ZEITLER RELAYS Sunday – At SUNY-Stony Brook Girls

League I: 4×800 Meter Relay – 1. Smithtown (Leif-Ann Reilly, Catherine Romano, Jen Root, Beth Mihalick) 10:22.8, 2. Longwood `A’ 10:28.2, 3. Floyd; 4×200 Relay – 1. Brentwood (Cadet, Bernard, Malcolm, Howell) 1:53.3, 2. Middle Country 1:55.8, 3. Longwood 1:57.2; Long Jump Relay – 1. Smithtown (Delp, Sosulski) 26-10, 2. Brentwood 25-10 1/2, 3. Sachem `C’ 22-10 1/2; 2×55 Hurdle Relay – 1. Middle Country (Daly, Cila) 19.9, 2. Brentwood 20, 3. Smithtown 20.7; 4×400 Relay – 1. Longwood `A’ (Andrejkovics, Henderson, Donadoni, Farmer) 4:30.0, 2. Smithtown 4:35.2, 3. Middle Country 4:35.6; Distance Medley – 1. Longwood `A’ (Imperiale, Donadoni, Henderson, Lee) 13:38.0, 2. Floyd 13:48, 3. Sachem 13:52.5; Triple Jump Relay – Smithtown `A’ 59-11 1/4, 2. Sachem 59-10, 3. Longwood 56-10 1/2; High Jump Relay – 1. Middle Country (Daly, Graff) 9-6, 2. Smithtown 9-2, 3. Sachem `A’ 9-0; Shot Put Relay – 1. Brentwood (Cherese Meyers, Courtney Cabel) 58-11, 2. Longwood `A’ 56-11 1/2, 3. Longwood `B’ 54-9 3/4. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 12 Jan 1999

SUFFOLK CROSSOVER MEET NO. 3

55 High Hurdles – 1. Renee Mautaurano (East Islip) 9.1; 2. Wilensky (Commack) 9.5; 3. Stubbman (Islip) 9.9. 3,000 – 1. Jessica Lee (Longwood) 11:07.5; 2. Wagner (East Islip) 11:37.0; 3. Kantin (Commack) 12:04.6. 55 – 1. Keresia Gordon (Longwood) 7.8; 2. Ramsey (Longwood) 7.9; 3. Kanowitz (Commack) 8.0. 600 – 1. Christa Imperiale (Longwood) 1:42.1; 2. Henderson (Longwood) 1:46.4; 3. Drake (East Islip) 1:52.0. 1,000 – 1. Jackie Amato (Glenn) 3:25.4; 2. MaComb (Longwood) 3:30.7; 3. Garretto (Longwood) 3:36.6. 300 – 1. Christa Imperiale (Longwood) 44.9; 2. Leake (Glenn) 45.1; 3. Tilley (Longwood) 46.0. 1,500 – 1. Jackie Amato (Glenn) 5:30.6; 2. Leombruno (NA) 5:40.5; 3. Meyer (Commack) 5:41.8. 1,500 Walk – 1. Mary Kate Romaine (Glenn) 8:10.8; 2. Mandato (Glenn) 8:47.8; 3. Samuels (Commack) 9:39.3. Long Jump – 1. Deanine Sinisgalli (Commack) 14-5; 2. Wainwright (Glenn) 14-2 1/2; 3. Lisau (Comsewogue) 13-11 1/2. High Jump – 1. Stephanie Molinowski (Longwood) 4-6; 2. Messerola (Longwood) 4-2; 3. Rauch (East Islip) 4-0. Triple Jump – 1. Liz Wilensky (Commack) 34-5 1/2; 2. Stubbman (Islip) 32-8- 3/4; 3. Wainwright (Glenn) 29-11 3/4. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 15 Jan 1999: 

In girls track, Longwood‘s 4 x 200 relay team of Keresia Gordon, Deidra Ramsey, Danielle Donadoni and Laura Tilley finished third (1:55.02) at the Yale Invitational on Friday. The 4 x 400 team of Stephanie Henderson, Donadoni, Christa Imperiale and Julie Andrejkovics finished third (4:22.2). Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 17 Jan 1999:

Girls Track SUFFOLK CROSSOVER MEET at Stony Brook (All distances in meters)

