Track

Indoor roar

County’s best make waves at West Point

By RICHARD A. ROSS

WEST POINT, NY — The early season weekly sojourns to West Point’s Gillis Field House are all about development and progress. As such, winning is low profile as coaches stress techniques that will hopefully pay off as the key meets begin in January.

Here is a list of Sullivan County track and field athletes who finished in the top ten of their events on December 5. Bear in mind that though Sullivan County schools are smaller in comparison to many of the Class A or Class AA schools competing, participants are not divided by class at these meets. Many of the names you read below will be in the headlines as the division, league and sectional meets are staged later this season.

Girls 1500 Meter Walk (3) Michelle McNutt, T-V 8:45.19, (10) Samantha Martin T-V 10:03.94; Girls Distance Medley Relay (DMR) (3) Monticello 13:15.21; Boys DMR (4) Monticello 11:35.56; Boys shuttle hurdles (6) Eldred 28.32; Boys 4x200 (6) Liberty 1:40.59; Girls 4x200B (8) Liberty 2:06.02; Boys 4x400 B (8) Sullivan West 4:05.87, Liberty (10) 4:07.94; Girls 4x400 (7) Sullivan West 4:35.26, Monticello (9) 4:37.36; Boys Sprint Medley Relay (SMR) Monticello (7) 4:00.99; Girls SMR (8) Sullivan West 4:41.04; Boys shot put (3) Mark Tesseyman, SW 39:09.50, (9) Nelson Saravia, Liberty 36:04.25; Girls shot put (6) Tehnyet Kahn, T-V 29:05; (9)Dominique Darbee, T-V 27:09; Girls long jump (8) Marina DiMilia, T-V 14:00.50; Girls triple jump (8) Kaitlyn Torres, T-V 26:10.00; Boys triple jump (9) Joey Counts, Eldred 35:00.50; Boys high jump (4) Malcolm Strother, Liberty 5-4; Girls high jump (5) Agnes Pompeii, T-V 4-4, Diana Schombs, Eldred 4-4; Boys pole vault (2) Gregory Castro, Liberty 12-6; (10) Kevin O’Rourke, Monticello 9-6; Girls pole vault (7) Morgan Hawkins, SW 7-0.