For those many local indoor track and field athletes that stayed in town during the school break, it was time for work again on the last day of 2014, when teams went back to SRC Arena for the annual Oscar B. Jensen Holiday Relays.
Each of the events on New Year’s Eve involved two boys or girls with combined times, distances and heights, and on the girls side West Genesee fared quite well, finishing sixth with 29.5 points as Westhill-Bishop Ludden finished eighth with 20.5 points.
On the oval, the Wildcats did best in the 300-meter dash, where, individually, freshman Megan Delia finished second in 43.31 seconds to CBA’s Anna Schug (41.62 seconds), and paired with Valerie Pirro for second on the team side in 1:29.29, also to CBA (1:26.24).
Carly Benson was third in the individual mile run in 5:29.05 as she and Kendall Dombroskie (ninth) helped WG finish fourth on the team side in 11:24.09. Then Benson and Maria Matkoski grabbed third place in the 600-meter run in 3:35.09 as Lindsay Weaver and Elise Dunshee made their way to fourth place in the 1,000-meter run in 6:42.06.
Jordan-Elbridge’s Abby Gugel finished third among individuals in the 3,000-meter run in 10:50.93, where WG’s Sarah Ferranti and Madeline Lowry got fourth place in a combined 25:21.17. The Eagles’ lone points came in the 300 sprint, where Julie Hines and Madi Hatt finished fourth in 1:31.51 as Westhill-Ludden (1:32.18) earned sixth place.
Westhill-Ludden got a victory in the long jump, where Tatiana Monds and Jayanna Monds combined to go 30 feet 1/2 inch, beating out Cicero-North Syracuse (29’6″) in the runner-up spot. Delia and Dombroske put WG in fifth place (27’10 1/4″) as Solvay was eighth and Jordan-Elbridge 10th.
The Warriors also contended in the pole vault where, individually, Noelle Coolican cleared 8 feet, topped only by Central Square’s Abby Wiss (8’6″), and paired with Alex Parsons (7’6″) to finish second with a combined 15’6″ behind the Red Hawks’ 16 feet.
Also for the Wildcats, J’Nazia Anderson threw the shot put 29 feet 11 inches to finish third, pairing with Mikayla Bittel for sixth place (50’3″) overall. Westhill-Ludden’s Annibel Coolican and Abby Feyeraband tied Solvay’s Katie Harrington and Belle Nieves for sixth in the high jump, each clearing 8’8″.
Meanwhile, in the boys Jensen Relays, Westhill-Ludden tied for seventh place with 20 points, while Solvay fared best among single small-school entrants with 14.5 points.
Xavier Fleurinor gave the Warriors’ a third-place 55 hurdles time of 8.53 seconds, part of an effort where Fleurinor and Will Ringwood finished second (18.62) to C-NS, who won in 18 seconds flat.
Jimmy Kernan and Donovan Whipple were third in the shot put with total throws of 78’6″. Chris Coates and Matt McAnaney were fifth in the 300 sprint in 1:20.78, while Bryan King cleared 10 feet in the pole vault for third place and fourth-place team points.
For the Bearcats, the lone win came in the long jump, where Garrett Lee and Isaiah Lee both finished in the top 10 and, with their total distance of 35’11 3/4″, beat out Baldwinsville, who was third with 35’3 3/4″.
Jacob Hook and Jacob Fitzmaurice were fifth in the shot put with combined tosses of 74’6″. Garrett Lee and Nick Ferri cleared 10 feet between them in the high jump, tying for fifth place.
Solvay also was seventh in the 55-meter dash, Owen Ryan and Logan Kelly posting 14.53 seconds, while West Genesee, held without a point in the meet, was seventh in the 1,000, where J-E’s Tyler Jackson was eighth on the individual side. The Eagles got its lone points in the 55 hurdles, where Zach Rink and Ryan Chiarmonte were fourth in 19.64 seconds.