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The Select Meet included both boys and girls ... qualifying standards were in effect for all events & only one athlete per school per event was allowed ... I did not get the boys team results; however, for the girls - CNS was the easy Class A winner with about 73 points and South Jefferson was the Class B winner with about 31 points.

Once again, Tracey Brauksieck (Homer) looked very good in winning both the 1000m (2:59.5) and 1500m (4:44.9).

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This meet was conducted as two separate meets within one meet ... all events were separated by class "A" or "B/C/D" ... FAT timing was used (LeoneTiming) ... Team Scoring: Class A ... Liverpool won a close contest over FM (97) and CNS (97) ... Class B/C/D ... Westhill (85) won over Clinton (68) with Tully (50) finishing a surprisingly good 3rd (Laurie Fraser won both the long jump (15-2 3/4) and triple jump (33-1 1/4), Jessica Kinne won the 55HH (9.60) and was 3rd in the 55m dash).

Tracey Brauksieck (Homer) looked very good in winning both the 1000m (3:02.39) and 1500m (4:45.9) in Class B/C/D ...

4x800m Relay ... Liverpool had the fastest time of the meet (10:00.27) ... some of the relay legs were: Kelsey Thomas (2:28.9), Jessica VanderMeulen (2:30.0) and Jen Taormina (2:27.9).

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This meet was conducted as two separate meets within one meet ... all events were separated by class "A" or "B/C/D" ... FAT timing was used (LeoneTiming).

4x400m Relay ... Liverpool won the Class A relay (3:31.93) with the following legs: Mike Snihur (54.5), Andre Atchison (54.0), Brian Ballatine (52.0) and Mike Wicks (51.6) ... an unusual disqualification happened prior to the Class A final heat ... a Nottingham high jumper interfered with a Baldwinsville relay runner causing the officials to DQ the Nottingham relay team before they had even run.

Lopez Lomong (Tully) ... running in the B/C/D races, Tully's Lopez Lomong finished 2nd in the 1000m (2:39.02) and he won the 1600m (4:34.19) ... both marks are school records (indoors ... the outdoor 1600m school record is 4:28).

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Similar to the Boys OHSL meet, this meet was conducted as three separate meets within one meet ... all events were separated by league as "A-1", A-2" or "B/C/D" ... the only races run with combined league runners were the 1600m and 3200m.

Miscellaneous ... Lauren Heron and Laurel Burdick finished one-two in three events scoring 54 points for A-2 team winner FM (165 pts) ... Tracey Brauksieck (Homer) ran in first Section 3 indoor meet this season (she won the 1000m and finished 5th in the 600m) ... Jen Taormina (Liverpool) ran an excellent anchor leg (60.4) in Liverpool's winning 4x400m relay (4:10.1) ...

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This meet was conducted as three separate meets within one meet ... all events were separated by league as "A-1", A-2" or "B/C/D" ... the only races run with combined league runners were the 1600m and 3200m which combined only A-1 and A-2.

Lopez Lomong (Tully) wins two races ... running in the B/C/D races, Tully's Lopez Lomong won both the 1000m (2:40.4) and the 1600m (4:38.1).  This was first 1600m race Lopez has ever run ... after getting off to his characteristic slow start, Lopez moved quickly into a contending position and followed the leaders to the final lap where he sprinted to the lead ... shortly after winning the 1600m, Lopez finished 5th in the 300m dash.

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4x800 Relay ... FM won (9:58.0) ... relay legs were Katie Losecco (2:36.5), Brittany Crawford (2:34.7), Laurel Burdick (2:23.8) and Lauren Heron (2:22.9)

4x400 Relay ... all-round athlete Ricshara Knight  (Henninger) ran a 61.5 anchor leg ... the winning CNS team had opening and anchor legs of 62.0 and 62.1

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Lopez Lomong (Tully) won the 1000m Run (2:42.8) after getting off to another slow start ... but this time, Lopez moved into a contending position more sensibly, stalked the leaders from an inside rail position and sprinted to the lead on the final lap ... Lopez returned later to run the 300m and gain some sprinting experience ... he finished 4th (37.7) in the 4th of 5 heats (overall winning time was 36.2).

