It’s that time of the year again.

We have two reporters up at Binghamton covering the games. To take a look at their articles Click here.

To take a closer look at some of their thoughts, try reading their blog.

The regular track season may be over, but the Clayton sisters continue to break records and open eyes.

At the Region I Junior Olympic meet at Icahn Stadium, Janelle Clayton won the Young Women’s (17-18) division in the high jump with a leap of five feet, 7 3/4 inches. Jen Clayton – recently selected as one [...]

In case you have not taken a look at the all star and all county selections, check below:

Westchester/Putnam

Rockland

Since I just started working at the Journal News about a year ago, I never got to see Lynn Layne or Carin Knight compete at New Rochelle High School, but I spoke to them the other day about heading over to Oregon to compete in the trials. They were predictably pretty excited about the possibility [...]

Suffern’s Shelby Greany finished first in the steeplchase in 6:42.86, a PR and the third fastest time in the country as she won the national title in North Carolina. She finished second last year at nationals, but this year she came through and sprinted to the finish line. Emma Miller-Bedell of Tappan Zee claimed fourth [...]

I can’t believe I finally made it back home. It’s been a while since I posted, but I’m back home nestled very comfortably on my bed listening to the rain outside. That’s a long drive up to Buffalo and man do I hate that route 17, I might need to go back up to Broome [...]

I hope everyone’s ready for the state meet, can’t wait to head up to Buffalo. I just keep looking at mapquest and marveling at how far away this city is and it’s still in New York. But who are we kidding, it’s really in Canada.
Now I’m going to take a look at each event and [...]

There’s a new poll over to the right. Check it out and write in or vote for the section 1 athletes that you think have the best chance of bringing home a state (Division I/Division II) title.

Yesterday at Iona Prep was brutal. The heat was suffocating. I really don’t know how anyone was able to run. I noticed a lot of athletes scratched, and I would assume that had a lot to do with the heat. And I really can’t blame them. But those thah ran, ran well and they should [...]

With the state meet a little more than a week away and Eastern States coming up this weekend, I thought we could talk about what to expect next weekend in Buffalo.

Before Eric and I make our predictions on state champions, I don’t know if anyone saw the article that my colleague, Harold Gutmann, wrote about [...]

Tonight’s meet at Warwick High School was pretty impressive. The school is up in the middle of nowhere, I felt like that route 17 never ended, but I finally made it home. The track is great, even though rumor has it that it may only be 390 meters, but I guess they have to get [...]

Okay, so we’re pretty much set on who’s going to be making the state meet, here are some of my thoughts on yesterday’s races:

After a busy day yesterday, let’s take a look and see what happened at qualifiers yesterday as we prepare for today’s events:

Lawrence Campbell looks like he’s peaking at the right time again. The 1:54 he ran yesterday in the 800 was real impressive. He jumped out to the lead and just controlled race. Aki Bajulaiye [...]

With state qualifiers coming up at the end of the week, I figured we could take a look at some of the more surprising stars of the season. I tried to limit my number to five athletes, so if there is anyone you think should be mentioned, feel free to write them down.

Before I go [...]

Alright, so yesterday was the CHSAA intersectional championships down at Icahn stadium. I’ve beento Randall’s island, but never the stadium, it’s pretty nice.

At the meet yesterday Brian McGovern again showed why he is the heavy favorite to win the state title in the pole vault. He cleared 16 feet with no problem. He does the [...]

So, what to make of the Class A meet? Well, for one it was pretty long. And there are a lot of Class A schools in section 1, a lot more than you realize, but that makes for a lot of talent and very good meet.

Boys points:

Ramapo won the section as the team continued its [...]

Here we go, my picks for the Class B meet (boys):

1. Somers – The team barely got by Harrison in the county meet and with John Turro back at full strength or close to full strength and with Pat Porteus, Viny Cascio, Todd Apgar, and Pat Hashmall this team should have enough distance runners to [...]

Okay, here we go, round two of my picks. Last week I wasn’t great in Westchester, but I was pretty decent in Rockland, now let’s mix the two together and see what we come up with:

1. Ramapo: The team won the county title without Abelard and if he runs at sectionals there would just be [...]

I noticed that people were not to happy about Iona Prep winning the county title. I figured I’d give you my opinion on the blog and see what you think.

I completely understand where the public schools are coming from. Iona is a Catholic school that can get students all throughout Westchester and the Bronx to [...]

Yesterday was a rough day, I’m speaking of course about myself.

