Frosh / Soph Meet #2 at Rockland Community College

The Eagles' younger squad competed on Friday, December 18th at the Section 1 Freshman-Sophomore Meet and came away with two firsts and a third as Sofia Maluf captured the 1500m Racewalk, Sarah King won the 1500m run, and Brendan Wortner got down to 4:48 in the 1600m for third. About 18 Eagles were in action, and there are videos of the last 100m of a couple of the races.




1500 Racewalk (Sofia Maluf takes gold)



Boys 1000 with Keith Hickey




Girls 1000, Rebecca Wiersma and Liz Quintero






Girls 600 with Sofia Maluf




Girls 600 with Liz Quintero




Boys 1600 with Brendan Wortner medaling




Boys 1600 with Grant Sheely



Girls 1500 with Sarah King taking 1st



Girls 1500 with Shanna Yue winning heat, and Mary Constant



Girls 300 with Krishna Pandya

Section 1 Indoor Track Kickoff

The indoor track season got underway for the Eagles at the Armory on Sunday morning December 13. Caught some of the races on video in segments, including Lauren Hanley's 6th place medal run and the girls 4x800 medal effort. Missed the first leg of the boys 4x800 completely, but otherwise the relays are covered.




Boys 1000, 2nd heat (Pat and Brendan Wortner)





Boys 1000, 3rd heat (George Epstein)



Girls 1000, 2nd heat (Lauren Hanley, Sarah King)





Girls 1000, 3rd heat (Joanne Mumbey, Shanna Yue, Rebecca Wiersma, Mary Constant)



Girls 1500, (Brx's Mary Cain edges Mamrck's Gina Talt, no Eagles)




Boys 4x800, (George and Brendan)





Boys 4x800 (Brendan and Tommy Ruff)



Girls High Jump, (Irvngtn's Megan Talay making attempt at 5'4"



Girls 4x800 (Lauren)



Girls 4x800 (Shanna)



Girls 4x800 (Joanne)



Girls 4x800, (Sarah King)




Girls 4x200 (Stevie Lane, Mary Constant, Krishna Pandya, Sarah Koenigsberg)

ECAC Women's University Race -- Binghamton Bearcats including Paulina Nunez

College teams at Van Cortlandt Park on Saturday, Nov. 21, on a gorgeous day, for once a weekend race without mud. Paulina's Bearcat squad ran in the second women's race, the University race. The course was three loops on the Freshman Hill section with the finish at the Tortoise and Hare. The four sequences are from the entrance to the Cowpath, then a little ways up on the HS finish section, then from a ways down from the woods downslope, and lastly about 1/4 mile from the finish on the west side path.



Entrance to Cowpath, 1/4 mile from start



About 1 1/4 miles in, on east Flats path



About 2 mile mark, on east Flats path a little south of woods slope exit



About 3 mile mark, around 300 yards from finish

State Meet at Plattsburgh

The NY XC State Meet at Plattsburgh on November 14 was run in the rain and mud of course during a season of mucky Saturday meets. The girls races were run after the boys, so they got the worst of it, and of course the Class C races were last. On the boys side, Brendan Wortner finished at 21st and Pat Wortner got 22nd, and their Section 1 team was 2nd. Sarah King ran to a personal best to get 9th as her Section 1 team finished 1st and Bronxville won another State team title.

All but one of the segments are from the Class C races, though I couldn't get back from the midway point to the finish for the boys race, which came down to the best duel of the day with Pawling's Brandon Freyer beating reigning champ Max Straneva of Chenango Valley with the 2nd best time of the day behind North Rockland's Nick Hughes in the AA race. Have added three segments from the historic Girls AA race with Fayetteville-Manlius sweep of top 5 spots, and there is also a segment near the beginning of the girls B race at the bottom of the page.

Boys Class C



Pep talk and prep work at starting line



About 1/4 mile into race



Halfway through race



About 3/4 miles to go


Girls Class C



Start



About 1/4 mile in



Halfway



About 3/4 miles to go



About 700 yards to go



Near finish

About 400 yards to go


Girls Class AA (the perfect FM 15)


About 1 mile in



About 2 mile mark




About 600 yards from finish


Girls Class B


About 400 yards from start

Sectional XC Races

Eagles took 4th in the boys Section 1 Class C race with Patrick and Brendan Wortner earning State title berths in 2nd and 4th and George Epstein taking 10th as Dobbs was the only team to place three runners in the top 10. Pawling won the title and Julian Saliani of Irvington was first.