Miscellaneous performances ... Mike Wicks (Liv) ran a 51.1 anchor leg in Liverpool's winning 4x400 relay (3:33.1) ... Ryan Chrobak (Clinton) ran Clinton's anchor leg in about 50.5

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4x400m Relay ... Skaneateles won the relay handily (4:13.1) ... only Liverpool has a faster Section 3 time this season (4:11.4) ... The Skaneateles splits were - Erika Geihe (61.7), Zandra Walton (64.1), Irena McQuarrie (63.1) and Lia Cross (64.2)

Miscellaneous performances ... Marie Swieta (APW) won the high jump (5-5) and ran a 64.9 relay leg in the 4x400 relay ... Lia Cross (Skan) ran a 2:25.7 relay leg in the 4x800 relay

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Tully's Lopez Lomong competed in individual track events for the first time in his life, and he performed quite well ... Lopez finished 2nd in the 800m (2:04.2) and 4th in the 500m (1:09.8) ... Mike Wicks, a very good runner Liverpool runner, won both races (2:03.1, 1:07.7) and provided Lopez with some much needed experience ... Lopez showed some good sprinting speed in the 500m race when he got off to a slow start, passed the entire field to lead at 200m (26.0), went through 400m in 53.9, and held on gamely in the final 100m with Mike Wicks and Brian McNiff (CBA) beating him to the finish line ... the 800m race was a tactical race (400m split of 62.8) where Lopez followed Mike Wicks, and Mike was simply too fast over the final 200m.

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3000m ... winner Ashley Hughes (Phoenix, 10:49.9) lead from start to finish to win impressively ... Laura Ewald (CNS, 4th, 11:18.9) stayed close early (with the rest of the field gapped), but Ashley opened an 8 second lead by 1000m ... race splits - 400m (1:17.5), 800m (2:40.8), 1000m (3:23.2), 1500m (5:12.5), 1600m (5:34.9) ... Westhill's Kayleigh Wheeless (11:10.8) and Meghan McAnaney (11:15.9) set indoor PRs to finish 2nd and 3rd ... Laura Scott (Bville, 11:19.1) was a good 5th.

4x400m Relay ... FM won the relay (4:14.3) ... splits - Becky Hardman (64.2), Lauren Heron (62.2), Laurel Burdick (63.2) and Ellen Luber (64.6)

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Jan 15, 2002 -  Boys Bob Grieve Meet (Manley Field House) ... The Tully Boys were planning to attend this meet (Lopez Lomong was scheduled to run the 1000m and 300m) ... unfortunately, Coach Paccia's Mother-in-law passed away, so the team decided to skip this meet ... our sincere condolences to Jim, Cheryl Paccia and family. 

I did not attend the meet, but I was able watch some replays on TrackMeets.com ... they have a digital clock running during the races, so getting some split times is possible ...  
Boys 1000m ... Brian McNiff (CBA, 2:38.1) led from start to finish and set approximate splits of 200m (29.5), 400m (61.0) and 800m (2:07) ... Kevin Horvath (Sauquoit, 2:38.4) chased Brian is a good effort to be 2nd.
Boys 3200m ... Dave Masse (FM, 9:50.3) ran another good race on the front-end to win in a season's best time ... the opening 1600m split was about 4:54 ... Dave Cook (Auburn, 9:57.4) showed nice improvement in breaking 10:00.

Boys 1600m ... Chris Nolan (Liverpool, 4:44.5) won this race for the second time this indoor season ... Steve Corsello (Skaneateles, 4:46.6) finished 2nd with Kevin Page (FM, 4:46.8) 3rd ... some race splits were about 200m (34.5), 400m (1:10), 600m (1:46.5), 800m (2:24.5), 1000m (3:01.5), 1200m (3:38) and 1400m (4:13.8).

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Homer was the only Section 3 team competing ... for the second week in a row, Tracey Brauksieck was scratched from her events. 

Alexis Lake (Horseheads) was an impressive winner in both the 600m (1:38.4) and 1500m (5:00.9) ... her 600m time is both a PR and school record, and she can probably run faster (the Cortland State track is not the best place to set records) ... Alexis was the State Indoor 1000m champion last year as a junior (and she still prefers the 1000m distance indoors) ... she has narrowed her college choices to two schools - Columbia University and Boston College ... in 1998, Alexis won the Federation XC championship.

