meters, which puts him in 4:10 or 4:15 range for the mile -- which means the rest of the state might be running for second come track season.
Reddad, 18, ran the Varsity 2 race in the Red Raider Run last week and completed five kilometers in 16 minutes, 58.65 seconds despite not having much of a training base this fall.
Staying power: Jim Hoover and Dave Kelly won't have to introduce themselves to each other Saturday at Delhi. It will be the 36th time that they have faced off as football head coaches of the schools that sit 16 miles apart on State Route 10.
Hoover took over the Walton program in 1976 and holds a 24-11 advantage over Delhi's Kelly. Walton is 4-0 and Delhi 3-1 this season.
Big numbers: Traffic on NewYorkSportswriters.org the last two Wednesdays has set all-time records (yesterday's page-view volume was a new high by 34.1 percent), which I attribute to the launch of rankings in cross country and soccer on top of football, which rolled out the previous week.
As always, thanks for your interest in scholastic sports and for stopping by here.
Hoops notes: Peekskill forward Mookie Jones is making five recruiting visits in five weekends beginning Friday: Marquette, DePaul Syracuse, Rutgers and St. John's.
Lincoln junior Lance Stephenson is consistently listing Georgetown, Indiana, Louisville, Memphis, North Carolina, St. John's, Seton Hall and West Virginia as top contenders for his services beginning in 2009.
Extra points: The Post-Standard did a fun story Tuesday on Syracuse Corcoran cross country coach John "Motor" Hohm, who earned his bus drivers' license and now transports his team to weekday meets himself rather than rely on inconsistent service. . . . Kingston's field hockey team has yet to allow a goal this fall through eight games, all wins. . . . Vestal may have dodged a fiscal bullet as the cause of the leak in its high school pool was traced to caulking that has since been replaced.
