New Jersey Groups - Boys

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:03:14 -0500
From: "Edward  J. Grant" <102416.1703@compuserve.com>
Subject: t-and-f: NJ Group CC Boys

Netters:
        On a chilly, but rainless day at Holmdel County Park yesterday,
Christian brothers Academy and Morristown set up a classic duel for the
all-group championhips to be held there Nov. 22.
        CBA ran as it has all season, moving out cautiously from the gun
and running through the field from the one to two-mile to win its third
straight Parochial A title and 13th in the last 22 years. The team average
of 16:56 was easily the best of the day, but there was a catch.
        For earlier in the day, Morristown had averaged 16:46 with its
first fourfinishers, only to have its usual 5th man Adam Wilson run into
asthma problems and finish as 7th man in 87th place at 19:04. Jeff carman,
a 400M runner and spring baseball player was the 5th man across for the
Colonials in 69th polace at 18:39.
        In an ironic touch, finishing 4th in the race was Ryan Smith of
Hightstown in 16:42. His Morristown namesake, a 3:55 1500M runner, was
acting as manager for the day, nursing a stress fracture in his hop which
has sidelined him at least until mid-December. But it gave an easy way to
see whaty Morristown might have run but the that injury.
        The AG race thus shapes up this way: CBA cannot count on another
failure by Wilson and so will probably go out a bit faster to stay with the
Moristown 2 through 4 men. Morristown leader Tom DelSordo will be running,
as usual, with the race leaders. The Colts have six in their top group;
soph Brian Kerwin finished 15th as 6th man Saturday in 17:19. The probably
3-4 finishers are Cherokee and Randolph, who finished 1-2 yesterday in the
Gr, IV race,
        Steve Slattery of Mt. Olive, the defending AG champion, confirmed
his role as AG favorite as he won the Gr. III race in 16:03, another of his
countless victories over good friend DelSordo (The two spent much of the
time waiting for the race, discussing the Nov. 29 Northeast Footlocker
Trials and, in particular, the exploits of national defender Abririzak
Mohamud of Boston English.)
        There was a major surprise in the gr. IV race as junior Jon Fasulo
of Hunterdon Central outran favored Murad Campbell of Overbrook by 150
yards to win in 16:06. Campbell barely held off Gordon Kaslusky of
Westfield for 2nd. Two other strong wins, both at 16:25, came from Matt Day
of Pope John in Parochial A and Ian Hahn of Manchester in Gr. II. NJ will
definitely have a strong entry at the Footlocker Regionals, battling
Massachusetts for the state team title.
        Now for a look at each of the boys races with the top finishers:

                                Gr. IV
        It was a surprise to the chilled spectators in this 2nd boys' race
of the 12-event program when the black and red clad Fasulo emerged from the
Hills with such a large lead over Campbell. It avenged his only NJ loss of
the season to Campbell on this same course at the Shores Coaches meet in
early October. He is definitely a Div. I prospect.
        The team battle was a threeway affair, pitting Randolph against the
brother schools from Burlington Cty, Cherokee and Shawnee. Cherokee had
been a disappointent in '96, but two underclassmen, Aaron Boucher in 20th
and soph Joe Halin in 23rd, made the difference this time in an 87-101 win
over Randolph, which was hurt by the 21st place finish (2nd on the team) of
its usual leader, Andrew Adams. Shawnee finished with 107.

        Teams: (First 3 qualify for AG meet). 1-Cherokee 87. 2-Randolph
101. 3-Shawnee 106. 4-Washingto Twp 197. 5-Toms River East 207. 6-Vernon
232. 7-Triton 244. 8-Ridgewood 283. 9-South Brunswick 284. 10-Bridgewater
286.
        Ind: 1-Jon Fasulo, Hunterdon central 16:06. 2-Murad Campbell,
Overbrook 16:32. 3-Gordon Kaslusky, Westfield 16:33. 4-Eamon O'Brien,
Paramus 16:42. 5-Dave DeJong, Shawnee 16:46. 6-Dan Christensen, Shawnee
16:50. 7-Bryan Skelly, Washington Twp 16:51. 8-Joao Oliveira, Newark East
Side 16:52.
9-Aurelio Saladrigas, Memorial 16:53. 10-Matt Urbanovich, Cherokee 16:55.
11-Dave DeWolfe, Hillsborough 16:55. 12-Matt Ruhl, Triton 16:57. 13-Aarao
Santos, Newark East Side :57. 14-Andy Boesgaard, Roxbury 16:57. 15-Ben
Werbos, Cherokee 17:00. 16-Nick Albanito, Randolph 17:02. 17-Al Rispoli,
Tons River East 17;04. 18-Bobby Broomhead, Absegami 17:09. 19-Nick Ferrara,
Toms River East 17:11. 20-Aaron Boucher, Cherokee 17:11. 

