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October 5, 2008

Class AA By Tom Cuffe, NYC Area -- Poll Editor
Class A By Jason De Joy, Rochester Area 
Class B By Tim Fulton, Armory Track
Class C By Ed Stickles, Westchester Area
Class D By Pete Szymanski, Buffalo Area
NYC By Tim Fulton, Armory Track

Editors note

New Fab Five #1 Shenendehowa had all hands on deck at the Grout Run as they destroyed the field and a very fine Queensbury team with 18 points. The Plainsmen coached by Mark Thompson had an outstanding five man average of 13:39.67 and their compression was 34 seconds! SWR moves down to #2 in the Fab Five but keep in mind they put up some fast times and very good numbers at the Bob Pratt meet on September 20. Burnt Hills beat #5 FM last week head to head at Mc Quaid 80 to 88 in a battle of NYS powers. North Rockland makes its first appearance in the Fab Five at #4 off of their strong performance at the St. Anthony’s Invitational averaging 17:13.04 over the rugged Sunken Meadow course.

It should also be noted that several teams took a hit in the rankings this week because they had team members taking the SAT.

The Manhattan Colleges races next week will be simply exceptional. The Boys Eastern States Championship race may well be the greatest collection of teams EVER gathered for one championship race in the history of Van Cortlandt Park – and that my friends is saying a lot about the quality of the field!!! Stay tuned.

1 – Shenendehowa

2 – Shoreham-Wading River

3 – Burnt Hills

4 – North Rockland

5 – Fayetteville-Manlius

6 – Suffern

7 – Warwick Valley

8 – Arlington

9 – Queensbury

10 – Monsignor Farrell

CLASS AA

1.     Shenendehowa (2)

2.     North Rockland (1)

3.     Fayetteville-Manlius (3)                                                  

4.     Suffern (1)

5.     Warwick Valley (9)

6.     Arlington  (1)

7.     Monsignor Farrell  (CHSAA)

8.     St. Anthony’s  (CHSAA)

9.     Smithtown (11)

10.  Webster Thomas (5)

11.  MSIT (PSAL)

12.  Rush Henrietta (5)

13.  Brockport (5)

14.  Binghamton (4)

15.  Washingtonville  (9)

16.  Cicero-North Syracuse (3)

17.  Chaminade (CHSAA)

18.  Monroe Woodbury (9)

19.  Northport (11)

20.  Liverpool  (3)

Bubble Teams (HM)

Baldwinsville (3)

Ithaca (4)

Kellenberg Memorial  (CHSAA)

Scarsdale               (1)

Walt Whitman (11)

1. Burnt-Hills –2

2. Queensbury – 2

3. Wantagh – 8

4. Jamesville Dewitt – 3

5. Brighton – 5

6. Pittsford-Mendon – 5

7. Canisius – CHSAA

8. McQuaid Jesuit – 5

9. Niskayuna – 2

10. East Syracuse Minoa – 3

11. Brewster – 1

12. Averill Park – 2

13. Maine Endwell – 4

14. Union Endicott – 4

15. Horace Greeley – 1

16. Somers – 1

17. Fox Lane – 1

18. Pittsford Sutherland – 5

19. Kings Park – 11

20. Irondequoit – 5

1.     Shoreham-Wading River - 11

2.     HFL - 5

3.     East Aurora – 6

3.     Westhill - 3

5.     New Hartford – 3

6.     Windsor – 4

7.     Red Hook – 9

8.     Marcellus - 4

9.     Byram Hills - 1

10.   Pearl River - 1

11.   Wayne – 5

12.   Broadalbin Perth - 2

13.   Fredonia - 6

14.   North Shore - 8

  15.   Manhassett - 8

 CLASS C

1.     Newark Valley (4) No results found for this past weekend. Defending state champs will remain #1 unless someone can beat them.

2.     Canastota (3) Won the Tully Invitational Small School Race with a 17:23 average. 1:50 spread from 1-5 is 9 sec. better than last week.  156.4 average speed rating is only .2 less than last week in Utica. 

3.     Tully (3) 3^rd. place at their home invitational to Canastota.  17:39 avg. 1:12 spread 1-5. 150.8 average speed rating for top 5.

4.     Jordan Elbridge (3) Ran in the Liverpool Invite and won the C/D race.  149.6 average speed rating is about 4 pts. lower than last week. 1:45 spread from 1-5.

5.     Irvington (1) Won the small school race at St. Anthony’s on the state meet course.  18:24 average on Snake and Cemetary hills is pretty good.  147.8 average speed rating and 1:45 spread for 1-5. Beat previously #8 ranked Pawling in the process. 

6.     Clinton (3) 4^th place at Tully invite. 17:49 average for 1-5.  54 second spread is 5 sec. better than last week.  147.4 average speed rating.

7.     Gowanda (6) No results found

8.     Fredonia (6) 2^nd. At the Southern Tier Invite with a 52 sec. spread from 1-5.

9.     Pawling (1) 2^nd. To Irvington at St. Anthony’s with a 18:45 average and a 45 sec. spread for 1-5. 

10.  Dobbs Ferry (1) This team had a 153 average speed rating last week but was only able to field a team of 4 at Sunken Meadow this weekend.  Without depth this team will not be able to keep in the mix.

BUBBLE TEAMS - HM

Voorheesville (2) No results.

Holland Patent (3) No results.

Trumansburg (4) 6^th place at Tully invite with an 18:18 average. 1:40 spread from 1-5. 138 average speed rating.

D. Rhinebeck (9), 15:26 average at Grout this week and the 2:52 spread of last week is history as they squeeze it to 1:33.

E. Tri Valley (9) 16:04 average at Grout, beating Fonda Fultonville. 61 sec. spread from 1-5.

1.  Beaver River – 3

2.  Hawthrone Valley - 2

3.  Oakfield Alabama - 5                    

4.  Norwood-Norfolk - 10

5.  Weedsport - 3

6.  Barker - 6

7.  Pavilion - 5

8.  Stony Brook - 11

9.  Fabius-Pempey – 3

10. Geneseo - 5

1 - Monsignor Farrell (Staten Island - CHSAA)
2 - MSIT (Staten Island - PSAL)
3 - Curtis (Staten Island - PSAL)
4 - St. Peters (Staten Island - CHSAA)
5 - Fordham Prep (Bronx - CHSAA)
6 - Brooklyn Tech (Brooklyn - PSAL)
7 - Bishop Ford (Brooklyn - CHSAA)
8 - Collegiate (Manhattan - AIS)
9 - Stuyvesant (Manhattan - PSAL)

10 – Midwood (Brooklyn – PSAL)