STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The St. Joseph by-the-Sea girls\u2019 track and field team had revenge on its minds after falling short in last year\u2019s CHSAA\/N.Y. Archdiocesan Championships. <\/p>\n
On Thursday night, at the recently re-scheduled NY\/BQ Sectional Championships at Ocean Breeze, a balanced Sea squad was able to upend defending champion Monsignor Scanlan of the Bronx.<\/p>\n
Sea won the team title for the third time in four years by scoring 65 points. <\/p>\n
Scanlan (55) and Notre Dame Academy (32) placed second and third overall. Moore Catholic (sixth, 12) and St. Joseph Hill (seventh, nine) rounded out the scoring from the Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thrilled with how the girls competed tonight; we had personal bests all over the place and ran three seasonal best times in the three relays while using 11 different kids,\u201d said Sea coach Chris Mancusi. \u201cWe pride ourselves on being able to cover the board and I think that was the key to victory.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the combined NY\/BQ city championship scoring, Bishop Loughlin emerged the winner by 2.5 points topping the Vikings, 48-45 1\/2.<\/p>\n
The Island was well represented with city championship wins from Sea\u2019s Keira Lavezzoli (high jump – 4\u2032-6), Eva Maira (triple jump -32\u2032-7.5) and Mariam Azer (pole vault – 8\u2032-0)<\/p>\n
Notre Dame\u2019s Shiloh Holman was a runaway winner in the 1,000, stopping the clock in 3:15.63<\/p>\n
Sea\u2019s Giuliana Collegio added a pair of silver medals in the 3,000 (10:59.75) and 1,500 (5:11.50)<\/p>\n
The Vikings 4×200 of Kaelyn Carroll, Isabella McCumiskey, Eva Maira and Abby Walz took third place, combining to run 1:51.47.<\/p>\n
NDA\u2019s Olivia Casas took second overall in the 55 hurdles (9.36) as did Jenna Zanelli in the shot put (28\u2032-4). Teammate Savanna Rice added a third-place medal in the 600 meters (1:42.91)<\/p>\n
St Joseph Hill\u2019s Kirsten Harper took second in the 55 meters (7.41)<\/p>\n
Boys AA City Championship Recap<\/p>\n
Viking senior Adam Vitale unleashed a dramatic kick to win the 1,000 meters in a personal best of 2:31.95 to take the gold. Three hours later, the senior took third in the 1,600 in yet another personal best (4:21.96).<\/p>\n
Teammate Jace Lawless took second (6.61) and Farrell\u2019s Kevin Gumb placed third (6.66) in the 55 meters.<\/p>\n
Viking junior Chris Perez just missed winning the 600 meters, losing at the tape settling for second place in 1:22.96. <\/p>\n
Sea\u2019s Jason Sarnciola was third in the 3,200 breaking a four-year school record with a time of 9:29.73. The previous record was held by Dylan Doskocil from 2022 (9:35.08). <\/p>\n
Sarnciola would later team with Perez, Michael Pira and Michael Scalfani to take second in the 4×800 (8:30.32).<\/p>\n
\u201cBetween the weather and not seeing the kids during midterms it\u2019s a tough time of the year but the boys really stepped up; I\u2019m hoping we are running our best in late February\/March,\u201d said Mancusi, who doubles as Sea\u2019s boys\u2019 coach. <\/p>\n
Farrell\u2019s 4×200 relay of Jimmy Martinez, Joseph Silvestro, Kevin Gumb and Gianni Pasqualone combined to run 1:33.43 for bronze medals. <\/p>\n
The Lion\u2019s Carlodella Ragione placed third in the shotput, throwing 41 feet, one and 1\/2 inch. <\/p>\n
Fordham Prep won the city title with 55.5 points. Sea led the Island teams with a fifth-place finish, scoring 27 points. Farrell scored 28 points for seventh overall. <\/p>\n
Boys A City Championship Recap<\/p>\n
Regis was a runaway winner in the team standings with 59 points. Locally, a tight battle was for second place with Moore Catholic (31 points) topping St. Peter\u2019s (29). The Eagles finished in third place overall.<\/p>\n
Moore scored in bunches in the three jumping events.<\/p>\n
Issiyah Joseph won his first city championship in the high jump (5\u2032-10) leading a Maverick 1-2-3 sweep. <\/p>\n
Darnell Hill (5\u2032-6) and Christopher Tabanasi (5\u2032-6) took second and third.<\/p>\n
Hill (2nd – 40\u2032-3) and Noah NyanKanzi (3rd – 40\u2032-3) earned medals in the triple jump. <\/p>\n
Joseph later added a silver in the long jump (19\u2032-4.75).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took third outdoors but we lost an all-timer in Gerald Green; these four guys really took it upon themselves to put in the extra work and its starting to show,\u201d said Mav head coach Jason Paderon.<\/p>\n
St. Peter\u2019s was paced by gold medalists Edward Cruz-Gomez (4:32.54) and Vincent Damato (35.60) in the 1,600 and 300 meters, respectively. <\/p>\n
Teammate Matthew Carrano added a silver medal in the 1,600 (4:36.68)<\/p>\n
The Eagles\u2019 4×400 relay of Daoud Nejumi, Jordan Lewis, Damato and Vincenzo Coppola ran a seasonal best time of 3:33.34 for the silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The St. Joseph by-the-Sea girls\u2019 track and field team had revenge on its minds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-119075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}