
By Christopher Hunt
photos by Robin White
BEAR MOUNTAIN – When Warwick Valley huddled by a fence just beyond the finish line at Bear Mountain, it didn’t quite look like a team that had just secured its second consecutive county title. They looked more like a hungry squad that just savaged one meal and is already licking their chops for the next one.
“We told them it’s a new season,” Warwick coach Mike Potter said after is team put 5 runners in the top 10 spots for 23 points to win at the OCIAA championships Friday.
It was Warwick’s best performance this season, even without its injured fourth man Grant Parrelli, who Potter kept out as a precautionary measure. Potter said Parrelli would return next Friday for the Section 9 championships. But the team’s 25-second compression through its top fo...