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Rockland -4-D8 Sunday, March 27 1994 Rockland Journal-News pac Vikings YZALL-COUNTYTT 7 xand coach rare honored 4 1 second-place finisher by a foot and a half. Dall has also been selected in the 55 high hurdles where he placed first (8.0) in the County meet. Senior Red Raider Armando Pabon took the top spot in the 600 (1:24.6) at the Section 1 Open, and placed seventh (1:24.81) at the state meet. Nyack senior Randy Fontanilla "won the shot-put event (48-11) at the state qualifying meet, while dpi fB Ryan Dall Randy Fontanilla Nyack Shot put Frank Gagliano Suffern 1,600 Eudson Francois Spring Valley Triple Jump By John Speight For the Rockland Journal-News As far as Ray Kondracki is "concerned, the monkey that's been "resting on the collective back of the Clarkstown South boys' indoor "track, team can now find a new i Kondracki, the Rockland Jour- All-County Coach of the had seen his squad finish "second in the Section 1 Class A "meet for four of, the last five "years, with the exception last year's fourth-place finish. This season witnessed a change, as the jninth-year coach led his club to its first-ever indoor Section Class A championship.

Seven Vikings are on the Rockland Journal-News boys' indoor track All-County team, with Peter Modafferi heading the list. The team was picked by the county track and field coaches. The junior captured third place in. nteteri'fyi? (3:34.50) at the; state" championship meet; Teammate Stefan Mascoll won the 300 run (37.1) at the Section 1 Open state qualifier, while senior Jaigobind placed fourth in the jumP (42-feet-2) at the Open, Adam Greitzer placed second in the 600 run (1:25.9) at the Adam Grattorar Clarkstown South 600 Carl Jaigobind Clarkstown South High jilnp Canales, Finnerty, Reilly launch RCC rally Patar Montana! Clarkstown North 55 Armando Pabon North Rockland 600 North Rockland Pole vault, 55 hurdles i Jim QaHiart Suffern 3,200 Patar Modafforl Clarkstown South 1,000, 1,600 relay Craig Rosanfald Clarkstown South 800 relay i PatColaman Albertus Magnus 3,200 relay n- Journal-News WEST POINT, N.Y. Starting its quest fOt a return trip to the Junior College World Rock- jland Community College coasted jkJW) yesterday's first victory over the Army junior varsity, then weated out its 5-4 victory to complete a doubleheader sweep i-pver its nononference opponent k- at Doubleday Field.

X- The first game saw RCC after two innings, Jcfighting Hawks fought back in the fourth inning, as Alex Canales and Finnerty each had RBI and Brian Reilly hit a single. Will Lowery's three-run triple ft All-County Boys' TVack Section 1 Open and 10th (1:25.77) at the state meet. The Clarkstown South 4 x200- meter relay team of juniors Craig Rosenfeld, Mascoll, Steve Spadac-cini and Chris DePaola took first-place honors (1:34.1) at the Suffern Invitational, while the 4x400 lay squad of Modafferi, Mascoll, Greitzer and Spadaccini finished second (3:34.6) at the Section 1 Open. Suffern senior standouts Jim Gerhart and Frank Gagliano are the Mountie representatives. Ger- 1 hart captured the second spot in the 3,200 (9:49.1) at the Section Open, while Gagliano won 'the 1,600 (4:27.1) at the same and placed fifth (4:28.69) at the Intersectional.

Pearl River senior Paul Rose-nkrantz long jumped to a second place finish (21-10) at the Section 1 Open, and finished third at the state meet (22-6). "frespitea hamslrihg; injury u' tained at the state A North Rockland's Ryan Dall the Rockland Journal-News Most Valuable Athlete has again Jef his indelible mark on the season. The senior captured first-place honors in the pole vault (15-6) at the Section 1 Open.outleaping the COLLEGE BASEBALL in the sixth inning gave RCC a comfortable 8-5, cushion, Wayne Weihe (1-0) pitched the win. the Hawks shot but to a 2-0 lead after an inning in the second game as Dan Vasquez blasted two-out, two-run double. RCC ex- -tended the lead to 4-0 after three innings with Vasquez and John Smith each blasting RBI triples.

The top of the fifth it was a 5-0 game as Canales drove in a run off a sacrifice fly. The bottom of the fifth, witnessed a momentum change as Army (0-2) scored its first three runs of the game, and rv-iT tt-c CritrrD a COLLEGE SOFTBALL omore Michelle DeLuca had a double and two RBI; senior Alycia Rodriguez (Garnerville) tripled in a run; and Nanuet's Liz Pandolfi had a RBI. Freshman Shannon Massey picked up her first varsity, win with 3 strikeouts" arid '2'" vValks while allowing 7 hits. STAC (1-1) stranded nine run- i what happened, we're still state champions." White Plains, which won the state. Public High School Athletic Associations' title here last weekend, finished its winningest season ever with a 21-4 record.

