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Scholastic Roundup: He was the dean of PSAL track and field

October 18, 2024 Andy Furman
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When the subject of high school track and field in the PSAL is mentioned, often the name Marty Lewis is discussed.
Lewis lived in Bay Ridge – before moving to Monroe Township. He served as assistant principal at South Shore High School where he taught and worked before retiring in 1993.

But it was track and field that Lewis will always be remembered – he passed in 2007 at the age of 80. He served as the PSAL’s Commissioner of Track and Cross Country for over 20 years. He coached city championship teams for the Vikings of South Shore, Boys High and Commerce High (Louis Brandeis.

He was often referred to as the Dean of PSAL Track and Field.
And that is why the PSAL conducted the Marty Lewis “Hurry Back” Cross Country Borough Challenge at Van Cortlandt Park, Saturday (October 5th). Some 724 PSAL student-athletes competed and team scoring was based on the top 10 finishers per Borough per-gender on the 3.1-meter course.
The Manhattan boys and girls captured the Borough team titles. The Manhattan borough boys’ team was led by the running of Rahael Ramoit, Stuyvesant (17:04). Naomi Douglas, Fiorello H. LaGuardia (19:14) paced the Manhattan girls to victory.

In the freshman 1.5-m races, Henry Buissell, John Jay Campus, led the boys’ field (9:08) and Milani Jackson, Susan Wagner (10:23) won the girls. The 5k times turned in by Alexander Jones, Brooklyn Tech (16:47) along with Gwyneth Shupp, Fiorello H. LaGuardia (20:27) were outstanding.

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The PSAL’s 18th Annual Junior/Senior Fall Softball Showcase, held this week at Randalls Island, Sunken Meadow Fields saw five Brooklyn juniors and 10 seniors at the event:

Marina Caldiero, James Madison, 2B
Audrey Curran, Midwood, 1B
Bella De Los Santos, John Jay Campus, C
Karina Martinez, Franklin D. Roosevelt, C
Ransely Rodriguez, Sunset Park High School, CF

The seniors:

Madison Drouet, James Madison, P
Melanea, Francisco, Sunset Park High School, SS
Arely Garcia Lozada, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2B
Julianna Huertas, James Madison, 3B
Paige Kuhner, Edward R. Murrow High School, C
Dassiel Liriano Munoz, Sunset Park High School, 3B
Ivy Ostrander, Edward R. Murrow High School, P
Sofia Rioja, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2B
Mia Stewart, Abraham Lincoln High School, CF
Ariel Williams, Abraham Lincoln High School, 3B

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The twentieth Annual Junior Fall Showcase for the PSAL was also held this week at Maimonides Park, with 12 Brooklyn student-athlete baseball players attending: They are:

Joeb Amaro, Lafayette Educational Complex, RF
Elijah Clemente, Bushwick Campus, 2B
David Cruz, Fort Hamilton High School, RF
Patrick Devesin, Midwood High School, 3B
Bryan Francisquini, Lafayette Educational Complex, CF
Angel Garcia, Transit Tech CTE High School, SS
Rainiel Gonell Sanchez, George Westinghouse High School, 2B
Jenhseen Noam Morales Penna, Bushwick Campus, 3B
Jake Rapoport, Brooklyn Technical High School, P
Brandon Sanchez, Midwood High School, RF
Shrey Vertes, Brooklyn Technical High School, LF
Trey Young, John Jay Campus, 3B

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Long Island City was the host high school for the Boys Fencing Season opener last month. Fencers from Beacon, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, Francis Lewis, Frederick Douglas Academy, Hunter, Jamaica, John Jay, LaGuardia, Long Island City, McKee-Staten Island Tech, Robert F. Kennedy, Stuyvesant, and Townsend Harris competed in a three-round-robin pool with a first-round elimination to eighteen in three pools of six and an additional elimination to a final pool of six.

Thirty-seven foilists and forty-two epeeists competed to earn a top-six medal. Conrad Seib Levinson and Leo Covailler from Brooklyn Tech and Leon Ma from Beacon, Wang Xi Cheng from Francis Lewis Jesse Zhu from Stuyvesant went undefeated in the first-round.
Brian Wang, from Hunter College High School won the Foil event with Tech’s Levinson placing fourth in the Epee; Andy Ioan from Stuyvesant was the medalist.

