TRR photo by Richard A. Ross Eldred’s Kyle Anthony won the triple jump at the Monticello Games on April 30 with a jump of 38-10 1/4, and then captured the event again at a dual meet at Sullivan West with this pictured leap of 43-7.

Track and field

Damp weather can’t douse competitive fire

Monticello Games survive cold and drizzle as races and field events sizzle

By RICHARD A. ROSS

MONTICELLO, NY—“The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain,” goes the line from “My Fair Lady,” but in Sullivan County, the rain in track goes mainly down your back.

Track meets and rain are becoming as inseparable as peanut butter and jelly, or so it seemed as teams huddled in tents between races for the second Saturday in a row.

Between last week’s Tri-Valley Invitational and this week’s Monticello Games, track teams from near and far have had a season’s worth of dreadful weather, but the undaunted runners, throwers and jumpers continue to bear up well despite the elements.

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Baseball

Run support

By RICHARD A. ROSS

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY—You could sense the urgency in his face, though he never uttered a word of discouragement or dismay. Still, Sullivan West’s Will O’Brien needed his team to pick him up.

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Softball

Lions refuse to be tamed

By RICHARD A. ROSS

ELDRED, NY—Eldred coach Jolene Porter decided to give Ashley Tice—her hard-throwing freshman—the start as the Yellowjackets sought to find a way to tame the Lady Lions of Chapel Field on April 27.

The good news was that Tice limited the dynamic Chapel Field lineup to one hit in the first inning. Unfortunately, that isn’t the whole story. The Lions then sent 12 batters to the plate in the first inning as Eldred’s defense prolonged Tice’s misery on the mound. A six-run outburst resulted from walks (four of them), a hit batsman, passed balls and errors.

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