PSAL, AIS, CHSAA, and MMAA Championships Wrap-up

Between November 7th Marathon Sunday and the following Saturday, the three NYC-area leagues and the MMAA Buffalo area league held their championships. The team results ranged from easy wins to one tie-breaker.

CHSAA Championships

Unlike what occurred in past years with seismic shockers rippling through the CHSAA results, this year there weren't really any huge surprises. The well-behaved boys' squads finished in the exact 1st through 7th projected places, and Fordham Prep rebounded from some disappointments the last two years to claim its first title in 62 years and third overall by a close 43-49 score over Xavier. The Rams got a sweep of the titles as Myles Hogan repeated his win from last year to give FP its fourth individual crown in seven years joining Niall Sullivan in 2019 and Conor Lundy in 2015.

The girls were a little more disorderly from their projected order, but Saint Anthony's repeated comfortably as expected, Sacred Heart came up for 2nd, St. Francis Prep captured 3rd after not fielding a team at the championship last year during the heightened pandemic times, and Notre Dame - Manhattan beat out its Staten Island namesake NDA by 1 point who beat their SI rival St. Joseph Hill also by 1 point. NDA took three of the top four spots while still finishing back in 6th, and the Gators were led by Lola Dinneen's 9-second win over St. Joseph Hill's Ava Gumb. 2020 runner-up Dinneen got the trophy that her high-flying older sister Sierra never quite managed to capture despite four top-4 finishes from 2016 to 2019.

MMAA Championships

The MMAA championship of the Buffalo region was held on November 3rd in East Aurora. The 2019 runners-up on both sides claimed the team titles, as St. Francis won for the boys fairly easily and Sacred Heart beat out defending champ Nardin by a closer score on the girls' side. Gabriela Siren of Nichols repeated her triumph as a sophomore two years ago, and Joseph Pivarunas of St. Francis came up from a 17th place two years ago to help his team get the sweep of crowns for the guys.

NYSAIS Championships

The NYSAIS held its championship of the afternoon of Marathon Sunday on November 7th at Van Cortlandt Park. Collegiate surprised Trinity and won its first title in six years, one back then that capped off a streak of 19 straight wins. Trinity took the top two spots behind Nikhil DeNatale and Ronan Luff and is also moving on to the Federation with the league's newly won second berth..

Dalton captured its first NYSAIS title on the girls' and got a sweep of the crowns as sophomore Naomi Gomel came in 1st. Convent of the Sacred Heart is also on to Feds for the first time since 2017 as it captured the 2nd-place ticket.

PSAL Championships

The PSAL held its championship of the morning of Marathon Sunday on November 7th at Van Cortlandt Park. In the closest of all the races in the NYC-area leagues, Brooklyn Tech got the tie-breaker over Susan Wagner after a 71-71 deadlock to win its first title in seven years. John Jay's Nate Boutin of John Jay led the runners with a very fast 16:07 time.

On the girls' side, Brooklyn Tech got a sweep of the team titles as the Engineers girls defended their 2019 title convincingly over 2nd-place Stuyvesant, whose top runner Isabella Stenhouse scored a 52-second win over BTech's Farah Osman for the individual Crown.