Week Five Recap

Girls

The Bobcat Run – Byram Hills, NY

The only PSAL girls team to venture outside of Van Cortlandt this weekend were the Hunter College Campus Hawks. It’s a Hunter tradition to compete at the Bobcat Run. It’s an advantageous meet for the school because, being perhaps the only PSAL school that can train its runners from the middle school level or even earlier, they can also race their middle school runners.

To no one’s surprise, Ella Cohen won the race, covering the 3 mile course in 19:31. Sophomore Noa Yirmiyahu was 3rd and Emma Baltrusaitis, who had been missing from results for a few weeks, reappeared, finished 5th. With their 4th and 5th finishers finishing 15th and 27th, respectively, the Lady Hawks finished 2nd to Suffern.

PSAL Marty Lewis Borough Challenge – Van Cortlandt Park

The day kicked off with the Freshman race, won once again by Susan Wagner and it’s 4 club girls finishing 1-2-5-9.

In the 1.5 mile novice race, Benjamin Cardozo’s Kylie Comas and Brianna Lindo finished 1st and 2nd.

The Girls Varsity race featured a win by Brooklyn Tech, who solidified their position as league favorite. Their top 3 girls finished 4-5-6 and that group included freshman Evelyn Craig, who gives Tech yet another fast freshman™ since the Pandemic restart. Tech’s 4-5-6 runners were only about a minute behind, closing that all-important gap. LaGuardia’s Naomi Douglas and Gwyneth Shupp finished 1-2, proving that LaGuardia will be Tech’s toughest challenger, especially once Genevieve Backus makes her return to the results. They finished 4th on Saturday. Stuyvesant finished 2nd in the team race, but seemed to be missing a bunch of their top 5. Either way, they seem to lack the firepower up front that both LaGuardia and Tech have. HSMSE finished 3rd and Bayside, running without one of its top 3 runners, finished 5th.

The Individual Race was won by Raquel Pasco of Chelsea Career and Technical, running 22:03.

Boys

Saint Anthony’s Invitational – Sunken Meadow State Park

The only PSAL boys team to leave the city this weekend were the boys from Metropolitan Campus. They finished 18th in the varsity race of the Saint Anthony’s Invitational at Sunken Meadow. They were led by Amrit Singh’s 76th place finish in 20:14 over the 5k course.

PSAL Marty Lewis Borough Challenge – Van Cortlandt Park

In the boys freshman race it looks as if Brooklyn Tech somehow managed to find at least 7 fast freshman boys out of the nearly 800 they have in their building (in case you were worried). Tech won the boys race by 4 points over John Jay Campus. This Monday’s Borough Freshman Championship should be interesting.

In the Novice Boys race, Stuyvesant went 1-2-3, led by sophomore Daniel Jung in 9:29.

Alexander Jones’s win led Brooklyn Tech to an easy win (1-3-6-14-15). Jones ran 16:47. Stuyvesant’s Raphael Ramot was 2nd in 17:00. HSMSE was 2nd in the team standings with an impressive :47 1-5 spread. Hunter was 3rd, but only had 4 under 20 minutes. Unlike the girls race, much of the top competition seemed to be missing.

Brooklyn Tech’s Diamond Ling won the Individual Race in 18:48.

TRT PSAL Rankings – After Week Five

Girls

1. Brooklyn Tech

2. Fiorello LaGuardia

3. Stuyvesant

4. Susan Wagner

5. Bronx Science

6. HSMSE

7. Bayside

8. Hunter

9. Beacon

10. James Madison

Boys

1. Brooklyn Tech

2. Bronx Science

3. MSIT

4. HSMSE

5. Stuyvesant

6. Hunter

7. Curtis

8. Academy of American Studies (Queens)

9. Bard

10. HS for American Studies