Individual titles from Madeline Adams, Gabby Eckles and Caroline Walton provided the main highlights as the Skaneateles girls indoor track and field team charged to a second-place finish at Friday night’s Section III Class B championship meet at Colgate University’s Sanford Field House.
Finishing with 96 points, the Lakers held off Clinton (89 points) for the runner-up spots. Skaneateles trailed only its namesakes from Cazenovia, who won its first-ever sectional indoor title with 158 points.
Adams earned her victory in the 3,000-meter run, where she posted a time of 11 minutes, 2.43 seconds, beating Cazenovia’s Jeanette Cudney by more than 11 seconds as Virginia Hamlin was fifth in 12:06.89. Also, Adams was third in the 1,500-meter run in 5:16.95.
Eckles rose to the top in the high jump, clearing 5 feet 1 inch to edge Clinton’s Eliza Bell (5 feet) as the Lakers’ Kelly Dunn (4 feet 8 inches) was sixth. Eckles also took third in the triple jump, going 32 feet 9 inches as Dianne Vitkus (30 feet 5 1/2 inches) claimed sixth place.
Walton earned the other title, in the shot put, easily outdistancing the field as she had a top toss of 33 feet 5 inches, five full feet better than Cazenovia’s Christie Tainter. Joanna Dean (26 feet 8 1/4 inches) claimed fifth place.
Casey Van Slyke claimed second place in the 1,000-meter run in 3:20.26, with Julia Poorman fourth in 3:25.55. Emma Ford ran to third place in the 300-meter dash in 43.61 seconds, just ahead of Taylor Woodruff (45.96 seconds) in fifth place. Taylor Woodruff earned fifth (14 feet 6 1/2 inches) in the long jump.
Twice, Skaneateles had runner-up finishes in relays. Ford, Vitkus, Danielle Mazzeo and Jane Gaffney were second in the 4×400 relay in 4:24.83, with Cazenovia (4:20.20) on top. In the 4×200, Ford and Woodruff joined Kiara Corcoran and Mia Campanile as the Lakers, in 1:55.66, lost by a narrow margin to Jordan-Elbridge (1:55.58). Poorman, Mazzeo, Van Slyke and Gaffney were third (10:52.63) in the 4×800 relay.
