Whether it was distance running or field events, the Liverpool indoor track and field teams did all that was necessary to rise to the top again during last week’s John Arcaro Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena.
Picking up 90 points in the boys meet Wednesday night, the Warriors pulled away from Fayetteville-Manlius, who was second with 75 points, and Cicero-North Syracuse, who still managed third place with 46 points.
Individually, Ben Petrella had the big moment on the track for Liverpool, going to the mile and, in four minutes, 27.98 seconds, routing F-M rivals Patrick Perry (4:41.58) and Riley Hughes (4:42.01) as Ty Brownlow was fourth in 4:47.01.
The Warriors also prevailed in the 4×400 relay, where Dan Muldoon, Nick LeClair, Peter Gonzalez and Collin Gwilt blazed to a time of 3:36.31, ahead of Baldwinsville (3:41.28) and C-NS, who saw Zach Kennedy, Collin Ryan, Allen Garnes and Matt Williams finish third in 3:41.80.
In the 4×200 relay, Liverpool won here, too, seeing Brandon Mayfield, Jamie Gadaleta and Donald Frost join Gonzalez as, in 1:38.82, the Warriors beat Henninger (1:39.93) to the line. Matt Killian, Ryan Massena, Matt Romanyk and Corey Mitchell helped the Northstars finish third in 1:40.27.
Liverpool also won both jumping events. David Lewis cleared 11 feet 9 inches in the pole vault, the same as C-NS’s Mitchell Brown, but Lewis did so with fewer misses and prevailed as Brown finished in second place.
Moving to the high jump, three different competitors cleared 5’8”, but with the fewest misses, the Warriors’ Nate Guarente beat out Marcellus’ Noah Townsend and Mexico’s Justin Gardner.
Connor Buck was third in the 3,200-meter run in 9:39.13, where C-NS’s Joe Tricarico and Chris Hannan were seventh and eighth, respectively, and Buck took sixth in the 1,000-meter run.
Muldoon, Brownlow, Dylan McCarthy and Ryan Comstock were third in the 4×800 relay in 8:43.29, with LeClair fourth in the 1,000 in a time of 2:41.89, ahead of C-NS’s Andrew Bearkland (2:42.15) in fifth place.
C-NS’s Ross Mathewson prevailed in the shot put, his throw of 43’7 ¾” more than a foot ahead of Fulton’s Nick Reitz (42’6 ¾”) and the field. Ed Mahana took third in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.35 seconds, while George Reader was third in the triple jump, going 39’6 ½”, and added a sixth-place high jump of 5’6”.
Frost was fourth in the 300-meter dash in 39.40 seconds, ahead of Gadaleta (40 seconds flat) in eighth place. Mayfield got sixth in the 55-meter dash in 6.89 seconds.
Then it was the girls turn on Thursday night, and while Liverpool only had 76 points and won just one event, it gained points everywhere to fend off F-M (66 points) and Jamesville-DeWitt (58 points), while C-NS, with 28 points, tied for fifth place.
Ore Akinpelu, in 7.70 seconds, took second behind J-D’s Alexandra Payne (7.49 seconds) in the 55 sprint, and Akinpelu also was runner-up in the 300-meter dash, where in 42.02 seconds she chased CBA’s Anna Schug (41.04 seconds), while Danelle Sims was fourth in 44.16 seconds.
But in the 4×200 relay, the Warriors did win, seeing Akinpelu, Sims, Natalie Kurz and Erin Straub post 1:52.57, pulling away from Fowler (1:54.53) and the field as C-NS finished eighth.
Alexis Bittel made it to third in the 55 hurdles in 9.50 seconds, added a third-place triple jump of 33’2” and and seventh in the long jump.
Also for the Warriors, Juliana Basla was third in the 1,000 (3:07.56), Morgan Chewning-Kulick third in the 600 (1:42.73) and Jillian Stagnitta fourth in the 3,000-meter run in 11:01.99. Chewning-Kulick, Natalie Kurz, Amelia Johnson and Yasmeen Griffin got to fifth in the 4×400 in 4:24.52.
Jasmine Hall, who threw the shot put 30’5”, finished third in that event, with the Northstars’ Destiny Monica and the Warriors’ JeNiece Gallishaw each tossing it 30’2 ½” to tie for fourth. Liverpool’s Kelley Townley cleared 7’6” in the pole vault, finishing third.
C-NS did well in the 4×800 relay as Makena Sgarlata, Taylor Parry, Hailee Kolakowski and Maggie Traub got to second place in 11:10.47, trailing only F-M, who won in 10:58.47. Cassandra Baldwin cleared 5 feet in the high jump, second to Mexico’sTori Towndrow, who cleared 5’1”.
Mia Pestle was fourth in the 1,500-meter run in 5:18.28, ahead of Stagnitta (5:23.02), who was fifth, while Annia Marullo took fifth (3:21.39) in the 1,000 and Jilliann Norris was fifth (1:43.51) in the 600.
