Following up on their respective regular-season successes, East Syracuse Minoa and Jamesville-DeWitt both earned victories during Tuesday’s Onondaga High School League Freedom division championships at Fulton.
In the boys event, ESM was triumphant, getting 113 points to pull away from Mexico (81 points) as J-D, with 66 points, took fifth place. But the girls event belonged to the Red Rams, whose 179 points more than doubled the Spartans’ runner-up total of 84 points.
Alexandria Payne won four events to pace J-D. It began with a win in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.24 seconds, with no else breaking the 17-second mark. Then Payne prevailed in the 100-meter dash in 12.77 seconds, where ESM’s Mia Montgomery (13.66 seconds) was fifth.
As if that wasn’t enough, Payne (26.44 seconds) and Alexia Carr (27.92 seconds) went 1-2 in the 200-meter dash, and to top it off, Payne cleared 5 feet in the high jump, prevailing over ESM’s Jolie Kiddle, who topped 4’10” for second place.
The Rams cleaned up in field events, where Gabrielle Tanksley cleared 9 feet and won the pole vault, with Sara Signorelli (7’6”) in third place and the Spartans’ Skyler Parkis sixth.
Elena Haarer needed 1:03.68 to beat out the Spartans’ Katlyn Boland (1:06.15) in the 400-meter dash. Rachel Fairbanks won the 800-meter run in 2:23.25, with Haarer third in 2:30.95 and the Sparatns’ Juliette Miller in fifth place.
Fairbanks joined Megan Brown, Kim Walsh and Sophia Vinciquerra to win the 4×800 relay in 10:32.75, well clear of Mexico (10:40.27) and the field.
J-D added a third-place time of 53.91 seconds in the 4×100 relay, just behind Homer (53.60 seconds) and Fowler (53.90 seconds) in a tight battle as Addobea Abdo, Mackenzie Maxam, Ciara Norris and Alexia Carr all took part. Haarer, Maxam, Fairbanks and Kailee Philleo were third in the 4×400 relay in 4:29.05, with ESM fourth in 4:31.46.
Lainey Foti, with 1,909 points, held off Marcellus’ Alex Kinsella (1,855 points) to win the pentathlon, with the Spartans’ Mackenzie O’Neill (1,622 points) in fourth place. Alexandra Street was third in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:54.6, ahead of Ayla Erwin in sixth place.
ESM saw Montgomery and Natalie Marra each win twice. Marra, in 4:54.43, beat out the Rams’ Hannah Butler (4:57.96) in the 1,500-meter run as Vinciquerra finished fifth. Later, in the 3,000-meter run, Marra won again, in 10:35.03 to Butler’s 10:38.33, while Brown finished fifth.
Montgomery, with a long jump of 16’4”, edged J-D’s Patrece Martin (16 feet) for that top spot, and they battled again in the triple jump, where Montgomery went 35’8 ¾” and Martin (34’7 ¾”) again had to take the runner-up spot.
Lindsey Crego was second in the discus with a throw of 85’8” ahead of J-D’s Mariah Williams (81’1”) in third place and Jessica Pace in sixth place, with Crego fourth in the shot put (27’11 ½”) behind Williams in third place (29’8”) as Amina Jahic took sixth place. Mackenzie Bourdon was sixth in the 400 hurdles in 1:16.63.
ESM got plenty of points in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, where Matt Young won in 10:38.7 and Jim Kenyon finished third in 11:27 flat.
Not long after, in the 110 high hurdles, Jeremy McGrath won in 15.51 seconds, with teammate Isaiah Brooks getting third place in 16.43 seconds and J-D’s Nolan Roosa fifth.
McGrath would finish a close second (58.86 seconds) to Oswego’s Armand Vooris (58.71 seconds) in the 400 hurdles, again with Roosa in fifth place as he added a third-place finish in the long jump (19’11 ¾”) and a sixth-place tie with teammate Jesse Johnson in the high jump
Abdullah Mujcic also got second place (11.52 seconds) behind Mexico’s Kyler Fenton (11.39 seconds) in the 100-meter dash, added a second in the long jump (20’3 ¼”) and took fifth in the 200.
But Mujcic paired with McGrath, Noah Hodge and Cody LaRoche to win the 4×100 relay in 45.39 seconds, with J-D’s quartet of Mulvihill (who was fifth in the 100), Seth Blair, Tyler Lichtenstein and Dylan Volk third in 46.13 seconds.
But J-D did well in field events, including the discus, where Henry Middleton threw it 111’11” to win, though ESM still got 14 points because Martin Campbell was second with a throw of 105’9” and Gavin Stevens (104’8”) finished third.
Volk won the triple jump, going 41’4 ¾” as Homer’s Nick Yarnell (40’6 ¼”) was second, while Joe Murphy threw the shot put 45’7 ¾” to get second place as ESM’s Gabe Holloman (43’5 ½”) took third and Ny’Zhier Jefferson was sixth. Jake Saletsky, clearing 11 feet, and Alex Le (10’6”) were third and fifth, respectively, in the pole vault.
Almighty Bornfreedom got second place in the pentathlon with 2,378 points, ahead of ESM’s Zach Fischer (1,725 points) in third place. The Spartans’ Jared Henry was fifth (4:55.49) in the mile, while the Rams’ Tyler Gabriel was sixth in the 400 sprint. J-D was fifth (3:49.78) in the 4×400.
