Tough as it was for the Baldwinsville boys track and field team to absorb that April 19 defeat to Liverpool, it didn’t fret for too long.
In fact, the Bees’ very next outing was a triumphant one as it went to Fayetteville-Manlius last Wednesday afternoon and, with superior depth in all the disciplines, rolled to a 104-37 victory over the Hornets.
Kenny Stehle led the B’ville runners, going 16.4 seconds in the 110 high hurdles before rolling to a win in the 400-meter hurdles in 56.3 seconds.
Elsewhere in the Bees’ sprint sweep, Jack Buis tore to a time of 10.8 seconds in the 100-meter dash, while Greg Porceng won the 200-meter dash in 22.5 seconds. Kieran Sheridan took his turn in the 400-meter dash, prevailing in 51 seconds flat as Adam Davis ran 800 meters in 2:01.4.
B’ville also swept the relays. Davis, Sheridan, Evan Vannatta and Connor McManus went 8:14.2 in the 4×800 before Buis, Porceng, Tyler Luciano and Justin Goodridge rolled to first in the 4×100 in 44.5 seconds. Stehle, Sheridan, Vannatta and Mike Lawrence needed 3:40.6 to prevail in the 4×400.
In the field events, though F-M’s Romello Mitchell won the long jump, triple jump and high jump, B’ville countered with Gabe Horan unleashing a discus throw of 136 feet 10 inches, while Judson Fletcher threw the shot put 45’10”. Jaeho Lee, clearing 11 feet, won the pole vault.
As that was going on, the B’ville girls track team nearly upended F-M, winning most of the sprints and field events, but unable to dent the Hornets in the distance runs in the course of a 73-68 defeat.
Still, Adriana Straughter won twice for the Bees, clearing 5’2” in the high jump after zipping through the 100 hurdles in 15.4 seconds. Lauren Addario was victorious in the 100 sprint in 12.6 seconds, with Karen Ekure taking the 200 in 25.9 seconds.
Aside from Straughter’s long jump conquest, B’ville also had Danielle Marsell throw the discus 102’4” to win that event as Anna Miller had a top shot put toss of 30’3”. Maya Hewitt, clearing 7 feet, prevailed in the pole vault.
B’ville’s only other individual race win came in the 400 hurdles, where Shylea Dukat prevailed by going 1:07.3. Otherwise, F-M won every distance race, swept by Sophia Ryan (800 meters), Rebecca Walters (1,500) and Claire Walters (3,000), plus got wins in the 4×400 (4:07.9) and 4×800 (9:55.1) relays.
Those same two teams were together with the likes of Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse on Friday for the Chittenango Invitational. B’ville’s boys finished with 78 points, second only to C-NS’s 107 as the girls Bees finished third with 54 points behind F-M and Liverpool.
On the boys side, B’ville gained its lone win in the shot put, where Fletcher unleashed a throw of 46’4 ½” to beat the field by more than three feet. Horan tried to match that finish in the discus, heaving it 122’8”, but that was second to Central Square’s Justin Allison, who threw it 135’3”.
Buis was second in the 100 sprint in 11.22 seconds, with Porceng fourth in 11.55 seconds. In the 4×100, Buis, Porceng, Goodridge and Luciano were second in 43.99 seconds behind C-NS, who needed 43.72 seconds to prevail. Goodrige also took fourth in the 400 hurdles in 58.75 seconds as Josh Scholten (1:00.65) finished seventh.
Sheridan, in 1:59.49, was a close second to Phoenix’s Bryce Burns (1:59 flat) in the 800, with Vannatta eighth. Stehle got third place in the 400 sprint in 51.62 seconds, while Ben Timmins was third in the 3,200-meter run in 9:54.72 as John Kresovich finished eighth.
Sheridan, McManus. Davis and Evan Vannatta went 8:19.47 in the 4×800 to finish second behind Niskayuna’s 8:15.68. Stehle, Porceng, Luciano and Lawrence were third in the 4×400 in 3:35.12. Davis ran in the featured Fleet Feet Mile and got seventh place in 4:29.69 as Garrett Vannatta was 12th in
Kevin Starr made it to fifth place in the five-event pentathlon, earning 2,148 points. Nate Jaquint was eighth and Nate Cutie 10th in the 110 hurdles, while Evan Bidermann was 11th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Catalano was seventh in the triple jump (39’8”) as Lee was ninth in the pole vault, clearing 10’6”.
Meanwhile, on the girls side, Straughter took her shot at the pentathlon and, with 2,720 points, beat everyone except Jamesville-DeWitt star Alexandria Payne, who won with 2,982 points.
In the 100 sprint, Addario (12.96 seconds) and Ekure (12.97 seconds) were inches behind Liverpool’s Kierra Richardson, who won in 12.95 seconds. But in the 4×100, no one topped Addario, Ekure, Dukat and Emily Paul as, in 50.66 seconds, it beat Liverpool (51.04) and the field, while Addario also had a third-place triple jump of 34’10 ¾”.
Dukat, in 1:06.83, got nipped in the 400 hurdles by West Genesee’s Megan Delia, whose 1:06.81 set a Wildcats school record as Mackenzie Wodka was sixth in 1:14.11. Mia Bolton got fourth place in the 800 in 2:29.53, with Patricia Conlan eighth in 2:32.36. Justus Holden-Betts was ninth in the Fleet Feet Mile in 5:20.60.
Elizabeth Fawwaz made it to sixth place in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7;54.28. Abigail Scherfling was eighth and Wodka ninth in the 100 hurdles, with Courtney Clute eighth in the 400 sprint and helping the Bees finish sixth (4:22.16) in the 4×400. B’ville also was sixth in the 4×800 in 10:44.45.
Jordyn Boutilier was eighth in the long jump with a top leap of 14’10” as Marina Blasi got 10th place. Danielle Marsell threw the shot put 29’ ¾” to get eighth place. Miller took 10th place in the discus. Maya Hewitt and Katie Weaver were 11th and 12th, respectively, in the pole vault.
