CENTRAL NEW YORK – Both of the Fayetteville-Manlius track and field teams would finish fourth during Thursday’s Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division championships at Pelcher-Arcaro Stadium in Baldwinsville.
In the girls meet, F-M’s Izzie Sullivan would take the 1,500-meter run in four minutes, 50.38 seconds, with Hannah Kaercher (4:58.60) in fourth place, before Sullivan added a 3,000-meter title in a swift 10:19.73.
Sullivan, Hannah Kaercher, Maria Khalifeh and Isabella Adrian went 9:36.60 in the 4×800 relay, just behind Cicero-North Syracuse’s 9:33.88.
Khalifeh raced to third in the 800-meter run (2:26.44) and fourth in the 400-meter dash, with Adrian fourth in the 400 hurdles and Kaercher fourth in the 800. Maddie Kirkpatrick threw the shot put 31 feet 5 inches for third place.
Lugo Nwokedi was victorious in the boys triple jump, going 43 feet ½ inch to beat the field by two full feet, while Alex Martinez won the 3,200-meter run in 9:40.42.
Nolan McGinn’s 1:58.50 in the 800 was just behind B’ville star Solomon Holden-Betts (1:57.69),while Denim Hall, clearing 6’1”, was second in the high jump to Henninger’s Yor Yal at 6’3” and Jackson Brown topped 10 feet for third in the pole vault.
McGinn, Martinez, Will Ditre and Mason Weires were a close second (8:05.16) to B’ville (8:03.66) in the 4×800 relay, adding a third in the 4×400 in 3:30.85.
Cooper Dereszynski was fourth in the 400 hurdles in 1:01.92 and Weires was fifth in the 400 sprint. James Ditre was fifth and Fred Lutzen sixth in the discus, with Jackson Burton sixth in the long jump.
Three days earlier, Christian Brothers Academy went to Chittenango for the Onondaga High School League Liberty division large-school meet and finished fifth on both the boys and girls sides.
But that included a distance race title as Kyle Gaffney went 10:44.40 to pull away and win the 3,200, Declan Reed finishing sixth.
Quinten Lewis went 18’7 1/2” in the long jump for third place, with Remir Ratchford fifth. Nijel Graham was third and Daunte Bacheyie was third in the 200. Ben Chiodi was fifth in the 1,600. Merino Merola added a fourth in the shot put.
Xavier Caesar took third and Jacob DuBrey fourth in the 400 sprint, with James Cass fourth in the 400 hurdles and Will Bradford fifth in the 800. The Brothers were fourth in the 4×400.
CBA’s girls won the 4×800 as Claire Krueger, Ally Roeuche, Katherine Williamson and Grace Fletcher pulled away and, in 10:11.69, beat runner-up Chittenango by more than 42 seconds.
Amazin Spencer got second in the 100 in 13.44 seconds and also got second in the 200 in 27.77, with Roeuche third and Williamson fourth in the 400 sprint and Mary Sullivan third in the 3,000.
Ella Zaryski was fourth in the 1,500. Krueger got fourth place and Mia Ludington fifth in the 800, while Liana Thomas took fifth in the 400 hurdles.
In the OHSL Patriot meet at Jordan-Elbridge, Bishop Grimes rose all the way to third place in the girls division with 63 points, trailing only Pulaski and Tully.
Rosalie Vincent, in 12.63 seconds, edged Pulaski’s Vanessa Tremble (12.64) to win the 100 sprint. She also helped the Cobras get second (52.51) to Pulaski (52.27) in the 4×100 as Ella Reilly won the 400 hurdles in 1:10.58 and Vincent took third in the 200 in 27.01.
Edy Livingston finished third in the 3,000 in 11:28.84 and fifth in the 1,500, with Riley Abernethy fifth in the 400 sprint to go with her fourth in the 200. The Cobras were third in the 4×400 in 4:38.53. Raegan Reed got third in the shot put with 28’4” and Kierra Baxter was fifth in the long jump.
Manlius Pebble Hill had Brody Cook fifth in the boys 400 sprint, while Grimes had Jon Corl take third in the 800 in 2:12.98 and the Trojans were third in the 4×400 in 3:51.95.