The Dobbs girls earned their best Sectional place with a 3rd behind Bronxville and Irvington. Sarah King finished 3rd to earn a State title berth and Lauren Hanley broke into the top 20 in her swan song for the Eagles. Caitlin Jelinek of Pawling won the individual title.

Most of the videos are of the Class C races and the JV race, but their are also ones for near the finish of the Class B races and the boys AA race. Apologies for the problem with girls Class C finish as the video storage ran out as Lauren Hanley was approaching the finish and I couldn't get the card restored until just before Rebecca Wiersma approached.

Boys Class C


Eagle guys prerace pep talk




Boys Class C race start



Boys Class C race on snake



Boys Class C race on uphill



Boys Class C race at top of hill



Boys Class C race, back field, 1/2 mile to go



Boys Class C race finish, part 1



Boys Class C race finish, part 2


Girls Class C


Eagle Girls prerace pep talk



Girls Class C race start



Girls Class C race on snake



Girls Class C race on uphill



Girls Class C race on top of hill



Girls Class C race, 1/2 mile to finish




Girls Class C race finish, part 1



Girls Class C race finish, part 2


JV Race



JV Girls Race



JV Girls Race on snake



JV Girls Race on uphill



JV Girls Race on top of hill



JV Girls Race finish, but lighting is way too bright


Other Races



Class B Boys race near finish



Class B Girls near finish



Class AA Boys race near finish

Westchester County Meet at Somers on Halloween

On another soggy course, this time at Somers for the Westchester County XC meet on October 31, the Eagles ran well enough to win six medals in four races in a prep for the Sectionals on November 6. Pat Wortner had another early race tumble but recovered enough to finish 7th overall with Brendan Wortner close behind in 8th. Sarah King got 7th on the girls side, and Chloe Wang lost a shoe in the muck but still socked it up and finished. Grant Sheely sprinted in 8th in the boys freshman race, and Lila Walsh got the Eagles' top place of the day as she got 2nd on the girls side while teammate Rebecca Wiersma finished 9th.

Due to traffic congestion squeezing through the bottleneck to the finish, the boys varsity race only begins as Pat Wortner is crossing the finish with many heads in way.

Boys Race


Varsity boys near start



Varsity boys, crowd scene early going uphill



Varsity boys, going downhill midway



Varsity boys, on big field loop



Varsity boys, finish, part 1 with a bit of Pat, Brendan and then George.



Varsity boys, finish part 2

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Girls Races



Varsity girls, 200 yards from start



Varsity girls, going uphill early



Varsity girls, about midway on muddy path in woods



Varsity girls, out on path in woods



Varsity girls, uphill 1/4 mile from finish



Varsity girls, finish, part 1



Varsity girls finish, part 2



Varsity girls finish, part 3



Freshmen girls, on start loop



Freshmen girls, trail in woods



Freshmen girls, 1/4 mile to finish



Freshmen girls finish

Section 1 Coaches Meet Races

The long and short of it was mud and more mud, and a steady rain on Saturday, October 24. Eagles ran in the later Varsity 3 races, and the course was badly mucked up by the time they ran. Many runners fell on the hill, and times were much slower than usual. The rain also affected certain cameras, causing one in particular to go into a twittering frenzy during both of the Varsity 3 races, and nothing was filmed of the middle of the girls race or most of the boys later stage and finish except for a fuzzy section when George Epstein finished.

Ah well. Parts of all the Varsity races included except boys Varsity 1 since the team was still in the bus. Also some segments from girls JV.



