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Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009: Cuffe, F-M girls score big at Manhattan Invitational

Leading off today: Cornwall junior Aisling Cuffe scored big in the girls Eastern States Championship yesterday at the Manhattan Invitational, winning in 14 minutes, 03.3 seconds over 2.5 miles.

Cuffe broke away from Hannah Luber and Courtney Chapman of Fayetteville-Manlius over the final mile to produces the No. 4 girls performance in the 37-year history of the meet at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Cuffe was the Varsity C winner in 2008 in a relatively pedestrian 14:36.9.

Fifteen competitors went sub-15 minutes in the Eastern States race.

The team title went to F-M. The three-time defending Nike Cross National champions put four runners in the top five and absorbed just 22 points for their third straight Eastern States win. The Hornets averaged 14:35.5 to break Saratoga's 2004 course record of 14:39.8. F-M's Luber was second to Cuffe in 14:26.2 and Chapman nailed down third in 14:26.8.

Saratoga (80) was second, Queensbury (111) third and Monroe-Woodbury (140) fifth.

In other team races, Liverpool won the Varsity A, Shenendehowa took C and North Rockland won D. Megan Young of Nanuet and Laura Leff of West Genesee took individual honors in the B and E races, respectively.

New York boys squads took six class championships: West Genesee (A), Shenendehowa (B), North Rockland (C), Sachem East (D), Baldwinsville (E) and Shaker (G). Individually, Brandon Freyer (Pawling, B), Nick Hughes (North Rockland, C) and Alex Saavedra (Sachem East, D) raced to first-place finishes.

The boys Eastern States Championship team title went to CBA from New Jersey (116), just ahead of Fayetteville-Manlius (125). Liverpool (192) was fifth. Jonathan Vitez of Haddonfield, N.J., was the top finisher in 12:25.6. F-M's Alex Hatz, running in his first weekend meet after late-summer surgery, was 54th in 13:28.8.

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Boys soccer scoring prodigy: S.S. Seward senior Ryan Chevrier scored three goals Friday during a 10-0 rout of Chester, raising his season title to 42 goals through 12 games for the state's top-ranked Class C team.

With four regular-season games and perhaps seven in the postseason, he has an outside shot at the single-season NYSPHSAA mark of 62 by Akron's Andrew Tiedt two seasons ago. Brian Perry (Manlius-Pebble Hill, 2001) and Andy Wright (Wilson, 1994) are tied for second with 56 goals, and Jeremy Harter set the school mark of 53 in 2007. Harter had a 49-goal season 2006.

More soccer: Aquinas sophomore Matt Englert scored with two seconds left as the Little Irish beat Buffalo St. Joseph's 1-0.

"Our keeper got hit by a defender and the ref decided there was no foul,” St. Joe's coach Mike Thoin told The Buffalo News. "After the goalie got whacked, the ball popped up and someone put it into the back side."

Freshman goalie Tyler Brew extended his shutout streak to 420 minutes in the win.

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