Each of the Skaneateles indoor track and field team worked their way to fourth-place finishes during Sunday’s Bob Grieve Memorial Invitational at SUNY-Cortland, the last event before next week’s Section III championships at Colgate.
On the girls side, the Lakers produced 38 points, not too far from Fayetteville-Manlius, who had the winning total of 62 points, as once again events were held as relays, with combined times, distances and heights.
Caroline Walton won the individual shot put with a toss of 34 feet 5 1/2 inches as she and Joanna Dean (26 feet 11 inches) teamed to win the event with a combined distance of 61 feet 4 1/2 inches, nearly seven feet ahead of runner-up F-M.
Emma Ford, Dianne Vitkus, Taylor Woodruff and Anna Barnett teamed up for second place in the 4×400 relay in 4:22.71, beaten only by F-M, who won in 4:16.79. Later, Woodruff and Ford were second in the long jump, going 30 feet between them.
Madeline Adams was third among individuals in the 1,500-meter run in a time of 5:02.21, as she and Claire Motyl took third place overall in 10:50.03. Casey Van Slyke and Jane Gaffney were fourth in the 600-meter run (3:48.70).
Going to the boys meet, Skaneateles picked up 34 points, holding off West Genesee (32) and Corcoran (31) for that fourth spot as Baldwinsville, with 51 points, edged F-M (48 points) to win.
Ian Smith and Patrick Biver flew 68 feet 7 inches to finish second to Jamesville-DeWitt (71 feet 7 3/4 inches) in the triple jump as Taylor Weyneth and Carson Schwab earned second place in the pole vault, clearing the same 20 feet as Westhill/Bishop Ludden, but with more misses.
Sean Cooper, second among individuals in the 55-meter hurdles (8.19 seconds), joined Brendan Dickerson for third place with a combined 19.17 seconds. Tim Lewis cleared 5 feet 8 inches for third place in the high jump. Biver and Nick Simmons gained fifth in the long jump, going 31 feet 10 1/4 inches. ewis and Max Weiss were sixth in the 55-meter dash in 14.41 seconds, With Corey Knighton and Paul Mele sixth in the shot put.