On Jan 6 at an all-comers meet at Cornell, Molly Huddle (Elmira Notre Dame) ran outstanding times in the 1 mile (4:56.9) and 2 miles (10:19.8) ... but Molly is playing basketball for Elmira ND in the IAC Conference ... since the IAC does not allow students to compete in two school sports during the same season, Molly can not compete in the indoor State Meet (I confirmed this with Section 4 officials).

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DMR Relay (1200-400-800-1600) ... FM (12:49.8) edged Liverpool (12:50.6) in a very good race ... FM's relay splits were:

 1200m - Lauren Heron - 3:54.8
 400m - Becky Hardman - 64.4
 800m - Mackenzie Klump - 2:33.8
 1600m - Laurel Burdick - 5:17.1

Here are some of the 1600m splits ... Meghan Nolan (Liverpool, 5:22.7), Ashley Hughes (Phoenix, 5:21.1), Lia Cross (Skaneateles, 5:22.1) ... Phoenix (13:11.3) broke their own school record by 7 seconds and finished 4th ... in the SMR relay, Lia Cross ran a very good 800m split of 2:26.5

4x800m Relay ... FM (10:15.8) beat runner-up West Genesee (10:21.5) ... FM's splits were - Brittany Crawford (2:39.2), Lauren Heron (2:28.7), Katie Losecco (2:38.0) and Laurel Burdick (2:30.2)

4x1600m Relay ... CNS (22:48.2) beat runner-up Liverpool (23:02.0 and Westhill (23:12.3) ... CNS's approximate split were - Beth Quartier (5:46), Laura Ewald (5:50), Marie Parks (5:41) and Taryn Menard (5:31)

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Girls 3000m Run ... Kristen Coon (Webster, 10:14.33) led from start to finish in a very impressive performance ... Taryn Menard (CNS, 10:55.62) ran a very good race to finish 2nd with Marie Parks (CNS, 10:59.09) 3rd ... Laura Ewald (CNS, 11:16.16), Mackenzie Klump (FM, 11:17.10) and Mary Ferguson (Liverpool, 11:23.37) ran well ... senior Kristen Coon just finished her first year of cross country (finished 7th at Feds and 3rd at States, Class A) ... her splits were 400m (75.8), 800m (2:36.1), 1000m (3:17.1), 1500m (5:01) and 1600m (5:23.8).

Boys 3200m Run ... Dave Masse (FM, 9:53.00) ran an excellent race to win ... Scott Mindel (Shenendahowa, 4th, 9:58.61) set early fractions of 400m (74.7) and 800m (2:28.2) ... Dave Masse was 8th after 800m (2:32) ... Masse moved into 4th past 1200m (lead split 3:41.7) and was 2nd at 1600m (4:58.7; lead split was 4:56.8) ... Dave took the lead past 1900m and stayed in front all the way to the finish ... Dave ran negative 1600 splits of 4:58.7 and 4:54.3 ... Krys Usack (Corning, 9:53.79) closed well to be 2nd.

Girls 1 Mile Millrose Qualifier ... Jen Campbell (Farmingdale, 5:14.58) led from start to finish with Melissa Usack (Lansing, 5:15.89) closely chasing Campbell to be 2nd in a good effort ... Lauren Heron (FM, 5:18.27) finished 3rd after trailing early - Lauren was 8th at 400m and 4th at 800m; she outran Sara Rice (Elmira SS, 4th, 5:19.12) to be 3rd ... some lead splits - 400m (77.8), 600m (1:58), 800m (2:37), 1000m (3:17.2), 1200m (3:57.9).

Girls 1500m Run ... Kelsey Thomas (Liverpool, 5:14.99) won in good effort ... teammates Danielle Scalione (5:16.18) and Meghan Nolan (5:16.27) finished 3rd and 4th.

