Leading off today: The S.S. Seward girls' soccer team defeated Millbrook, 3-0, yesterday to register its 13th consecutive shutout this season and 16th in a row overall.

   Alina Greiser, who has been in goal for every game, made three saves. Jillian Collova, Michelle Dugan and Vivien Greiser scored for Seward (13-0), the defending New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class C champion.    The last team to score on Seward was Solomon Schecter last Nov. 6 in a 2-1 loss in the pre-quarterfinals of the NYSPHSAA tournament.

   Halfway there: On the surface, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls had a close call yesterday at the Tully Invitational, winning the large-school race with 68 points to fend off Cicero-North Syracuse (79), Baldwinsville (87), Maine-Endwell (93) and Geneva (104).

Fayetteville-Manlius runners Row 1: Meaghan Anklin (sr.) and Kristen Buchan (sr.). Row 2: Alexandra Chapman (sr.) and Courtney Chapman (soph.). Row 3: Mackenzie Carter (jr.) and Molly Malone (jr.). Row 4: Colleen Mulvihill (jr.) and Katie Sischo (fr.)

   A closer look shows that the Hornets utilized only one of their eight top finishers from the previous weekend at the McQuaid Invitational, although they did get back Hannah Luber for a winning individual showing at Tully.

   Such is life at F-M, where the second string is good enough to defeat the NYSSWA's No. 12 Class AA team (C-NS), and Nos. 2 and 7 Class B squads (M-E and Geneva). With the Manhattan Invitational next weekend marking only the midpoint of the season and a brutal stretch of November races awaiting, coach Bill Aris is keeping the bigger picture in focus.

   "We race when we need to race and train when we need to train, but training is the primary goal," Aris said last week after a dominating win at McQuaid. "Racing at strategic points to test in the process of going for a championship season is what we do. It's an approach that some people ascribe to and others do not. We've done that every chance we've have when we've had teams of this level and it's worked very well for us."

   The average time of his five scorers at McQuaid was about eight seconds faster than a year ago, which is attention-getting in light of the fact that the 2007 F-M squad might just have been the finest ever assembled in New York -- or in any of the other 49 states for that matter. F-M scored its second consecutive sweep of the NYSPHSAA, Federation and Nike Team Nationals (since re-named to Nike Cross Nationals) and is favored to turn in another sweep this fall with a lineup that includes eight of last year's top nine performers.

   Still, he's inclined to look at it as going for one in a row, not three.

   "The past means nothing," Aris said. "We celebrate it when we accomplish something, enjoy it a little while, then put it in a box and put it on a shelf. Every year is brand new.

   "There's no assumption based on rankings or anything else. We have no delusions of grandeur by any means. Other teams improve, so whatever we may be ranked -- artificially so -- means nothing because other teams improve as well. If we have one clear path it's that, if we have the horses to do it, our goal is constant improvement and that's how we go about it."

   More from Tully: Fayetteville-Manlius won the boys' large-school race over Cicero-North Syracuse, 36-54, with Chris Buchanan of C-NS taking honors in 16:18.3. Canastota (73) won a good small-schools tussle with Marcellus (82), Tully (88) and Clinton (99). Chris Stogsdill of Marcellus was first in 15:59.9.

   Tully dominated the girls' small-school division. Allison Lasnicki of Canastota took honors in 19:07.1.

   Grout Run: Alex Leuchanka, a transfer from Warwick, won in 13:17.67 over 2.75 miles, teammate Dan Harris was second in 13:35.48 and Shenendehowa won convincingly in Schenectady's Central Park.

   "I was hoping to have five guys break 14 minutes and we had five guys at 13:50," Shen coach Mark Thompson said. "They exceeded my expectations today. Our first man ran incredibly well. A time of 13:18 is very, very good."

   After a third-place finish a year ago, Niskayuna's Chelsea Trant hit the tape first in the girls' Division I race in 16:14.15. Guilderland's girls won the Division I title.

   Southern Tier Invitational: East Aurora's boys and girls swept team honors at Allegany-Limestone.

   The girls, ranked first in the state in Class B, won the large-school race as Kristen Weberg (18:57), Catherine Phillips (18:59) and Megan Hulton locked down the top three spots. The boys won the medium-school race with four runners in the first 10.

   Lancaster's boys won large-school honors and Depew's girls edged Dansville, 52-53, for the medium- schools trophy.

   St. Anthony's Invitational: At Sunken Meadow State Park, Nick Hughes of North Rockland (16:43.80 in Varsity A-1) and Dave Dewan of Warwick Valley (16:40.79 in Varsity A-2) were among those scoring boys victories.

   North Rockland (33) topped St. Anthony's (57) and Scarsdale (77) among the large schools, and Dewan led a 32-40 win over Wantagh.

   Freshman Caroline O'Hea (19:38.48) of team champion Ward Melville and Ursuline senior Katie Sullivan (19:42.85) earned wins in the girls' larger races. Northport (48) topped Monroe-Woodbury (54) and North Rockland (72) in Varsity A-2.

   Brewster Bear Classic: Miriam Munn and eighth-grader Ariana Bottalico swept the top two spots and carried Brewster to the Varsity II championship. Mahopac's girls won Varsity I.

   In the boys Varsity I race, Mahopac's James McDonough and Joe Abed El Latif pulled off the 1-2 finish and Mahopac won by putting two others in the top 10. Byram Hills' Joe Violone and Chris Cioffoletti went 1-2 in the Varsity II race as the Bobcats edged Brewster by one point.

   Stock-Conwicke Invitational: Union-Endicott's boys and Vestal's girls scored victories. Will Mullen of Waverly took boys honors in 17:20 over five kilometers, and Sauquoit Valley's Sydney Williams set a girls course record of 19:33.

   Extra points: Amy Marron scored her 100th career goal with 12:10 left in regulation as Westlake downed Putnam Valley in soccer, 6-0. She had three goals for the day.

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