Gianna Frontera won the 3,000-meter race Saturday and the Section 9, Class championship after winning the event a week earlier during the OCIAA championships.

Frontera, who helped Newburgh’s girls’ team to a second place finish, beat Cornwall’s Ashley Wallace by more than 11 seconds to win the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10.21.84.

Frontera, who finished fifth in the state cross-country championships after the fall OCIAA and Section 9 championships, said she’s tried to balance rest, her training and racing, during the last six months of competition.

“I just tried to keep my strength flowing from cross-country,” said Frontera, who also finished third in the 1,500-meter run.

Newburgh’s Aliyah Matta won the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.85. Matta was fifth in the 55-meter dash as D’Yanna McCaskill, her teammate, finished fourth in the event.

McCaskill was third in the 300-meter dash with a time of 42.62.

Aliyah and her sister, Saleen, who finished third in the long jump, also ran on Newburgh’s third-place team in the 1,600-meter relay. Saleen Matta was also fourth in the triple jump.

Newburgh was sixth in the 3,200-meter relay.

By Bond Brungard
sports@tcnewspapers.com