Boys 1 Mile Millrose Qualifier ... Ed Palermo (Bayshore, 4:36.25) waited patiently before taking the lead past 1300m and winning handily ... runner-up Nate Lockett (Moravia, 4:40.27) closed from well off the pace to be 2nd ... Jarrett Morgan (FM, 4th, 4:44.73) sprinted to the lead past 1000m and held the lead before yielding to the winner ... some lead splits - 200m (33.8), 400m (70.4), 600m (1:48), 800m (2:22.1), 1000m (2:58.7), 1200m (3:32.3) 1400m (4:06)

Girls 4x800m Relay ... Laurel Burdick is running indoor track ... the race was won by Elmira Southside (time of about 10:02) ... FM ran about 10:12.0 with following splits - Mackenzie Klump (2:38.7), Laurel Burdick (2:30.4), Kirsten Kobor (2:35.1) and Lauren Heron (2:27.7) ... Liverpool's time was about 10:23.3 ... Meghan Nolan (Liverpool) ran a good opening leg of 2:32.0.

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Some very good performances highlighted this meet ... Ashley Hughes (Phoenix) won both the girls 1500m (5:02.4) and 3000m (10:54.8) with two excellent efforts ... Scott Anderson (Oneida) set a season-best 57-5 1/4 in the shot put ... and Marie Swieta (APW) set a season-best girls high jump of 5-6 (and she barely missed tying the Section indoor record of 5-7).

Girls DMR ... CNS (13:23.4) won over Clinton (13:30.7) and Liverpool (13:51.9) ... approximate splits (1200-400-800-1600) for each team was roughly - CNS (4:11, 1:05, 2:41, 5:25.9), Clinton (4:02, 1:13, 2:39, 5:37) and Liverpool (4:09, 1:12, 2:36, 5:55) ... Taryn Menard ran the CNS 1600m split of 5:25.9 ... Meghan Dunn (Clinton) ran a good 1200 split (4:02).

Boys 1600m ... Ryan Hohm (Corcoran, 4th, 4:44.8) led early in the race past 200m (35.0) and 400m (71.0) before winner Chris Nolan (Liverpool, 4:41.9) took command and set splits of 600m (1:46), 800m (2:21.0), 1000m (2:56.0), 1200m (3:32) and 1400m (4:08) ... Chris opened a 10m lead past 1000m ... Dan McKenna (Liverpool, 2nd, 4:42.4) and Dave Cook (Auburn, 3rd, 4:42.6) were closing the gap near the end of the race, but Nolan won convincingly.

Girls 1500m ... Ashley Hughes (Phoenix, 5:02.4) opened an early lead and won handily on the front end ... Ashley set splits of 200m (37.0), 400m (1:16.0), 600m (1:56.1), 800m (2:37.6) and 1000m (3:19.0) ... she had a 20m lead past 800m ... Meghan McAnaney (Westhill, 5:17) closed nicely to be 2nd, as did Beth Quartier (CNS, 5:17.9) to be 3rd ... Jacquelyn Rappa (Clinton, 4th, 5:18.4) and Mackenzie Klump (FM, 5th, 5:20.8) both ran evenly throughout.

600m ... Brian McNiff (CBA, 1:28.7) led start to finish over Rich Aponte (Proctor, 1:29.2) on the Boys side ... Brian set splits of 200m (28.9) and 400m (59.9) ... on the Girls side, Jennifer Taormina (Liverpool, 1:43.3) led start to finish with splits of 200m (32.9) and 400m (67.9).

Girls 4x800 Relay ... Westhill won in 10:41.2 ... relay legs were Kayleigh Wheeless (2:37.6), Kathryn Niedzwiecki (2:42.8), Kellie Hasselwander (2:44.7) and Kaitlin O'Sullivan (2:36.1) ... Macrina Seals (Phoenix) ran the fastest lead-off leg (2:33.5).

Boys 3200m ... Dan Tickner (Bishop Ludden, 10:05.4) led from start to finish with Dan McKenna (Liverpool, 10:17.5) running 2nd the entire race ... Tickner set splits of 400m (68.7), 800m (2:21.9), 1000m (2:59.3), 1600m (4:52.1), 2000m (6:10.4), 2400m (7:29.7) and 2800m (8:50.1) ... at 1600m, Tickner led by 7 seconds ... Jarrett Morgan (FM, 10:28.9) was 3rd, Bryan Buchanan (CNS, 10:31.1) was 4th and Pat Stagnitta (CNS, 10:34.7) was 5th.

