Amid the 20 girls cross country teams gathered at Jamesville Beach Park for Saturday’s Onondaga High School League championship meet, Skaneateles emerged as a strong entry.
All told, the Lakers earned 176 points, finishing sixth overall, third among OHSL Liberty division entries behind Cazenovia and Marcellus. Tully won with 67 points, with Cazenovia (93 points) in second place.
Morel Malcolm’s strong freshman campaign continued as she earned 14th place in 20 minutes, 38 seconds, while Madeline Adams got 20th place in 20:56.7.
Further back, Blair Gage took 48th place in 22:09.7, just ahead of Virginia Hamlin (22:15.3) in 50th place. Shannon Byrne, in 61st place in 22:37 flat, rounded out the scoring column as Dani Mazzeo finished 65th (22:50.7) and Ellis VanSlyke was 69th in 23:01.1.
On the boys side at Jamesville Beach, Skaneateles finished 16th out of 23 teams with 416 points as Marcellus (55 points) earned back-to-back OHSL titles.
Sam Kriever led the way, taking 48th place in 18:18.4. John Watt was 89th in 19:14.5 as Nick Smolenski (19:33.5), Patrick Biver (19:38.4) and Matt Delasin (19:39.0) closely followed.
Each of the Skaneateles sides are heading to Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School on Saturday for the Section III championships. Races start at 11 a.m.
