By Christopher Hunt
PAWLING – Shaker junior Mike Libruk said his team still thinks of themselves as underdogs. No national ranking – Shaker is ranked eighth -- could change that.
Shaker had never won a state title, not in any of coach Ed Springstead’s 53 years as coach. No one on the team had even raced at the state meet before. Jon Vallecorsa spent have the night pacing around the hotel room.
They had convinced themselves that they weren’t the team to beat.
The Bison have been untouchable this season, however, and they showed all the saavy of a team that’s been there before Saturday when they won the Class AA state championship at Lakeside Park with 58 points. Warwick Valley took second with 78 and Fayetteville-Manilus finished third with 80.
“This is probably the greatest feeling in the worl...