Girls 3000m ... Ashley Hughes (Phoenix, 10:54.8) led from start to finish and won impressively ... Jenny Ryan (Clinton, 2nd, 11:04.6) chased Ashley throughout in a good effort ... Marie Parks (CNS, 11:09.4) closed strongly to finish 3rd, with Caitlin Wlodarski (CNS, 11:33.4) 4th.

Some additional individual performances are available in the photo page.

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The meet took a long time to complete since both boys and girls competed ... I stayed for the first 4 hours and 45 minutes of the meet and only half of the running events were finished when I left.

Girls 1000m run ... an excellent field contested the girls 1000m ... Jenny Ryan (Clinton) took the early lead with Taryn Menard (CNS),  Ashley Hughes (Phoenix) and others close behind ... eventually winner Lauren Heron (FM) waited patiently past the 400m in 6th or 7th position before exploding to a quick 10 meter lead past 500m ... Heron won handily in 3:09.3 ... Menard finished strongly to be 2nd (about 3:10.6) with Hughes 3rd (3:12.4) ... the next five finishers were Meghan Dunn (Clinton, ran very well), Katie Bubnack (W Gen), Kerry Banazek (W Gen), Macrina Seals (Phoenix, 3:15.9) and Jenny Ryan.

Girls 600m dash ... Jessica Lister (South Jefferson, winner, 1:43.7) ran in front most of the race, but was closely pursued by Jen Taormina (Liverpool, 2nd, 1:44.6) ... Jessica set splits of 31.3 (200m) and 66.0 (400m) ... Melissa Lister (South Jeff, 1:48.1) finished 3rd with a good effort ... Jacquelyn Rappa (Clinton, 1:51.8) was 4th in the heat ... Kaitlin O'Sullivan (Westhill) won the first 600m heat in 1:50.2.

Girls 3000m run ... CNS runners Laura Ewald (2nd, 11:17.5) and Marie Parks (1st, 11:14.4) controlled the race from start to finish ... Laura set all of the following split times - 200m (42.5), 400m (1:25.0), 600m (2:10), 800m (2:55), 1000m (3:40), 1200m (4:25), 1500m (5:33), 1600m (5:56), 2000m (7:28) ... for most of the race, the CNS runners maintained a 10 to 30 meter lead over 3rd-place finisher Kayleigh Wheeless (Westhill, 11:24.9) ... Meghan McAnaney (Westhill, 11:28.7) was 4th with Stephanie Bartlett (West Gen, 11:29) running a good race to be 5th.

Some additional individual performances are available in the photo page.

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South Jefferson won the 4x800 Relay (10:25) over 2nd-place Phoenix (10:26) ... Melissa Lister (2:31.4) and Jessica Lister (2:30.0) ran excellent legs for South Jeff ... South Jefferson will be competing at both Section 3 and Section 10 indoor meets ... most Section 10 meets will be held at St. Lawrence University's new field house ... like last year, South Jefferson can compete for Section 10 at the indoor State Meet (Section 10 has only seven indoor teams).

The high jump was an excellent competition between winner Marie Swieta (APW) and Ricshara Knight (Henninger) ... Marie cleared 5-5 and Ricshara cleared 5-4 ... both jumpers performed very well, and both appear capable of jumping higher.

A minor controversy was created by Liverpool's new uniforms ... examples of the new uniform and previous uniform are shown in the photo section ... the tops and bottoms of uniforms are required to touch before a race begins (no midriff skin should show) ... after the race starts, the tops and bottoms do not need to touch.  Liverpool's new uniforms are very attractive ... but the tops are a little short for taller athletes under these rules.  Personal opinion ... New York State and Section 3 are "behind-the-times" in regards to uniform and jewelry regulations ... most other states allow runners to wear jewelry (such as necklaces, watches, earrings, studs, sunglasses) and smaller uniforms (e.g. two-piece uniforms) ... it's allowed at the college and independent levels and at national high school competitions such as the Footlocker Nationals.  I believe it should be allowed in NY and Section 3.

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