Tim Luthin

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NEW YORK – Lukas Verzbicas didn’t get exactly what he wanted. But there isn’t much more he could ask for. The Carl Sandberg (Ill.) senior started his weekend record assault Friday at the New Balance Indoor Nationals by breaking his own national record in the 5,000 meters in 14:06.78.

Some of New York’s best will head to Seattle to race on the oversized track at the Dempsey Indoor at the University of Washington. Sunday The 307-meter indoor track has been a haven for fast times for collegiate runners around the country and now it’ll be the high school athletes’ turn to perform at the new showcase event. Here’s a look at the local athletes with accepted entries.

It’s no secret that when Westbury’s Owen Skeete is in the race that he’s going to be leading after the first lap. And more often than not the field, knowing Skeete’s habit, will let him go and wait until he fades back into the crowd. But there are times Skeete doesn’t come back and the chase pack, pretending that the leader isn’t really the leader, then goes scrambling to get back into the race the way that Warwick’s Tim Luthin and Mike Mazzaccaro of CBA (N.J.) were forced to go scurrying behind Skeete as he attempted to pull off one of the biggest upsets of the season.

The first qualifier for the invitational high school mile at the Millrose Games kicks off this Saturday at the 2010 Bishop Loughlin Games. This season, the road to Madison Square Garden runs right through the New Balance Track and Field Center and it’s heating up already.

BEAR MOUNTAIN – When Warwick Valley huddled by a fence just beyond the finish line at Bear Mountain, it didn’t quite look like a team that had just secured its second consecutive county title. They looked more like a hungry squad that just savaged one meal and is already licking their chops for the next one.