Northeast Region Summary Boys
Week Ending September 10
By Don Rich


Quote of the week: "I also want to win the state team title. It would be our school's first state title in anything... except if you count the 1971 Rifle team championship." - Craig Miller, Manheim Township.

Boys Headlines:

NE#4 Manheim Township PA, without their #3, win Gettysburg behind 14:56 from Foot Locker Finalist Craig Miller

NE#5 Coatesville PA wins one handily 9/3, then drops 9/10 Abington Inv to unranked West Chester East, winner of two invites this young season.

NE#7 Warwick Valley NY sets individual and team average records at home kick-off meet, Wave Mania.

NE#9 Monsignor Farrell NY wins Wagner College Inv.

Teams:

1. Fayetteville-Manlius NY - Opens 9/17 at South Jefferson Invitational, site of their Sectional championships.

2. Christian Brothers Academy NJ – Home dual meets against Freehold and Howell on 9/13 and 9/15.

3. Morris Hills NJ – 9/13 duals meet with Weequahic HS. Opens 9/17 at Regis Inv @ Van Cortland Park vs. NE#9 Monsignor Farrell NY.

4. Manheim Township PA - Ran well minus one man 8/30 vs. Coatesville in unscored scrimmage. 9/10 - Reasonably comfortable win at Gettysburg Invitational, with Foot Locker finalist Craig Miller, now a senior, going 14:56. Most of team set PRs, training through the meet. Second place Cumberland Valley led by PA 3200 AAA state champs Curtis Bixler, 4th in 15:41. Miller's sub-15, fastest PA XC 5K since Mike McWilliams in 1989. Manheim Township was missing their #3 man to a minor injury.

Light fog. Cool. No wind. Fast, dry, grass and trail course with two minor hills.
16:09 average.

Results on PennTrackXC.com: http://www.milesplit.com/meet/results/26591

Team Scores ========================================================================
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Rank Team Total 1 2 3 4 5 *6
*7 *8 *9
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1 Manheim Township High Sch 69 1 3 20 22 23 35 43
Total Time: 1:20:37.75
Average: 16:07.55
2 Cumberland Valley 89 4 14 17 25 29 45 61
Total Time: 1:22:37.76
Average: 16:31.56

Event 1 Boys 5k Run CC
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Name Year School Finals Points
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1 Miller, Craig 12 Manheim Town 14:55.19 1
2 McNally, Vince 10 Conestoga Va 15:02.00 2
3 Miller, Brad 12 Manheim Town 15:18.48 3
4 Bixler, Curtis 12 Cumberland Valley 15:40.84 4
15 Fuller, Kevin 12 Cumberland Valley 16:27.96 14
18 Galbraith, Josh 10 Cumberland Valley 16:38.68 17
21 Kantner, Matt 12 Manheim Town 16:41.48 20
23 Mousetis, Michael 10 Manheim Town 16:50.84 22
24 Fisher, John 12 Manheim Town 16:51.76 23
26 Contino, Chris 10 Cumberland Valley 16:53.85 25
30 Karkuff, Stefan 11 Cumberland Valley 16:56.43 29
36 Kline, Joe 10 Manheim Town 17:05.92 35
44 Gellrich, Kevin 12 Manheim Town 17:16.88 43
46 Vandenhengel, Matt 10 Cumberland Valley 17:18.20 45
62 Richie, Brad 11 Cumberland Valley 17:29.77 61

5. Coatesville PA – Took five of top ten spots at 9/3 Big Valley Invitational for easy win... but ran into another of those state championship-producing Ches-Mont League (West Chester Henderson) buzz- saws, this one from West Chester East at the 9/10 Abington Invitational. East's Duriel Hardy won in 15:52, as they also took 5th, 6th, 7th and 12th with a 40-second spread to win 31 to 53.

Results not yet available for 9/10 Abington Invitational.

