Onondaga — By solid margins, each of the Cicero-North Syracuse indoor track and field teams would fight off the challenges from Liverpool and take both titles from Wednesday night’s CNY Counties League National division championships at SRC Arena.
When the boys scores were added up, the Northstars had 153 points to the Warriors’ 118. In the girls meet, C-NS had 140 points, with Liverpool (104 points) having to fight off West Genesee (103 points) for that runner-up spot.
A key boys race was the 4×200 relay, where C-NS had Jeremiah Willis, Tyler Days, Anthony Pauli and Matt Kilian available to win in one minute, 36.66 seconds, more than a second ahead of Baldwinsville’s 1:37.96 as Liverpool could not finish.
Otherwise, the Northstars stood out in field events, including the shot put, where Tyler Mosher won by heaving it 44 feet ¾ inch, well clear of Liverpool’s Arthur Bittel, who was second with 39’11 ¼” as Elijah Weiss (38’5 ¾”) beat out Andrew Stonebarger (37’8”) for fifth place.
The long jump saw Jeremiah Willis win with a top leap of 20’4 ½” as Tyler Days was second, going 20’1”. Moving to the triple jump, Days had his turn at the top, going 41’5” as George Reader was fifth with a best attempt of 37’4 ½”. Ward Couillard had the lone clearance of 8’6” in the pole vault.
Ed Mahana nearly won the 55-meter hurdles, going 8.04 seconds to finish second to Baldwinsville’s Evan Donhauser (7.98 seconds), while Ryan Williams was third in 8.52 seconds and Nazir Murray (8.94 seconds) finished fourth for Liverpool. Zach Kennedy cleared 5’6” in the high jump, settling for second place because B’ville’s Nate Jaquint had fewer misses, while the Warriors’ Nate Guarente (5’4”) was fourth.
Mahana, Kennedy, Allen Garnes and Matt Williams went 3:35.11 in the 4×400 relay, just behind Baldwinsville (3:34.55) in first place, with Liverpool seeing Nick Davis, Collin Gwilt, Josh Hickmott and Mike Mahan finish third in 3:41.65. Garnes was second in the 600-meter run in 1:28.58, with Matt Williams fourth (1:30.29) and Gwilt (1:29.35) between them in third place ahead of Hickmott (1:30.31) in fifth.
continued — But Liverpool had plenty of wins, too, starting with Ben Petrella going 9:41.66 to pull away in the 3,200-meter run as Ryan Comstock (9:53.41) beat out Northstars Nathan Poirier (10:04.88) and Joe Tricarico (10:14.95) for third place.
Terrell Coleman won the 1,000-meter run in 2:36.42 and Steve Schulz was second in 2:40.44, edging out C-NS’s Andrew Bearkland (2:40.96) for that spot as Sam Barber (2:50.84) fit into fifth place.
In the mile, Ty Brownlow, in 4:27.50, won by a big margin, though C-NS had Zach Wagner second in 4:44.05 and Bearkland (4:44.48) in third place ahead of the Warriors’ Julio Roman (4:47.01), who was fifth. Then Brownlow, Petrella, Schulz and Coleman sped to a time of 8:12.11 to dominate the 4×800 relay, with C-NS (9:11.06) in fourth place.
Donald Frost (38.06 seconds) edged B’ville’s Kieran Sheriden (38.07 seconds) in the 300-meter dash by one-hundredth of a second, with Mahan fifth and Kilian (38.41 seconds) in third place. Frost added a fourth-place triple jump of 37’11 ¼”.
Brandon Mayfield, who was fourth in the long jump (18’ ¾”), got second place in the 55-meter dash in 6.69 seconds to Henninger’s Deven Redden (6.61 seconds), while Jeremiah Willis was a split-second behind Mayfield in third place and Kilian was fourth in 6.80 seconds.
C-NS cleaned up on the girls side in field events, too, especially with Shayla Webb, whose winning triple jump of 34’4” topped a field that included Liverpool’s Alexis Bittel (33’6 ½”) in third place and teammate Brittany House (31’4 ¾”) in fifth place. Webb also took second in the long jump, going 16’4 ¾”, while Bittel was third (15’9 ¼”).
In the shot put, Kierrah Butler had a winning throw of 34 feet 11 ½ inches, more than two feet ahead of the field. House, Cassie Baldwin and Liverpool’s Megan Milazzo all cleared 4’8” in the high jump and tied for second place.
continued — The Northstars swept the top spots in the 55 hurdles, where Baldwin, sixth in the long jump, won in 9.07 seconds and House finished second in 9.20 seconds ahead of Bittel in third (9.40 seconds) and Amelia Johnson (10.22 seconds) in sixth. C-NS also saw Sasha Pulaski, in 7.53 seconds, win the 55 sprint ahead of the Warriors’ Tymeiah Harper (7.85 seconds), who was second.
In the 4×800, C-NS had Marie LeRoy, Sarah Davis, Jamie Wagner and Jilliann Norris finish second in 4:12.32, inches behind Baldwinsville’s 4:12.19, as Liverpool (4:29.70) settled for fourth place. Pulaski, Shayla Webb, McKenna Bradford and Sydney Florczyk finished third in the 4×200 in 1:55.21, with Liverpool getting Harper, Johnson, Natalie Kurz and Natalie Tauro to fourth place in 1:56.28.
Norris also was second in the 600 in 1:44.18, while Davis (1:45.80) beat out Liverpool’s Morgan Chewning-Kulick (1:47.65) for fourth place. LeRoy was second in the 300 in 43.91 seconds, while Pulaski (45.21 seconds) was fifth. Annina Marullo went 3:13.24 in the 1,000 and finished second, ahead of the Warriors’ Windsor Ardner (3:18.76) in third place as Haley Pestle was sixth in 3:24.31.
Liverpool went 1-2 in the 1,500-meter run, where Juliana Basla won in a swift 4:45.56 and Vanessa Eberhard was second in 4:57.85, beating out Marullo (5:05.72) in third place and Dembowski (5:19.76) in fifth place.
It was the same in the pole vault, where Kelley Townley won for the Warriors, clearing 9 feet, and Mackenzie Case (8 feet) was second. Basla, Eberhard, Ardner and Mallory Woytowicz were second in the 4×800 in 10:04.13, with C-NS getting Davis, Marullo, Norris and Jamie Wagner get third place in 10:14.55.
Jillian Stagnitta finished second in the 3,000-meter run in 10:58.10, just ahead of C-NS teammates Emily Dembowski (11:08.40) in third and Megan Trubia (11:36.19) in fourth place. Sarah Lavalley finished sixth in the shot put (27’6 ½”) behind Butler.
All of this sets up next Wednesday’s Section III Class AA championships at SRC Arena, where C-NS and Liverpool face a challenge from Fayetteville-Manlius, who swept both CNYCL American division meets.