Comstock, Reid, Wanck Lead Athens To Third-Place Finish At League Championships
By: Tim Birney | NTL Sports | May 10, 2024
Paced by a pair of first-place finishes, Athens placed third in the team standings here at the NTL Boys Track & Field Championships on a rainy Friday.
The Wildcats finished with 102 points, behind Troy (130) and Wellsboro (113) to bring home the bronze.
Sophomore Brenden Comstock won the discus with a mark of 133-feet, 9-inches, and senior Josh Nittinger was ninth at 102-feet, 10-inches. Comstock finished fourth in the shot put at 40-feet, 8-inches, and senior Josh Nittinger was seventh at 38-feet, 6 1/2-inches.
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Tim Birney is the founder / owner of River Road Media Group. He was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Waverly High School in 1984.
Birney earned an Associate's Degree in Journalism from SUNY Morrisville in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism / Public Relations from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1988. He began his newspaper career at The Daily Review in Towanda in 1989, before moving on to The Evening Times in 1995. He spent more than 10 years at the Times, the last four as Managing Editor.
River Road Media Group includes five sites in "The Sports Reports" family that cover 24 school districts in five counties: Valley Sports Report (launched Aug. 10, 2009), Tioga County (NY) Sports Report (Aug. 13, 2018), and Northern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 31, 2020); Northern Tier West Sports Report (March 15, 2021) Southern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 16, 2021).
