Still unbeaten in the CNY Counties League National division, the Cicero-North Syracuse boys track and field team had a strong effort in last Wednesday’s meet against Utica Proctor, utilizing its depth to record a 91-50 victory over the Raiders.
Chris Buchanan led a sweep of the distance races. Fresh off setting a school mile record at the New Hartford Invitational on April 29, Buchanan went to first in the 800-meter run (2:13.0) and 3,200-meter run (11:24.1) this time around.
Jared Walther, in a time of 4:48.4, edged Anthony Lupia (4:48.8) and Neil Gill (4:49.6) in this edition of the mile as Derek Heiser, Josh Sinay, Alex Bottorff and Cody Bateson took the 4×800 relay in 9:19.7. Sam Nassar was first in the 400 hurdles in 1:04.4.
Moving to field events, Mike Hyde cleared 13 feet in the pole vault as Cameron Shaughnessy cleared 11 feet 6 inches and Cameron LeBarge topped 10 feet 6 inches. Hyde also won the high jump, clearing 5 feet 10 inches, as Chris DuBois threw the shot put 44 feet 11 1/2 inches.
Once that was done, CNS turned its attention to Saturday’s South Jefferson Invitational – where, with 131.5 points, it roared past Baldiwnsville (103 points) and the rest of the field.
Ryan Connor tore to victory in the 100-meter dash in 11.39 seconds, with Shaughnessy (11.50 seconds) in third. Andrew Johnson gained second place in the 200 in 22.90 seconds, and was sixth in the high jump. Mike Hyde cleared 13 feet to win the pole vault again.
Johnson, Connor, Avery Yard and Frank Volino won the 4×100 relay in 45.19 seconds, and Volino helped Walther, Lupia and Ken Ryan take the distance medley relay in 10:51.44. The Northstars were second in both the 4×400 (3:45.21) and 4×800 (8:50.88).
Buchanan needed 9:36.02 to beat B’ville’s Shaun Thompson (9:46.04) in the 3,200-meter run. In the 800, Walther won in 2:04.91, with Lupia (2:07.66) in the second place.
Cameron Doray threw the shot put 46 feet 3 inches, sliding into second place as he also claimed fourth (124 feet 5 inches) in the discus. Sam Nassar got third in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:01.71 as Morgan Austen took fifth. Bryson Mayes had a fifth-place triple jump of 38 feet 2 inches as Avery Yarn was fifth (17 feet 11 3/4 inches) in the long jump.
Meanwhile, the CNS girls team had a big presence at the Rome Free Academy Invitational, claiming second place with 90.5 points as Bethlehem, from Section II, won with 101 points.
Mostly, the Northstars cleaned up in distance races, where Katie Laris won the 1,500-meter run in 5:00.05 and Jackie Halstead (5:08.32) took second place.
Nicole Watterud took her turn in the 3,000-meter run, winning in 10:40.93, the only sub-11-minute effort, and joined Marissa Colburn, Shannon Bausinger and Nicole Campagna to win the 4×800 relay in 10:04.66. On her own, Campagna was fourth in the 800 in 2:26.83.
Mariah Thomson swept the throwing events, as she tossed the shot put 33 feet 9 1/2 inches and claimed the discus with a best heave of 93 feet 8 inches. Jessica Wheeler was third in the pole vault (7 feet 3 inches). Katie Osborne, fifth in the 200, claimed fourth in the triple jump (33 feet 3 1/4 inches) as Shannon McCarthy got fifth in the high jump.
Justine Seliger got third in the pentathlon with 2,013 points. Jade Jenkins rose to fifth in the 400 hurdles (1:11.60) as Kaitlyn Anderson, Emily Blidy, Kaitlin Donahoe and Sarah Hotaling took fourth in the 1,600 sprint medley relay in 4:45.96.
