For the second week in a row, the Jamesville-DeWitt boys indoor track and field team beat a big field and claimed a team title.
This time, it took place at SRC Arena, where the Red Rams, earning 126.5 points, won the morning session of Saturday’s Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial Invitational, ahead of Cicero-North Syracuse’s runner-up total of 116.5 points.
J-D’s boys had James Richer unleash a top shot put throw of 44 feet 2 1/2 inches, while Ben Staples (39’6 3/4″) was fifth. Caleb Smith won the long jump, going 20’9 1/2″ as no one else had a 20-foot leap. Smith also finished third in the high jump, clearing 5’8″, with Nick Dekaney fourth by topping 5’6″.
On the oval, the Rams won the 300-meter dash when Josh Duby posted 37.23 seconds, chased by, among others, Haberle Conlon who was third with 38.99 seconds. Then Conlon, Duby, Joe Staples and Nick Dekaney won the 4×200 relay in 1:36.06.
Nate Rindfuss was third and Tyler Aitken was fourth in the 3,200-meter run, with Staples third in the 55-meter dash in 6.88 seconds and Duby (6.95) in fifth place. Renaldo Colon got fourth place in the 600-meter run as Brendan Coyle finished seventh.
Also in the field at the morning session, East Syracuse Minoa earned 37 points for sixth place as Christian Brothers Academy got 18 points for sixth place.
Nick Berg helped the Spartan by winning the 1,000-meter run in 2:39.55, where J-D’s Kaleel Boykins and Sam Smith were fourth and fifth, respectively, Smith also finishing fourth in the pole vault.
Rocky El prevailed, too, thanks to a triple jump of 41’10 1/2″ as Smith (38’2 1/2″) was fifth. Kevin Hasty had a second-place weight throw of 45’3 1/2″, where Richer was sixth and Ben Staples fifth.
El was third in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.25 seconds, beating out Dekaney (8.31), who was fourth. Boykins also finished eighth behind Jacob Cottet (seventh) in the 1,600-meter run.
Nearly half of CBA’s points came from Zach Medicis, Joel Gaffney, Aiden Schimpff and Michael McMahon taking second in the 4×800 relay in 3:46.22. Then Cooper Groat joined Medicis, Gaffney and McMahon to get second place in the 4×800 relay in 8:51.23.
Over in the girls edition of the Kirschenheiter meet, J-D’s girls were fourth with 52 points, with CBA getting to sixth place with 31 points and ESM in 10th place.
A win for J-D came in the high jump, where Laetticia Bazile cleared 5’2″ to edge ESM’s Rhiannon Butchko, who was second with 5’1″. Eva Wisniewski added a second-place pole vault of 8’6″ as Lucy Heflin tied for sixth.
Rainer Yaeger earned 15 points for the Rams as she had a third-place long jump of 15’11 1/2″, took fourth in the triple jump with 34’1″ and was eighth in the 55 sprint. Brelyn Tyler finished sixth in the shot put, with Faith Annan eighth.
Olivia Morganti gave CBA a win in the 3,000-meter run in 10:25.53, with J-D’s Madeline Foss fourth. Morganti, Isabella Cannizzio, Talia Cannizzio and Julia Medicis finished second in the 4×800 in 10:45.95, where J-D finished sixth and ESM eighth.
Isabella Cannizzio was third in the 1,500-meter run in 5:14.90 as ESM’s Rachael Ladd was fifth. The Brothers were fifth in the 4×400 in 4:37.72 as Annie Toole was sixth in the 1,000.
ESM had Kaleigh Maloof finish fifth in the 55 hurdles in 10.08 seconds, with J-D’s Monica Hernandez sixth as she also helped the Rams finish fifth in the 4×200 in 1:58.27 to the Spartans’ sixth-place 1:59.56.
