby Greany easily won the steeple and ran in the 3,200 relay, which saw North Rockland win in 9:17. Suffern and Bronxville were right behind them. Bronxville will be able to try and put an outdoor state/federation title with its indoor one.
Nat Recine was impressive qualifying in both the 100 and 200 for Bronxville.
After not qualifying in the 3,000 yesterday, I was happy to see Megan Young win the 1,500 to make the state meet. She’s to talented a runner to keep out of the meet.
I know there’s other stuff to be mentioned, and I’ll be back on tomorrow after some sleep to talk about both days of qualifiers. In the mean time, please feel free to talk about whatever else you want to from the qualifiers.
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on Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 11:33 pm by Dan Marra. 
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Dan Marra began working for the Journal News this past September. He graduated from Manhattan College in 2004 and from John F. Kennedy High School in 2000. While at Kennedy, he ran cross-country and track. He is excited to be covering the sport that he participated in throughout his four years in high school. Dan loves all sports, but has, what some may say, an unhealthy obsession with the New York Giants.
Matthew Ng has been with Varsity Central and The Journal News sports department for the past two years handling high school beats such as skiing, bowling, girls soccer and tennis. Ng is a 2004 graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School with his major in broadcast journalism.
Casey Tolfree spent her high school career playing Section 1 sports at Dobbs Ferry and is excited to have the opportunity to cover them for the Journal News. After graduating from St. John's University, Casey joined the Journal News staff in December 2007 and has covered a variety of sports including basketball, softball, and volleyball.
When is the results going 2 be put up
They’re going to be in the paper tomorrow, but if you want to check them out, dyestat has them online. Just copy and past this link:
http://www.dyestat.com/?pg=reg1-2009-Outdoor-NY-Section-1-State-Qualifier
thanks dan i dont get why people are so mad at you its not your fault the paper wont give you that much space and meets take so long