Continuing its season-long improvement, the Skaneateles boys indoor track and field team earned fourth place out of 11 entries at Sunday’s Section III Class B championship meet at Hamilton College.
The Lakers picked up 52 points, comfortably in the top half of the standings. Marcellus won with 105 points as Clinton (74 points) edged out Cazenovia (70 points) for second place.
Sean Cooper had his big moment in the 55-meter hurdles as the Skaneateles senior won in a time of 8.12 seconds, more than half a second better than Altmar-Parish-Williamstown’s Alexander Henderson.
Tim Lewis earned second in the high jump, his clearance of 5 feet 8 inches topped only by Ilion’s Bryan Lynch (6 feet). Taylor Weyneth cleared 11 feet and tied for second in the pole vault as Nick Huss (Marcellus) won with 11 feet 6 inches. Corey Knighton got fourth (35 feet 10 1/2 inches) in the shot put.
In the 4×400 relay, Dan Wolfanger, Colin Wentworth, Nick Smolenski and Nate Schwab worked their way to third place, in 3:56.87. Ethan Johanns, Danny Sakal, Mike Teixeira and Joe Duggan were fourth in the 4×800 relay in 9:55.53 as Cooper, Smolenski, Mike Pileski and Ian Smith were fourth (1:47.05) in the 4×200 relay.
Sam Kriever needed 1:34.27 to claim third place in the 600-meter run, barely a second behind the winner, Ryan Manahan (Marcellus), who prevailed in 1:33.15. Nick Simmons took fifth in the long jump (16 feet 2 3/4 inches). Lewis was also seventh in the 55-meter dash, where Schwab was eighth, and Wolfanger took seventh in the 300-meter dash.
The Skaneateles girls take its turn at the Section III Class B meet on Friday and Saturday.
