A sweep of the top five positions in the 200-meter dash provided a major highlight of the Skaneateles girls track and field team’s efforts during last Tuesday’s Westhill-Bishop Ludden Spring Break Invitational.
Cecilia Marrinan and Mia Grasso finished in close to a dead heat in the 200, but Marrinan prevailed, 27.325 seconds to 27.326, the difference of one-thousandth of a second. Then Amanda Wetmore finished third in 27.54 seconds, with Shannon Roberts fourth (27.78 seconds) and Olivia Gage fifth in 27.84 seconds. On top of all that, K atelyn Ellison finished seventh in 28.58 seconds.
Overall, the Lakers earned 34 of its 79.5 points from that single event, and ended up third overall in the standing behind Tully, who won with 114 points by sweeping the top spots in distance races, and host Westhill-Ludden, who was second with 87 points, mostly from wins in field events.
Wetmore, having finished third in the 200, won the 100-meter dash in 13.01 seconds, while Marrinan took third place in 13.30 seconds, with Gage and Ellison seventh and eighth, respectively. Also, Wetmore took fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 28 feet 10 ¾ inches.
Grasso was victorious in the high jump, clearing 4 feet 10 inches, two inches ahead of Tully’s Ellen Jaworski (4’8”). Katherine Carlile took third place in the discus with a heave of 75’4”, with Ali Grant fifth as she threw it 69’8”. Natalie Condon was seventh in the 800-meter run in 2:33.06. Roberts was sixth in the long jump, going 14’7” as Grasso (14’1 ¾”) was eighth.
Skaneateles also took second place in the 4×400 relay as Ellison, Grasso, Roberts and Gage posted a time of 4:15.89, only trailing Christian Brothers Academy, who won in 4:07 flat. Emma Bohrer was fifth in the shot put with a toss of 25 feet.
In the boys Westhill-Ludden meet, Max Moss had the best finish, unleashing a fourth-place triple jump of 34 feet 11 inches as Westhill-Ludden’s Keandre Sanders won, going 38’4”.
Cross Bianchi, Matt Leveroni, Ryan Willcox and Matt Pacioriek rose to fifth place in the 4×400 in 4:06.81. On an individual basis, Leveroni was 10th in the 100 sprint in 12.59 seconds, adding an 11th-place effort in the 200 in 25.16 seconds as Bianchi finished 15th following a seventh-place long jump of 16’11”. Jon Stabile was 11th in the discus.
The weekend featured the Skaneateles girls going to Marcellus for the meet the two programs co-host each spring. No points were given out, but the Lakers still had a big impact, start to finish.
Among other things, the Lakers won two of three relays. In 50.89 seconds, Skaneateles pulled away from Jordan-Elbridge (52.86 seconds) in the 4×100, but really dominated the 4×400, where Grasso, Peterson, Roberts and Gage went 4:06.75, more than 24 seconds ahead of the Eagles’ 4:31.03.
Individually, Grasso was victorious in the 400 hurdles, going 1;08.02 to beat out West Canada Valley’s Cora Maxwell (1:09.48) after Maxwell had won the 100 hurdles earlier in the meet. Grasso also claimed third place in the high jump, clearing 5’2” for the best Skaneateles finish in field events.
Peterson would finish a close second (26.38 seconds) to Sauquoit Valley’s Marissa Jones (26.18 seconds) in the 200, with Roberts getting third place in 26.66 seconds. In the 100 sprint, Krause posted 13.13 seconds and, like Peterson, was a runner-up to Jones (13.06 seconds)as Marrinan, in 13.21 seconds, gained third place.
Condon got to sixth place in the 800 in 2:37.64 and was sixth in the 1,500 in 5:28.69. Krause was seventh in the long jump, with Lyda Buck taking seventh place in the pole vault. Maddy Brogan was 14th in the 3,000-meter run,
Just before that, the Skaneateles boys track team took part in the Chittenango Invitational, where it earned 16 points to take 13th place in a crowded field full of large schools, including Liverpool (113 points) and Cicero-North Syracuse (83 points) in the top two spots.
Of those 16 points, 10 of them came by Chase Corcoran winning the discus. Unleashing a throw of 115 feet 11 inches, Corcoran managed to hold off Altmar-Parish-Williamstown’s Takota Jacobson (114’3”) by 20 inches and get first place. Corcoran also was 12th in the shot put as Jon Stabile got 25th place.
Tommy Hagen had a fourth-place triple jump of 40’ ¾”, and made it to sixth place in the 110 high hurdles in 16.58 seconds. Chris Niebuhr was 16th in the 3,200-meter run in 11:16.15 and 22nd in the mile in 5:08.19, with Nick Paciorek 27th and Dominic Grasso 31st in the 800-meter run.
Braham Malcolm took part in the five-event pentathlon, where he earned 2,119 points to finish sixth. He fared best in the shot put, throwing it 29’3 ¼” to finish second to Mexico’s Justin Gardner (33’4 ½”) as Marcellus’ Sean Raymond won with 2,847 points.
