Kal Lewis Wins
Kal Lewis, a Shelter Island senior, won the state qualifier 1,600-meter race at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Feb. 10 in 4 minutes and 24.87 seconds. The runner-up was almost four seconds behind him.
Interviewed during halftime of Friday’s county Class D boys basketball championship game between Smithtown Christian and Shelter Island here, Lewis said he had led wire to wire, and was looking forward to the Federation-style state meet, open to public, private, and parochial school competitors — two, he said, from each section — that is to be contested on Staten Island on Saturday, March 7.
Lewis qualified for the states last year, as well, but did not have a great day owing to a nagging respiratory problem of which he is now free. Lewis will run spring track for Toby Green’s Shelter Island team, and has received a partial athletic scholarship from the University of Iowa.
Coach Cuesta Replies
Yani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls winter and spring track teams, said this week that while the 27.42 time run by Allura Leggard in the Marine Corps Holiday Classic’s 200-meter dash on Dec. 29, 2015, “can count as a personal record for her, it is not a school record” inasmuch as “it was not a school-sanctioned event.”
Thus, as originally reported in the Jan. 30 issue, the 27.74 that Lillie Minskoff ran at the recent Ocean Breeze invitational meet that the team attended stands as the school indoor 200 record, Cuesta said.
Football Petition Okayed
East Hampton High School’s request that Section XI, the governing body for public high school sports in Suffolk County, allow East Hampton’s varsity football team to play next fall in Division IV, provided it forgoes the playoffs, has been approved, Joe Vas, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, said this week.