After a few off weeks and sub par races the Somers Tuskers rebounded with a great effort to place 3rd at the Section 1 Championships with 83 points. Brewster won the race with 49.
Senior Robert Gorecki, who as struggling through a tough senior campaign, ran his best race ever to place 9th and miss qualifying for the state championships by 4 seconds. Gorecki ran 16:55 and still has to sit home next weekend. Last year 17:30 qualified and this year 17:05 qualified in Class AA. It was just one of those years.
Gorecki moved past All-State runner Niko Viglione into 2nd place on the Somers All Time Bowdoin Park list. Viglione ran 16:56 at the NYS Federation Championships in 2004.
Amazingly the next four runners finished within 3 second2 of each other as Charles Conway, Albert Tunas, Frankie LiCursi and Scott Friedman all ran 17:37-17:40. David Sammel ran 17:46 and Isaac Shelby 17:51 to round out the squad. The team average of 17:30 in the 2nd best ever. The only team better was the 2004 NY State Championship team.
Sammel and Friedman are now the two fastest Somers sophomores of all time as they both ran faster than Gorecki's 17:49 from the 2007 championship team.
The JV team had a fantastic day as well as the Tuskers ran to a 3rd place finish out of every school in Section 1, only losing to the two biggest schools - North Rockland and Arlington. Senior Mike Rosillo turned in his best effort ever with an 18:24 time. He now ranks in the top 25 all time for Somers runners.
Freshman Justin Zorn contiued his fantastic season with an 18:34 time to place 10th. Mike Persic was 13th in 18:38 and Kai Crannel saved his best for last with his 17th place 18:47 effort. Ryan Matsumoto was the 5th man today gutting out a 19:07 good for 34th place in a race with over 350 runners. John Courtien ran 19:44 which was about the same time Friedman and Sammel ran here last year. Alex Fusco ran 20:12.
The JV team broke the Somers JV course average record.
