Though it already had the OHSL Liberty division regular-season title wrapped up, the Cazenovia girls track and field team had some work left in the regular season.
And the Lakers capped an unbeaten league run last Wednesday afternoon, improving to 5-0 when it roared past the Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Rebels by a score of 110-31.
Meggie Hart led Cazenovia on the track, beating the field in the 1,500-meter run in 5:07.4 and also taking the 800-meter run in 2:34.1 as Clara Rowles ran 3,000 meters in 10:46.7.
Moving to the sprints, APW’s Kyile Bartlett interrupted a bit, taking the 100-meter hurdles and 200-meter dash to go with a high jump title, but Kirsten Underwood still won the 100-meter dash in 13.7 seconds as Maria Stalder took the 400-meter dash (1:04.6) and Jamie Joseph, in the 400 hurdles, finished first in 1:14.8.
Not content with that 400 hurdles title, Joseph also won the shot put with a toss of 28 feet 10 inches. Katie Robbins cleared 8 feet in the pole vault, with Ashley Kent tops in the triple jump (30’9”), Jessica Macheda taking the long jump (14’5”) and Holly Eberle throwing the discus 78 feet.
Cazenovia also swept the 4×100 (55.7 seconds), 4×400 (4:40.2) and 4×800 (10:34.1) relays as Hart, Rowles, Stalder, Kent, Robbins, Underwood, Macheda, Kaitlyn Rossiter, Delaney Yates, Bailey Forrett and Maddie Langey all took part.
Keeping up with their female counterparts, the Cazenovia boys track team beat APW 90-51, again with Sean Satchwell setting the pace thanks to his runs in the 800, where he prevailed in 2:14.6, and the 3,200, where he finished in 10:48 flat.
Satchwell also ran in all three relays – the 4×100 (48.7 seconds), 4×400 (3:49.9) and 4×800 (10:25.0), pairing with Alex Devine, Tom McInerney and Alec Boone in the 4×100 and 4×400, and combining with Jack Gabor, Brendan Coffey and Sean McPherson in the 4×800.
On his own, Devine beat the field in the 200 in 24.2 seconds before a top triple jump of 38’4”. Ryan O’Herien was first in the 100 sprint in 11.4 seconds as McNearney took the 400-meter dash in 54.8 seconds. Walker Nichols tore through the 110 high hurdles in 11.3 seconds. Sawyer Hunt had a first-place shot put throw of 40’1”.
A day earlier, the Chittenango boys track and field team went to Homer and took a 92-49 defeat to the Trojans.
Mike Capeling still won two distance races for the Bears. In the mile, Capeling posted a top time of four minutes, 48.8 seconds, and then went to the 3,200-meter run and prevailed in 10:38.5.
Tyler Howard added a victory in the 110 high hurdles in 16.6 seconds and cleared 8 feet 6 inches in the pole vault as Isaac Czarnecki, Ben Seale, Willey Blanding and Jacob Blaszkow got first in the 4×800 relay in 9:22.7. Nick Stanton had a top long jump of 18’2 ¾” as Josh Thompson led the Trojans with wins in the 100-meter dash (11.5 seconds) and 200-meter dash (23.5 seconds).
Chittenango’s girls track and field team also faced Homer, and it wasn’t as close, the Bears falling 104-29 as the Trojans remained undefeated and clinched a share of the OHSL Freedom division regular-season title.
All of the Bears’ wins came in field events, where Krissy Roberts prevailed twice, taking the triple jump by going 30 feet 10 inches and adding a top long jump of 15’3”. Sara Loucks added a title in the discus, throwing it 74’10”.
Homer had several standouts, including McKayla Crawford, who won the 1,500 (5:15.5) and 3,000 (11:35.7) meter runs, plus Alsasce-Lorraine Sanders (100 meters, 200 meters) and Erin Leach (100 and 400 hurdles), who claimed two races apiece.
Chittenango and Cazenovia both took part on the boys side in Friday’s Oneida Invitational, where Nichols tied for sixth in the high jump, clearing 5’8”, and paired with Devine, McNearney And Dan McKillop to take fourth in the 4×100 relay in 46.76 seconds.
Devine was sixth (38’6”) in the triple jump and Christian Winkler threw the discus 113’8”, also finishing sixth. Satchwell took eighth place in the 400 sprint. For the Bears, Capeling took fifth in the 3,200 (9:53.65) as Czarnecki was seventh in the mile.
