Not caring much about possible fatigue, and certainly not looking ahead to the holidays, the Cazenovia indoor track and field teams pulled off a clean sweep of the Mohawk Valley Indoor Track Association’s third meet of the season on Thursday night at Colgate University’s Sanford Field House.
Coming off back-to-back second-place finishes in the first two meets of the season, the boys Lakers this time went to the top in the Partner Relays with 93 points. Rome Free Academy (84 points) edged out Clinton (83 points) for second place.
Unlike the first MVITA meet on Dec. 12, no four-person relay events were held at this meet, and the Lakers took full advantage of the two-person format, both on the oval and in field events, piling up points in every discipline.
Again, Walker Nichols was a multiple winner, going 8.46 seconds to take the 55-meter hurdles as he and Sam Langan took second (18.17 seconds) behind Clinton), and then unleashed a long jump of 20 feet 10 ½ inches, helping the Lakers win as Alec Boone went 18’4” for a combined 39’2 ½”, well clear of RFA (37’6 ½”) and the field.
Moving to the high jump, Nichols cleared 5’8”, second to Mount Markham’s Kyle Seamon (5’10”) in the individual portion, as he and Casey Fenton had a total clearance of 11 feet, tied with Clinton for first place.
Yet another victory came in the triple jump, where Fenton and Alex Devine, second and third among individuals, saw their total of 78’1 ½” surpass runner-up West Canada (71’1 ½” by exactly seven feet.
Sean Satchwell was victorious in the individual 600-meter run, going 1:28.52 to pull away from West Canada Valley’s Tyler Wright (1:30.05) and the field, while pairing with Austin Koennecke to take the team event in 3:05.04, with West Canada (3:07.24) in second place..
Sawyer Hunt and Reed Lucas rose to second place in the shot put, with combined throws of 77’6 ¾” that only RFA (81’5 ¾”) topped. Then Ryan O’Herien and Dustin Hammond got second place (79’1 ¾”), again trailing RFA (93’4 ¾”), in the weight throw.
O’Herien and Alex Devine were third (14.23 seconds) in the 55-meter dash, with Devine and Langan third in the 200-meter dash in a total of 50.09 seconds. O’Herien and Tom McNerney got to third in the 300-meter dash, going 1:19 flat.
Chittenango’s Issac Czarnecki won the individual 1,000-meter run in 2:51.75 as he and teammate Mike Capeling were first on the team side in 5:48.10, with Satchwell and Koennecke (6:01.74) grabbing third place.
Brendan Coffey and Jimmy McPherson were fourth in the 3,200-meter run in 22:46.25 and sixth in the mile relay in a combined 10:28.72. Will Huftalen took sixth in the pole vault, clearing 8 feet.
The girls MVITA meet was Cazenovia’s third consecutive win, as it piled up 114.5 points, well clear of RFA, who again was second with 84 points.
Clara Rowles nearly won the 600, finishing in 1:48.37 to the 1:48.30 posted by New Hartford’s Katie Mercurio, but Rowles and Samantha Gates (third, 1:50.17) won the team event in a combined 3:38.54, leaving the Spartans second in 3:45.45.
Later, in the 3,000-meter run, Rowles (second) paired with Meggie Hart (third) as Cazenovia went 22:41.22 to win again, with RFA (23:46.23) and the pack more than a minute behind.
Megan Henderson won the 1,500-meter run, pulling away from the pack to win in 5:20.74 as she and Alexa Tillman posted 11:12 flat, more than 24 seconds ahead of runner-up Oriskany. Katie Robbins and Zoe Shephard were second (7:09.64) to New Hartford (7:07.22) in the 1,000.
Ashley Kent’s individual title in the 55 hurdles in 9.64 seconds) led to a team title with Delaney Yates, the pair going 19.65 seconds to leave RFA (20.11 seconds) behind them.
Another title was attained in the triple jump, where Kent, combined with Caeli Carroll, had total leaps of 62’11 ½”, ahead of New Hartford’s 61’9 ½”. Kent also paired with Jessica Macheda to finish second in the long jump, going 29’3” to RFA’s 30’2”.
Claire Costello and Olivia McEntee went to first place in the 200 sprint, going 56.54 seconds between them as Oriskany (57.11 seconds) was runner-up, and that same pair helf off RFA, 1:30.66 to 1:30.94, in the 300 sprint relay. Costello and Jessica Macheda were fifth in the 55 sprint.
Tori Fischer and Jillian Britton got one more victory in the pole vault, combining to clear 14’6”, just ahead of Clinton’s total of 14 feet. Macheda and Fischer tied for third in the high jump, clearing 8’10” between them.
Sarah Haley and Joanna Seeley threw the shot put 54’ ½” between them and finished second behind RFA, while Haley and Kortney Burdin were fourth (43’8”) in the weight throw.
Having gone through three meets in the span of a single week, Cazenovia is glad to get two weeks of rest during the school’s holiday break before the season resumes at Colgate on Jan. 2.
