Each of Baldwinsville’s track and field teams had little trouble in last Wednesday’s meet against Henninger at Sunnycrest Field, winning 105-56 on the boys side and 91-50 on the girls side.
The boys meet included a pair of titles from Ethan Plouffe, who swept the throwing events by heaving the discus 118 feet 1 inch and tossing the shot put 39 feet 10 inches. Kevin Niedzwicki added a victory in the high jump, clearing 5’2”.
Back on the oval, Evan Donhauser raced through the 110 high hurdles in 15.6 seconds before Brennan LaQue ran the 400-meter dash in 53 seconds flat. Arden Kellner took first in the 800-meter run in 2:14.5 as Ryan Delola claimed the mile (5:02.6) and Ken Stehle went 1:05.6 for first place in the 400-meter hurdles.
Donhauser joined Martin Sak, Calvin Tanguay and Tyler Luciano as B’ville took the 4×100 relay in 45.9 seconds. Jason Ekure, Leland Frink, Colin Spaulding and Ben Timmons won the 4×800 (9:11.9) as Evan Vannatta, Andrew Carter, Clayton Dombrowsky and George Kresovich got a time of 3:47.7 in the 4×400 relay.
Moving to the girls meet, Rachael Miller set the tone in distance races, beating the field in the 1,500-meter run in 5:25 flat and also going 1:02 to win the 400-meter dash. Marissa Lathrop added an 800-meter title in 2:39.0.
Hailey Couchman tied Henninger’s Dominique Hopkins in the 200, each of them finishing in 27.4 seconds, but won the high jump by herself, clearing 4’8”. Haleigh Jaquint added a title in the triple jump, going 31’1”.
But while the Black Knights won the rest of the field events, B’ville swept the relays. Christina Bartelli, Patricia Conlan, Anna Demer and Claire McMahon claimed the 4×800 in 11:38 flat.
Katie Wicks, Abigail Smith, Laura Kick and Lauren Brushingham took the 4×100 in 54.7 seconds. Conlan and Kick joined Demer and Kelley Hull as the Bees won the 4×400 relay in 4:45.0.
B’ville’s boys track team would earn 50 points and take fifth place in Friday’s 62nd annual New Hartford Invitational, where Niskayuna, with 82 points, took the top spot.
The Bees won the 1,600 sprint medley relay, where Kellner, joined by Sak, Luciano and Miek Boyce, posted 3:50.18 to edge New Hartford (3:50.87) for that top spot. Later in the meet, Kellner notched third place in the 800 in 2:01.36.
Boyce, Denis Keegan, Joey Frink and Dan Conlan got third place in the 4×800 in 8:36.96. LaQue, Carter, Vannatta and Kieren Sheriden were third in the 4×400 in 3:33.86, while Conlan, LaQue, Vannatta and Spaulding helped the Bees finish second (11:16.78) to Niskayuna (11:09.30) in the distance medley relay.
In the unique 4×200 relay, Carter, Sak, Tanguay and Luciano paired up, and B’ville again got third place in a clocking of 1:36.38. Donhauser, Luciano, Tanguay and Brandon Brown were fifth (46.61 seconds) in the 4×100.
Individually, Donhauser was the top qualifier for the 110 high hurdles finals, but settled for third place in 15.53 seconds. Delola was seventh in the 3,200, just out of the points.
A day later, B’ville’s girls team would put up a terrific effort at Rome Free Academy’s Cooper City Classic, getting 49 points to tie Cicero-North Syracuse for second place, with only the host Black Knights (94.5 points) faring better.
Miller got the Bees’ lone title in the 400 sprint, tearing to victory in 1:00.60, just ahead of RFA’s Breanne Payson (1:00.95) as Couchman finished fourth in 1:01.68. Lawrence made it through two rounds to the 100 sprint final and, in 13.10 seconds, got second place behind Utica Proctor’s Hilda Jordan, who blazed to 12.77 seconds.
Demer, who was sixth in the 200 in 28.41 seconds, teame dwith Miller, Hull and Lathrop (who was sixth in the 800) as the Bees, in the 4×400, battled to second place in 4:07.53, just behind RFA (4:06.64). McMahon, Conlan, Sarah Rodman and Elizabeth Fawaz got to third place in the 4×800 relay in 11:01.40. The Bees were also sixth (4:52.40) in the 1,600 sprint medley.
Couchman contended in the long jump, her top leap of 16’3 ½” leaving her in third place. Adriana Straughter stepped up for fourth place in the 100 hurdles in 18.03 seconds, with Destinee Luciano seventh. Jaquint was seventh (33’ ¼”) in the triple jump, just out of the points, while Brittany LaRock was seventh in the pole vault, clearing 7’6”.
