VERONA – Two months apart, each of the Baldwinsville cross country teams would make trips to Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School.
At first, it would just be for tough competition in last Saturday’s VVS Invitational, but in November the Bees will return with Section III and, perhaps, state Class A championships on the line.
In Race 2, B’ville would get a dominant performance from senior Solomon Holden-Betts that helped the team finish with 45 points and claim the top spot ahead of Vestal (57 points) and Auburn (60 points).
Holden-Betts pulled away from all of his competition, finishing in 16 minutes, 23.5 seconds, with no one else in the field able to break the 17-minute mark.
Noah Covert got ninth place overall, eighth in the team event, with his clocking of 18:08.6, two spots ahead of Adam Kozman, who finished in 18:16.9.
Moments later, Jack McAllister crossed in 18:31.5 as Ryan Wilson (18:53.5), Jeff Ragonese (18:56.2), Kyle Sheckler (18:58.2) and Ryan Quinn (19:01.5) all placed themselves in the top 20 to display the Bees’ depth.
The girls race was held first, and Baldwinsville had a strong showing, taking third place in an 11-team field with 101 points as C-NS won (31 points) and Section I power Bronxville was second with 76 points.
Kamryn Barton was seventh among team runners and eighth overall in 20:51.6. Freshman Yolanda Weit got 14th place in the team event in 22:00.3 as Mary Sabatino was 22nd (22:55.5) and Sophia Cavalieri was 24th (23:04.1) in the team event while finishing in the individual top 30. Claire Horanwas 34th in 24:28.5.
B’ville has its first SCAC Metro division meet Wednesday against Henninger and Nottingham before going to Saturday’s East Syracuse Minoa Inviational.
