Bronxville breaks 9 min at Fast Times, Mosley leads Middletown

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By Christopher Hunt


WARWICK – Mary Cain crossed the finish line and walked over to her teammates. One was stuck in a curious smile, another just staring at her shaking her head in something near disbelief. Even after all the Bronxville freshman has done this season, she still shocks even her teammates.


Cain’s 2:05.2 anchor leg led the Broncos to the nation’s second-fastest time this season in the 4x800 relay, winning in 8:59.38 at the Warwick Fast Times Relays Tuesday night. Even Cain couldn’t quite take it in.


“The number kind of freaks me out,” Cain said of own anchor split. “It’s like, I know I can do it, but to cross the line and hear 2:05, I’m thinking, ‘That’s fast.’ That doesn’t really make sense.”


Cain already broke the state 1,500-meter record this season (4:23.1) and holds the third-ranked time in the country in the 800 (2:06.44). This time all the freshman superstar needed to do was punctuate the work her teammates did. Meredith Rizzo (2:11.5) ...