SYRACUSE – With a deep roster that earned a top-eight finish in every single event, the Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team earned second place in Wednesday’s Division I portion of the Onondaga High School League championships at SRC Arena.
Yet even with this effort, the Lakers’ total of 89 points was not enough to finish on top as Marcellus, with two wins apiece from Tyler Herr in sprints and Peter McCaffrey in jumping events, won with 116 points.
Winning the first relay on the card, Cazenovia’s 4×400 quartet of Dan Millson, Carter Ruddy, Jaden Kaplan and Wyatt Scott went three minutes, 48.79 seconds to edge Marcellus (3:48.99) by two-tenths of a second.
Then Michael Senehi was victorious in the 1,000-meter run, his 2:49.03 enough to hold off a field that included teammate Cassidy Gilmore, who was third in 2:53.96.
Moving to field events, Jed Olkowski won for Cazenovia in the shot put, his toss of 40 feet 6 1/4 inches the only one better than 40 feet as Andrew Kent finished eighth. Olkowski added a seventh in the weight throw behind Elijah Clement (33’11 1/2″) in fifth place.
Senehi also was fourth in the 1,600-meter run in 5:06.90, with Eddie Comeau (5:14.68) sixth as Senehi, Jaden Kaplan, Will Austin and Ben McPherson were third in the 4×800 relay in 9:20.61.
Gilmore nearly won the 600-meter run, his 1:27.28 just behind the 1:27.10 from CBA’s Cooper Groat Will Austin took sixth in the 3,200-meter run in 11:27.72, with Brandon McColm (11:57.95) eighth.
In the high jump, Connor Frisbie cleared 5’8″ to land in second place, while Ruddy was fourth topping 5’6″. Also, Frisbie had a fifth-place long jump of 18 feet as Aronson (17’6″) was seventh.
Millson was third in the triple jump, going exactly 37 feet ahead of Scott (33’2 1/2″) in eighth place. Also, Millson had a fifth-place time of 39.12 seconds in the 300-meter dash, while Kent (40.30) was eighth.
J.P. Hoak was fifth in the 55-meter dash in 7.06 seconds as Charlie Aronson (7.23) was eighth. Kent, Hoak, Aronson and Andrew Lee were fourth in the 4×200 relay in 1:41.40.
Dylan Shephard took sixth in the 55 hurdles in 9.46 seconds, with Clement gaining fifth place in the pole vault, clearing 8’6″.
Chittenango finished sixth in the boys Division I OHSL meet and seventh on the girls side, which included Caleb LeBlanc’s sweep of the two longest races.
LeBlanc opened the night by running the 3,200 in 10:19.30, nearly seven seconds ahead of Westhill’s Brandon Mulholland. Then, in the 1,600, LeBlanc needed 4:41.49 to hold another Westhill runner, Drew O’Reilly (4:42.56), for the top spot.
In the 4×800, LeBlanc, Alex Brummer, Shamus Eiffe and Manu Tipa took second place in 9:20.58. Joseph Lin got fourth place in the 55 hurdles in 9.39 seconds, while Eiffe was sixth in the 600 in 1:35.21 and ran with Lin on Chittenango’s sixth-place 4×200 side.
On the girls side, the Bears won twice, starting in the 4×400, where Jordan Wagner, Hannah Wagner, Abby Horning and Madison Wagner go 4:32.62 to hold off Westhill’s second-place 4:35.78.
Then, on an individual basis, Laura Powers emerged victorious in the 1,500-meter run, putting up a time of 5:20.55 as she also helped Chittenango take sixth in the 4×800.
Madison Wagner was fifth in the 300 in 46.63 seconds and ran a leg in the Bears’ seventh-place 4×200 side. Emily Judd finished fifth in the 3,000-meter run in 13:04.89, with Mackenzie Byrne sixth and Evelynn Kenville eighth in the 1,000. Horning took eighth place in the 600 and Katie Jasmin eighth in the 55 hurdles.
