Fifty schools participated Thursday, May 21, in Suffern's annual Mountie Madness track and field invitational, which served as a reminder Section 1 doesn't have a patent on talent.
It's not that area athletes were shut out of gold medals. The meet, for instance, ended with host Suffern winning the girls 4x400-meter relay and Section 1 athletes recorded 15 first-place finishes.
But three of four relays went to non-Section 1 teams and some of the meet's biggest moments ā a 5-9 girls high jump and 19-4.5 girls long jump, included ā also belonged to athletes from outside the immediate area.
Still, Mountie Madness proved huge for some locals.
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