By narrow margins, the Fayetteville-Manlius track and field teams both earned victories in Saturday’s Chittenango Invitational.
In the girls meet, the Hornets edged Jamesville-DeWitt by a single point, 100 to 99, and it was just as close on the boys side, where F-M, with 69 points, fended off Ilion (67 points) to finish in front.
Of course, the girls Hornets had compete before Chittenango at the prestigious Penn Relays, in Philadelphia, Pa. There, the distance medley relay team of Katie Sischo, Heather Martin, Courtney Chapman and Jillian Fanning finished in 11 minutes, 34.46 seconds, setting a new Section III record for that event.
And another sectional record fell at Chittenango, in the 1,600 sprint medley, where Sischo and Martin joined Molly Levy and Heather Zazzara to win in 4:11.45, more than 17 seconds clear of runner-up Jordan-Elbridge.
Of those 100 points, 30 came in the main event, the Fleet Feet Mile, where F-M swept the top five spots. Sischo won in 4:55.97, edging Fanning (4:56.79), while Chapman was third (4:58.06), Katie Brislin took fourth (5:10.31) and Emily McGurrin was fifth in 5:24.29.
It didn’t stop there, either. Martin tore through the 400-meter dash in 58.08 seconds, with Zazzara second in 1:00.11. Maggie Malone won the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:35.05, with Alana Pearl third in 7:58.15.
Isabelle Carapella was third in the 100-meter hurdles in 18.83 seconds and helped Levy, Hannah Lee and Odelia Ryan get third in the 4×100 relay in 52.92 seconds. F-M got fifth in the distance medley.
F-M’s boys saw Ryan Jones win the 100-meter dash in 11.31 seconds. Nick Ryan took second (4:21.54) to Liverpool’s Zavon Watkins (4:19.07) in the Fleet Feet Mile, with Mark McGurrin fifth and Ben Thomas sixth.
Of course, Thomas joined Andrew Roache, Andrew Veilleux and Jules Wellner as F-M won the distance medley relay in 11:23.71, more than 23 seconds ahead of runner-up CBA. Jones, Veilleux, Austin Perez and Langston Lightcap won the 1,600 sprint medley in 3:47.69, 1.16 seconds ahead of Jordan-Elbridge.
Owen Strong got second place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:11.92, while Langston Lightcap (54.60 seconds) and A.J. Blitz (54.61 seconds) were third and fourth, respectively, in the 400-meter dash. The Hornets were also fourth in the 4×100 relay in 49.27 seconds.
