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Saratoga girls
- Nicole Blood
Shenendehowa boys - Brendan Fennell
All-day rain turned parts of the course into ankle-high mud, but it didn't
stop the rugby players next door and it didn't stop 9,000 high school
runners.
US#1 Saratoga NY girls crushed the Eastern States Championship
field with a 24 point score, 89 points ahead runner-up Argyle, 3rd ranked
team in the Northeast.
Saratoga freshman Nicole Blood won easily in 14:25.4,
10th best on the all-time Manhattan list despite the conditions.
Pearl River sr Brendan Fennell was easily the fastest
boy of the day at 12:30.2, 13th on the all-time list, and observors thought
he would have had a top 5 time on a dry day.
US#11 Shenendehowa boys had the fastest average team
time at 13:15.8.
Nicole
Blood
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Brendan
Fennell meets the press (Marc Bloom)
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Jim
Patchin, of Corcoran Syracuse, (right) bellyflopped in
the mud near the finish, but laughed about it afterward.
Other
runners dove into an impromptu pool to clean up.
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and afterwards.
The South
Bend Cafe, across Broadway from Van Cortlandt Park, is popular for
after-meet
parties. Saratoga NY fans were among those present this year. |
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From left:
Kathy
Kennedy and Fran Wilusz, parents of Girls JV B runner up Carli Wilusz
of Saratoga;
Joe McWilliams, Steve Kennedy, and Stacy Kennedy. |
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