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Fort Hamilton High’s football team will try to get back on the winning side of things when they face Stuyvesant Friday (Oct. 18th, 6 pm). The Fort dropped a 28-26 overtime heartbreaker to A. Phillip Randolph (5-1) last week to fall to 3-1. Sophomore Harold “Trey” Marshall’s 10-yard touchdown run in OT got the Fort within two – and his two-point conversion failed. Senior quarterback Aiden Farley went 12-for-27, 207 yards and two touchdowns. Sophomore receiver Aiden Porter had five receptions for 115 yards.

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Stonehill was the victim. After six tries, LIU’s football Sharks got their first win of the season, 31-7 over Stonehill. Quarterback and redshirt sophomore, Ethan Greenwood led the Sharks with 184 rushing yards and a touchdown. LIU hosts Robert Morris, Saturday (Oct. 19th) at noon.
The winning bug continued for the LIU men’s hockey team with a 3-2 win over Augustana, Saturday night. Riley Wallack, Sixten Jenners and Carter Rapalje all scored for the hockey Sharks. Daniel Duris stopped 21 shots in goal and earned his first win as a Shark.

In men’s soccer, Alan Martinez scored the go-ahead goal with less than a minute to play to give LIU a 2-1 win over FDU. The Sharks meet Howard, Sunday (Oct. 20th).

Stonehill’s women took it on the chin from the LIU women hockey Sharks, as Jeannie Wallner’s two-goal performance and Abbie Thompson’s 15-save shutout lifted the Sharks to its first win of the season, 2-0. The women host Assumption Friday (Oct. 18th) and Saturday (Oct. 19th) at the Northwell Health Ice Center, East Meadow.
LIU’s women’s field hockey team defeated Mercyhurst, 7-0, Sunday as Kiki Bruning led the way with three goals – she now has six on the season. They host St. Francis University, Friday (Oct. 18th).

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The Pratt Institute men’s tennis team cruised to a 6-1, non-conference triumph over Atlantic East Conference foe Marywood University Saturday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Mikah Liu dropped just one game on the afternoon. He teamed-up with Shrenik Mahaveer to win at love, 6-0, at No. 1 doubles and took a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 1 singles.

The Pratt women dropped just seven games in a convincing 7-0 defeat of FDU-Florham, before suffering their second loss of the season – a 6-1 setback by host Drew University in a pair of non-conference matches, Sunday.
The Cannoneers took the top-two doubles matches by a 6-1 margin with Kayla Abraham and Srishti Agarwal teaming-up in the lead match and Victoria Delgado and Siya Sawhney pairing-up in second doubles. In singles, Abraham nabbed an 8-2 win atop the lineup, while Agarwal, Sawhney, and Julie Ognibene both coasted to 8-1 triumphs in the No. 2, No. 3, and No. 5 positions. Delgado won her No. 4 singles match at love, 8-0.

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Bordeaux, France’s Victor Naci scored his ninth goal of the season as the St., Joseph’s Brooklyn, men’s soccer team, defeated Sarah Lawrence College, 2-0 Saturday night at Fleming Field, Yonkers. He scored both goals in the win.
The St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn women’s volleyball team continued their perfect start (4-0) in Skyline Conference play defeating SUNY College of Old Westbury, 3-1. Rachel Meltsin (James Madison High School) handed-out 27 assists and brought up 12 digs.

Jennifer Sarji, a St. Joseph’s University sophomore via Fontbonne Hall Academy and Brooklyn’s Danielle Bourne, a senior who graduated Christ the King High School helped the cross-country Bears of St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn to a third-place finish in the 6k at the Mount Saint Mary College Invitational last weekend. Sarji posted a time of 30:49.2 and Bourne was 32:07.1.
In the 8k, Tariq Belma, a senior from Bishop Loughlin High School placed 30th (38:39.6) and Joshua Gordon a St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn grad student, via Bishop Loughlin completed the course within an hour.

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The final word this week comes from Dan Lynch, Jr., former Baseball Coach at Brooklyn’s St. Francis College. “Congratulations to St. Francis on announcing that October 14th is Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day; not caving into the woke-lunatic-Gen Indigenous (minority btw) that demands that history and tradition be trashed to satisfy their narcissistic mental absurd.

Andy Furman is a Fox Sports Radio national talk show host. Previously, he was a scholastic sports columnist for the Brooklyn Eagle. He may be reached at: [email protected] ; Twitter: @AndyFurmanFSR





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