Photos and Story John Nepolitan of DyeStat 

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Each year before the start of the New York state qualifying meets and the NJ state sectional championships teams have gathered at Warwick High in the New York Hudson Valley looking to post fast times in the 4x800, 4x100 and 4x400 relays.

This year’s event had to move down Route 17 to Monroe-Woodbury HS because of construction at Warwick, but this did not hurt performances.

In the boys 4x800m after a 2:00 opening leg Monroe-Woodbury sat in fourth place, but a 1:58.4 second leg got the Crusaders into the lead.  After a third leg of 1:56.0, Collin Gilstrap, who anchored Monroe to a win in the 4xMile at the Nike Indoor Nationals split 1:55.2 to bring the host school home in a new New York-leading time of 7:50.22.  Monsignor Farrell (NY) and Hunter College (NY) also dipped under 8:00 running 7:56.62 and 7:59.26.

In the girls 4x800, a fast lead off by Maddie Moroney (2:17.6) gave Pearl River NY a lead it would not give up winning in a new No. 9 time in New York, 9:32.36.

Bronxville NY got its first win of the evening taking the girls 4x100 in a NY#5 time of 48.73.  Then the Broncos returned and lowered their season best to 4:02.04 in the 4x400, the #11 time in New York.

It took Fordham Prep NY two hours to make the trip north from the Bronx and the group made it count by taking both sprint relays.  First the Rams claimed the 4x100 relay in 42.98 for the No. 7 time in NY in 2023 and then they lowered their NY #2 time under 3:20 with a 3:19.09 win.

Kyra Skoglund of Suffern NY and Ella Michelitch of Minisink Valley NY both cleared 5-6 in the girls high jump, with Skoglund getting the win and a share of NY#2.

Lily Beattie of Warwick cleared 12-1 to win the girls pole vault. 

Carly Sarosjky from Pope John XXIII NJ won the girls shot put with a best of 35-4 with her teammate Sean Line winning the boys event with a throw of 48-6.50 to win by more than six feet.