Cadets finish perfect season on the track in the Big 10

La Salle Institute senior Tyler Washington makes a leap during his triple jump at the Big 10 Conference Track and Field championships at Albany High School Monday afternoon. The Cadets held off Albany High for the team title. (Photos by Tom Killips - The Record).

A week ago, the La Salle Institute track team put on a dramatic show against Albany High, nipping the Falcons by a fraction of a second to post a perfect regular season in the Big 10 Conference.

Monday, the Cadets made the season even more perfect by defeating all of their competition in the Big 10 track and field championships, again at Albany High and again with the Falcons finishing second.

The Cadets used a balanced attack, winning five events, to beat Albany by a score of 127 to 121 and complete a perfect league season. An upstart Troy High team took third place with 109 points.

Cornell-bound Denis Hurley captured the 1600 and 3200 meter runs and Tyler Washington won the 400 meter intermediate hurdles and triple jump.

James Doran added a victory in the 800 meters - not a typical event for him - as the Cadets finished the season 9-0 in Big 10 competition.

Albany High School's Jaah-mel Arrington pulls away to win the 100 meter race Monday at the Big 10 track and field championships at Albany High.

Albany dominated in the sprinting events, winning the 100 meter dash, the 200 meter dash the 110 hurdles and the 4x100 relay.

Troy won the 4x800 and 4x400 relays and also saw Travon Jackson capture first place in the long jump.

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Our Ryan Kircher was there covering the meet, so be sure to check out his story in Tuesday's edition of The Record. He'll also have a feature story on La Salle's Tyler Washington in Friday's paper, part of our weekly track and field series.

Albany's Dashawn Gates clears one of the hurdles in the 110 meter event at Albany High Monday afternoon. Gates finished first in a time of 14.7 seconds.

Big 10 Conference boys track and field Championships

Team scores: 1. La Salle (127), 2. Albany (121), 3. Troy (109), 4. Amsterdam and Bishop Gibbons (54). 6. Schenectady and Bishop Maginn (35), 8. CBA (24). 9. CCHS (14).
Individual results: 4x800—Troy (Blaauboer, Rolfe, Schlegle, Talbi) 8:33.1. 110HH—Gates
(Albany) 14.7. 100M—Arrington (Albany) 10.9. 1600M—Hurley (LSI) 4:39.0. 4x100—Albany
(Gates, Murrell, Joseph, Thompson) 44.2. 400M—Pitts (BG) 51.6. 400IH—Washington (LSI)
57.6. 800M—Doran (LSI) 2:01.5. 200M—Arrington (Albany) 22.5. 3200M—Hurley (LSI)
9:58.6. 4x400—Troy (Jackson, Phillips, Canzeri, Blaauboer) 3:30.1. Pentathalon—Laccetti
(Albany) 2,660. Steeple—Knapick (BG) 10:19.5. Long jump—Jackson (Troy) 19-8.75. Triple
jump—Washington (LSI) Shot put—Skervin (Albany) 42-4. Discus—Danburg (CCHS) 118-5.
High jump—Phillips (Troy) 5-10. Pole vault—Schettino (Albany) 12-0.

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