We're Back! Town of Oyster Bay/North Hempstead Recap

by Dan Laverty

This past Saturday the Town of Oyster Bay/North Hempstead drill was held at The Denton Avenue track hosted by the Manhasset-Lakeville Minute Men. There was a looming indication of rain all morning until the drill kicked off at 2:00 PM. The sun could not have been more out this day and there was a good crowd on hand. "The Brotherhood" had the upper right corner of the stands occupied from beginning to end. They had a major party foul before the drill but they seemed to overcome it.

New Hyde Park kicked off 3-Man Ladder with the only 6 to be run. The rest of the top five times were in the 7's. The drill rolled right along into B-Ladder with Hicksville running one of the two 5's and Roslyn running the other. The Inspection Certificate I understand has been securely placed in Roslyn’s B-Truck after the marathon run of the thrower once they were on the line at Lindenhurst and were not permitted to run. Glenwood, Manhasset and Carle Place all got additions to their participation plaques for placing in B-Ladder.

C-Ladder was the first tournament runs for three out of the nine teams running with the new C-truck rules. Only six teams utilized their C-trucks. Roslyn having taken 2nd place at Lindenhurst ran very close to that time and took 1st place. Port Washington bested their fastest C-Ladder time so far this year by 12/100ths of a second rising from 5th place at Lindenhurst to 2nd place. Manhasset, Glenwood and New Hyde Park rounded out the top five in C-Ladder.

Going into the hose events:

Roslyn - 12

Glenwood - 7

Port Washington - 8

New Hyde Park - 6

Manhasset/Hicksville - 5

The Water Test began earnestly at 3:15 with the Ladder events only taking about an hour to run. There seemed to be a brake pulled on this drill as everyone scattered for shade during the way over an hour wait for the water test to be conducted. This was due to the gate being pulled off the hydrant while emptying the hose. This caused the track to become saturated with water and required the leaf blowers to be used.

Once the water was tested and the track dried, the drill continued with the running of C-Hose. Roslyn bested their time of 13.14 that they ran at Lindenhurst by 48/100ths of a second. The Highlanders ran a 12.66 and the rest of the top five times were in the 14’s.

Sorry to say but I am mentioning Roslyn again but they ran the only 7 in B-Hose and took five more points. Westbury, Hicksville, New Hyde Park and Port Washington also placed in this event.

Going into Efficiency:

Roslyn - 22

Port Washington - 12

New Hyde Park - 12

Hicksville - 8

Glenwood - 7

Manhasset/Hicksville - 5

The Efficiency contest was one of the closest events we saw all day. There was only a 1/2-second difference between getting 5 points (Roslyn with a 9.29) and 1 point (Glenwood-9.79). Motor Pump was a whole other story with the best times ranging from 6.90 to 12.00. Port Washington took 1st place in Pump followed by Hicksville, Roslyn, Glenwood and Carle Place. In buckets, Westbury was able to jump into the overall Top Five with a nice run of 24.28. New Hyde Park secured themselves a Top Three finish by taking second in the event followed by Port Washington, Roslyn and Oyster Bay.

Here are the final results of the drill courtesy of www.NYSDrillTeams.com: