Just before they could both enter the cauldron of the CNY Counties League, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool track and field teams first had to see each other during last Saturday’s season-opening C-NS Relays at Bragman Stadium.
In the boys division, the host Northstars picked up 84 points and took second place, just one point behind Rush-Henrietta’s top total of 85 points as theWarriors earned 50 points for third place.
Ross Mathewson, with a throw of 116 feet 2 inches, and Logan Lickfield, heaving it 110’2”, paired up to win the discus for C-NS as Liverpool’s Mike Harvey and Ben Scuderi took fifth place. Mathewson and Tyler Mosher won the shot put with combined throws of 88’8 ½”, where Harvey and Cameron Goodson took sixth place.
George Reader and Ed Mahana went 74’8 ½” between them in the triple jump and got second place, with Reader and Matt Romanyk second in the long jump as their leaps added up to 36’6”. Reader and Zach Kennedy topped 11’2” between them in the high jump, finishing third.
Mahana, in 16.29 seconds, beat the field by more than a second in the 110 high hurdles, as he a and Nick Payrot got third place in the team portion. Also, Mahana won the individual 400 hurdles in 1:02.54 and, with Jason Hughes (1:10.43), got second place on the team side.
Liverpool won in the pole vault, though, as David Lewis cleared 11 feet to lead all individuals and Andre Douglas cleared 8 feet, and did better on the oval, too.
Nick LeClair, Dylan McCarthy, Ben Petrella and Macadian Lellis went 8:30.68 to pull away from Rush-Henrietta (8:37.90) and the field in the 4×800 relay, with C-NS (9:07.79) in fifth place. Then Petrella, McCarthy, LeClair and Dan Muldoon won the mile relay, with Andrew Bearkland, Sam Barber, Zach Wagner and Joe Tircarico third for the Northstars.
Muldoon, Peter Gonzalez, Collin Gwilt and Brandon Mayfield were third in the 1,600 sprint medley relay in 3:51.77, with C-NS fourth, exactly six seconds behind. Gwilt, Gonzalez, Jacob Rowell and Donald Frost were third (3:40.37) in the 4×400 relay.
In that same 4×400, C-NS saw Kennedy, Matt Williams, Allen Garnes and Collin Ryan get second place in 3:35.73, just behind Rush-Henrietta’s 3:34.98. Moving to the 4×100, Matt Killian, Billy Moore, Ryan Massena and Corey Mitchell grabbed third place in 47.19 seconds.
With 61 points, C-NS’s girls team edged out Liverpool (56 points) for third place in the girls portion of the meet, with Rush-Henrietta (98 points) again on top and South Jefferson (63 points) in the runner-up spot.
During the 400 hurdles, Nicole Herringshaw and Abbey Szumloz, in a combine 3:36.46, won the event even though Liverpool’s Amelia Johnson (1:17.07) beat both of them on an individual basis. In the 1,500-meter relay, Taylor Parry, Mia Pestle, Annia Marullo and Haley Pestle won, with Liverpool’s quartet of Juliana Basla, Jillian Stagnitta, Abby McNamara, and Vanessa Eberhard second.
Krystyna Baltrusitis and Shayla Webb were third in the 100 hurdles in a combined 39.72 seconds, with Liverpool’s Logan Eicholzer and Julie Nguyen in sixth place.
Basla, Ore Akinpelu, Danelle Sims and Yasmeen Griffin were second in the 1,600 sprint medley in 4:26.64, with C-NS seeing Parry, Makena Scarlata, Kaitlyn Andersen and McKenna Bradford taking third place in 4:45.64. In the 4×400, Akinpelu, Sims, Griffin and Kristina Moore were second (4:16.20) to Rush-Henrietta (4:12.91), with C-NS fourth in 4:36.44.
It was the same in the 4×800, where the Warriors’ quartet of Morgan Chewning-Kulick, Kristina Moore, Natalie Kurz and Mallory Woytowitz were second in 10:46.55, while Marullo, Mia Pestle, Sarah Wicks and Hailee Kolakowski were third in 11:06.43. The Warriors were fourth and the Northstars fifth in the 4×100 relay.
In the throwing events, Jeniece Gallishaw and Danielle Akins put Liverpool in third place in the shot put, while Kierrah Butler and Kira Kullman put the Northstars in fourth place. C-NS’s Dayna Losito and Kiana Garcia were fifth in the discus, with Gallishaw and Nene Lalonde in sixth place. A’Mirah Patterson and Alyssa LaFace were sixth in the long jump.
Winning the individual pole vault, C-NS’s Whitney Hotchkiss cleared 7’6”, with Liverpool’s Mackenzie Case (6’6”) in third. Herringshaw topped 5’2” to win the individual high jump as, for the Warriors, Griffin and Logan Eicholzer went a combined 59’7” in the triple jump for third place.
