Photo by Richard A. Ross, sportsinsightsny.com Eldred’s Sage Owens looks to pass the ball in a game Eldred lost to Tri-Valley. Within a few days, both teams beat Tuxedo, the state’s 12th ranked Class C team. Eldred’s home win over the Lady Tornadoes came a night after Tri-Valley claimed sole possession of Division V with a win over Tuxedo on the road. You might say that Eldred and Tri-Valley have become “Twister Sisters,” in their mutual conquest over the daunting Lady Tornadoes.

Basketball

Steady keels in choppy waters

Several county teams find ways to win big basketball games to stay on course

By RICHARD A. ROSS

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—“These are the times that try men’s souls,” noted Thomas Paine in the winter in 1776. Though apropos to the ongoing human tragedy in Haiti, its context here doesn’t reference such life and death struggles, rather the aspirations of local basketball athletes that find themselves playing games that impact their basketball lives as the season advances toward February.

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Setting the pace

Who is in the forefront on the ski slopes and indoor track?

By RICHARD A. ROSS

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—Baby it’s cold outside and steaming inside, as some athletes took to the ski slopes while others sweated it out on the indoor track. Monticello’s boys ski team captured first place at Holiday Mountain on January 20. Colin Bunce took third (33.58), Ryan Heins was fourth (34.62) and Brian Tedaldi was fifth (3.73). Sullivan West’s Drew Billard was seventh overall (36.58).

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