Now the Jamesville-DeWitt boys indoor track and field team has a Section III Class A championship to add to this season’s lengthy resume.
The Red Rams powered to the top of the standings Saturday at SRC Arena and piled up 185 points, well clear of East SyracuseMinoa, who managed to get second place with 83 points.
A 1-2 finish in the high jump had Caleb Smith clearing 5 feet 10 inches to beat out Nick Dekaney, who topped 5’8”, Smith adding another title in the long jump when he went 20’3” as James Richer’s shot put toss of 42’5 1/2” beat out teammate Ben Staples’ 39’4 3/4”.
Getting 20 points in the 1,600-meter run, J-D had Kaleel Boykins win in 4:42.94, with Ahviere Reese third in 4:47.58 and Jacob Cottet (4:50.34) in fourth place.
Nick Dekaney had to go 8.05 seconds to edge ESM’s Michael Parks (8.06) by one-hundredth of a second and Rocky El (8.07) by two-hundredths of a second in a tight 55-meter hurdles battle. Parks added a third-place high jump of 5’6”.
Later, in the 4×200, the Rams had Dekaney, Joe Staples, Josh Duby and Haberle Conlon pull away for a win in 1:35.40, nearly nine second ahead of the 1:45.34 from second-place Central Square.
Staples, in 6.72 seconds, beat out Duby (6.87) for second place in the 55-meter dash and also was sixth in the long jump, with Duby second (37.43 seconds) to Oswego’s Ben Lewis (37.36) in the 300-meter dash and Conlon third in 38.37 seconds.
Conlon also helped J-D to second place in the 4×400 relay in 3:46.55 Nate Rindfuss got second in the 3,200-meter run in 11:11.54 and Smith topped 9’6” in the pole vault for third place.
ESM’s Kevin Hasty gave his team a highlight with his winning weight throw of 47’4’” beating out Richer’s 45’9” as Logan Cowell was third with 41’9′ 1/2” and the Rams’ Jason Pritts was fourth with 41’3”.
Nick Berg was victorious in the 1,000-meter run in 2:39.59 over J-D teammates Kaleel Boykins (2:43.51) and Sam Smith (2:47.73), with Berg also sixth in the 1,600. El again won the triple jump, flying 41’3 1/2” as Caleb Smith was third (40’5 1/4”) and Aniket Maini fourth (37’10 3/4”) for J-D.
Hasty was third in the shot put with 37’11” as Cowell (37’3 1/4”) was fourth, with Aiden Hirt fourth in the long jump with 17’11 1/2” and Parks fifth. ESM went 3:48.81 for third place in the 4×400 as Bennett Ferrari was fourth in the pole vault, also clearing 9’6”.
In the girls sectional Class A meet, J-D, just like it did in the SCAC Empire meet a week earlier, finished second with 81 points as Central Square (121 points) again won and ESM was sixth with 43 points.
The girls Red Rams’ lone win on the track came in the 4×200 as Monica Hernandez, Laetticia Bazile, Janna VanVraken and Rainer Yaeger went 1:54.28 to runner-up Whitesboro’s 1:56.70, with ESM fourth in 1:58.20.
Bazile gave J-D a victory in the high jump, clearing 5’2” as Hernandez tied for fifth, with Yaeger beating the field in the triple jump by going 33’10 1/4” and second in the long jump with 16’3 1/4”.
Grace Bridge took second place in the 600 in 1:46.40, while Madeline Foss was fourth in the 3,000-meter run as J-D took third in the 4×400 in 4:32.43 and fourth in the 4×800.
Eva Wisniewski, clearing 8’6”, was third in the pole vault, while Lucy Heflin (7 feet) was fifth. Bazile was fourth (9.67 seconds) and Monica Hernandez fifth (9.69) in the 55 hurdles, plus Jenna VanVraken fifth in the 300.
ESM got a win from Rylie King, who went 7.77 seconds in the 55 sprint to beat out the 7.85 from Whitesboro’s McKenna Knapp.
Kayleigh Maloof, fifth in the 55 sprint, did far better in the triple jump, her 32’4 1/4” second only to Yaeger..Rhiannon Butchko, clearing 5 feet, got to third place in the high jump as the Spartans were fifth in the 4×400 and sixth in the 4×800.
