As it had done many times before, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls track and field team left the rest of the field behind during Wednesday’s CNY Counties League American division championship meet at Cicero-North Syracuse’s Bragman Stadium.
At the same venue where the state meet will be held June 11-12, the Hornets, with 221.5 points, nearly doubled the total of runner-up Central Square, who had 120.5 points. West Genesee was third with 73 points.
Half those points arose from F-M’s complete takeover of the distance races. Courtney Chapman and Molly Malone led that push, Chapman winning the 1,500-meter run in a time of 4:34.87 and adding a 3,000-meter title in 9:58.56, the only sub-10-minute time of the afternoon.
Malone took her turn in the 800-meter run, ripping to a time of 2:11.10, nine seconds ahead of Katie Sischo (2:20.22) and Mackenzie Carter (2:20.90) in a 1-2-3 sweep. Meanwhile, in the 400-meter dash, Malone, in 58.51 seconds, beat Heather Martin (59.66 seconds) as Sischo finished fourth.
Behind Chapman, Hannah Luber was second in the 1,500 in 4:37.40 as Jillian Fanning (4:42.71) claimed third place, with the orders switched in the 3,000 as Fanning finished second (10:04.46) and Luber (10:31.32) got third place.
In the 4×400 relay, Chapman, Martin, Audrey Wallace and Kathryn Fanning blazed to victory in 4:09.36, while in the 4×800 Carter, Maggie Malone, Kathryn Fanning and Mary Bucklin finished in 9:32.82, more than a minute ahead of the field.
Molly Levy, in a time of 13.42 seconds, prevailed in the 100-meter dash, with Alyssa Hamel fourth and Hanna Lee sixth. Levy also took second in the 200-meter dash (27.83 seconds) and, with Hamel, Lee and Shannon Da Rin, claimed a win in the 4×100 relay in 52.22 seconds.
Alexa Cappozi, with a total of 2,025 points, beat teammate Heather Rougeux (1,923 points) as the Hornets went 1-2 in the pentathlon.
Wallace, on her own, landed in second in the 100-meter high hurdles (16.71 seconds) and 400-meter hurdles (1:08.91), with Oswego’s Eliza Parker winning both times. Isabel Carapella gave F-M fifth-place finishes in both hurdle events.
In field events, Jhoville Pommels finished second in the shot put, tossing it 29 feet 3 3/4 inches as Jillian Schwab (28 feet 7 inches) got third place. Tammy Gould was fourth in the discus (81 feet 10 inches), while Wallace was fourth in the triple jump (29 feet 10 3/4 inches) and Da Rin took sixth in the long jump. Sara Rothschild earned fourth in the high jump and Emily Trapani finished sixth.
