For the second time in as many weeks, the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse girls indoor track and field teams battled for top honors. And just like the first time, the Warriors came out on top, taking last Saturday’s John Arcaro Memorial Invitational with 63 points to the Northtstars’ total of 59 points. Jamesville-DeWitt was third with 40 points in an event where two athletes on each team combined times, distances and heights.
Liverpool piled up points in field events, including the shot put, where Tatiana Gladney and Kyrra Emanuel had total throws of 58 feet 7 1/2 inches, nearly two feet better than Skaneateles. Shae Shenandoah and Breanna Burns were second in the pole vault (14 feet), with Meagan Turner and Tammy Brodie second in the high jump as they cleared 9 feet 6 inches between them. CNS was fifth (9 feet). Brodie and Shanice Leach were fourth in the long jump (25 feet 9 1/2 inches) as Armani Moore and Megan Earle took fourth in the triple jump (59 feet 5 1/4 inches), just behind the CNS tandem of Katie Osborne and Laura Tolbert in third (60 feet 2 1/4 inches). Moore and Hannah Anthes pushed the Warriors to the top spot in the 55-meter dash, edging Tully, 16.13 seconds to 16.17, as CNS tied for third with 16.30 seconds. The Warriors also were fifth in the 300-meter dash (1:35.49). CNS did prevail in the 55-meter high hurdles, where Jessica Wheeler and Justine Seliger had a combined time of 19.88 seconds, well clear of Baldwinvsille (20.48 seconds) as Liverpool, with 21.48 seconds, finished fifth. Also, in the 600-meter run, Marissa Colburn won the individual event in 1:46.12 as she and Nicole Campagna (third in 1:48.16) took the top spot in 3:34.28, more than 10 seconds ahead of the field. In the 3,000-meter run, Maria LaMontagne, with her top time of 10:06.87, combined with Bori Toszer to win in 21:00.42 as Liverpool’s Ashley Letteney and Rachel Putman was second in 21:55.53. Katie Laris and Dana RInaldi were third in the 1,500-meter run in 11:03.85. Neither CNS nor Liverpool proved as successful in the boys Arcaro meet, as the Northstars took fifth place with 33 points, edging the Warriors (31.5 points) in sixth place as Baldwinsville won with 51.5 points. CNS’s Mike Hyde won the individual pole vault, clearing 11 feet 6 inches with fewer misses than Marcelllus’ Nick Huss, as Hyde and Joel Brousseau tied for second in the high jump with combined leaps of 11 feet, just behind Corcoran, who won with 11 feet 2 inches. Liverpool (10 feet 10 inches) shared fourth place. Chris Buchanan raced to the top spot in the individual 1,000-meter run in 2:36.86, as Jared Walther took third and the Northstars prevailed in 5:22.56 over B’ville (5:31.59), with Liverpool in fifth. Also for the Northstars, Alex Bottorff and Derek Heiser took second in the 600-meter run in 3:07.15, with the Warriors’ Kameron Arnold and Joe Spernyak third in 3:07.73. The same thing happened in the mile, with CNS’s Anthony Lupia and Ken Ryan second (9:34.54) behind Marcellus (9:33.33) as Liverpool’s Zavon Watkins won the individual race, edging the Mustangs’ Ryan Manahan, 4:38.29 to 4:38.49. Watkins and Anthony Ostuni were third in 9:38.77 Justin McGriff and Ryan Ronk gave Liverpool a win in the triple jump, going 72 feet 5 1/2 inches to beat Jamesville-DeWitt by more than a foot. The Warriors also took fifth in the shot put (73 feet) and 55 hurdles, and were sixth in the 300.