Red, Black & Gold Scoreboard: October 15

Sachem East Girls Tennis Update: Three girls from the team made the Division III Conference tournament Saturday. Second singles senior Briana Levine won two matches, earning her All-Division honors, and will being able to play on Monday at noon in the quarterfinals against Jenn Torsielo, the No. 1 seed from Bayport-Blue Point. In addition, East's first doubles team of Danielle Lehmann and Samantha May also won their first two matches, earning All-Division honors, and will be headed to Longwood to play in the quarterfinals of the doubles bracket against the second seeded team in the tournament, Molino and Falvey from Ward Melville. At first singles, Rebecca Stein won her first round match before losing to the sixth seed from Ward Melville. Second doubles team Victoria Coffara and Jenny Nussbaum played an excellent match but lost to a tough Miller Place team, while third doubles teammates Jenna Scarola and Alyssa Julien lost to Middle Country's second doubles team.

Sachem East Girls Cross Country Update: The Sachem East girls cross country team won the featured Northeast Championship race at the Brown University Invitational at Goddard Park on Saturday. Competing against a field that included Rhode Island State defending champs LaSalle Academy and defending Massachusetts State Champs Weymouth, the race eventually developed into a battle of Suffolk county powers as Sachem East edged Northport 75-82, with Barrington of Rhode Island close behind with 95 points.

Rachel Paul stayed in the lead pack throughout the race and led the team with her second place finish in 17:39. The tight pack of Shannon O'Hehir (19:07), Melanie Notarstefano (19:14), and Danielle Vazquez (19:15), placed 14th, 15th, and 16th, and just like last week at the Manhattan College Invitational final team placing would come down to the fifth scorer. And just like last week Kaitlin DeMartino came through by placing 47th in 20:32 to help Sachem East bring home the Championship Trophy.

Coach Jaimie Sison said that just after the 2010 Brown University the team set the goal to return in 2011 and earn a spot in the Championship race and maybe earn a spot on the podium.

"Im so proud of these girls" said Sison. "They have worked so hard and are such a great bunch of girls".

Nicole Silvestre (20:49), Sam Maurice (21:03), and Jada Allen (21:05), turned in very strong backup performances.

The seasons' excitement continues on Tuesday as Sachem East brings its undefeated dual meet record to Sunken Meadow to face also undefeated Ward Melville to determine the League 2 Championship. Melville has placed in the top 10 in the N.Y. State X-C Championships the past 3 years and matches up quite evenly with the Sachem East squad. Race start time should be 4:45 p.m.

Sachem North Boys Cross Country Update: One Saturday the Sachem North boys cross country team competed in the Brown University High School Cross Country Invitational in Rhode Island. Sachem was led by Colin Eberhardt's fourth place overall finish in the team's varsity race. He ran a time of 16:07 on the 5k course.  Other outstanding races were turned in by Mike LoSchiavo, Chris Penteck, Anthony Coccia, James Trofa and Greg Coleman.

Sachem North Girls Cross Country Update: Sachem North placed ninth in team scoring in their race at the Brown Northeast XC Championships behind junior Kelly Lavan’s career-best 5K time of 19:08. She was only one of eleven team members (out of the 12 competing at the meet) to run career-best times at the 5K distance. Sophomore Katie Michta was Sachem’s second finisher.  Katie was followed by eighth grader Mackenzie Coleman,  senior Becca Duffy and sophomore Dowon Hwang as top-five scorers for Sachem.  Junior Marysa Mullen was Sachem’s sixth-best finisher in the race.  

The JV squad was led by junior Jenn Weiss and sophomore Oriana Howell.  The tandem finished .5 seconds apart in the JV II race.  More importantly for Sachem Jenn and Oriana joined Sachem #2-6 Varsity runners as a strong pack finishing only 39 seconds apart.  A team goal is to keep this pack together in big post-season races.  Jenn and Oriana were joined by their three JV race teammates – senior Aprilrose Marasco, senior Caroline Schmidt and sophomore Monica Abrams in running career-best 5K times.