SYRACUSE – Through two meets at SRC Arena this winter, the Cicero-North Syracuse girls indoor track and field team has rolled through all of its possible competition.
The Northstars’ second title came at Wednesday’s Oscar B. Jensen Memorial Relays, where the Northstars earned 125.5 points, again finishing tops as Liverpool climbed to third place with 69 points and Cazenovia (86.5) was in between them.
Anna Eells won twice for C-NS, taking the 55-meter hurdles in 8.88 seconds as Grace Murray (9.61) edged Jasmine Ayre (9.62) for third. Then, in the triple jump, Eells, with a personal-best 37 feet 5 inches, went 1-2 with Morgan Hayes, who earned second place with 39’5 3/4”.
Sophia Graham added to the win total, her time of 1:42.03 good enough to take the 600-meter run as Katy Harbold was third in 1:44.02 and Gianna Melfi fifth in 1:47.62.
Both of the relay races went to the Northstars, as in the 4×400 Harbold, Graham, Jaydin Mackey and Camryn Jacob beat the field in 4:13.26, remarkable given that no one else went under 4:30.
C-NS also won the 4×200 relay with Mackey, Stephanie Todd, Aaliyah McDonald and Selena Moreno going 1:50.24 to outpace Liverpool’s Caitlyn Guilfoil, Mikayla Greene, Mia Wright and Nahla Battle-Crenshaw (1:53.04) in second place.
Kennedy Jones was third in the 1,500-meter run in 5:13.27, with Grace Scoville third and Camilla McNaught fourth in the 3,000-meter run. Callie Bednarski and Ellana Ballagh combined for three points in the 1,000-meter run and Maria Sanfilippo was fifth in the weight throw and Ayre sixth in the long jump.
Liverpool had Wright take second (7.63 seconds) and Greene third (7.67) in the 55-meter dash, with Battle-Crenshaw in 10th place. Tamia Tearney and Audrey Jenkins both cleared 4’8” in the high jump for second in the team event.
Layla Pearl Collins was third in the pole vault, clearing 8 feet ahead of C-NS’s Annie Capone in fourth and Natta Luangaphay in sixth. Maddie Devendorf had a third-place long jump of 14’11 3’4”. as Maggie Sherlock was fifth in the 3,000. Katie Martin got sixth place in the 1,500, with Collins sixth in the 55 hurdles.
In the boys part of the Jensen meet, C-NS repeated what took place in the Nov. 30 Jack Morse Kickoff Meet, again taking second with 85 points and again with Cazenovia (91.5) beating them out.
Joe Main, throwing the shot put 46’1”, beat the field by four feet as Colt Hiltz was fourth with 39’5”. And the Northstars won the 4×200 as Christian Kahrs, Kavon Brunson, Angel Cuencas and Kamryn Barton went 1:36.04 and Liverpool was third in 1:43.34. In the 4×400, C-NS posted 3:51.03, second to the Lakers’ winning 3:45.26.
Brunson, on his own, got second in the 55 hurdles in 8.17 seconds, with Dante Melfi second in the 600 in 1:28.63 just behind the 1:28.48 from Cazenovia’s Jaden Kaplan.
Xander Provost topped 5’8” in the high jump for second place, Gavin Goettel fourth by clearing 4’6”.
Braden Santaguida was fifth in the 1,000 and Rhett Andrews fifth in the 3,200-meter run, with Ethan Matthews fifth in the weight throw ahead of Main in eighth place.
Getting a win for Liverpool’s boys, NyQuez Madison went 21’7 3/4” in the long jump, no one else topping 20 feet as Madison as the Northstars’ Ed Bethea was fifth with 18’9 1/2”.
Madison later added a second-place triple jump of 40’10 3/4”, with C-NS’s Zuriel Dickerson sixth. The Warriors also had Ian Sherlock finish seventh in the 1,600-meter run in 4:55.77, beating out C-NS’s Dominic Petrera in eighth.
