Photo by Richard A. Ross, sportsinsightsny.com Sullivan West’s Rianne Erlwein continued her winning ways with a convincing victory over all of Sullivan County females on September 22. She covered the 2.7-mile course in 19:34.

Week in review

Triumphs, upsets and rankings

Eldred boys cross-country team stuns county’s bigger schools; girls soccer feats take center stage; local football teams show mixed results

By RICHARD A. ROSS

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—Cool fall days are perfect for running, football and soccer and all three sports produced their share of surprises and emotional banter this week. In cross-country, Eldred vanquished Liberty, Monticello, Sullivan West and Tri-Valley in the boys race won by Monticello’s Dave Wilbur only a week after this writer penned a diatribe about how unfair the schedule was for Eldred, which never runs against foes its own size. Tri-Valley’s girls evened the score with Sullivan West, whose Rianne Erlwein was the individual race winner. The division race on October 13 will decide who will hold this fall’s first bragging rights.

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Sports spotlight

By RICHARD A. ROSS

Stats, records and milestones

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—In a colossal David and Goliath tale, tiny Class D Eldred’s boys vanquished four larger county school teams in a cross-country meet at Liberty on September 22. With no dual meets scheduled this season against schools of its size, Eldred did what many, including this writer, deemed unlikely: knocked off teams from schools that dwarf it in numbers.

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