CICERO – Of the area’s high school track and field teams, it was Fayetteville-Manlius first taking its turn for their Section III championships.
The Hornets went to Cicero-North Syracuse’s Bragman Stadium Wednesday for the Class AA sectional meet, finishing fourth among boys teams with 54 points and sixth on the girls side with 42 points.
Most of F-M’s girls points centered around distance running, including a 4×800 relay where the quartet of Izzie Sullivan, Hannah Kaercher, Isabella Adrian and Maria Khalifeh go nine minutes, 36.11 seconds, well clear of runner-up C-NS’s time of 10:01.02.
Twice, Sullivan was second in distance races, going 4:47.81 in the 1,500 and in the 3,000 in 10:12.42, each time with C-NS’s Kate Putman on top to go with a title in the 400-meter dash.
Adrian took fifth place in the 400 hurdles in 1:138.5, while Kaercher was sixth in the 1,500 in 5:01.40 and Ditre sixth in the 800 in 2:05.37.
Maddie Kirkpatrick, throwing the shot put 29 feet 5 ¾ inches, took third place to go with a seventh in the discus. Khalifeh helped F-M’s 4×400 relay team get fifth place in 4:21.03 and was fourth in the 800 in 2:26.82, with Claire McDonald sixth (2:28.06). Catherine Walters finished eighth in the 3,000.
F-M’s boys had one victory, from Lugo Nwokedi, who went to the triple jump and, in 43′ 1/4”, beat Nottingham’s Omari Diggs (41’2 3/4”) by nearly two full feet as Jackson Burton was sixth with 38’10 1/2”.
Will Ditre, Anthony Otis, William Beecher and Alex Martinez go 8:26.74 in the 4×800, second to Baldiwnsville’s 8:19.38.
Nolan McGinn, in 4:22.72, was a close second to B’ville’s Solomon Holden-Betts (4:21.36) in a quick 1,600-meter run where Otis was eighth in 4:39.21. Martinez got to second place in the 3,200-meter run in 9:39.66.
Nick Domashenko went 11.30 seconds for fifth place in the 100-meter dash. Cooper Dereszynski was fourth in the 400 hurdles in 1:02.47 and sixth in the 110 high hurdles.
In the 4×400, McGinn, Denim Hall, Vincent Hunt and Mason Weires went 3:30.98 for third place. Domashenko, Burton, Nick Donnelly and Donovan Wonders were fifth in the 4×100 in 45.64 and Jackson Brown fifth in the pole vault, clearing 9’6”.
