Published by the DAILY
RECORD of Morris County, New Jersey
On Sunday, October 8, 2017
LITTLE SILVER CHAMPIONSHIP ATTRACTED FAST WOMEN
Thirty-one women finished the Little Silver 5K this past
Sunday in under 20 minutes. The race was
the open women’s championship and that statistic tells it all. It was a resounding success.
The top three women finished in under 18 minutes; Shelby
Greany of Tuxedo Park NY in 17:11, Nicolette Mateescu of Kendall Park in 17:12
and Kristin Andrews of Manalapan in 17:27.
Those three finished in 6th, 7th and 8th
overall. The top runner was Kyle Price
of North Brunswick who finished in 15:23
Greany was on the first place team, the Adidas Garden State
Track Club A, and Andrews was on the third place Shore Athletic Club A
team. The Garden State club scored
second, fourth and fifth place team.
Thirteen teams finished the race including the local Morris
County Striders and the North Jersey Masters with their Do Run Runners, which
rely heavily on their masters age women and finished well down on the list of
teams.
NEW JERSEY MASTERS EXCEL AT THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Several New Jersey masters runners and teams competed at the
masters national championship at the Festival of Races 5K in Syracuse on Sunday
with outstanding performances by some.
Former Randolph resident and now from Rye Brook NY, Jonathan Frieder, 46
placed third overall with a time of 15:49.
His brother Elliott of Montville who is coming back after a long lay-off
placed fourth in the M45 division in 16:18.
Mark Williams formerly of Lake Hopatcong and now of Columbia
NJ finished fifth is his M40 division in 16:33. Williams was on the second
place M40 team and astonishing in such an elite field, the Garmin Runners
scored with 52-year-old Brian Crowley of Hillsborough and 54-year-old Peter
Kashulines of Mountain Lakes who finished in 17:23.
It gets better for New Jersey. The third place team was the Adidas Garden State
Track Club and their third scoring runner was 58-year-old Gary Leaman of
Hardwick. Thomas Knowles of Oakland lead
the team in with Chuck Schneekloth of Franklin next. Their times were 16:42 for Knowles, 17:01 for
Schneekloth, and 17:25 for Leaman.
In the M60 team
division, the Shore Athletic Club placed third with Reno Stirrat of Rockaway
leading them in with a time of 18:59.
The Shore club placed fourth in the M70 team division and
the Clifton Road Runners placed sixth.
That club has no man under age 75 and their top man, Tony Fiory, age 76,
placed second in his age division with his time of 25:26. The Bella N Motion W40 team placed sixth in
their division.
We’re not done yet and I may have saved the best for
last. Nora Cary of Morristown, now age
62, won her age division in 20:33 and hit 92.46 % PLP and was ranked fifth in
age grading. Cary’s name sticks out in
that file like a sore thumb. All the
other high-ranking women are well known in masters running, but Cary mostly
races close to home here in New Jersey.
In 2016 she finished this race in 20:30 where she was ranked sixth with
a 91:54% PLP.
It is a little hard to follow such an outstanding
performance but Madeline Bost of Randolph won her age division in 34:57. Others
who raced from this area include Roger Price of Randolph, Susan Stirrat and
Robert Skorupski both of Rockaway and Joel Garrell of Morristown.
Even the women’s masters winner has a connection to New
Jersey. Sascha Scott, 42, now of
Syracuse resided in New Brunswick a dozen or more years ago and was a member of
the Raritan Valley Road Runners where she was their top runner. She won the race in 17:50.
MILLIE’S RUN
Back here at home in Madison a large field turned out for
the Millie’s Pizza 10K on Sunday. Karl
O’Reilly of Morristown won the race in 35:07 with Gary Rosenberg, also of
Morristown second in 37:09. Victoria
Pontecoruo of Morristown was the women’s winner in 41:21
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