Yorktown Patch Weekly Sports Report

Fullerton and Humphrey to states

Yorktown junior Aidan Fullerton qualified for the boys track and field state championships with a first-place finish in the Division I state qualifier in the pentathlon, finishing with 3,059 points. The pentathlon was split between two days, Thursday at Arlington High School and Friday at White Plains High School.

“He really faced some tough competition,” Yorktown coach Keith Smith said. “Going into the final event, he was only ahead of a kid from Suffern (Presnel Dalmeus)  by 30 points, which is nothing in the pentathlon. It’s a tough event over two days. You have to be a real athlete to succeed in it.”

The pentathlon consists of five events, the 110-meter hurdles, long jump, shot put, high jump and 1,500-meter dash.

“Aidan has the size, strength, speed and that’s the combination that you need,” Smith said. “He also has the determination.”

Fullerton’s teammate, senior Carter Humphrey, also earned a trip to the states. He was second in the 800-meter run at the state qualifier with a time of 1.57.04 at Arlington on Thursday.

That was good enough to qualify him for the state meet. Humphrey finished second to Mamaroneck’s Tommy Vandenberg.

“He is a hard worker and a top athlete,” Smith said of Humphrey.

The state championships that Fullerton and Humphrey will compete in will take place Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11, at Caledonia-Mumford High School in Rochester.

“It’s the state championships, I know they are going to give it all they have,” Smith said.

Girls track

Yorktown also had two standouts at the girls track and field state qualifier in senior Amanda Borok and junior Shannon Teevens. They didn’t qualify for the states but Smith was very pleased with their efforts as he should have been.

Borok finished third in the 1,500-meter walk with a time of 8.01.1.

“She’s actually our school record holder in the walk, that was her final race,” Smith said.

Teevens was second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 59.38.

“That was one of her best times,” Smith said. “She really was trying to make the state meet. She went out harder than she ever did before. She went for it. It showed a lot of guts on her half.”

Kaishian named MOW

One of the reasons why the Yorktown wrestling program has turned around is because many of its wrestlers wrestle outside of the high-school season.

One of those grapplers is sophomore Jimmy Kaishian, who wrestles for the Westchester Wrestling Club run by Joe Boxer, that finished 4-2 and placed third in the Tournament for Leukemia, which took place at the Albany Academy Field House on Memorial Day Weekend.

Kaishian went 6-0 in the 122-pound division, earning the tournament’s most outstanding wrestler award. Kaishian’s Husker teammate Tom Murray also wrestles for the club and was 5-1 in the 174-pound weight class.

“Off-season work is pretty important to me because it improves my chances of obtaining two of my goals,” Kaishian said. “One is the team getting better and two it helps me improve because I want to place as high as I can in the section.”

He says he starts off-season wrestling between one and two months after he wrestles for Yorktown.

“I don’t play a fall sport, so I will wrestle up to the season (when Yorktown starts in mid-November)," Kaishian said.

Kaishian works out with the WRC on Sundays at Bedford. Kaishian said that the club also holds workouts in New Rochelle and Port Chester.

Kaishian also goes three days a week to the Askren Wrestling Academy in Somers, run by 2010 NCAA wrestling champion Max Askren, who wrestled for Missouri.

All-Americans

The awards for local players were plentiful this week for senior boys lacrosse players, Yorktown’s Ty Schuldt and Justin Mabus and Lakeland/Panas’ Robert Caffrey and Conor Prunty, as they all were named All-American.

For Prunty, it was the second year in a row he had earned that prestigious honor.

All four will play lacrosse in college next year. Schuldt at Hartford, Mabus at Towson, Caffrey at Providence and Prunty at Siena.