A mere 11 days after they ran in the Nike Cross Nationals in Oregon, Liverpool’s Dylan McCarthy, Connor Buck, Ty Brownlow and Nick LeClair were part of a winning effort when the boys indoor track season got underway at SRC Arena with the Jack Morse Kickoff Meet.
All told, the Warriors picked up 65 points to fend off Cicero-North Syracuse, who took second with 57 points. Baldwinsville took third place with 46 points.
Nearly one-quarter of Liverpool’s points came from a 1-2 sweep of the mile, where McCarthy made his way to the top spot in four minutes, 36.36 seconds and Buck, in 4:38.28, grabbed second place.
Meanwhile, LeClair finished second in the 600-meter run in 1:29.93 as B’ville’s Arden Kellner prevailed in 1:28.44 and C-NS’s Jared George was third in 1:31.52. Brownlow made his way to third place in the 3,200-meter run in 10:28.97, where the Northstars’ Chris Hannan (10:28.65) grabbed second place.
Liverpool’s other title was earned in the sprints, courtesy of Brandon Mayfield, who went to the 55-meter dash and, in 6.86 seconds, edged out Nottingham’s Shaheed Dickerson and CBA’s Tom SanGiacomo, who both posted 6.87 seconds.
Mayfield was fourth in the long jump, going 18 feet 5 1/2 inches as teammate Rashan Crenshaw (18’2 1/2″) was sixth. Also, Mayfield joined Jamie Gadaleta, Collin Gwilt and Donald Frost as Liverpool was third in the 4×200 relay in 1:41.27, just ahead of C-NS’s quartet of Matt Romanyk, Corey Mitchell, Daquan Mathis and Ryan Massena, who was fourth in 1:42.09.
For the Northstars, Andrew Bearkland was victorious in the 1,000-meter run, going 2:46.42 as Jamesville-DeWitt’s Patrick Dye (2:47.29) took second place. Moving to the pole vault, Mark Hentges won by clearing 12 feet 6 inches, with Liverpool’s David Lewis topping 11 feet for third place.
C-NS also saw Edward Mahana take third place in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.48 seconds, with George Reader fourth in the triple jump by going exactly 38 feet and fifth (5’6″) int the high jump. Ross Matheson had a fifth-place shot put toss of 40’1 1/2″.
Mahana, Zach Kennedy, Collin Ryan and Matt Williams were fourth (3:47.95) in the 4×400 relay as Liverpool’s quartet of Gadaleta, Frost, Gwilt and Macadian Lellis were third, inches ahead of C-NS, in 3:47.82.