                        Group III
        Slattery left DelSordo after the two-mile mark as usual and had an
80-yard margin at the finish. It was obviously not an all-out effort in the
cold weather; that will awit the AG and Footlocker races. Cary Snyder of
Demarest, in his first outing at Holmdel this year, took the third from
Smith with Kian Messkoub and Justin Frenzel claimed the next two places for
Morristown.
        The Colonials seemed to have things wrapped up when junior Scott
McCaffery placed 12th, but then had to sweat out the 5th man. It was still
a comfortable margin over Ocean Twp, 87-122, with Demarest claiming the
third AG slot at 124. 

        T: 1-Morristown 87. 2-Ocean Twp 122. 3-Demarest 124. 4-Hightstown
133. 5-Delsea 178. 6-Mount Olive 194. 7-Toms River South 226. 8-Cranford
231. 9-Ramapo 237. 10-Mainland 257. 
        Ind: 1-Steve Slattery, Mt. Olive 16:03. 2-Tom DelSordo, Moristown
16:19. 3-Cary Snyder, Demarest 16;38. 4-Ryan Smith, Hightstown 16:42.
5-Kian Messkoub, Morristown 16;45. 6-Justin Frenzel, Morristown 16:48.
7-Steve Preite, Delsea 16:54. 8-Andres Cordero, Passaic Valley 16:57.
9-Nate Sisco, North Hunterdon 17:10. 10-Tim Styler, Cranford 17:11. 11-Rob
Wilson, Ocean Twp 17:12. 12-Scott McCaffery, Morristown 17:12. 13-Brian
Boyett, Parsippany Hills 17:15 (One of 10 best frosh times ever at
Holmdel). 14-Craig Giammona, Demarest 17;16. 15-Mike Sikorski, Jefferson
Twp 17:17. 16-Lou Raffetto, Ocean Twp 17:19. 17-John Garton, Cumberland
17:31. 18-Ted Mussano, Wayne Valley 17:33. 19-Artie Andreano, Garfield
17:36. 20-Seth Holland, High Point 17;36.

                                Group II
        This was to be a two-man race between Han and Ricky Gibson of team
winner Ridge, but Han made it a runaway, finishing 150 yards ahead. Junior
ray Tomczuk of Delran got the 3rd in a Burlington Cty battle with Bill
Mason of Cinnaminson.
        The team battle was closer than expected. A young Morrie Hills team
(led by three sophomores), got within three points of the all-senior Ridge
team, 89-92. 

        T: 1-Ridge 89. 2-Morris Hills 92. 3-Westwood 162. 4-Allentown 186.
5-Somerville 188. 6-Delran 204. 7-Raritan 107. 8-Rutherford 263. 9-Dover
265. 10-Glen Rock 269.
        1-Ian Hahn, Manchester 16:25. 2-Ricky Gibson, Ridge 16:54. 3-Ray
Tomczuk, Delran 17:04. 4-Bill Mason, Cinnaminson 17:06. 5-Matt Caporaletti,
Westwood 17;12. 6-John Mackey, Morris Hills 17;14. 7-Dave Finneran,
Rutherford 17:14. 8-Helder Santo, Clark 17:18. 9-Quentin Dunn, Ridge 17:19.
10-Dave Lovenberg, Morris Hills 17:24. 11-Jason Griscom, Kingsway 17:29.
12-Mark Bahnuk, Hackettstown 17:30. 13-Gilbert Hawkins, Leonia 17;35.
14-Steve Roman, Monroe 17:37. 15-Kris Miller, Delran 17:37. 16-Matt Kuiken,
Glen Rock 17:41. 17-Peter Sorge, Ridge 17;42. 18-Rohan Meredith, Neptune
17;42. 19-Gregory Whitescarver, Hopatcong 17:48. 20-Dan Yucis, Pennsville
17;49.

                        Group I
        This was a rematch of the 1996 individual race, but it came out
differently. This time, it was junior Brian Saliter of Whippany Park, a
lanky basketball player, who was over the line first in 16:48 with Mike
Fulton of Maple Shade 2nd and defender Jeff Clark of Bogota 3rd.
        Fulton got his satisfaction out of the team race which Maple Shade
won easily from Haddonfield, 98-128. Bernards took the 3rd qualifying spot,
just one poiht behind Haddonfield. None of these teams are a threat in the
AG race.
        T: 1-Maple Shade 98. 2-Haddonfield 128. 3-Bernards 129. 4-Keansburg
135. 5-Haddon twp 150. 6-Montgomery 154. 7-Whippany Park 197. 8-Metuchen
202. 9-Palisades Park 232. 10-Henry Hudson 251. 
        Ind: 1-Brian Saliter, Whippany Park 16;48. 2-Mike Fulton, Maple
Shade 16:55. 3-Jeff Clark, Bogota 17:19. 4-Brad Becker, Spotswood 17:22.
5-Shaun Bolger, Henry Hudson 17:25. 6-Joao Neves, Bound Brook 17:40.
7-Peter Leighton, Bogota 17;42. 8-Edwin Lora, Newark Arts 17;45. 9-Aaron
Winkelspecht, Riverside 17:48. 10-Ray Carter, Burlington Twp 17:49. 11-Ron
Gerhold, Emerson Boro 17:51. 12-Josh Vanderwiele. Midland Park 17:52.
13-Jeff Visco, Montgomery 17:53. 14-Derrin Smith, Bernards 17:54. 15-Tom
Brennan, Haddonfield 17;54. 16-Matt Lannin, Ridgefield 17:57. 17-Tom Grone,
Maple Shade 17:57. 18-Pat Shannon, Montgomery 17;58. 19-Frank Rivera,
Betcon 17:58. 20-Robert Butterick, Clayton 18:01.

