Continuing, in 2012, what it did at the end of 2011, the Cicero-North Syracuse boys indoor track and field team claimed another victory in Friday night’s George Constantino Memorial Invitational at Onondaga Community College’s SRC Arena.
This time the Northstars finished with 65 points, enough to fend off Fayetteville-Manlius (51 points) and the rest of a large field of more than 20 sides from the CNY Counties League, Onondaga High School League and even the Frontier League.
Gaining nearly a quarter of those points, Mike Hyde and Cameron LaBarge claimed the top two spots in the pole vault, as Hyde cleared 13 feet 9 1/4 inches and LaBarge (11 feet 6 inches) was alone in the runner-up spot. Joel Brousseau tied Corcoran’s Devlen Williams in the high jump, but Williams cleared 6 feet with fewer misses than Brousseau.
CNS also prevailed in the 4×400 relay, where Shayne Mitchell, Nick Mezatesta, Shawn Webb and Avery Yarn earned a top time of 3:37.97, more than four seconds ahead of F-M (3:42.10). Bryson Mayes added a second in the triple jump, going 40 feet 11 1/4 inches.
Mark Broughton raced to second in the 55-meter dash, beaten by Liverpool’s Keewan Rondinello, who topped Broughton 6.76 seconds to 6.84. Cameron Shaughnessy (6.90 seconds) was fifth as Joe Castaldo took sixth (39 feet 11 3/4 inches) in the shot put.
Anthony Lupia (9:53.02) and Neil Gill (9:54.77) were second and third, respectively, in the 3,200-meter run, while Frank Volino was fifth in the 300-meter dash in 38.54 seconds. Gill, Lupia, Paul DeGennaro and Kevin Cialfi were fifth in the 4×800 relay in 8:58.52.
CNS had to settle for third place in the girls George Constantino meet, picking up 42 points. Jamesville-DeWitt won with 60 points and F-M (47 points) edged the Northstars for the runner-up spot.
Jade Jenkins won the triple jump, her leap of 33 feet 2 1/2 inches to edge East Syracuse-Minoa’s Amanda Wall (32 feet 11 1/4 inches) for the top spot. Mariah Thomson claimed the shot put with a toss of 34 feet, nearly four feet better than the field.
Brittany Murphy had a second-place long jump of 15 feet 3 3/4 inches. Marissa Colburn moved to the 55 hurdles, where she finished third in 10.22 seconds, and she also teamed with Katie Laris, Anna Doren and Shannon Bausinger to get fourth place in the 4×800 relay in 10:44.32.
Shannon McCarthy cleared 4 feet 8 inches for fifth place in the high jump. The quartet of Frankie Gleanson, Andrea Stout, Kaitlyn Anderson and Rachel Wisely were sixth (4:36.89) in the 4×400 relay. Maria LaMontagne was sixth in the 1,000 (3:17.66) as Taylor Parry just missed points and took seventh in the 3,000-meter run.’
Liverpool went to Cornell University’s Barton Hall (annual site of the state championships) for Saturday’s Southern Tier Invitational, where it found some success.
Zavon Watkins won the boys mile in a time of 4:28.53, also gaining fifth in the 300 sprint (36.43 seconds), just ahead of Rondinello in sixth place. In the boys 4×200, Rondinello, Steve Fiorello, Ryan Ronk and Ryheim Lawes earned the victory in 1:34.47, more than two seconds ahead of the field.
On the girls side, Ore Akinpelu gave the Warriors a second-place finish in the 300 sprint in 42.35 seconds and helped Jazmine Herbert, Connie Torres and Yasmeen Griffin get second place in the 4×200 in 1:51.17.
On her own, Herbert took fourth in the 55 sprint in 7.62 seconds, while Tammy Brodie was seventh in the high jump and Nicole Barrett was eighth in the pole vault.
