Whitman To Run at Longwood Three champs to pace Whitman, but Lions return veteran team: [EAST END Edition]
By Joe Krupinski. STAFF WRITER. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 06 Dec 1992:
Longwood, which has won the Suffolk boys winter track championship for four consecutive years, has good reason to expect a strong challenge from Whitman this season.
The Wildcats return three individual county champions and a winning relay team that is practically intact. The defending champions are Greg Hines (who also won the state title in 7.3 seconds) in the 55-meter hurdles, Chad Rowe in 600 and Joe Malcoln in the long jump.
Malcoln may also rejoin Rowe, Hines and Eli Martin on Whitman’s championship 4 x 200 relay team, filling the spot vacated by Jamie Blackwell, who has decided to play basketball.
Longwood‘s Lions, meanwhile, still have their roar. Although double winner Dan Murphy (1,600 and 3,200) is now running for Clemson, Dan Stevenson, who finished fourth in the county Class A cross-country this fall, could be Longwood‘s leading scorer in the distance races. Longwood also returns county champion Andre Wacasey in the high jump and runnerup Mike Henderson in the 1,000.
Suffolk will have two champions this season: big school and small school. Amityville is the favorite among the small schools with returning county champions Marvis Taylor in the 300 and Curtis Barrett in the triple jump.
Other outstanding individuals are Half Hollow Hills East sprinter Neal Greene, Middle Country hurdler Jeff Morgan and Bayport-Blue Point pole-vaulter Ken Moore.
In other Yale Invitational results: The Wantagh girls 4 x 800 relay team of Tracey Freyre, Lorrin Higgins, Anne Devlin, and Katie Clarke registered the nation’s fastest time of the year (9:38.11), according to coach Bill Hitchcock . . . Longwood‘s Frank Jackson, David Olavarria, Dan Myler, and Dustin Calender finished third (3:37.5) in the large school division of the mile relay. Longwood‘s Andre Wacasey finished second in the high jump (6-5 1/2). Jan. 24