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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Boys’ swimming standings 1.29.08
Congratulations go out to Monroe-Woodbury for clinching the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association boys’ swimming regular-season title with a perfect 11-0 record.
It’s rather unfortunate that the title was actually decided on December 4, the first day of the Crusaders’ season — that’s when M-W beat New Paltz, 96-90. Both teams have gone unbeaten since then.
I [...]
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Warwick boys relay also headed to Millrose
The Warwick boys’ 3,200-meter relay of Mike Fox, Brad Ackerman, Ryan Florkiewicz and Greg Miniger will join squads from Somers and Shenendehowa in a New York versus New Jersey “Border Clash” event at the Millrose Games to be held Feb. 1 at Madison Square Garden.
Warwick is the state’s top-ranked public school (No. 2 overall) at 7 minutes, [...]
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Pine Bush girls head to Millrose, V845 page
The Pine Bush girls’ 1,600-meter relay team has qualified for the Millrose Games to be run at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 1.
Alexis Grable, Nicole Rozario, Amber Passalaqua and Jessica Hennig won a qualifier race on Jan. 9 at Rockland Community College — beating a very strong Suffern squad — to earn the suburban spot [...]
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Pennings to race in Boston again
Warwick distance standout Tori Pennings has received another invitation to compete in the prestigious Boston Indoor Games. Pennings will compete in the Girls’ Invitational Mile event on Jan. 26.
Pennings competed at the 2007 event and placed 11th in 5 minutes, 1.40 seconds. Danielle Tauro of New Jersey won in 4:52.20.
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Indoor track and field top-10 leaderboard and standings
The Section 9 indoor track and field leaderboard can be found by clicking here.
Wednesday update: Matt Hemmer from Monroe-Woodbury contacted me. He says the girls’ times have been converted from hand time to fully automatic timing; it’s just that his computer doesn’t spit out an extra zero for times like 10.70. The girls’ results are [...]
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Boys’ swimming standings 1.15.08
High school boys’ swimming standings
OCIAA
(through January 14)
School League Overall Streak
Monroe-Woodbury 9-0 10-0 10W
New Paltz 7-1 7-1 7W
Kingston 6-2 6-2 1W
Pine Bush 6-2 6-2 5W
Newburgh 5-3 5-3 3W
Middletown 4-3 5-3 2W
Washingtonville 3-4 3-4 1W
Valley Central 3-6 3-7 5L
Minisink Valley 2-6 2-6 4L
Roosevelt 1-6-1 1-6-1 1L
Warwick 1-7-1 1-7-1 1T
Cornwall 1-8 1-8 1L
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Okay, vacation time is over
Now that vacation time is over, it’s back to work on the High School Insider Blog.
By the way, if you are headed to Washington, D.C., for vacation, my advice is you visit the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum — there’s some really cool stuff in there, and an improvement over my last visit more than 25 years [...]
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Warwick’s Pennings headed for Stanford