The Sknaeateles indoor track and field team moved right into contention against the large schools during last Saturday’s season-opening Jack Morse Relays at SUNY-Cortland.
All the Lakers did on the girls side was take fourth place with 42.5 points, not far from Liverpool’s winning total of 55 points. On the boys end, Skaneateles tied Fayetteville-Manlius for sixth with 25 points, as again the Warriors (44 points) prevailed.
Led by Caroline Walton and Joanna Dean, the girls Lakers won the shot put with two combined tosses of 61 feet 7 inches. And in the high jump, Gabby Eckles and Emma Ford had total clearances of 9 feet 9 inches, which also led to victory.
Skaneateles took second in the long jump with two leaps of 28 feet 5 3/4 inches. Danielle Mazzeo, Claire Motyl, Cassie VanSlyke and Alex Clark landed in fourth in the 4×800 relay in 11:25.84.
In the 4×400, Ford, Courtney Pitman, Taylor Woodruff and Maddie Sherman matched that fourth-place finish in 4:45.84. Skaneateles also was fourth in the 55-meter hurdles (22.19 seconds).
Meanwhile, in the boys edition of the Morse relays, the Lakers had two long jumps that added up to 32 feet 10 1/4 inches, good for second place behind Corcoran (35 feet 3 inches).
And in the high jump Skaneateles cleared 11 feet, just two inches worse than Corcoran, who won again. Two triple jumps of 70 feet 1 inch that meant a third-place finish as the Lakers added a fifth (67 feet 11 inches) in the shot put.
