SYRACUSE – Each of Baldwinsville’s track and field teams carry grand ambitions into 2023, and saw their first competition during Tuesday’s Westhill Spring Break Invitational, earning several top finishes.
In the boys event, the Bees’ 4×400 relay quartet of Logan Hayes, Kaleb Paul, Brandon Levin and Jack McAllister pulled away from everyone, their time of three minutes, 29.70 more than 10 seconds better than anyone else.
Individually, Logan Zapf was victorious in the triple jump, his leap of 39 feet 1 ½ inches beating out the38’9 1/2” from Cortland’s Jack Phelan as Cooper Christman was fifth with 37’2”.
Kyle Sheckler added a title in the pole vault, clearing 12’6” as no one else broke the 10-foot mark and Owen Johnson was fifth with 8 feet. Griffin Killian tied for second in the high jump, topping 5’6” as Chris Patruno topped 5’4” for 11th place.
Noah Covert went 10:04.68 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase for a third-place finish. Ryan Wilson took eighth in the 1,600-meter run. Jeff Ragonese was fourth at 800 meters in 2:00.74.
David Dobrolowski threw the shot put 41’6 1/2” for third place as Dimitri Ioannidis (36’3”) was eighth, Dobrolowski also getting third in the discus by heaving it 123 feet as Ioannidis was fifth with 114’2” and Gibson Boudov sixth with 112’8”.
On the girls side, B’ville was also victorious in the 4×400, where Ava Davis, Clare Horan, Brianna Grosso and Madison Kennedy went 4:20.09, more than four seconds ahead of Jamesville-DeWitt’s 4:24.68.
Sydney McKenney gained the lone individual title for the B’ville girls by clearing 9’6” in the pole vault She also finished third in the rarely-contested 200 hurdles in 31.44 seconds.
Kamryn Barton took second in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:02.02 as Yolanda Wei was seventh, with Barton also third in the 800-meter run in 2:32.46.
The Bees were fifth in the 3×100 shuttle hurdle relay in 56.94 seconds as Erin Gregoire was eighth in the triple jump (31’2”) and tied for eighth (4’6”) in the high jump. Elliot Boak took 10th in the shot put.
Both of the B’ville sides have big tests in Wednesday’s SCAC Metro division opener at Pelcher-Arcaro Stadium, hosting Cicero-North Syracuse along with Nottingham.
