A hectic, crowded track and field schedule included East Syracuse Minoa and Christian Brothers Academy hosting meets on consecutive days.
It started with Thursday’s ESM Girls Invitational, where the host Spartans saw a record-setting effort from Mia Montgomery as it earned 52 points for fourth place, with Jamesville-DeWitt getting 44 points, behind Liverpool, Cicero-North Syracuse and Tully.
In the triple jump, Montgomery set a new school record, her best attempt of 37 feet 9 inches beating Liverpool’s Marissa Baskin (35’6 ½”) by more than two feet as Julia Perrotta was fifth with 32’8 ½”.
And though Montgomery does not specialize in the long jump, she won that event, too, going 16’2 ½” to edge J-D’s Denise Yaeger, who was half an inch behind at 16’2”. ESM had Sophie Hartz take sixth place with 15’8 ½”.
Jennah Ferrari, clearing 5’1” in the high jump, was second to C-NS’s Liliana Klemanski (5’3”), while Mackenzie Bourdon would finish second (16.96 seconds) to Corcoran’s Kiari Hameed (16.20) in the 100-meter hurdles.Sara Bourdon had a fourth-place shot put toss of 29’11 ½” as Lauren Riihinen was 10th in the discus.
Montgomery, Hartz, Lashae Benjamin and Mackenzie Bourdon were fourth in the 4×100 relay in 51.59 seconds while Bourdon, Kassandra Burr, Kat Boland and Melanie DeFeo got to fourth place in the 4×400 relay in 4:29.91.
On her own, Benjamin needed 13.67 seconds to gain sixth place in the 100-meter dash. Benjamin was eighth and Hartz ninth and in the 200-meter dash.
For J-D, Alexandria Payne provided lots of highlights as she pulled away to win the pentathlon.
Payne’s total of 3,043 points was nearly 700 points ahead of Liverpool’s Lauren Fradette (2,350) as Payne went 15.59 seconds in the 100 hurdles and had a long jump of 16’8 ¾”, easily ahead of the actual winners of those individual events, Montgomery and Hameed.
Sophia Vinciguerra, in 2:30.01, gained second place in the 800-meter run as Grace Bridge got fifth place in 2:32.90. Vinciguerra, Bridge, Amelia Gilbert and Olivia Budelman got third place in the 4×800 relay in 10:38.71.
Eva Wisniewski contended in the pole vault for the Rams, clearing 8 feet to finish third. Abby Palin needed 5:19.34 to finish sixth in the 1,500-meter run.
Yeager also was sixth in the triple jump, going 32’6 ½”, with Amber Hamerink seventh as Yaeger took seventh and Jenna VanVraken eighth in the 400-meter dash. Abby Leavitt was seventh and Ayla Erwin ninth in the 3,000-meter run.
Following all this, CBA got its turn when it hosted Friday’s Brother Basilian Invitational, where the hosts did quite well, finishing third in the girls standings behind Oneida and Vernon-Verona-Sherrill.
Cory Knox won the girls 400 hurdles for CBA, her time of 1:11.14 well clear of the field as Manlius-Pebble Hill had Maggie Sexton-Dwyer finish fourth in 1:17.09.
Skye Ryan, in the shot put, heaved it 30 feet, second to Faith Heritage’s Sydni Kelly, who won with 30’5 ½”. Bri Pucci was third in the 1,500 in 5:13.93.
Bishop Grimes junior Wenjing Chen was second in the long jump with a top leap of 15’8” behind Oneida’s Julianna Cavanagh (16’6 ¼”). MPH also had Tyler Germain finish fifth in the high jump, clearing 4’4”, with the Trojans getting sixth place in the 4×800 in 12:12.97.
In the boys Basilian meet, CBA had Joel Gaffney get to third place in the mile in 4:44.02, with Phillip Tam unleashing a fourth-place discus throw of 105’3”.
ESM competed here, too, with Myles Riggins getting third place in the 110 high hurdles in 16.59 seconds. Nick Berg, Tyler Hodge, Josh Cain and Dan Berry were third in the 4×800 in 9:14.63 as Gabe Holloman was fifth (105’8”) in the discus behind Tam