9/3 Big Valley Invitational @ Indian Valley Middle School 5K, Sunny, warm
16:35 average

1 Coatesville 1 3 5 7 10 26 17 20
2 State College 8 11 19 21 29 88 83 121

1 16:07 Kyle Dawson 11 Coatcsville
3 16:19 Jason Leonard 11 Coatesville
5 16:40 Sean Ward 11 Coatesville
7 16:47 Tom Pannulla 11 Coatesville
8 16:49 Mat! Kisenwether 11 State College
10 17:00 Owen Dawson 11 Coatesville
11 17:11 Rick Koubok 11 Slate College
17 17:41 Mike Collins 12 Coatesvi(le
19 17:45 Wes Hall 12 State CoLlege
20 17:47 Chad Gordan 11 Coatesville
21 17:49 Matt Lanagan 11 State College

6. Saratoga Springs NY - Dual meets coming 9/13 vs. Shaker and Ballston, and 9/20 vs. Burnt Hills and Columbia. Open 9/24 at Great American Invitational.

7. Warwick Valley NY - Opened 9/10 at home Wave Mania 5K and beats Pope John NJ 25-66 behind course record of #1 Mike Mark in 15:48. Top three Warwick runners broke the old record set by Warwick's Jake Laroe at 16:00.1. Five-man average of 16:10.8 broke Varsity record of 17:00.4. Warwick Valley will be running their "B" team on 9/17 at the Suffern Invitational.

16:10.8 average

Results from John Nepolitan
1. Mike Mark (Warwick) 15:47.6, course record 2. Terrace Prial (Warwick) 15:52.9 3. Jerry Greelaw (Warwick) 15:54.6 4. Anthony Lamastro (Pope John) 16:03.7 5. Max Kasak (Bryam Hills) 16: 07.0 6. Jeremy Scheid (Pope John) 16:12.0 7. Ryan Diorio (Byram hills) 16:35.0 8. R. Stabe (Pawling) 16:35.2 9. Louie TaFuto (Warwick) 16:38 10. Brad Ackerman (Warwick) 16:38

8. Ridgewood NJ - Dual meet 9/13 vs. Belleville, Nutley and Teaneck.
Will race 9/17 at Briarwood Invitational, Philadelphia.

9. Monsignor Farrell NY - Monsignor Farrell swept the team titles at the Wagner College Invitational 9/10 at Clove Lakes Park. The varsity was led by the 1-2-3 sweep of Dan Lewis 16:12, Jeff Carbonella 16:16, and Vito Cannavo in 16:19. The course is a tough 3.1 mile layout.
Lewis broke the course record of 16:13 set by Farrell's Ryan Maxwell in 1994. Maxwell was a 12:42 performer at Van Cortlandt Park. Farrell will next run the Regis Invitational 9/17 vs. NE#3 Morris Hills NJ.

16:48 average

Results: http://sirunning.com/race2005/wagner_invitational_cc_2005.html

Place TmPl No. Name School Bv Pace
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1 1 88 DAN LEWIS FARRELL 16:12.44 5:13
2 2 60 JEFF CARBONELLA FARRELL 16:16.61 5:15
3 3 58 VITO CANNAVO FARRELL 16:19.10 5:16
8 8 69 KYLE DUGGAN FARRELL 17:11.15 5:32
10 10 77 ROB GORDON FARRELL 17:49.51 5:45
15 15 112 STEVE RAMHOLD FARRELL 18:12.67 5:52
19 19 111 STEVEN RAILE FARRELL 18:20.89 5:55

10. Brockton MA - Dual meet 9/13 vs. Durfee/Taunton.

Unranked:

West Chester East

September 10 at Abington Invitational
East's Duriel Hardy won in 15:52, as they also took 5th, 6th, 7th and 12th with a 40-second spread to win 31 to 53.
Results not yet available

September 3 at Maroon & Gold, Kutztown University Sunny, warm Rolling, all grass.

West Chester East 32, Boyertown 69
17:17 average
Event 1 Boys 5k Run CC
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Name Year School Finals Points
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1 Hardy, Duriel 12 West Chester East 16:26 1
5 Vincent, Steve 11 West Chester East 17:09 5
6 Lacolla, John 10 West Chester East 17:12 6
8 Gough, Ian 12 West Chester East 17:27 8
12 Trama, Scott 11 West Chester East 18:01 12
19 Trama, Luke 11 West Chester East 18:20 19

20 Butterworth, Jeff 12 West Chester East 18:26 20
21 Williams, Dan 11 West Chester East 18:28
24 Herring, Matt 10 West Chester East 18:34

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