Cold, windy conditions greeted area track and field teams for last Wednesday’s league openers, where they met with wildly varying degrees of success.
Jamesville-DeWitt had little trouble in its SCAC Empire division battles against Oswego and Cortland. The girls Red Rams scored 221 points to outdistance the Buccaneers’ 146 and the Purple Tigers’ 38.
Denise Yaeger won three times for the J-D girls, going 33 feet 9 inches in the triple jump and 15’2 ¼” in the long jump as she also was first in the 100-meter dash in 13.3 seconds.
Monica Hernandez-Olivera went 28.4 seconds in the 200-meter dash and claimed the 100 hurdles in 17.2 seconds, while Laetticia Bazile cleared 4’8” in the high jump and added a 400 hurdles title in 1:18.9.
Elsewhere, Lana Wisniewski cleared 7’6” in the pole vault, while Brelyn Tyler threw the shot put 24’9”. Madeline Carter took the 400-meter dash (1:10.3) and Sophia Vinciguerra won the 800-meter run (2:37.3). The Rams also swept the 4×100 (54.1 seconds), 4×400 (4:50.9) and 4×800 (11:14.3) relays.
J-D’s boys routed Oswego 115-25 and Cortland 103-38, with Mike Potamianos sprinting to wins in the 400 (54.7 seconds) and 200 (24.0 seconds) as Haberle Conlon won the 100 in 11.3 seconds to Andrew Balotin’s 11.5.
Balotin and Conlon were part of the Rams’ 4×100 relay win in 46.2 seconds, just as Nico Stella took the 400 hurdles in 1:08.5, Nick Dekaney won the 110 hurdles (16.6 seconds) and Fidel Martinez won the 800 in 2:04.7.
In field events, the Rams had James Richer unleash a discus throw of 126’6 ½” as he tossed the shot put 40’1 ¾” to edge Caleb Patterson (38’2”), while Ben Virgo cleared 9 feet in the pole vault, Mario Smith went 19’3” in the long jump and Juan Smith went 35’5 ½” to win the triple jump.
What seemed quite a showdown between Fayetteville-Manlius and Cicero-North Syracuse was tempered a bit by the cold conditions and the fact that the Northstars won both sides of it by equal margins of 92-49.
Swept in the girls field events, the Hornets did get wins on the oval, starting with Claire Walters going 4:53.7 in the 1,500-meter run and Susan Bansbach winning the 400-meter dash in 1:00.8.
Phoebe White ran 2:29.1 in the 800 as Hannah Kaercher took the 3,000-meter run in 11:03 flat. White, Walters, Maddy Duggleby and Lejla Borcilo ran the 4×800 relay in 10:21.2 before Bansbach joined White, Walters and Duggleby in taking the 4×400 relay in 4:16.2.
Not only was the score similar in the boys meet, so was the way in which F-M got points, for the most part, the Hornets seeing Nolan Chiles prevail twice as he ran the mile in 4:36.4 and the 800 in 2:05.5.
Peyton Geehrer was first in the 3,200-meter run in 9:51 flat as Chiles, Garrett Brennan, Sam Otis and J Meskos took the 4×800 in 8:36.4. Ryan Serp got first place in the 400 hurdles in 1:03.1, with Sawyer Dereszynski unleashing a top discus throw of 122’4”.
Christian Brothers Academy won its boys opener over Solvay 84-43, helped by Riley Nash taking the mile in 5:22.4 and the 3,200 in 11:08.1. Caleb Krueger and Zach Medicis both finished in 2:11.7 in the 800. Joel Gaffney was first in the 400 sprint in 54.7 seconds.
Noah Silfka took the 110 hurdles in 19.2 seconds as Phillip Tam threw the discus 92’10 1/4” and Steve Sayles cleared 4’10” in the high jump. The Brothers managed to sweep the 4×100 (49.8 seconds) and 4×800 (9:36.09) relays.
Then CBA took part in Friday’s Chittenango Relays for Hope, winning the boys sprint medley relay in 3:54.09 to edge runner-up Jordan-Elbridge (3:54.68) and also prevailing in the 4×800 in 8:33.80.
East Syracuse Minoa was in Saturday’s Tully Girls Invitational, where Sophie Hartz won the 100 sprint in 13.32 seconds, with Lailani Carrion third and Rylie King fourth.
Carrion took third and King fifth in the 200, and that whole group helped the Spartans prevail in the 4×100 in a time of 52.38 seconds as Hartz had a third-place long jump of 15’ ½”. Sara Bourdon was fourth in both the shot put (31’3 ¼”) and discus (90’10”).
Maria Markert won the pole vault by clearing 8’6”, with Kayleigh Maloof third. Jennah Ferrari, clearing 4’10”, was second in the high jump, while Jessica Stevens got third place in the 100 hurdles and Maloof was fifth. Ally O’Brien got fifth place in the 800
