Skaneateles indoor track and field seniors Caroline Walton and Gabby Eckles both managed high finishes during last Saturday’s Section III state qualifying meet at Colgate University’s Sanford Field House. Walton would battle Auburn’s Corrine Taylor for the top position in the shot put. Walton threw it 36 feet 8 inches, beating everyone except Taylor, who won by going 37 feet 10 1/2 inches, but still had the best finish among small-school competitors. As for Eckles, she rose to fourth place in the high jump, clearing 5 feet 2 inches as Mexico’s Kaylea Morse (5 feet 4 inches) grabbed the top spot. Over in the triple jump, Eckles went 32 feet 5 1/4 inches and took fifth place. Elsewhere, freshman Madeline Adams worked her way to fourth place in the 3,000-meter run in 11:37.21, while fellow ninth-grader Taylor Woodruff earned seventh place in the 300-meter dash in 44.98 seconds. In the boys state qualifier, Skaneateles senior Sean Cooper was fourth in the 55-meter hurdles, speeding to a time of 8.21 seconds as Liverpool’s Joe Spernyak (7.84 seconds) went to the front. Senior Tim Lewis topped 5 feet 8 inches to get to sixth place in the high jump, as Junior Taylor Weyneth cleared 10 feet 6 inches for seventh place in the pole vault.