Ilion High School - Class of 1977

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Lytwynec 'One Man Gang' for Golden Bombers By Steve Reynolds

NEW HARTFORD - Ilion Centrals defending Section 3 discus champion Brian Lytwynec doesn't train seriously for track and field during the off-season. And that suits Golden Bomber coach Steve Canipe just fine.

I'm a firm believer in not working 12 months out of the year." Canipe said. "Kids can go stale on you. That's why kids can set the world on fire as sophomores or juniors and later can burn themselves out."

As if to prove that his coach is right, Lytwynec has concentrated more on football and basketball during those seasons, than he has on training for his track specialty. And it hasn't hurt his performances a bit.

He won the discus at Saturday's 23rd annual New Hartford invitational with a throw of 153-6 and also earned a second place in the shot put behind Rome Free Academy's Bob Kerrare.

RFA won four other events, scored in eight more and rolled to its second straight Invitational championship, outscoring its nearest rival, Liverpool, 94-82. Syracuse Christian Brothers Academy was third, followed bv Fayetteville-Manlius and West Genesee.

RFA's Ernie Coleman and Kevin Parker continued to dominate rivals in their specialties. Coleman won both hurdling events while Parker won the triple jump and set a meet record. 6-5 3/4, in winning the high jump. They were the day's only double-winners.

Lytwynec, who supplied all 18 Ilion team points, was about a foot short of Ferrare's winning 55-6 1/4 in the shot put and indicated he agrees with his coach's philosophy.

"I don't lift that many weights to start with," he replied, when asked about his long layoff. "My workouts depend on the schedule. You try to work it so your arm isn't sore for a meet. But if you have time, you work til you're tired."

THEE COLD wind that blew steadily most of the afternoon apparently didn't bother Lytwynec until he'd already wrapped up a victory in the discus, which followed the shot put. He was the only competitor to break 150 in the latter event and achieved that distance on a throw during the preliminaries.

"I tightened up in the finals," he-said.

The wind had an opposite effect on Utica Free Academy's Tom Jasinski, who finished a personally-disappointing fourth in the shot, but then managed a third place in the discus to earn his first points ever in that event during an invitational meet. Jasinski actually tied New Hartford Jim DeStefano's best throw of the day (144-6) but DeStefano took second by virtue of the next better throw.

What happens is, when you get out there and get your sweats off, you tighten up," Jasinaski said of his reaction to the cold "It must be 45 degrees out here."

Ilion - Saturday, 3 p. m., high school athletic field, Cheryl Darling, valedictorian, Marion Rooks, salutatorian speakers.