First, I locked myself out of my apartment, and my cell phone is inside so I have no means of contacting anybody, then I go to the Westchester county meet, where I’m hoping my prediction on the boys side hold true. Just a reminder this [...]

With the Westchester county meet only a few days away I decided to stop keeping you all in suspense. Now that I’m about to unveil my predictions (for the boys) you all can go to your nearest OTB and lock it up. That being said, I’ve been trying to come up with these predictions for [...]

OK, so here are my long awaited predictions for the top five finishers on the boys side:

1. Ramapo: I know I’m really going out on a limb here. They have so much talent they will dominate a handful of events and score enough points everywhere else to win their second straight county title.

2. Suffern: [...]

Sorry for the late post, I went up to Boston after Loucks, and one of the city’s more famous bands, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones inspired me for the title of this post. Now The impression that I get:

Kristin Reese is on a roll. This weekend at Loucks she was running like a state champion. To [...]

League III-A championship
Boys
Team standings and key: 1. Byram Hills (BH) 178; 2. Croton-Harmon (CH) 110; 3. Westlake (Ws) 66; 4. Pleasantville (Pv) 57; 5. Kennedy (JFK) 55; 6. Putnam Valley (PV) 45; 7. Lincoln Hall (LH) 21; 8. Briarcliff (Bc) 20.
100 – 1. Miles Peterson (Pv) 11.38; 2. Tim Wuebber (BH) 11.57; 3. Jerron Willis [...]

Who do you think could have a big meet at Loucks this weekend?  Here are my picks of people to stand out:

Kevin Malivert: The Ramapo junior was the indoor state champion in the 55, and has the fastest time this season in the 100. He’s also on the fastest relay teams in the state.

Antoine McGill: [...]

Boys:

Team scores: 1. Monroe Woodbury 37, 2. Kingston 34, 3. Washingtonville 29, 3. Pine Bush 29, 5. Ramapo 28, 6. Cornwall 24, 7. Vernon 15, 7. Spring Valley 15, 9. Westwood 12, 9. Suffern 12, 11. Teaneck 11, 12. Beacon 10,  12. Veritas Christian Academy 10, 14. Clarkstown South 9, 14, Wallkill 9, 16. Minisink [...]

Somers:
Boys
Team key and scoring: 1. Arlington (Arl) 74, 2. Lakeland/Panas (Lk/Pn) 67, 3. Iona Prep (IP) 62, 4. Yorktown (Yk) 40, 5. Mount Vernon (MV) 39, 6. Brewster (Bw) 37, 7. Pawling (Pw) 35, 8. John Jay-East Fishkill (JJEF) 31, 9. Somers (S) 29, 10. Hackley (Hk) 26, 11. Byram Hills (BH) 23, 12. Roosevelt [...]

Okay now that the league meets are all but over, let’s see what we have learned:

Ramapo is still the team to beat on the boys side and Suffern for the girls. While I’m not sure how serious the injury to Abelard and Kevin Malivert didn’t run they were able to plug in Aaron Thevenin and [...]

One more league meet finished up today, with little surprises, the boys:
League I-B championships
Team team and scoring: 1. Ramapo (Ram) 148 5/6; 2. Suffern (Sf) 120; 3. North Rockland (NRk) 107 5/6; 4. Clarkstown South (CS) 92 1/2 ; 5. Clarkstown North (CN) 54 5/6.
100 – 1. Nick Padilla (Ram) 11.0; 2. Chidi Ezemma (Ram) [...]

Alright, now that most of the league meets are finished, let’s take a look and see what happened. Here are the links to see some of league meet results:

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080501/SPORTS02/805010499/1110

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/SPORTS02/804300379/1110

The League 1-A meet results will be in tomorrow’s paper, but here are the team scores, first for the girls:

1. New Rochelle 254, 2. Mount Vernon 158, [...]

Now that I’m back and settled in at my apartment after a long day on Saturday going back and forth to the Penn Relays, let’s talk about what happened and what might happen in the next few weeks.

I know it’s still some time away, but I think this could be interesting. The league meets have [...]

The Fordham Prep 3,200 meter relay of Harley Griffiths, Michael Jennings, Carlos Petrovich, and Zach Keefer qualified for the Championship of America in 7:54.97. Apparently this kid Jennings is a 4:24 miler, so he could be someone to definitely look out for.I’m interested to see McGovern pole vaulting tomorrow. He only jumped once in the [...]