55 – 1. Laura Tilley (Longwood). 2. Cotton (Long) 8.2. 3. Dickter (Long) 8.3. 300 – 1. Laura Tilley (Long) 45.6. 2. Sinisgalli (Comm) 46.1. 3. Clark (Bellport) 47.5. 600 – 1. Christa Imperiale (Long) 1:41. 2. Lee (Long) 1:51.7. 3. Macomb (Long) 1:54.5. 1,500 – 1. Jessica Lee (Long) 5:21.3. 2. Newlands (Lindenhurst) 5:31.2. 3. Imperiale (Long) 5:34.8. 3,000 – 1. Diana Baxter (Comm) 11:32.8. 2. Morga (West Islip) 12:34.6. 3. Cusano (Comm) 13:27.7. 55 HH – 1. Liz Wilensky (Commack) 9.7. 2. Dickter (Long) 10.2. 3. Jose (Comm) 10.3. 1,500 Racewalk – 1. Christina Quirk (Bell) 8:55.7. 2. Lally (Comm) 8:57.8. 3. Andrejkovics (Long) 10:20.6. Shot Put – 1. Parris (Bell) 30-8 3/4. 2. Prosser (Long) 29-1. 3. Rivers (Long) 27-11 1/4. High Jump

– 1. Laura Tilley (Long) 4-8. Long Jump – 1. Deanine Sinisgalli (Comm) 14-9. 2. Kanowitz (Comm) 13-11 1/4. Triple Jump – 1. Liz Wilensky (Comm) 33-11. 2. Mendez (Comm) 29-1 1/4. 3. Gabriel (Bell) 28-5 3/4. 4×800 Relay – 1. West Islip (Bertsch, Afflixio, Morga, Paladino) 12:06.3. 4×400 Relay – 1. Commack 4:39.1. 2. Bellport 5:09.4. 3. West Islip 5:09.9. 4×200 Relay – 1. Lindenhurst 2:05.1. 2. West Islip 2:08.3. 3. Bellport 2:12.5. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 20 Jan 1999

League I Championship At SUNY-Stony Brook (Running events in meters)

55: 1. Denise Raab (Sachem), 7.4; 2. Farmer (Longwood), 7.7; 3. Howell (Brentwood), 7.8. 300: 1. Denise Raab (Sachem), 44.1; 2. Farmer (Longwood), 44.3; 3. Tilley (Longwood), 45.7. 600: 1. Jeanna Composti (Sachem), 1:41.3; 2. Schaub (Sachem), 1:42.6; 3. Henderson (Longwood), 1:45. 1,000: 1. Christa Imperiale (Longwood), 3:04.6; 2. Chetuck (Sachem), 3:09.7; 3. Lucarello (Floyd), 3:16. 1,500: 1. Jackie Berman (Sachem), 4:56; 2. Reilly (Smithtown), 4:59.5; 3. Imperiale (Longwood), 5:04.9. 3,000: 1. Leif-Ann Reilly (Smithtown), 10:29.3; 2. Wrinkle (Patchogue-Medford), 10:57.9; 3. Walsh (Floyd), 10:58.3. 55 hurdles: 1. Denise Raab (Sachem), 8.7; 2. Ojeda (Middle Country), 9.4; 3. Daly (Middle Country), 9.5. 4 x 200 relay: 1. Brentwood, 1:55.1; 2. Longwood, 1:58.3; 3. Middle Country, 2:03.3. 4 x 400: 1. Sachem, 4:24.1; 2. Longwood, 4:27.7; 3. Smithtown, 4:37.6. 4 x 800: 1. Sachem, 10:21.2; 2. Smithtown, 10:26.9; 3. Floyd, 10:29. High jump: 1. Ashley Rinear (Smithtown), 5-0; 2. Daly (Middle Country), 4-10; 3. Hannigan (Sachem), 4-8. Long jump: 1. Kristen Eckert (Sachem), 16-3 3/4; 2. Malcolm (Brentwood), 16-1 1/4; 3. Krivosta (Smithtown), 14-9. Triple jump: 1. Yolanda Malcolm (Brentwood), 33-8 1/2; 2. Ojeda (Middle Country), 32- 3/4; 3. Schaub (Sachem), 31-4 1/4. Shot put: 1. Kristen Ecket (Sachem), 31-5 1/2; 2. Quigley (Smithtown), 29-9; 3. Smith (Brentwood), 29-3 1/2. 1,500 walk: 1. Michelle Kenny (Sachem), 7:26.4; 2. Sanchez (Brentwood), 8:09.4; 3. Parasram (Brentwood), 8:09.5. Team scores: 1. Sachem 142 1/2; 2. Smithtown 87; 3. Longwood 85. League II Championships At SUNY-Stony Brook. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 03 Feb 1999: 

DQ Gives Title to Sachem: [SUFFOLK Edition]

Jim Baumbach. STAFF WRITER. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 09 Feb 1999:

History suggested that the Suffolk girls indoor track large school championships, held Sunday night at the University at Stony Brook, were going to go down to the wire between Bay Shore and Sachem. Bay Shore entered with a 3-2 lead over Sachem in indoor titles.

