First place in each of the OHSL Liberty American divisions was at stake for the Westhill-Bishop Ludden track and field teams, but only one of them would stay on top.
And the boys Warriors did so with an emphatic 115-25 romp over the Lakers where, between them, Keandre Sanders and Bryan King won five events.
Sanders was first in the 100-meter dash in 11.3 seconds before getting a top long jump of 20 feet ½ inch and first-place triple jump of 39’9 ½”. King, after he won the 110 high hurdles in 16.0 seconds, needed exactly 1:03 to beat the field in the 400-meter hurdles.
Elsewhere, Cody Badman won twice, going 24.4 seconds in the 200-meter dash and 53.8 seconds in the 400-meter dash, also helping Garnet Remillard, Adam French and C Niezabytowski get a time of 3:56.7 in the 4×400 relay.
Jake Suddaby won the 800-meter run in 2:11.5 and Doug Christensen went 14:01.7 in the 3,200-meter run. Sean Corbett threw the shot put 46’3”, with Evan Watt clearing 10’6” in the pole vault and Joe Connor topping 5’6” to win the high jump.
As part of a relay sweep, the Warriors saw Suddaby, French, Cade VanOrnam and Alex Ladstatter go 9:07.4 in the 4×800, followed by a 4×100 where French, Watt, Brad Zell and Ben Hunter prevailed in 46.9 seconds.
Meanwhile, the Westhill-Ludden girls could not quite keep up with Skaneateles, taking an 83-49 defeat to the Lakers.
While challenged in last Wednesday’s three-way meet, the Marcellus girls track team still managed to claim both sides of its battle with Hannibal and also sweep past Institute of Technology Central.
Marcellus, getting three wins from Mary-Catherine Coon, beat Hannibal 76-68. Coon held off Hannibal’s Taylor Dence, 12.7 seconds to 12.9, to win the 100-meter dash. Then Coon, in 26.9 seconds, pulled away from the Warriors’ Kiersten Abbott (27.4 seconds) before a high jump where she cleared 5 feet 2 inches and no one else could top 4’8”.
Johanna Sylcox, fresh off her second-place tie in the shot put in the May 7 Rome Free Academy Copper City Classic, won here with a toss of 29’11”, ahead of teammate Meg Blystone (26’4”), but was second in the discus with a throw of 62’11” to Hannibal’s Amanda Milano (64’7 ½”).
Courtney Otis cleared 7 feet in the pole vault to tie Hannibal’s Emma Sanford for top honors. Jane Stewart won the 400 hurdles in 1:15.7, with Morgan Gould first in the 1,500-meter run (5:29.1) and Karte Soja going 11:50.8 to prevail at 3,000 meters.
Haley Randall was second in the 100 hurdles and Crystal Silliman was second in the 400-meter dash. But Silliman gained valuable early points for the Mustangs when she teamed with Gould, Tora Fey and Lilly Cushman to take the 4×800 relay in 10:51.0.
Marcellus and Solvay both competed Friday in the Oneida Invitational, where the Bearcats’ Katie Harrington got second place in the girls pentathlon with 2,596 points, beaten only by Jamesville-DeWitt star Alexandria Payne, who won with 2,903 points. Nick Ferri finished third in the boys pentathlon, earning 2,234 points.
Sylcox threw the shot put 32’9 ¾” and was second to Rome Free Academy’s Sarah Crockett, who won with 34’8 ¾”. Coon took fourth in the 400 sprint in 1:02.19. Crystal Silliman was sixth in the 800 in 2:36.08, with Gould seventh in the 1,500.
The boys Mustangs had Matt Strempel go 2:05.36 in the 800 and grabbed third place, a feat Sam Stearns matched in the pole vault when he cleared 11 feet for his own third-place finish. Joe Riccardi took sixth place in the 3,200 in 10:20.53, while Ethan Mosure was seventh in the mile and Mike Provvidenti was seventh in the 200.
For Solvay, Jaidin Jackson was fourth in the discus with a 118-foot throw. Garrett Lee went 1:03.59 in the boys 400 hurdles, rising to sixth place as he also took sixth in the triple jump, going 38’7 ½”, and was ninth in the long jump. Colton Francemone was seventh in the 110 hurdles and Jordan Devereaux was seventh in the 400 sprint.
Lee, Devereaux, Dylon Ewers and Tony Matysuk (who tied for sixth in the high jump as Nate Gardner finished seventh) were sixth in the 4×100 in 46.77 seconds. Cienna Goldman was eighth in the girls 100 sprint and helped Solvay take seventh in the 4×100. Samantha Waters heaved the discus 96’2” and made it to sixth place, while Kyra Crossett finished seventh in the high jump.
