Photos by Richard A. Ross, sportsinsightsny.com Monticello’s Haley Heins finishes second in the girls giant slalom race at Holiday Mountain on January 7. Her combined average time for two runs was 26.23.

Skiing

Alpine accelerators

Monticello boys win team title at first race of the year at Holiday Mountain

By RICHARD A. ROSS

BRIDGEVILLE, NY—Two years ago, the first ski race of the season wasn’t held until February 7 due to lack of snow and warm temperatures. Mother Nature has returned to form this winter with snow and cold, which is good news for the alpine skiers from Sullivan West, Monticello, Liberty and the combined efforts of Fallsburg/Tri-Valley.

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Week in review

Heralded headliners

By RICHARD A. ROSS

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—Everywhere you looked this week, athletes, teams and coaches were achieving prominence in the helter-skelter resurgent action following the holiday break. Eldred coach Frank Kean garnered another honor as the Section Nine Coaches Association selected him as Coach of the Year for 2009. Kean had already been chosen as the New York Jets Coach of the Week for the Tri-State Region and had won the Times Herald-Record Coach of the Year.

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