Sachem East boys track clinches league title

Credit Lisa Carroll
Credit Lisa Carroll

With this week’s 100 to 41 victory over Lindenhurst the Sachem East boys track team clinched the League II title with a perfect 5-0 season.

The victory was a follow-up to last week’s inspiring victory over previously undefeated and reigning League II Champion Northport.

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Credit Lisa Carroll

Northport is currently the number three ranked team on Long Island and the top ranked team in Suffolk County. Sachem East’s 85 to 56 victory over the Tigers gave the team a huge boost going into the meet against Lindenhurst.

This overall team effort was led by Trevor Guerrera, Drew Alfano,  Joe Battaglia, Tyler Stensland, Ryan Leone, Adam Dillon, Matt Patsy, Utsav Deshpande, Iram rahman, Jack Rodriguez and Spencer Lee.

This is the first League II boys track title for Sachem East.

Guerrea, Alfano and Stensland all went unbeaten in their League II events this  season as well.

The team travels to Monroe Woodbury this weekend before competing in the prestigious Loucks Games in White Plains the following week.  The team then settles in for the County Division ans Sate Qualifying meets the following week.

The 4 x 400 Realay team of Utsav Deshpande, Joe Battaglia, Ryan Leone and Trevor Guerrera smashed the school record in the event when they ran in front of 50,000 fans at the Penn Relays this past weekend.  Their time of 3:25.17 broke their own record by over three seconds.

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-Submitted by Sachem East coach John Horst