It took two days for the Cazenovia boys track and field team to make it to Fulton for the Onondaga High School League Liberty division championship meet – and ultimately, it took a pairing of two schools to deny the Lakers the top spot.
In Wednesday afternoon’s meet, the Lakers accumulated 92 points, topping everyone in the 10-team field except the combined Westhill-Bishop Ludden squad, who prevailed with 96 points.
Instead of the hot, humid conditions Cazenovia would have faced last Monday had the meet not been postponed, the Lakers instead dealt with cold tempeatures and wind that were far from ideal – but still got handled well.
Cazenovia won the 4×100 relay as Walker Nichols, Ryan O’Herien, Tom McNearney and Alex Devine went 46.07 seconds, fighting off Syracuse ITC (46.47 seconds) to win it. In the 4×400 relay, the Lakers’ quartet of Devine, Alec Boone, Sean Satchwell and Tom McNearney posted 3:36.73 to finish second behind Skaneateles, who won in 3:34.53.
Devine was second (23.68 seconds) to CBA’s Tom SanGiacomo (23.27 seconds) in the 200-meter dash as Boone also got third place in the 400-meter dash in 54.44 seconds. In the triple jump, Devine finished second, going 38 feet 9 1/4 inches, and Boone (38’4″) finished fourth.
O’Herien went 11.81 seconds in the 100-meter dash, a close second to Phoenix’s Tim Gandino (11.66 seconds) as Boone took fourth place in 11.86 seconds. Nichols earned third place in the 110 high hurdles in 15.77 seconds, and also took third place in the high jump, clearing 5 feet 8 inches before a sixth-place long jump of 18’4 3/4″ that was just behind McNearney, who was fifth by going 18’6″.
Sean Satchwell, in a clocking of 2:06.75, made it to fourth place in the 800-meter run, and Satchwell also got fourth place in the mile in 4:49.91. Sawyer Hunt was third in the shot put, throwing it 40’6″ as O’Herien (39′ 1/2″) finished fifth. Will Kmetz was fourth in the discus, heaving it 119’3″.
Satchwell, Jack Gabor, Brendan Coffey and Sean McPherson were sixth (9:04.20) in the 4×800 relay, McPherson also getting seventh place in the 3,200-meter run. Cameron Hoke took eighth place in the pentathlon with 1,953 points, with Jack Gabor ninth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Cazenovia’s girls track team made its way to fourth place in the OHSL Liberty meet, picking up 82.5 points, just behind third-place CBA (84 points) as Skaneateles finished first with 133 points.
Here, the Lakers got to first place in the 4×800 relay, with Maria Stalder, Kaitlin Rossiter, Meggie Hart and Clara Rowles posting a time of 10 minutes, nine seconds, with Skaneateles (10:14.57) more than five seconds behind.
Hart made her way to third place in the 1,500-meter run in 5:00.62 and also was third in the 3,000-meter run (10:52.71), while Stalder was fourth in the 400 sprint in 1:04.77 and Caroline Hudson finished ninth. Jamie Joseph was fifth (1:12.14) and Delaney Yates was sixth (1:13.86) in the 400 hurdles.
Ashley Kent, with a triple jump of 32 feet 10 inches, landed in second place behind CBA’s Ellisa Kempsty (33’4 3/4″). Kent also was fourth in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.19 seconds and took seventh (14’10 1/4″), ahead of Jessica Macheda (14’8″), in the long jump.
In the 4×100, Kent, Macheda, Kirsten Underwood and Delaney Yates finished fourth in 54.06 seconds, with Stalder, Rossiter, Julia Barrett and Bailey Forrett fourth in the 4×400 (4:32.26) as Underwood also was sixth (13.62 seconds) in the 100 sprint and seventh in the 200.
Holly Eberle threw the discus 79 feet 1 inch, getting second place behind Westhill-Ludden’s Mary Kate Washburn, who won with 80’10” as Grace Wheeler finished eighth.
Tori Fischer, clearing 5 feet, finished third in the high jump, with Joseph (4’8″) in seventh place as Katie Robbins was fourth in the pole vault, topping 7 feet, and Jill Britton (6’6″) tied for sixth. Sarah Haley, with a throw of 27’6″, beat out Joseph (27’3 1/4″) for fourth place in the shot put.
Scout Mueller had 1,761 points to finish second in the pentathlon, where Ryleigh Tillison finished seventh. Adrien Owens was sixth in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:39.8. Maddie Langey got to eighth place in the 800 and Mya Walters was ninth in the 3,000.
