Rams & Lady Rams T&F team records 6 PRs in Westchester County Championship races
May 22, 2024 at 10:30 p.m.
Their times weren't anything to write home about, but then the Port Chester Track & Field team wasn't looking to write any letters, book reports or term papers.
They were looking to author an impressive series of final chapters to their end-of-season high school careers.
And they did just that with six different individual and relay team personal records (PRs) and solid if not spectacular times over various distances in the Westchester County Championships last Friday and Saturday (5/17/18) at Hen Hud and Yorktown.
The PRs included:
*Chenoa Marquez and Mayerlin Torres hit the 3,000-meter finish line in 13:06.39 and 13:39 respectively in the metric equivalent of a 2-mile run.
*Juliana Castillo, Casey Schultz, Mia Pagnotta and Liz (Elle) Cruz hit 52:96 in the 4x100-meter relay.
*The 4x400-meter relay team raced to a time of 4:31.97 running with a quartet that included Alexa Aguiriano, the sister act of Alexandra (Alee) and Liz (Elle) Cruz, each runner striding through the metric equivalent of a quarter mile.
*The Rams 4x400-meter relay ran 3:54.71 with their metric quarter milers including John DelCid, Ramaul Morgan, Santiago Marquez and Anderson Duran.
*Jonathan Abraham strode through the 3200-meter run in 11:16.03, meaning he ran the equivalent of roughly two 5:08 miles back to back while circling the quarter mile track eight times.
Santiago Marquez (second in line) starts the 800-meter race strong at the Westchester County Championships at Yorktown High School Saturday, May 18.By Lennon Anderson
Other noteworthy times included the Rams’ Marc Dorsainvil and Cristian Montenegro sprinting the 100 meters in 11:6 and 12:68 respectively, Duran and Morgan racing 200 meters in 23:43 and 24:02, Marquez pulling an Iron Man double by clocking 2:10.96 and 4:52.25 for the 800- and 1600-meter runs (the metric equivalent of a half-mile and one-mile middle distance run) and Christopher Zamora finishing his 1600 meters in 5:34:09.
And potentially the Rams’ fastest relay messed up the stick pass on the second leg resulting in a disqualification for a team of the school's best sprinters in Delcid, Duran, Morgan and Jaycee Rodriguez.
The Lady Rams stepped up their pace with Andrea Barajas hitting 14:99 in the 100 meters, Liz Cruz and Schultz clocking 27:19 and 28:19 for the 200, Pagnotta and Elle Cruz finishing within a fraction of a second in the 400 meters in 1:04.70 and 1:04.81 while Alee Cruz and Barajas weren't far behind in 1:11.72 and 1:12.27. And Castillo soared to 14:6.75 in the long jump.
Out of all those times, Dorsainvil, one of the Rams’ leading football running backs, and Morgan, the All-Section soccer player, turned in the team's best performances along with Duran, perhaps the Rams’ best pure sprinter going up the ladder from the 100 to 200 to 400.
While the overall team times showed continued improvement, they still don't quite measure up to the area's best even as they keep getting better.
Head Ram coach Greg Domestico, Lady Rams top honcho Danny Alvarado and their veteran sidekick Nick Mancuso expect even more PRs, peak times, strong individual efforts and still more improvement in the T&F team's next meet, the Class AA Championships Saturday (5/25) at Arlington at 9 a.m. And as the season's meets dwindle down to a precious few, who knows—there may even be a lot more noteworthily fast times worthy of writing about.
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