History was right. Only this time, the events that led to Sachem’s 98-96 win over Bay Shore were unlike anything either team’s coach had ever seen. A bit of misfortune for Sachem in the 4 x 400-meter relay, the next-to-last race of the meet, began the string of odd occurrences.

Bay Shore’s Julianne Mahoney, Laurice Walker, Shayna Staton and Kellie Castro won the 4 x 400 in 4:09.7. Sachem did not finish the race because its second runner, Maureen Schaub, had to be helped off the track after a hard fall that bruised her left shoulder and left knee. “I believe she got her feet inadvertently clipped by another runner,” Sachem coach Alex Young said.

As a result, the Marauders turned a 92-86 deficit into their first lead, 96-92. That also meant Sachem needed to finish two spots higher than Bay Shore in the 4 x 200 relay for a tie, and three spots higher for the win.

Guess what? Sachem’s team finished fourth in 1:54, Bay Shore did not place.

Tie score. Or was it?

As Young, Bay Shore coach Lisa Vickers and several others waited at the scorer’s table for the expected official tie score, the sound of an irate Frank Labianca, coach of Ward Melville, turned everyone’s heads. Labianca was disputing an apparent disqualification of his first-place 4 x 200 team.

Wait a second . . . if Ward Melville were disqualified, then Sachem would move up a spot in the race, giving the Flaming Arrows six points for a third-place finish instead of four for a fourth-place finish, giving them the win. “That’s what everybody immediately thought,” Vickers said.

Within minutes, referee Mark Robinson walked over to the scorer’s table and gave the official word.

“The anchor leg ran into the Half Hollow Hills runner, altering her course,” said Robinson, whose job is to listen to the official who saw the infraction and then make a final decision. The disqualification gave Sachem the win, avenging last year’s 108-101 loss to Bay Shore.

“We’ve had close meets before,” said Bay Shore’s Vickers, who had predicted a one-point Sachem win. “It’s just unfortunate that it had to end in a disqualification. I don’t feel like we lost.”

“I look at it like this: This meet ended in a tie,” said Young, who thought the meet was going to end in a tie at 100. “It was 96-96 except for a disqualification.”

Competitors on both teams relayed the same sentiments toward the meet – on the track it’s serious, but all is forgotten off it. “As much as I want Sachem to win, it doesn’t affect our relationship with the girls on Bay Shore,” said senior Jeanna Composti, who won the 1,000 (3:00.9). “We are all very good friends regardless of the outcome.”

Sachem’s Denise Raab enjoyed her 18th birthday by winning the 55 (7.2), 55 high hurdles (8.6) and the long jump (17-4 1/2).

In the small schools championships, which took place before the large schools, Shoreham-Wading River (83) easily won, outscoring second-place Kings Park by 27 points. Flora Sapienza won the 55 high hurdles (8.6) and Nicole Barbante won the 300 (41.9) for the Wildcats, who scored in 12 of the 15 events.

SUFFOLK GIRLS TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS at SUNY-Stony Brook – Sunday (all events in meters) LARGE SCHOOLS

3,000 – 1. Jennifer Donovan (Half Hollow Hills), 10:33; 2. Reilly (Smithtown), 10:39.1; 3. Berman (Sachem), 10:46.8. 55 – 1. Denise Raab (S), 7.2; 2. Hyatt (Central Islip), 7.2; 3. Offer (HHH), 7.5. 1,000 – 1. Jeanna Composti (S), 3:00.9; 2. Fath (Bellport), 3:04.4; 3. Castro (Bay Shore), 3:06.3. 600 – 1. Christa Imperiale (Longwood), 1:37.8; 2. Farrell (BS), 1:38.1; 3. McGee (Bellport), 1:41.8. 55 HH – 1. Denise Raab (S), 8.6; 2. Grasso (Connetquot), 9.0; 3. Glean (HHH), 9.1. 1,500 – 1. Jennifer Donovan (HHH), 4:59.4; 2. Deqcetis (Bell), 5:01.5; 3. Berman (S), 5:03.3. 300 – 1. Shayna Staton (BS), 40.9; 2. Hyatt (CI), 42.2; 3. Walker (BS), 42.5. 1,500 Walk – 1. Lorraine Horgan (S), 7:15.8; 2. Kalman (BS), 7:17.7; 3. Kenny (S), 7:19.5. 4 x 400 – 1. Bay Shore (Julianne Mahoney, Laurice Walker, Shayna Staton, Kellie Castro), 4:09.7; 2. Northport, 4:22.3; 3. Ward Melville, 4:27.7. 4 x 200 – 1. Half Hollow Hills (Chinny Offer, Angelina Gayle, Lindsay Reinhardt, Jamila Glean), 1:51.3; 2. Brentwood, 1:53.1; 3. Sachem, 1:54. 4 x 800 –