                        Parochial A
        Day had been outrun a week earlier by Bill Hoffman of CBA at the
NJCTC meet. This time, Hoffman was not even his team's top man and Day ran
away from Austin O'Reilly of Msgr. Donogan by 35 yards. Third went to Todd
Henderson of Notre Dame with junior Geoff Fahey leading CBA in 4th and all
five of the Colts in the top 10.
        The team interest was strictly on who would get the other three AG
qualifying slots (The wiuld card was conceded to this group before the meet
even began). Don Bosco, which had rested its regulars at the NJCTC meet,
outran Paul VI for 2nd, 103-108, and St. Joseph's of Metuchen edged
Delbarton for the crusual 4th spot, 137-143.

        T: 1-CBA 36. 2-Don Bosco 103. 3-Paul VI 108. 4-St. Joseph Met. 137.
5-Delbarton 143. 6-Pope John 188. 7-Notre Dame 223. 8-St. Joseph MNontvale
254. 9-Paramus Catholic 292. 10-St. Peter's 297.
        Ind: 1-Matt Day, Pope John 16:25. 2-Austin O'Reilly, Msgr. Donovan
16:32. 3-Todd Henderson, Notre Dame 16;41. 4-Geoff Fahey, CBA 16:44. 5-Tom
Cresong, Paul VI 16;49. 6-Brian Hoffman, CBA 16:53. 7-Bill Hofman, CBA
16:57. 8-Jim Steinemann, Delbarton 16;59. 9-Andrew Filachek, CBA 17:01.
10-Dan Connolly, CBA 17:06. 11-Dan Contreras, Don Bosco 17:08. 12-Corey
Kunz, St. Joseph Montvale 17;08. 13-Michael McGowan, Bishop Eustace 17:13.
14-Paul Skolarczyk, St. Joseph Met 17:13. 15-Brian Kerwin, CBA 17:19.
16-Ray Driscoll, St. Joseph Met 17:19. 17-Joe Poliseo, Don Bosco 17:20.
18-John Gettngs, Paul VI 17:22. 19-Kyle Witkowski, St. Peter's 17:24.
20-Greg Holz, Bergen Catholic 17:28.

                        Parochial B
        Thanks to a number of factors (new association members, a different
system of deciding who is A and who is B, this race is now something like
the old C division which was abandoned almost 20 years ago. But it makes
for good team competition with four teams finishing within 15 points here.
Mater Dei, which had kept pretty much to Shore races all year, opped up as
the surprise winner, 63-66, over Wildwood Catholic with Pingry taking 3rd
from Oratory, 69-77.
        The individual race was a good one with Tim Callinan of Sacred
Heart defeating defender Rob Dobson of Mater Dei by 30 yards in 16:58.
(Sacred Heart also had 1996 runner-up Kevin Sacco 7th, but did not field a
team.) Jutsin Manly and Andy Gruel went 3-4 to give Pingry its winning edge
over Oratory.
                
                        Parochial B
        T-Mater Dei 63. 2-Wildwood Catholic 66. 3-Pingry 69. 4-Oratory 69.
5-Immaculate Conception 161. 6-Union Catholic 186. 7-St. Augustine's 202.
8-McCorristin 208. 9-Eastern Christian 241. 10-St. James 258.
        Ind: 1-Tim Callinan, Sacred Heart 16:58. 2-Rob Dobson 17;04.
3-Justin Manly, Pingry 17:22. 4-Andrew Gruel, Pingry 17:22. 5-Jamal
Nisbett, Immaculate Conception 17:35. 6-Tim Dwyer, Wildwood Catholic 17:40.
7-Kevin Sacco, Sacred Heart 17:56. 8-Dave Cruz, Oratory 17;56. 9-Ryan
Shrader, Pingry 18:07. 10-Jason Frank, Union Catholic 18:10. 11-Dan Cruz,
Oratory 18;11. 12-Brendan Sciarra, Wildwood Catholic 18:12. 13-Dario Kelly,
St. James 18:15. 14-Keith D'Ambrosio, Mater dei 18:16. 15-Mike Delaney,
Wildwood Catholic 18:16. 16-Brian Delaney, Wildwood Catholic 18:27. 17-Jeff
Caprio, Mater dei 18:28. 18-Dan Colby, Immaculate Conception 18;32.
19-Billy Anstadt, Mater Dei 18:34. 20-Shaun Doherty , Mater dei 18:38.

                                                Ed Grant