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Morris leads boys' track team
to Albright Invitational championship
Kareem Morris won three individual events and ran the opening leg of the
winning 4x100 relay to lead the Albany High School boys’ track team to
the Albright Invitational championship April 18 at Albany Academy.
Morris won the 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump in addition to his
role on the relay team to earn the meet’s Outstanding Track Athlete
award.
Corey Harris also participated in the 4x100 relay (Jalon Scott and Fuad
Jusic rounded out the foursome) and finished first in the high jump,
second in the 100 meters and third in the triple jump.
Jamal Temple finished second in the shot put and discus, and Alex
Schettino took second in the pole vault as Albany finished with 110.5
points, followed by Bethlehem (96) and LaSalle (55).
The Falcons opened the season April 11 with a second-place finish in the
CBA-LaSalle Relays at CBA in Colonie, just two points behind meet winner
Bethlehem.
Morris anchored winning relay teams in the 4x100 (with Harris, Scott and
Jusic) and 4x200 (with Harris, Jusic and Evan Lacetti), helped the
sprint medley relay team to a second-place finish (with Harris, Jusic
and Gabe Gordon) and had the best jump in Albany’s second-place finish
in the long jump relay (with Kyle Thompson and Schettino).
Lacetti, Thompson and Matthew Wu also took first place in the 3x400
hurdles relay. The Falcons had second-place finishes in the following
events:
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4x1600 relay – Peter Barth, Tyler Norton, John Pettit
and Matthew Ryan
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4x110 shuttle hurdles relay – Lacetti, Thompson, Zach
Lauzon and Wu
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Pole vault relay – Schettino, Vinny Kemp and Ryan
The City School
District of Albany serves approximately 8,300 students in 18
elementary, middle and high schools. In addition to neighborhood
schools, the district includes several
magnet schools and programs, as well as other innovative academic
opportunities for students. The
district is more than halfway through its comprehensive facilities
project to newly
build and/or renovate nearly all of its elementary
and middle
schools. The ultimate goal of the facilities project is
to provide schools with the resources necessary to help students
succeed in the 21st century.
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