Girls Varsity 1, 1/2 mile to go. Broncos and Bulldogs



Boys Varsity 2, halfway up hill. Bulldogs



Boys Varsity 2, half mile from finish





Boys Varsity 2, finish



Girls Varsity 2, on hill. Sleepy Hollow, Pawling



Boys Varsity 3, start



Boys Varsity 3, halfway up hill



Boys Varsity 3, top of hill



Boys Varsity 3, finish from George Epstein



Girls Varsity 3, start



Girls Varsity 3, on snake



Girls Varsity 3, finish, part 1



Girls Varsity 3, finish part 2



Girls JV, start



Girls JV, halfway up hill



Girls JV, top of hill



Girls JV, finish

League Meet 2009 at Sleepy Hollow

Dobbs Ferry joined Irvington, Hastings, Ardsley, Children's Village, Woodlands, and the host school in Sleepy Hollow at Rockwood Hall Park on Tuesday, October 13 under perfect conditions except for a few spots where the gusty wind was in the runners' faces. The Bulldogs, Yellowjackets, Eagles, Panthers, and Headless Horsemen finished 1-2-3-4-5 in both the girls and boys races. Patrick Wortner, Brendan Wortner and George Epstein finished 2, 3, 5 for the Eagles and Sarah King, Lauren Hanley, Lila Walsh, Chloe Wang, and Mary Constant finished 3, 12, 14, 19, 20.

Boys Race



Starting Lineup



Start




2K Mark



3K Mark, Part 1



3K, Part 2



Finish, Part 1



Finish, Part 2


Girls Race


Start



2K Mark



3K Mark, Part 1



3K Mark, Part 2



3K Mark, Part 3



Finish, Part 1



Finish, Part 2



Finish, Part 3



Postrace gathering on a great evening on the Hudson

Bobcat Run - 2009, Girls Races

Girls take Small School Championship plaque at Byram Hills Bobcat Run as Sarah King takes 5th, Shanna Yue grabs the last medal in 25th place, Chloe Wang finishes 27th, Mary Constant gets 42nd, Clara Winder 46th, Sofia Maluf 60th, and Suzanna Halatyn 69th in varsity race. Lila Walsh gets 7th place medal in freshman race.




Start




Early in race




Midway in woods




Past midway going to loopy woods, part 1






Past midway going to loopy woods, part 2





Lower field, about 600 meters to finish




Finish, part 1




Finish, part 2




Finish. part 3

Bobcat Run - 2009, Boys Races

Tough slogging but very nice results for Dobbs Ferry Eagles at the 2009 Byram Hills Bobcat run. After preceding rain the course had some mucky spots, but the "choose your own adventure" option on one section of the course is a big hit with runners. Pat Wortner comes out of woods loops in first and cruises to 1st place. Brendan Wortner grabs 5th, George Epstein takes 20th place medal, and James Majeau takes Dobbs' 4th spot for Eagles, who were a DNS. The rest of the team ran in the freshman race as Harry Wagner grabbed 5th place and Grant Sheely a 7th place medal, and Keith Hickey got 62nd.





Varsity race, prior to start



Varsity race, start



Varsity race, early on


Near halfway



Near 2/3 point, going toward loopy woods



Lower field, about 6oo meters from finish

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Freshman race, near finish

Brewster Bears XC Classic 2009 - Girls Varsity 3 Race

Brewster Bears Invite 2009 where Dobbs' girls win their first trophy in three years since the Big Red miracle. Eagles finish 2nd to Red Hook with Sarah King finishing 3rd, Lauren Hanley 12th, Shanna Yue 15th, Chloe Wang 21st, with Clara Winder, Sofia Maluf, and Suzanna Halatyn taking the Eagles' 4,5,6 spots.



Start



Near 1 mile



Near 1.25 mile



Near 2 mile




Finish, part 1



Finish, part 2



Finish, part 3

Brewster Bears XC Classic 2009 - Boys Varsity 3 Race

From the Brewster Bears Invite on Saturday October 3, 2009. The boys Varsity 3 race featuring George Epstein's nifty hurdle over fallen comrade Pat Wortner before he likewise chewed on some turf. But all recover quickly as Pat closes for 2nd place, Brendan Wortner kicks in for 3rd despite a momentary wrong turn near finish, and George leaps back to take 11th. James Majeau and Harry Wagner take 4th and 5th spots for 4th place Eagles.



Start



Near 1 mile mark




Near 1.25 mile mark





Near 2.5 mile mark



Near finish, Pat, Brendan, George



Near finish, James, Harry

Warwick Wave 2009 - Boys Varsity 2 Race

Videos from various points of the Warwick Wave's Varsity 2 race on September 26, 2009.



Starting off.



Around 1 mile



Around 1.5 miles



Around 2 miles



Around 2.25 miles



Around 2.5 miles



Finish

Videos from Warwick Wave XC - Girls Varsity 1 Race

From the meet on September 26, 2009 at Warwick, NY.



Race Start






Around Mile 1



Around Mile 1.5



Around Mile 2



Finish - first group



Finish - second group



Finish - third group