Rice, the state Catholic schools', representative, finishes 25-4. Only Felipe Lopez took White Jains seriously in opening moments, The Rice superstar, who will play' for St. John's next season, carried his team after John Woodbury capped a short White Plains run with a baseline drive and a 3-pointer that resulted in an 8-2 lead four minutes into the game. Lopez had all but two of the Raiders'17 first-quarter points as Rice went on a 13-2 tear, and grabbed a 17-10 I 1 Mika Oougharty 1 1 ttava Spanaccini ClarkstowritJouth 800 relay, 1,600 relay Chris DaPaola Clarkstown South 800 relay Beckerle, Lungaro among stars for STAC i 3 1 1 "NI Spring Valley senior Eudson Francois placed fifth (42-V4) in the shot put at the same meet. Peter Montanez, a Clarkstown North senior, finished fifth in the 55 dash (6.8) at the Section 1 Open.

1 The Albertus Magnus 4 800 relay team of seniors Matt Paul and Pat Coleman, along with juniors David Donohue and Ken Pearson, ran to a third-place finish (8:30.7) at the Section 1 Open. Honorable mention Mike Bernstein, Suffern; Jason Chin, Tappan Zee; Hedley Courtney, Ra-mapo; Steve Cupples, Pearl River; Dan Curley, North Rockland; Jeff Dempsey, Suffern; Ketan Burwick Florestal, Spring Valley; Jorge Garcia, Clarkstown South; Chris Giaculli, North Rockland; Brian Gotthardt, Suffern; Jeff Johnson, North Rockland; Slo-teur Joseph, Spring Valley; Roudy Mohrose, Spring Valley; Dennis O'Sullivan, North Rockland; Steve Redner, Suffern; Sear Riley, Pearl River; Sheldon Roberts, Suffern; Adam Rosengarten, Suffern; John Wilde, Pearl River; Gordon White, Nyack; Damon Zahlmann, Pearl River. added another in the sixth cutting RCC's advantage to one. Reilly entered in the seventh inning in relief of the eventual winner, Joe Mackey (1-0), with no outs and men on second and third. He enticed the first' batter to ground out, then struck out the next two to secure the win.

First! it gam Rockland CC 17, Army JV 5 Rockland CC 110 404 7 17 12 1 Army JV 004 100 0 5 3 1 RBI Finnerty 3, Lowery 3, Canales Reilly 2, Sidoti, Chacko; Gilkes 2, Blakeslee. 2B Sidoti. 3B Finnerty, Lowery; Gilkes. HR Canales. WP Weihe (1-0).

LP Pheips (0-1). Second game i Rockland CC 5, Army JV 4 1 Rockland CC (2-0) i .202 010 0 -552 Army JV (0-2) 000 031 0 4 4 0 ft RBI Vtsquet 3, Smith, Canales; Gilkes 2, Schlosser, Hunt. 2B Finnerty, Smith, Vasquet; Hunt. 3B Smith, Vasquei; Norman'. WP -R: Mackey (1-0).

LP Cupp (0-1). ln position in-the loss, HufDeLuca was 2-for-2 with a senior. Maureen Gallagher 2-went-3 and a double, and Beckerle also doubled. St. Thomas Aquinas 15, St.

Thomas Univ. i St. Thomas Aquinas 420 400 5 15 I 4 100 400 1 6 7 4 at. Thomas Univ. RBI STAC: Beckerle, Torres, Rodriguez, DeLuca 2, Pandolfi; ST: Zorsky.

2B STAC: DeLuca; ST: Zorsky, Sanchez. 3B STAC: Rodriguez; ST: Zorsky 2. WP Massey (1-0). LP Sanchez (n.a.). St.

Thomas Univ. 7, St. Thomas Aquinas 2 St. Thomas Aquinas (M) 010 001 0 2 I 5 St. Thomas (7-9) 220 300 0 763 RBI -r- ST: Zorsky, Sanchez 2, Salanas.

2B -STAC: Beckerle, Gallagher, DeLuca; ST: Sanchez. 3B ST: Dutchill. WP Sanchez (n.a LP -Massey (1-1). Fleer set By Tom Hartloff and John Kryger Staff Writers Is Sergi Zubov a rising star? Is Sergi Federov a slap-shot artist? Fleer thinks so, and these are just two of the insert sets you'll find in Fleer's Series 2 PowerPlay hockey cards. These oversized (2-Vz 4-1116) cards have been a hit since they first appeared late last year in Series 1.

Series 2 has 240 cards, highlighted by i two 20-card subsets featuring Team USA and Team Canada. There are 56 total insert cards, with one in each pack. The UV-coated cards feature 10 Rising Stars, 10 Game Breakers, 10 Slap-shot artists, 10 Global Greats, and 16 Rookie Standouts. Rangers featured (Nos. 389-395) are Jeff Beukeboom, Glenn Healy, Alexander Karpovtsev, Steve Larmer, Kevin Lowe, Ed Olczyk, and Esa Tikkanen.

