Fully rested after their Nike Cross Nationals sweep in early December, those same distance runners from Fayetteville-Manlius made their indoor track debuts this winter on New Year’s Eve, propelling the Hornets to dual runner-up finishes in the Oscar B. Jensen Holiday Relays – but finding lots of local company, too. F-M’s girls, with 46 points, just missed the top spot occupied by Cicero-North Syracuse (50.5 points), while Jamesville-DeWitt, propelled by Alexandra Payne’s pair of individual victories, finished fourth with 36 points, and CBA, led by Anna Schug, gained 18 points to finish ninth. In this two-person format, the Hornets flourished, starting in the girls mile, where Olivia Ryan won among individuals in five minutes, 16.79 seconds over Skaneateles’ Kaitlyn Neal (5:20.20) as Ryan and Jenna Farrell (fourth) took team honors in 10:48.25, with the Lakers (10:57.21) second. Sophia Ryan’s win came in the 1,000-meter run, where in 3:04.46 she got away from East Syracuse Minoa’s Natalie Marra, who was second in 3:06.96, and, with seventh-grader Phoebe White, gave the Hornets another victory in 6:24.65, with C-NS (6:30.25) behind them. Two other cross country stars, Samantha Levy (10:31.99) and Annika Avery (10:44.17), went 1-2 in the 3,000-meter run as F-M, in 21:16.16, was far clear of runner-up Baldwinsville (24:49.40) and the field. J-D’s Alexandria Street and Abigail Levett were sixth. Payne first struck in the 55-meter hurdles, winning in 9.22 seconds over F-M’s Christabel Ezidiegwu (9.48 seconds), even though Ezidegwu and Gwenn Shepardson put the Hornets in front on the team side with 19.46 seconds to the 19.50 seconds put up by Payne and Patrece Martin. Moving to the high jump, Payne won again, clearing 5 feet 2 inches, and again had a second-place team finish with Casey Keane, who topped 4’3″ as the combined 9’5″ was one inch behind C-NS’s 9’6″. Ezidegwu (third with 4’10”) and Maya Chiesa were third on the team side for F-M with 8’10”. J-D also had Elena Haarer and Rachel Fairbanks finish second, in 3:33.59, behind Liverpool (3:27.72) in the 600-meter run, where F-M was seventh. Sara Signorelli and Gabrielle Tanksley were third in the pole vault, clearing 15 feet betwen them, while Mariah Williams and Jessica Pace were fourth in the shot put with 53’8 1/2″, with F-M in eighth place. In the 300-meter dash, Schug, in 41.62 seconds, got away from West Genesee’s Megan Delia (43.31 seconds) for the top spot, and with Kiana Ferguson won the team event in 1:26.34 to the Wildcats’ 1:29.29. Also, Schug won the individual 55-meter dash in 7.50 seconds to beat out Nottingham’s Ke’Arra Allen (7.60 seconds), pairing with Kiana Ferguson to get second place in 15.38 seconds to C-NS’s 15.34. Martin went 15’10 1/4″ in the long jump, where ESM’s Mia Montgomery (27’2 3/4″) was seventh and Samira Mashie teamed with Martin to put J-D in sixth place. F-M contended on the boys side, too, amassing 51.5 points, a number that only Liverpool, with 59 points, would better. Bryce Millar ran the mile in 4:24.12, with Kyle Barber (4:24.66) just behind him and the Hornets, in 8:48.78, rolling to victory over Liverpool (9:05.18) as J-D’s Patrick Dye and Joe DiDomenico (10:16.47) made it to sixth place. Also winning a sprint, the Hornets saw Jules Ngadula and Parker Noble, who were third and fourth, respectively, among individuals, take the 300 sprint in 1:17.93 to hold off Oswego’s second-place time of 1:18.27. Though Peter Ryan claimed the 3,200-meter run in 9:27.90, two Liverpool runners (Ben Petrella and Connor Buck) followed, and the Warriors, in 19:08.50, beat F-M’s Ryan and Adam Hunt, who were second in 19:17.27. Patrick Perry and Riley Hughes were third in the 600 in 5:39.67, with Jon Abbott and Ed Cheathen getting to third place in the 1,000 in 2:58.54, just behind Auburn’s 2:58.27 in second place. Kyle Barber gave the Hornets an individual victory in the shot put, heaving it 44’8 3/4″ to beat Fulton’s Nick Reitz (44’4 1/2″) as Barber and Taylor Smach, who was fifth, produced a victory with a combined 85′ 3/4″, well clear of C-NS (78’7 1/2″) and the field. No other local team did better than ESM’s total of 6.5 points, but the Spartans’ Jeremy McGrath did win the individual 55 hurdles in 8.14 seconds to edge out Baldwinsville’s Evan Donhauser (8.18 seconds) at the top. McGrath and Zach Fischer were third in 18.84 seconds on the team side. Will Cote nearly won the long jump for J-D, going 19’2″ to finish second behind Nottingham’s Shaheed Dickerson, who won with 19’11 1/4″, as Cote and Donaven Coughlin were fifth (34’2 1/2″) on the team side. Vincent Perry and Tim Poole gave F-M a tie for fifth in the high jump, clearing a combined 10 feet as J-D’s Jesse Johnson (5’6″) tied for fourth on the individual side. McGrath also was eighth in the 55 sprint, where Cote was seventh, and Scott Hunyh was sixth (8’6″) in the pole vault for ESM.