1. Bay Shore (Katherine Farrell, Kellie Castro, Alethia Ali, Ryann Hoffman), 9:47.7; 2. Sachem, 9:54.1; 3. Longwood, 9:54.6. High Jump – 1. Katherine Farrell (BS), 5-2; 2. Daly (Middle Country), 5-1; 3. Grasso (Conn), 5-0. Long Jump – 1. Denise Raab (S), 17-4 1/2; 2. Staton (BS), 16-10 1/4; 3. Ojeda (MC), 16-9. Triple Jump – 1. Liz Wilensky (Commack), 35-3 1/4; 2. Malcolm (Brentwood), 35- 1/2; 3. Sohn (Westhampton); 33-5 1/4. Shot Put – 1. Crystal Bernard (BS), 34-2 1/2; 2. Myers (Brentwood), 32-6 1/4; 3. Moreira (BS), 32-3. Team Scores – Sachem 98, Bay Shore 96, Half Hollow Hills 51, Brentwood 32, Bellport 29, Longwood 25, Middle Country 20, C. Islip 18, Connetquot 14, Smithtown 14, Commack 13, Northport 11, Westhampton 10, North Babylon 9, Harborfields 9, Ward Melville 8, Patchogue-Medford 5, Lindenhurst 2, Riverhead 1. 

SUFFOLK INDOOR TRACK STATE QUALIFIER At SUNY-Stony Brook Sunday (Running events in meters)

55 – 1. Kishana Hudson (Deer Park), 7.1; 2. Hyatt (Central Islip), 7.2; 3. Raab (Sachem), 7.3. 300 – 1. Shayna Staton (Bay Shore), 41.4; 2. Barbante (Shoreham-Wading River), 42.1; 3. Walker (BS), 42.3. 600 –

1. Annie Feldman (Kings Park), 1:36.5; 2. Imperiale (Longwood), 1:38.3; 3. Castro (BS), 1:39.5. 1,000 – 1. Jeanna Composti (Sach), 2:55.9; 2. Fath (Bellport), 3:01.4; 3. Cofone (Miller Place), 3:03.8. 1,500 – 1. Jennifer Donovan (Half Hollow Hills), 4:46.6; 2. Mastroianni (Sayville), 4:46.7; 3. Hofmann (Rocky Point), 4:52.9. 3,000 – 1. Jennifer Donovan (HHH), 9:54.2; 2. Mastroianni (Say), 9:54.2; 3. Reilly (Smithtown), 10:26.7. 55 hurdles – 1. Denise Raab (Sach), 8.5; 2. Sapienza (SWR), 8.6; 3. Glean (HHH), 9.0. 1,500 walk – 1. Cheryl Kalman (BS), 7:14.5; 2. Kenny (Sach), 7:16.9; 3. Horgan (Sach), 7:27.5. 4 x 200 relay – 1. Half Hollow Hills (Chinny Offer, Angelina Gayle, Lindsay Reinhardt, Jamila Glean), 1:49.5; 2. Amityville, 1:51.2; 3. Middle Country, 1:54.6. 4 x 400 – 1. Bay Shore (Katherine Farrell, Shayna Staton, Kellie Castro, Laurice Walker), 4:07.4; 2. Amityville, 4:23.3; 3. Longwood, 4:27.2. 4 x 800 – 1. Sachem (Maureen Schaub, Jesse Chetuck, Jackie Berman, Jeanna Composti), 9:36.8; 2. Longwood, 9:48.1; 3. Miller Place, 9:57.1. Long jump – 1. Denise Raab (Sach), 16-11 3/4; 2. Evelyn (North Babylon), 16-9 1/2; 3. Cannone (Bayport-Blue Point), 16-4 3/4. Triple jump – 1. Yolanda Malcolm (Brent) 34-9; 2. Hudson (Westhampton), 34-2 1/2; 3. Sohn (W), 33-10. High jump – 1. Michelle Daly (MC), 5-2; 2. Edwards (PJ), 5-0; 3. Grasso (Connetquot), 5-0. Shot put – 1. Alicia Difranco (MS), 36-6; 2. Bernard (BS), 33-8; 3. Eckert (Sach), 32-11 1/2. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 16 Feb 1999:

