On the first day of May, nearly 20 track and field sides made their way to Alibrandi Stadium for Christian Brothers Academy’s annual Brother Basilian Invitational.
But CBA was far from an idle host. Indeed, the Brothers finished third in both the boys and girls divisions, and fourth overall, with 113.33 points. Skaneateles (146 points) claimed combined team honors, with the Lakers also winning the girls event and Carthage in first place on the boys side.
CBA’s girls had 64 points, 18 of them from a 1-2 sweep in the 200-meter dash as Anna Schug won in 25.68 seconds and Kiana Ferguson (26.82 seconds) claimed second place.
Schug, Ferguson, Kate Fletcher and Ryleigh Peterson paired up in the 4×100 to win in 50.97 seconds as Skaneateles (51.64 seconds) took the runner-up spot. In the 4×400, that same quartet made it to third place in 4:20.38 as Fletcher, Lucy Person, Grace O’Connor and Julie McInvale finished sixth (10:50.24) and Bishop Grimes (10:43.88) was fifth.
Nafysa Williams, clearing 5 feet, was second to Fabius-Pompey’s Adalius Alexander (5’3”) in the high jump, with Ellisa Kempisty recording a second-place triple jump of 30’6” behind Oneida’s Jennifer Brodock (31’6 ½”).
Skylar Decker took fourth in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.62 seconds, with Kempisty in eighth place after she got sixth (14’2”) in the long jump. Kate LaCasse was third in the 400-meter dash in 1:04.15 and McInvale took fifth (76’8”) in the discus. Anna Langlois was eighth in the 100-meter dash and Person was eighth in the 1,500-meter run (5:25.57).
Up in the boys meet, where CBA picked up 49.33 points, Tom SanGiacomo edged out Skaneateles’ Connor Hill, 22.98 seconds to 23.00, in a close 200 sprint, while East Syracuse Minoa’s Abdullah Mujcic was sixth in 24.12 seconds after an eighth in the 100.
John Frasier earned the Brothers’ other title, in the discus, throwing it 128’2 ½, more than 18 feet further than any of his 31 foes. SanGiacomo, Nate Brower, Jack Carey and Brandon Keeney were fourth in the 4×400 relay in 3:36.09.
But Carey earned second place in the triple jump, his 39’2” only topped by Homer’s Nick Yarnell (40’2”). Dominic Morganti went 10:06.30 in the 3,200-meter run, claiming third place, but also helped Brendan Keeney, Lou Moran and Nikki Reddy get to second place in the 4×800 relay in 8:56.14, onnl trailing Tully (8:41.56) as Bishop Grimes (9:10.89) finished fifth.
Mallachi Emanuel was sixth in the 400 sprint in 57.22 seconds, and Moran took sixth (2:06.98) in the 800, ahead of Keeney in eighth place. Pat Carey was sixth (1:04.42) in the 400 hurdles and tied for sixth in the high jump, clearing 5’4”.
ESM’s lone win came in the 110 high hurdles, where Jeremy McGrath blazed to a time of 15.67 seconds and no one else was under the 16-second mark. Matt Young and Jared Henry were fifth and seventh, respectively, in the mile.
Jamesville-DeWitt earned 24 points in the boys New Hartford Invitational that same night, 18 of them from two field events, where the Red Rams’ Dylan Volk unleashed a winning triple jump of 43’1” and no one else in the field even reached 42 feet.
Meanwhile, Joe Murphy, threw the shot put 47’4 ½” but was second to Rome Free Academy’s Alex Cianfrano and his Section III season-best 48’7 ½”. Volk got fourth place in the 100 final in 11.43 seconds as J-D also was fifth in the 4×200 relay in 1:39.20.
The ESM girls team was at Rome Free Academy’s Copper City Classic on Saturday, where Mia Montgomery finished second in the triple jump, her best attempt of 34’9 ½” just behind Remsen’s Alycia Chatwell-Adzik, who won with 34’10 ¼”. Montgomery also was 10th in the long jump.
Mackenzie Bourdon earned the Spartans’ other five points, going to fourth place in the 400 hurdles in a time of 1:16.31 and taking sixth in the 100 hurdles in 18.98 seconds.