You'll find the Binghamton Rangers' Corey Hirsch (482) in Team Canada, and just-traded-away Todd Marchant (511) in Team USA. "Brian Leetch is No.6 in Slap- Shot Artists, Zubov is No. 10 in Rising Stars, and Tikkanen is No. 9 of the Global Greats. Eight Devils and seven Islanders are included in Series 2 which should be out next week.

Hero sheets JThe Mets will participate and the Yankees won't. what? Why the Upper Deck Heroes of Baseball games this season. Heroes of Baseball program is the leading fund-raising source for the Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.), the Organization which provides help to members of the baseball family in need for Rockland BOCA Fla. St. Aquinas College fused home-grown talent yester-" day to earn a doubleheader split with St.

Thomas University of "Miami, winning 15-6 in the season ppenerV. losing the second 'game 7-2. Pearl River's Maria Beckerle was 2-for-5 with an RBI in the win; Nicole Lungaro Gar- was 2-for-2; Congers soph- David Donohua Albertus Magnus 3,200 relay Stafan Mascoll Clarkstown South 300, 800 relay, 1,600 relay Paul Roaankrants Pearl River Long jump Matt Paul Albertus Magnus 3,200 relay Ray Kondracki Clarkstown South Coach of the Year Federov a Pure Silver Medallion, 15,000 produced, $29.95 a 24-kt. Select Medallion, 1,000 produced, $49.95 (pure silver medallion overlaid with 24 kt. gold, comes in gift box) i a Pure Gold produced, $850.00 (presented in cherry wood box) a 3-Piece Set; 500 produced, $475.00 (includes oz.

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tl Y. 10994, or FAX It to him at 579-2477. STATE FEDERATION BASKETBALL features Zubov and Rice routs White Plains Kan Paarson Albertus Magnus 3,200 relay NEW FROM FLEER: The Rising Star card of Ranger Sergei Zubov. thinks could challenge his record 565-foot home run (the 21st, card commemorates the hit). There are also exchange cards redeemable for the set.

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donates $25,000 to B.A.T. In 1993, The Upper Deck through its sponsorship of the Heroes of Baseball program, contributed $300,000 to B.A.T. The Mets be before the July 17. game Houston and it will honor the 25th anniversary of leMetsypper Deck will gave away a free numbered commemorative sheet to every fan attending. Upper Deck baseball Upper Deck baseball has had a make-over.

Gone are the white borders. Instead, card fronts carry large color photos plus narrow, stretched black-and-white versions of the same photo. Backs have also eliminated white except in the statistics box. Series One has 280 cards. Each is also produced with holographic foil stamping, and each pack has one of these cards.

Checklists have changed, too. There' are four (numerical, alphabetical, by team and insert cards). They're 5 7, and there will be one in the bottom of each hobby Subsets feature a fantasy team (for fantasy-league top rookies, National League parks and 15 top major-leagflers (25 or younger). Watch the Diamond Collection 30-card insert set Upper Deck plans to ship by region, so dealers in the East will receive boxes with East Division In a 21-card insert set, Mickey Mantle picks the 20 players he GLENS, FALLSi N.Y,,; What began as a good run turned into a Iong chase for White Plains yesterday. r'y In the end, the Tigers" just weren't able to catch up to Rice, which posted ari 82-54 victory in the state Federation tournament's A boys' basketball championship at the? Glens Falls Civic "Center.

White Plains gained a measure of respect by staying Wlose in the first half, but the Raiders simply ran away in the final 20 "Coming in it was like a win-win situation," Tigers forward McGovern said. "They're the No. i team in the country. We didn't want to give them too much though, because we're a "pretty good team, too. They came out and played a good game and deserved to win.

But no matter me POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y, After Ursuline School of New cbmpleted 'a perfect season yesterday with a victory over St. Mary's of Man-iiasset (Li.) "in the state girls' basketball Class championship game at Marist Col-ttdiege in Poughkeepsie, coach Beth rWooters talked of the together theme. H. "I've talked, all. season about uhe togetherness that complements i.

pur Wooters said of her Koalas, who regrouped from a docile start and then turned enough, take command by In the first quarter, Kathleen and Gretchen Turner each top St JMary's went on 5-point runs within a minute to open a 10-8 lead. Carolyn Astarita converted; a nifty bounce pass from Bess Tor-tolani and the latter made her first basket in lO'rninutes'tO' open the second quarter. In- the stretch before halftime, Joy Vaccaro hit a 3-pointertStwo (re throw! a conventional deuce lor 27-17 When the Gaels mildly brushed within six in the third quarter, Kelly Ann Walsh came off the 'Ursuline bench to can a pair of one-handers. With kern and Turner working outside 'and Tortolani t)and Vaccaro the gap grew to 44-30 after three quarters. JimO'Toola.