SYRACUSE – When Section III indoor track and field teams gathered at Onondaga Community College’s SRC Arena for last week’s Jack Morse Kickoff Meet, Cazenovia was right there – and quite successful, too.
In Wednesday’s opening session, the girls Lakers prevailed, while the boys picked up 54 points and were third among 18 teams, trailing only Fayetteville-Manlius (79) and Marcellus (62).
Connor Frisbie won the triple jump, where by going 39 feet 5 ¾ inches he topped the 38’9 3/4” from Cortland’s Jack Phelan, with Jaden Kaplan (32’6 3/4”) in ninth plac.e
Also, Frisbie made his way to third place in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.99 seconds, not far from the winning 8.86 by PSLA-Fowler’s Jeremiah Brundage. He also was fifth in the long jump with 18’8” as Wyatt Scott (17’11 1/4”) finished ninth.
Cazenovia was able to beat the field in the sprint medley relay, where the quartet of Scott, Kaplan, Matt Tugaw and Killan Blouin, went four minutes, 8.45 seconds to win by more than six seconds over Pulaski’s 4:14.81.
On his own, Blouin cleared 9’6” for second place in the pole vault as Branden McColm took sixth place in the 1,600-meter run in 5:00.20, with Will Austin 10th. McColm, Austin, Caleb Gilmore and Robbie Dorus and Branden McColm were eighth in the 4×800 relay in 10:33.64.
Tugaw, Tristan Fields-Bradley, Judah Ossont, nd Eli O’Shea were eighth (4:27.14) in the 4×400 relay as Kaplan took 11th in the 55-meter dash.
A day later, in the second session of the Morse Kickoff Meet, Chittenango finished fifth out of 13 teams in the girls event with 32.5 points, while the boys Bears were seventh with 24 points.
The girls Bears had Laura Powers, Ava McLean, Margaret Bielicki and Emily Judd take third in the 4×800 in 11:57.71, with Jordan Wagner, Brooke Walters, Sophia DiGennaro and Abby Horning third in the sprint medley in 4:51.89.
Wagner had a fourth-place long jump of 13’10”, with Allie Bartoszek going 28’3 3/4”in the triple jump for sixth place. Miranda Danaher threw the shot put 23’11” for seventh place as Evelyn Winkoop was eighth in the 1,500 in 5:50.14.
Over in the boys meet, the Bears had Joseph Lin, Caleb LeBlanc, Shamus Eiffe and Tom Navin finish second in the 4×400 in 3:55.15 to Cicero-North Syracuse’s winning 3:44.65. Robert Pierce joined Eiffe, Navin and LeBlanc for a second in the sprint medley in 4:04.12.
Individually, Lin was fourth in the long jump with 18’4” and fourth in the 55 hurdles in 8.53 seconds, while Lindsey Evan had a ninth-place shot put toss of 32’4 1/2”.
