January 10, 2006

Mass. Milers (early January)

Prior to last weekend, David Polgar had the fastest HS mile time in the nation. Unfortunately, injury kept him out of the Hispanic Games at the NYC Armory on Saturday, and SIX runners bested Polgar's time. Here are the top six from that race:


1* Brian Rhodes-Devey 4:13.19* Guilderland
2 Greg Kiley 4:15.12 Saratoga Springs
3 Charles White 4:16.02 Garden City
4 Alex Bean 4:16.32 Somers
5 Steve Murdok 4.16.83 Saratoga Springs
6 Greg Kelsey 4:17.59 Saratoga Springs


And here's a link to video of the race.

Meanwhile, at the Dartmouth relays, two other runners ran faster than Polgar's time, including Massachusetts junior Mark Amirault, who ran 4:15.68 to take the State lead. Remember, that's on a flat track, not banked. Back in 4th was Lexington senior Willi Ballenthin, who ran 4:22.93.

And then yesterday, Catholic Memorial junior Matt Dewey ran a 4:23.52 all alone to win his heat by about twenty seconds. That makes four Massachusetts milers at 4:24 or better. Add Sam Horn (4:27), Kevin Gill, and probably some other guys from Western Mass (Steve Czupryna?) and it's looking like a fast year.

I notice that the Massachusetts "Top 50" lists have not been updated yet... so many new marks to add...

Link to Top 50 lists home page

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a memory of someone saying Czupryna plays b-balls Tom Mayell-styles not 100% sure though. One question: Why does the Armory happen to have a British play by play announcer?
-Noah

Anonymous said...

I've heard that the 7th place finisher at the Hispanic Games also had a faster time that mine by a few tenths or hundredths of a second. %$#^$&@#!!

Anonymous said...

Polgar is in the clear
B-Mile 4:13.19 Rhodes-Devey, Brian, 2007, Guilderland NY 1/7/2006, Hispanic Games NY, # 1 NY Armory
B-Mile 4:15.12 Kiley, Greg, 2006, Saratoga NY 1/7/2006, Hispanic Games NY, # 2 NY Armory
B-Mile 4:15.45 McManamon, Dan, 2006, Shenendehowa NY 1/7/2006, Dartmouth - HS NH, # 1
B-Mile 4:15.68 Amirault, Mark, 2007, Xaverian MA 1/7/2006, Dartmouth - HS NH, # 2
B-Mile 4:16.02 White, Charles, 2008, Garden City NY 1/7/2006, Hispanic Games NY, # 3 NY Armory
B-Mile 4:16.32 Bean, Alex, 2006, Somers NY 1/7/2006, Hispanic Games NY, # 4 NY Armory
B-Mile 4:16.83 Murdock, Steve, 2007, Saratoga NY 1/7/2006, Hispanic Games NY, # 5 NY Armory
B-Mile 4:17.59 Kelsey, Greg, 2006, Saratoga Springs NY 1/7/2006, Hispanic Games NY, # 6 NY Armory
B-Mile 4:17.83 Polgar, David, 2006, Newton North MA 12/24/2005, BU All Comers MA, # Boston U.
B-Mile 4:18.82 Williams, Byron, 2006, Ridgewood NJ 1/7/2006, Hispanic Games NY, # 7 NY Armory