RESULTS STATE FEDERATION INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS At Carrier Dome, Syracuse University (Running events in meters)

 Girls

55 – 1. Tirana McDermott (Jamestown, Section VI), 7:21; 4. Kishana Hudson (Deer Park), 7.32; 6. Shernette Hyatt (Central Islip), 7.41; 8. Chelsea Hammond (Elmont), 7.45. 300 – 1. Misty Scott (Suffern, I), 40.11; 2. Shayna Staton (Bay Shore), 40.18; 5. Shevonne Stoddart (Uniondale), 40.27; 6. Alisha Burnett (New Hyde Park), 40.95. 600 – 1. Rebecca Quimby (Suffern, I), 1:35.26; 3. Christa Imperiale (Longwood), 1:36.76; 5. Erin Raggio (St. Anthony’s), 1:37.33; 7. Annie Feldman (Kings Park), 1:37.9. 1,000 – 1. Jeanna Composti (Sachem), 2:56.19; 4. Theresa Fath (Bellport), 3:01.06. 1,500 – 1. Jenn Donovan (Half Hollow Hills), 4:38.88; 3. Janelle Vadnais (St. John Baptist), 4:44.02; 4. Allison Hoffman (Rocky Point), 4:44.43; 10. Danielle Jelley (Clarke), 4:52.16. 3,000 – 1. Donovan (HHH), 9:56.31; 2. Jillian Mastroianni (Sayville), 9:57.76; 3. Vadnais (SJB), 10:03.37; 10. Leif-Ann Reilly (Smithtown), 10:27.45. 55 High Hurdles – 1. Kasia Williams (Robeson, PSAL), 8.33; 3. Denise Raab (Sach), 8.43; 7. Katie Scotidas (Massapequa), 8.82. 1,500 Walk – 1. Jamie Yedowitz (Rye, I), 6:56.15; 5. Lorraine Horgan (Sach), 7:24.24; 9. Melanie Shurka (Great Neck North), 7:43.07. Shot Put – 1. Tanya Sangano (Yorktown, I), 39-6 1/4; 7. Cherice Vanderhall (Union), 38- 3/4. Long Jump – 1. Shenae Dawkins (New Rochelle, I), 18-6; 7. Shauna Byfield (Man), 17- 3/4; 10. Denise Raab (Sach), 16-6 1/2. High Jump – 1. Martinia Heath (Beacon, I), 5-6; 4. Byfield (Man), 5-2; 8. Katie Ryan (Garden City), 5-2. Triple Jump – 1. Jodi Schlesinger (Clarkstown South, I), 39-7 3/4; 4. Yolanda Malcolm (Brentwood), 36-5 1/2; 5. Courtney Vinson (Union), 36-4 1/2. Pole Vault – 1. Suzie Snyder (Averill Park, II), 10-0; 10. Jean Devin (SA), 8-0. Medley Relay – 1. Section IX, 10:36.53; 4. Section XI (Catherine Cofone, Taneesha Harris, Rachel McGee, Lyndsey Webber), 10:41.92; 9. Section VIII (Kara Krebs, Selena McLaten, Shenita McPhatter, Jean Coleman), 11:05.71. 4 x 200 Relay – 1. Robeson (PSAL), 1:44.41; 3. Uniondale (Shelly Antoine, Jatoya Moore, Nicole Machem, Shevonne Stoddart), 1:44.72; 8. HHH (Chinny Offo, Angelina Gayle, Lindsay Reinhardt, Mallory Fratta), 1:51.89. 4 x 400 – 1. Bay Shore (Shayna Staton, Laurice Walker, Katherine Farrell, Kellie Castro), 3:58.68. 4 x 800 – 1. Sachem (Jackie Berman Jesse Chetuck, Maureen Schaub, Composti), 9:27.91; 8. Garden City (Julie Vassilotti, Katie Ryan, Kristen Ryan, Erin Keating), 9:55.2. Team Scores – 1. Section I, 108; 2. Section XI, 101; 3. PSAL, 84; 4. II, 58; 5. IX, 44; 6. VI, 36; 7. V, 34; 8. III, 26.33; 9. CHSAA, 21.33; 10. Section VIII, 14.33. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 28 Feb 1999: