Editor’s Note- I’ve added some new stuff in the Class C section.

I wanted to let a little time pass by before I wrote anything about Saturday because there was a bunch of things that truly ticked me off. I didn’t want to post immediately because it would come off as an irrational rant and or [...]

Most likely you will be reading this as you get up in Sunday morning (feeling a little sorer than you were the day before) or sometime during the day as you lounge around making it a lazy Sunday. Take a moment to look at the two stories that Dan and I wrote about yesterday’s meet. [...]

First, I have to apologize for waiting so long to get this in. It should have been in earlier.

After watching five girls races and interviewing over 20 different runners/coaches on Friday, there just was so much to cover, even with 2000 words of space allotted in Saturday’s newspaper for myself and Dan, I felt [...]

Stay tuned to the blog for more thoughts and stories from yesterday’s Section 1 races. Just like at counties, we wanted to give priority to writing as much as we could for the print edition of the newspaper, so we produced four stories chocked full of info and insight.

I wrote about Pearl River’s 30th consecutive [...]

After a pair of big meets like Westchester and Rockland yesterday, I just know the cross country public is left thirsting for more. With our priority given to writing our four articles on deadline, we weren’t given a chance to post anything substantial except for Dan’s quick update.

That and the World Series, then eating [...]

I covered the Rockland County Championships yesterday at Bear Mt. and wrote a story about Shelby Greany winning her unprecedented 5th county title and Pearl River girls winning their 21st team title.

On the Boys race, I wrote about Mike Hickey’s quest to write his name along another great Pearl River runner in the record [...]

I just got off the phone with Jan Mitchell and found out that his Iona Prep and Ursuline teams won the small-school races at the 13th Annual Disney World XC Classic.

Results in PDF

Senior Sean Halpin race the fastest time at the meet (16:07) on a 5K course taking first overall. His teammate Kyle Shephard was [...]

I covered the Brewster Bear Classic yesterday and wrote a story about Brewster’s Miriam Munn, Ariana Bottalico and having a bunch of 1-2 finishers from the same team. Here’s a link to pictures from Brewster…Boys Results….Girls Results

There were plenty of other invitationals this weekend too…Led by Nick Hughes, North Rockland went to the site [...]

Bear Classic
At Brewster High School, 3.1 miles

Boys Varsity I
Mahopac (M) 27, Carmel© 75, Lakeland-Panas (L/P) 79, Newburgh Free Academy (NFA) 83, Ossining (O) 112, Our Lady of Lourdes (OLL) 133, New Fairfield (NF) 181
1. James McDonough (M), 16:33; 2. Joe Abed El Latif (M), 16:46; 3. Steven Challacombe (NFA), 17:14; 4. Thomas Fitzpatrick©, 17:17; 5. [...]

The cancellation of the Suffolk County Coaches Invitational had a trickle down effect on other races.

The Suffern boys won the Division I race yesterday at of the Warwick Wave Mania with five finishers placing in the top 20.
Led by Mike Pereira, who finished fourth overall (16:13) on the 3.09 mile Warwick Valley High School course, [...]

A huge day for dual meets around Section 1. There were 27 scheduled races. I would like to thank the coaches for being patient and calling in their results. There is a lot to digest here but a lot of the results seemed to re-enforce a couple things from this past weekend…

A triumphant Patrick Wortner was giddy…It’s his first. It’s all very understandable.

“I’ve been running the same race for the past three years… “I’ve been working hard all summer and I felt I had this,” Wortner said. “I just felt that this is the start of something big for me. I am really focused on [...]

Randolph Invitational: At Freedom Park in Randolph, N.J., late Friday night, the Pearl River and Bronxville girls each won their respective divisions. Pearl River narrowly edged out A.L. Johnson by one point to win the Division 2 race. Chelsea Kushner took fourth place with a time of 19:52. Ursuline’s Katie Sullivan was second with a [...]

I just got off the phone with Suffern coaches Joe Biddy and Tom McTaggart who were calling in the results of the super seven-team (Suffern, Carmel, Clarkstown South, Lakeland-Panas, White Plains, Mamaroneck, Mahopac) meet at Bear Mountain, 3.0 miles.

McTaggart agreed with me that this mega meet that the feel of an invitational. Kinda like a [...]