As the Oneida boys track and field team headed to Rome Free Academy Stadium for Friday’s Section III Class A-2 championship meet, it did so with a very long memory.

The Indians remembered that rival Vernon Verona Sherrill had beaten them in their April 28 regular-season encounter, and the A-2 field was situated just so that Oneida could find atonement at the best place possible.

And indeed, that’s what took place. With 137.33 points, Oneida beat eight others, including VVS, who had to settle for second place with 106 points. New Hartford was third with 93.33 points.

It proved to be yet another showcase for Oneida’s Mike Rabbitt, who earned four individual titles. He ran the 110-meter high hurdles in a winning 15.22 seconds, then held off VVS’s Tyler Curtis, 22.58 seconds to 22.77, to take the 200-meter dash.

Rabbitt went 21 feet 2 1/4 inches to dominate the long jump. And in the high jump, Rabbitt, by clearing 6 feet 4 inches, led a 1-2-3 Indians sweep as Eric Riley (6 feet 2 inches) finished second and Jimmy Moyer (5 feet 10 inches) took third.

Riley would team up with Moyer to sweep the top spots in the triple jump as Riley went 42 feet 1/2 inch and Moyer (41 feet 6 1/2 inches) settled into second place. Moyer also was fourth in the 110 high hurdles behind Rabbitt as Riley worked his way to second place in the 400-meter hurdles in 59.10 seconds.

Oneida also found some success in distance races as Jeb Stewart, Connor Lomonaco, Ben Adams and James Barr combined to win the 4×800 relay in a time of 8:39.85.

That same quartet was third (3:39.04) in the 4×400 as Stewart, on his own, snatched second place in the 800-meter run in 2:07.43. Conor McCarthy claimed fourth place in the 3,200-meter run (10:28.45) as Lomonaco tied for sixth in the pole vault.

Kyle Blessing threw the discus 130 feet 5 inches, second only to Mexico’s Andrew Grant (133 feet 6 inches), while Dan Margo earned second place in the shot put with a toss of 41 feet 5 1/4 inches. Tyler Neal was fifth in the pentathlon.

VVS had a fair share of wins, too. Curtis, edged by Rabbitt in the 200, would finish on top in the 100-meter dash, his time of 11.26 seconds clear of New Hartford’s Greg Sholtzhauer (11.48) and the rest.

Meanwhile, Matt Femia cleaned up in the middle distances, needing 49.72 seconds to edge Homer star Andrew Gregg (49.87) in a dramatic duel in the 400-meter dash, where Neal Fahey was fifth. In the 800, Femia struck again, his time of 2:03.77 beating Stewart by more than three seconds as Bobby Mumford (2:08.69) took fourth place.

Curtis and Femia then teamed up in the 4×100 relay as they, along with Fahey and Ryan Dugan, blazed to victory in 44.89 seconds, with New Hartford (45.55) again in second. Dugan and Fahey joined Mumford and Dylan Guider to finish second in the 4×400 in 3:35.86.

Elsewhere for VVS, Mike Eichenlaub was third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:41.80, while Seth MacDonald got third in the 3,200-meter run in 10:22.83. MacDonald also was third in the mile (4:41.71), just ahead of Eichenlaub in fifth place. In the 4×800, Adam Litterio and Tom Visalli joined Eichenlaub and Mumford to finish third in 8:44.68.

Nash Robb claimed fourth in both the long jump (19 feet 6 3/4 inches) and triple jump (40 feet 9 1/2 inches) and had a fifth-place discus throw of 113 feet 9 inches. Aaron Owens cleared 11 feet for fourth place in the pole vault.

The Red Devils’ Eli Cleveland earned 2,435 points for fourth place in the pentathlon, where Chittenango’s Bruce Gondeck gave his team its biggest highlight of the A-2 meet as he won with a total of 2,897 points, 267 clear of Sherburne-Earlville’s Eric Muth.

Also for the Bears, Brian Bohne claimed third place in the 100 in 11.62 seconds, was fifth in the 200 (23.74 seconds) and took sixth in the 400. Kevin Carr got fifth in the steeplechase John LaPlante was fifth in the pole vault (10 feet 6 inches) and John Durfee got sixth place in the 3,200. Chittenango was fifth in the 4×800 for its best relay effort.