Nadel, Noelle light up MSG in HS miles

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By ELLIOTT DENMAN
photos by Don Rich

NEW YORK - Kevin Byrne and Sarah Schwald can rest easy - for another year, anyway.

Top stars of younger-generation milers had it out on the hallowed Madison Square Garden 11-laps-to-the-mile saucer and produced a pair of rousing, crowd-pleasing races Friday night, before 9,611 enthused track and field fans.

But these high school stars - the best of the best gathered to the Garden after a series of qualifying races at The Armory - still couldn't nudge the names of Byrne and Schwald from the Millrose Games record book.

Byrne, then of New Jersey's Paramus Catholic High, ran a 4:08.0 in the 1977 Millrose boys scholastic mile, and it will be there in the books to 2012 - at the least.

Chad Noelle of Greene, New York, took the boys race - now named, most appr...