Repeating what it had done in the regular season, the Cicero-North Syracuse girls track and field team earned first place in Wednesday’s CNY Counties League National division championship meet at Bragman Stadium.
The Northstars picked up 172.5 points, beating runner-up Utica Proctor (139 points) as Liverpool slipped into third place, earning 119 points.
Maria Lamontagne offered up a memorable moment during CNS’s 1-2 sweep of the 3,000-meter run. Lamontagne finished in a time of 10 minutes, 4.02 seconds, the best 3,000 of any eighth-grader in the nation this year, to beat teammate Taylor Wendler by 1.97 seconds. Mackenzie Cummings finished sixth.
CNS also went 1-2 in the 1,500-meter run, where Nicole Watterud won in 4:57.39 and Marissa Colburn was just behind in 4:58.19. Katie Laris took sixth.
Colburn also was second in the 2,000-meter steeplechase (7:52.80), where Jacqlynn Halstead was third (7:58.47) and Sarah Shannon was sixth. Nicole Campagna claimed second in the 800-meter run in 2:24.79 and Shannon Bausinger was sixth.
Jasmine Thompson earned points on several different fronts. With a long jump of 16 feet 11 1/2 inches, Thompson edged Utica Proctor’s Geannitta McClain by 3/4 of an inch. She also got second in the 100-meter high hurdles (15.52 seconds) and third in the high jump (5 feet).
Katie Osborne joined in, too, getting second in the high jump, just ahead of Thompson (5 feet, but with fewer misses) and adding a third in the long jump (16 feet 2 1/2 inches) and third in the 100 hurdles (15.72 seconds).
Valerie Langevin gave the Northstars a victory in the discus with a throw of 104 feet 11 inches, with Casey Wilmer in fifth. Langevin and Wilmer were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the shot put behind teammate Mariah Thomson (35 feet 2 inches), who was second. Brooke Binion was second in the pentathlon with 2,269 points as Brianne Studt finished fifth.
Liverpool saw Trina Bills win the 800-meter run in 2:20 flat, with teammate Rachel Putman in third (2:25.63). In the 400-meter hurdles, Bills claimed second (1:09.25), with teammates Katie Rowell in third (1:11.24) and Chenae Sinclair (1:11.28) in fourth.
Putman also helped Ali Whiting, Mary Ann Savage and Melissa Riehl win the 4×800 relay in 10:18.85 as CNS (10:26.39) settled for third. CNS also got third in the 4×100, just ahead of the Warriors in fourth, as Liverpool added a fourth in the 4×400 and CNS settled for fifth.
Lesley Bowers, third in the 1,500 (4:59.93), took over in the 2,000 steeplechase, finishing ahead of the CNS pack and winning in a time of 7:30.45, with fellow Warriors Kyla Bills and Riehl fourth and fifth, respectively.
Chelsea Attaway took fourth in the 3,000, but fared better in the pole vault, clearing 8 feet 6 inches for third place as Erika Salem claimed fourth.
Skye Borasky took second place in the 400-meter dash (1:02.76), with Ashley Letteney in fourth place. Tatiana Gladney threw the shot put 34 feet 5 1/4 inches for third place.
Megan Earle was fourth in the pentathlon, while Meagan Turner claimed fourth in the long jump and Armani Moore took fifth in the long jump and sixth in both the triple jump and 100.