TRR photo by Richard A. Ross Liberty’s Tim Burgio captures first in the long jump (18-06.25).

Track

Division precision

Sullivan West girls and Liberty boys clinch indoor division titles

By RICHARD A. ROSS

WEST POINT, NY—“‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘to talk of many things...’”

Locally, those things include indoor track division titles, not “cabbages and kings” as Lewis Carroll alluded to in “Through the Looking Glass.”

Peering through a camera lens provided insights into the indoor track circuit on January 30 as the Sullivan West girls and the Liberty boys came into the A format meet with 14-0 records. This meet figured to be the defining one for clinching their Division V titles.

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Basketball

One-minute matrix

By RICHARD A. ROSS

FALLSBURG, NY - In the House of the Spirits, another celestial battle waged on.

Echoing a storied history, often enacted on this very floor between two teams who have engaged in numerous memorable classics, Fallsburg and Tri-Valley went at each other on January 27 to write the next chapter in their never-ending story.

In an epic display of great high school basketball, impeccable sportsmanship and alternating heroics, this non-league game took on the epic proportions of the grandest of quests.

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Basketball

Sunlight and shadows

By RICHARD A. ROSS

ELDRED, NY—Like the notorious Punxsutawney Phil, Eldred emerged from its relative obscurity on February 2 into the bright lights of its home gym to grab headlines and signal the end to its somewhat dreary season.

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