Photo by sportsinsightsny.com Monticello baseball players and head coach Mike Marra (10), back row right, and assistant coach Tim Havas (11), back row left, pose with the John Spear Memorial Wood Bat Tournament trophy won by dint of their 7-6 win over Ellenville in the championship game. It was the first tourney title for the Monties, who have now won eight straight games and qualified for sectionals for the first time since 2001.

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SW notches seventh straight boys golf title; Eldred retains division boys and girls track honors; Monticello earns first boys Div. III track title and Spear baseball tourney crown

By RICHARD A. ROSS

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—Edward R. Murrow’s famous television show “You Are There” brought viewers unprecedented proximity to events taking place across the globe. For the first time, technology was allowing people to witness things outside of their ken as history was unfolding right before their eyes.

Sports generates its own history, particularly when things occur of an unusual nature. The perfect game rendered this week by Oakland hurler Dallas Braden was just such an event, only the 17th of its ilk in baseball history.

Locally, sports history was in the making this past week and, by virtue of technology not privy to Morrow in the nascent days of television, we were there either literally or virtually.

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